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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Camille Pissarro (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)	Mike Venezia	Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century French painter, Camille Pissarro.	OL106280W
Monet (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)	Mike Venezia	Traces the life of the Impressionist painter and analyzes some of his paintings.	OL106328W
Paul Cezanne	Mike Venezia	Describes the life and work of the French Post-Impressionist artist, who tried new ideas in painting to express his love of nature.	OL106329W
Pablo Picasso	John Beardsley	Examines the life and work of Picasso, discussing how and why his art looks the way it does and how it relates to the artist.	OL15838944W
Paul Cézanne	Nathaniel Harris	Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Paul Cézanne. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.	OL15839001W
The age of French impressionism	Art Institute of Chicago.	This volume highlights more than 100 of the Art Institute of Chicago's masterpieces, from the bold works of Édouard Manet, an important figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, to Clau…	OL15994380W
Parler à l'âme et au coeur	Xavier Salmon	On connaît aujourd'hui assez peu Marie Leszczynska. L'épouse de Louis XV s'est effacée aux yeux de l'Histoire devant Madame de Pompadour et Madame Du Barry, les deux maîtresses les plus célèbres du s…	OL16345320W
Henri Rousseau	Gotz Adriani,Gorz Adriani	"Henri Rousseau, called 'Le Douanier' because of his early career with the French customs service, is one of the most important, fascinating and least studied of late nineteenth-century artists. His …	OL18477845W
Impressionism	Belinda Thomson	The works of the Impressionists were not so much subjective recordings of a neutral subject matter as some critics at the time and since have argued; rather they were conscious attempts to paint the …	OL1904120W
America collects eighteenth-century French painting	Joseph Baillio,Joseph J. Rishel,Melissa Lee Hyde,Pierre Rosenberg,Robert Schindler,Christophe Leribault,Jack Hinton,Yuriko Jackall,Philippe Bordes,Susan Earle,D. Dodge Thompson	"Authors use sixty-eight 18th-century French paintings from American museum collections to present a fascinating American social history through the lens of taste and collecting practices. Depictions…	OL19720356W
The impressionists	David Spence	Discusses the nineteenth-century French art movement known as Impressionism, focusing on the works of Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cezanne.	OL21806173W
Peindre en France à la Renaissance	Frédéric Elsig	"En tenant compte de toutes les techniques impliquées par le métier du peintre (enluminure, vitrail, tapisserie, etc.), le volume se propose de reconsidérer toute la géographie de la peinture produit…	OL22359071W
Pablo Picasso	Ernest Raboff	A simplified discussion of the art of Pablo Picasso with examples showing the various techniques used in his works.	OL24845461W
Matisse	Antony Mason	Explores the French painter's life and development as an artist, his involvement with Fauvism, and his continued experimentation with art.	OL2530828W
The Impressionist revolution	Howard Greenfeld	Details the Impressionist "revolution" by which such artists as Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro protested the materialistic emphasis of nineteenth-century French society.	OL2743467W
Esprit es-tu là? Les peintres et les voix de l'au-delà	Savine Faupin	Cet ouvrage révèle l'oeuvre d'une sélection d'artistes spirites autour de trois figures principales de la fin du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle : Augustin Lesage, Victor Simon et Fleury-Joseph…	OL32338929W
Paul Cézanne	Connolly, Sean	Introduces the life and work of Paul Cezanne, discussing his early years, life in Paris, and development as a painter.	OL443539W
Monet	Roberto Carvalho de Magalhães	Discusses the style and technique of the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet.	OL6034317W
Paul Gauguin	Paul Flux	Presents a brief overview of the life and work of this French artist, describing and giving examples of his work.	OL6208617W
Henri Matisse, 1869-1954	Volkmar Essers	disability matisse	OL6248043W