Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir is written by John House and published by Getty Publications. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0892363657 (ISBN 10) and 9780892363650 (ISBN 13).

John House examines the many facets of the work and what it reveals about Renoir as a man and artist. He asks, "What did it mean to paint a picture like La Promenade in France in 1870, in the final months of Napoleon III's Second Empire?" The reader is invited to look at the canvas - and Impressionism - as a rejection of the idealist world of academic art and as a challenge to contemporary social norms.