Monet
Book |
Thames & Hudson,
New York, NY :
2020
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | 759.4 MonR | Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the most admired and famous painters of all time, and the architect of Impressionism: a revolution that gave birth to modern art. His technique - painting out of doors, at the seashore or in the city streets - was as radically new as his subject matter, the landscapes and middle-class pastimes of a newly industrialized Paris. Painting with an unprecedented immediacy and authenticity, Monet claimed that his work was something new: both natural and true. In this major study, James H. Rubin - one of the world's foremost specialists in 19th-century French art - traces the development of Monet's practice, from his early work as a caricaturist to the late paintings of waterlilies and his garden at Giverny. Rubin explores the cultural currents that helped to shape Monet's work: the utopian thought that gave rise to his politics; his interest in Japanese prints, gardening, and trends in the decorative arts; and his relationship with earlier French landscape painters as well as such contemporaries as Manet and Renoir.
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Details
- ISBN: 9780500204474
- Physical Description: 223 pages ; colour illustrations ; 21cm.print
- Publisher: New York, NY : Thames & Hudson, 2020
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Defying traditions: From caricaturist to career -- Defining impressionism: aspects of modernity -- Interludes and crises: personal, public and pictorial -- The picturesque as turning points: travels, sites and series -- Poetry in the garden: the decorative, the 'Water Lillies', and art nouveau -- Vision and subjectivity: seeing with the body -- Political contexts: nationalism and utopia -- A lasting legacy: the patriarch of modern art -- Selected bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index.