{"product_id":"gardens-of-the-impressionists-book-of-postcards","title":"Gardens of the Impressionists Book of Postcards","description":"Never did a group of history’s finest artists pay such fond attention to gardens as the Impressionists. Their close study of plants and atmosphere enabled them to abstract each essential shape in their compositions, reproducing with warmth and fidelity the elusive play of light on leaf and blossom—sun-dappled flowers on the waterfront, orchards coming into bloom, tree-lined walks, and other charming pastoral sights. Many Impressionist painters—Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, and Caillebotte among them—were avid gardeners as well, and the plots they tended became an important source of imagery. The relaxed environments also lent themselves to more informal scenes of domestic life and leisure; such subject matter was one of the many ways the Impressionists’ rejected academic art standards, which valued only dramatic, idealized depictions of history, Greek mythology, and Christianity as “true” art. Cultivated or wild, the garden  was perfectly suited to\n\n\n30 color reproductions bound in a handy postcard collection\n\n• Mail the postcards, or keep the book for your own collection\n• Decorate your office or dorm room with a wall of images\n• Informative introductory text\n• Backs of postcards offer enough room for short messages\n• Perforated for easy removal\n• Oversized postcards may require additional postage\n• Pomegranate’s books of postcards feature exclusive selections of art from museums and artists around the world\n\nBook: 6.875 x 4.75 x .375 in.\nPostcard: 6.5 x 4.75 in.\n\nISBN 9781087513454","brand":"Pomegranate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48819445399652,"sku":"06338","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0577\/1539\/2612\/files\/5bc72edf48483d973aef25dae5623ae90bae10bfcb372d1deeab8fefdf89483b.png?v=1784824298","url":"https:\/\/theboroughdurham.com\/products\/gardens-of-the-impressionists-book-of-postcards","provider":"The Borough Durham","version":"1.0","type":"link"}