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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Ross King

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

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Original Title:	The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
ISBN:	0802715168 (ISBN13: 9780802715166)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Marfield Prize (National Award for Arts Writing) Nominee (2006)

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With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet.

While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas and against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, would at times resemble a battlefield; and as Ross King reveals, it would reorder both history and culture, and resonate around the world.

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Title	:	The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Author	:	Ross King
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2006 by Walker & Company (first published January 10th 2006)
Categories	:	Art. History. Nonfiction. Art History. Cultural. France. Biography. Audiobook

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Ratings: 3.82 From 13355 Users | 319 Reviews

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Having a mother who tutored Art history and having a friend who recommended this book to me before she moved away and mostly out of my life, it seemed fitting to read this book.Ross King has established himself as an important and relevant voice in the art history community, and this book demonstrates his ability at not only writing effective art history, he also accomplishes a human narrative. The figures in this book, while they are the figures that will go on to make history, are fully

Very interesting study of the French art scene in the 1860s and 1870s, and also a requiem for the Second Empire. The stars of the show, however, are two artists at opposite poles from each other: Edouard Manet and Ernest Meissonier. Meissonier, for those who haven't heard of him (which would include me when I started this book), was one of the most famous artists in France in the mid-19th century, and the best-paid. Manet, on the other hand, was the art scene's pariah/joke.

I absolutely loved this book. I have never had much of an interest in art history, but King's approach tying political and social events to the art that captured and reflected them really brought it to life. I can't wait to read more from him.

The title, The Judgement of Paris, refers to the annual art exhibition sponsored by the French government (the second empire under Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) and the French Academy of Fine Arts, not the mythological cause of the Trojan war. However, the cultural and political shift, that the salon and the salon des refuses (art submitted by such giants as Manet, Monet, Courbet, Pissaro, Renoir, Cezanne, but rejected by the annual government exhibition) represented a cataclysmic shift in the

The book focuses on two painters from the 19th century in Paris, Edouard Manet and Ernest Meissonnier, one a classicist on top of the art world and the other an up-and-comer who has no standing. King follows the careers of both artists, showing how their rise and fall throughout their careers and after their deaths. The focus may be on these two but the larger picture embraces the entirety of art at that time in French history (1860s-1880s). For me one of the most interesting parts was the

I very much enjoyed this history of the beginnings of Impressionism in France. It was well written, fairly well illustrated (there is always the internet for looking up more of the paintings mentioned, but I hate getting up from my reading to do that), and the subject matter and people involved were fascinating to me. Thanks AC and the Artist Lovers group on GR for drawing my attention to this book, which I doubt I ever would have heard of otherwise.I wanted to add that after reading this, I am

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism is a good book, but I would not recommend it to everyone. It is dense. It is chockfull of details, and in parts excessively so, the information at times verging on gossip. A quarter of the way through, I was about to dump it for this very reason. A discussion of Empress Charlottes panties and the mistresses of Second Empire dignitaries annoyed me. In the discussion of paintings, I questioned the similarities drawn