{"product_id":"the-judgment-of-paris-the-revolutionary-decade-that-gave-the-world-impressionism","title":"The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the Civil War raged in America  another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic  in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed  no artistic movement has ever been  at its inception  quite so controversial. The drama of its birth  played out on canvas  would at times resemble a battlefield; and  as Ross King reveals  Impressionism would reorder both history and culture as it resonated around the world. The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitionsthe scandalous Salon des Refuses in 1863 and the first Impressionist showing in 1874set against the rise and dramatic fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War. A tale of many artists  it revolves around the lives of two  described as \"the two poles of art\"Ernest Meissonier  the most famous and successful painter of the 19th century  hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet  reviled in his time  who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance. Out of the fascinating story of their parallel lives  illuminated by their legendary supporters and criticsZola  Delacroix  Courbet  Baudelaire  Whistler  Monet  Hugo  Degas  and many moreRoss King shows that their contest was not just about Art  it was about competing visions of a rapidly changing world. With a novelists skill and the insight of an historian  King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world  and a revolutionary movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945291214901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802714668","price":27.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802714664.jpg?v=1769881725","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-judgment-of-paris-the-revolutionary-decade-that-gave-the-world-impressionism","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}