JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...

IMPRESSIONISM – Paintings and other works by the bold artists who broke away from the tradition of academic art painting – with the now-famous 1874 Paris exhibition that birthed a new movement in art ...

While every Art History 101 student knows that Impressionism challenged the prevailing aesthetic of its day, Professor House seeks to show that this challenge was also at least obliquely political: ...

The free exhibition include a pair of works by 19th century artist Gustave Caillebotte on loan from museums in Paris and Los ...

Most people think of impressionism as a purely French artistic movement, said Douglas Britt in the Houston Chronicle. In fact, it had a late if little-known flowering in Germany, where artists such as ...

LONDON (AP) — One of the defining images of French impressionism is up for sale, as Sotheby’s auctions Edouard Manet’s “Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere.” The auction house said Monday that the painting will ...

Louis Vuitton store has an art show inside. Now this is big-picture thinking. The Fondation Louis Vuitton unveils today an ...

A stolen painting valued at $1.7 million has turned up in the home of a Ukrainian man being looked at in a separate murder investigation. Last year, Port de La Rochelle, a 1915 painting by ...

"Les Choristes" was stolen from the Cantini Museum in Marseille in 2009. — -- A painting by French impressionist Edgar Degas has been located for the first time since it was stolen from a ...