A new edition of this classic collection of letters, reviews, and reminiscences from Impressionist artists and their contemporaries. The Impressionists—Monet, Manet, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and others—are perhaps the most popular of all art schools. Their endeavor to impose a new vision is one of the most absorbing in art history. With imagination and insight, art historian Bernard Denvir brings Impressionism to the fore, presenting it through the eyes of the artists and their contemporaries, in relation to the context of the time. Through letters, reviews, statements, and reminiscences—whether explosive or appreciative, limited or insightful—of the people who were there, the story of this revolutionary artistic movement comes alive. This was the age of innovation, political liberation, emerging photography, and modern ideas about perception. The Impressionists had new ways of painting, but they also had a new world to paint. This revised edition now includes color art reproductions throughout the book and an updated bibliography.