Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Paul Ce zanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the impressionists and post-impressionists in the context of late nineteenth-century France, explaining why these particular works are as important as these artists' paintings in the representation of modernity. A new approach...