Berthe Morisot; Author: Adler, Kathleen; Joint Author: Garb, Tamar; Paperback

Author: Adler, Kathleen; Joint Author: Garb, Tamar
Paperback; 49 Colour and 50 B&w Illustrations
128 pages
Published: October 1995
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714834793
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The French nineteenth-century woman painter Berthe Morisot was held by her contemporaries to be the 'quintessential Impressionist'. She was an influential member of the Impressionist group,whose exhibitions she organized with her colleagues Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Degas. This book considers her work in the context of the artistic and social debates of the time. It discusses the meaning that Baudelaire's famous dictum to paint 'the heroism of modern life' had for a woman artist painting in the changing city of Paris -- a very different city from the Paris of her male colleagues.Berthe Morisot was an important woman impressionist. She refused to accept the limitations imposed by her time, class and gender and became an accomplished and popular painters of the 19th century.