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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 landsca...
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Thames & Hudson,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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World of art. |
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| Summary: |
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. 0In this new introductory 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. |
| Carrier Form: | 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780500204474 (paperback) : 0500204470 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | ND553 |
| CLC: | J205.565 |
| Call Number: | J205.565/R896 |
| Contents: | Defying traditions: from caricaturist to career -- Defining impressionism: aspects of modernity -- Interludes and crises: personal, public and pictorial -- The picturesque as turning point: travels, sites and series -- Poetry in the garden: the decorative, the 'water lilies' and art nouveau -- Vision and subjectivity: seeing with the body -- Political contexts: nationalism and utopia -- A lasting legacy: the patriarch of modern art. |