This beautifully produced book charts a series of changes in Pissarro's art, beginning with his early, somewhat subversive explorations of picturesque composition, passing to his experiments with what he and Cezanne called 'rapports' and 'accords', through his impressionist adventures into a sort of anti-composition, to an eventual recoil from this extreme aesthetic of shattered and 'levelled' motifs, reinstating a visual hierarchy and the figure.