The Private Lives of the Impressionists

Informationen zum Autor Sue Roe is a freelance writer and teacher. A former Lecturer at the University of East Anglia and current lecturer at the University of Sussex, she is the author of a novel, Estella, Her Expectation , a collection of poems, The Spitfire Factory , and Writing and Gender: Virginia Woolf's Writing Practice . She is also co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf , and her most recent book is the widely praised Gwen John: A Life . She lives in Brighton. Klappentext Vivid, intimate and evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters including Manet, Monet , Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir and Sisley. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout and reads like a novel. Zusammenfassung Shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly twenty years. Painting outdoors, meeting in cafes, they supported each other and shared emotional and financial difficulties. This account takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their private affairs.

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A vivid, intimate, evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters.

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Vivid, intimate and evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters including Manet, Monet , Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir and Sisley. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout and reads like a novel.

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Shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly twenty years. Painting outdoors, meeting in cafes, they supported each other and shared emotional and financial difficulties. This account takes us into their homes as well as their studios and describes their private affairs.