Meyer Schapiro
Lithuanian-born American art historian and critic, longtime Columbia University professor, influential for scholarship on medieval and modern art and for contributions to art theory and intellectual life.
Books
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1. Impressionism
A concise, historically grounded study that situates late‑19th‑century Impressionist painting within broader social, technological, and artistic changes, arguing that the movement’s focus on fleeting optical perception, plein‑air practice, broken brushwork, and new color relations both reflected and reshaped ways of seeing modern life; through close readings of key works and artists the book traces how formal innovations—in response to photography, urbanization, and shifting patronage—challenged academic conventions and redefined the aims of modern art.
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