History of Impressionism

First with his "History of Impressionism" in 1946 and 10 years later with his "History of Post-Impressionism," Mr. Rewald chronicled French avant-garde painting during the second half of the 19th century in remarkable and groundbreaking detail. Since the publication of those volumes, Mr. Rewald's works have served as indispensible sources of dates, places, names and, most of all, ideas about late 19th- and early 20th-century art in France, and therefore about the entire evolution of modern art.The books formed the foundation for the research of countless later scholars and also were primary targets for revisionist historians who sought to overturn the study of modern art, beginning with Mr. Rewald's texts. One way or another, every scholar of late 19th-century French art had to contend with his writings.