{"id":8151,"date":"2010-10-03T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2010-10-03T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T18:41:43","slug":"book-report-the-impressionists-by-denis-thomas-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/book-report-the-impressionists-by-denis-thomas-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The Impressionists<\/i> by Denis Thomas (1975)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could have read this book more closely, but a previous owner had removed pages, probably pages whose reverse included pretty pictures the previous owner wanted for crafts or display.  As such, I would read along into the life of Degas, for example, and suddenly would find myself in the middle of the life of Renoir.  So I gave up reading too closely and focused on the paintings.  Well, the paintings that the previous owner of the book did not think were worth tearing out.<\/p>\n<p>As with any survey, it can give a broad overview or help broaden your perspective.  Reviewing this book, I learned that I need to review the work of Mary Cassattm more closely, as I like it.  However, I don&#8217;t like Paul C\u00e9zanne as much.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s what these kinds of survey books are for.  Also, they fill the time between plays with something cultural on a Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0600348695\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could have read this book more closely, but a previous owner had removed pages, probably pages whose reverse included pretty pictures the previous owner wanted for crafts or display. As such, I would read along into the life of Degas, for example, and suddenly would find myself in the middle of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8153,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}