This title on the Impressionists, features the work of 29 artists, including not only the most well-known French painters, but also English, American and Italian artists. It features the work of the precursors of the movement, such as Edouard Manet and Delacroix, and its most famous representatives like Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. In addition, the eccentric and somewhat peripheral artists of the movement such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, are featured, as well as lesser-known Impressionists such as James Whistler and Mary Cassatt. It is also a chronological survey of the life and times of the Impressionsists, from the l870s to the death of Monet in 1926, and it provides an analysis of the contemporary social and political events which influenced them. The reader is thus introduced to the heart of the Impressionist movement, which revolutionized modern art. The 500 colour illustrations provide a complete pictorial survey of the main themes of the Impressionist genre of painting - plein air landscapes and townscapes, nudes and portraits.