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223 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index. |
| Subject |
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
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Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Impressionism (Art)
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| ISBN |
9780500204474 (paperback) |
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0500204470 (paperback) |
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