Tuesday | March 18 | 5:30 PM
Season 6 of the AMA Art Lovers Book Club continues on March 18 with The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King.
RSVP HERE.
The bimonthly club meets at 5:30 pm in the Willson Auditorium at the Albany Museum of Art. (This is a new, earlier start time for the meetings.)
The meetings are free and open to everyone. There is no formal membership, just a love for art, books, and good conversation.
Registration is free for everyone and helps us ensure adequate seating is ready when you arrive. You may also contact AMA Director of Education and Public Programming Annie Vanoteghem by calling 229.439.8400.
ABOUT THE BOOK
While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment.
Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas and against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, would at times resemble a battlefield; and as bestselling author Ross King reveals, it would reorder both history and culture, and resonate around the world.
THE 2024-25 READING LIST
AMA Art Lovers Book Club meetings are set for every two months on the third Tuesday so that club members have plenty of time to obtain and read the books before each session.
Here is the complete reading list for 2024-25. Books were selected through an online vote by book club participants:
- July 16: Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony M. Amore.
- September 17: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath..
- November 19: The Life & Art of Athos Menaboni by Barbara C Taylor, Athos Menaboni.
- January 21: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert.
- March 18: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King. (Register HERE.)
- May 20: The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming. (Register HERE.)