Reviews

Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt by Jeffrey Meyers

battspierre's review against another edition

1.0

I dislike authors that insist of describing works of art in detail and not illustrating the work. Because of this I only made it to chapter 5 and then gave up.

ksoanes's review

2.0

This was so disappointing and I wanted to like it! Each artist is written about in isolation. These four artist do pop up in stories about each other- but only when their paths crossed, not in any meaningful way. If you're going to name this book Impressionist Quartet, one assumes their stories will be woven together to show how they influenced and competed with each other. The other disappointing aspect of this book is that the author describes major paintings and works along the way but there aren't any pictures of the artwork. A picture of the artwork as it is being described would have been very helpful. I looked several of them up while I was reading.

battspierre's review

1.0

I dislike authors that insist of describing works of art in detail and not illustrating the work. Because of this I only made it to chapter 5 and then gave up.