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An account of the life, career and paintings of 19th century French artist Edouard Manet, with background information on the time.

Relates the life, development, and art of the famous artist.

Profiles major artists of the Impressionist era, which some say was the beginning of modern art, in the context of the political, economic, and other changes occurring throughout the world at the same time.

In this extraordinary volume, art historian Barbara Ehrlich White considers the achievements of the Impressionists from an entirely fresh perspective. She focuses on the personal and professional relationships between seven pairs of artists: Degas and Manet, Monet and Renoir, Cezanne and Pissarro, Manet and Morisot, Cassatt and Degas, Morisot and Renoir, and Cassatt and Morisot. Looking at the work of each pair, she finds, in their treatment of identical...