"As lively as it is judicious, the book offers a compact introduction to an important moment in European cultural history."

--Daniel J. Sherman, Rice University

Routledge Web Site, July, 2002

All the favorites are here, including Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne and many others and is nicely illustrated.

Impressionists and Politics is an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. By providing an historical background and context, this book places the Impressionists' roots in wider social and economic transformations and explains its militancy, both aesthetic and political. Impressionists and Politics is a concise history, from its youthful inception in the 1860s to its final years of recognition and crisis.