Between the motif and the artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter of Impressionism. His long life and extraordinary work capacity - coupled with a sometimes furious perfectionism--he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life - characterized by frequent travels and changes of location -- followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces and sought to defy his family's insistence upon an academic painter's training. For over half his life the artist was plagued by financial worries, which in part precipitated the frequent moves made by his expanding household. Two of his homes stand out above the rest. The first, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. But it was also Monet who, in his endeavour to capture the ever-changing face of reality, went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of the self-contained panel painting. This step he took in the village of Giverny: here he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water lily pond which he was to paint on huge canvases well into the 1920s. He thereby sought to render not reality as objectively experienced, but rather that which takes place 'between the motif and the artist'. In their open, nolonger more than tenuously representational structure and impressive scale, his water lily paintings - created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-garde-point the way forward to the developments of the future.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Karin Sagner-Duchting, born in Erlabrunn-Steinheldel, studied art history, new German literature and classical archaeology at Munich University. She gained her doctorate in 1983 with a thesis on Claude Monet's water lily paintings (Hildeshelm 1985). Academic assistant at the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen until 1988.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Be careful. The editorial reviews are for a different book.,
By Lacewing (Southern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Monet (Big Series Art) (Hardcover)
The Editorial reviews for this book are not for the book being sold. They are for a book by Stuckey which has an entirely different ISBN number. Unfortunately, I bought this book based on those reviews. I do not know which book the Customer reviewers were looking at. I suspect the positive reviews are for the Stuckey book and the dismissive review is for the Taschen/Karin Sagner-Duchting book. While I would not be dismissive of this book, it is certainly written only for the general reader and is not the scholarly book described in the editorial reviews. Since that is what I wanted, I am disappointed.
Speaking to the Taschen book. It is fully illustrated, but the reproductions are a little dark and to the brown/orangey side. The text is adequate, but nothing new to anyone who knows Monet. To someone new to the subject it gives an overview of Monet's life and work. Unfortunately, Amazon does not have an easy way for me to relay this page error to them. I don't want this book, but whose fault is it. I ordered the book that was reviewed. The seller sent the book that was listed. Amazon's boo-boo.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful book,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Monet (Big Series Art) (Hardcover)
My daughter had a project due, and she was to be Monet. I saw this book on Amazon.com and it said it was Used, well you would not believe it in the least. The pages still creeked when you opened it and the cover and everything about it was just beautiful.
Kuodos to the seller!
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Oscar Claude Monet, second son of grocer Claude Adolphe Monet and his wife Louise Justine Aubree, was born on 14 November 1840 at 45, Rue Lafitte, Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Museum of Fine Arts, Gare Saint-Lazare, New York, Argenteuil Oil, The Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, The Luncheon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Camille Monet, Madame Monet, Poppy Field, Giverny Oil, The Matsukata Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, The Picnic, The Seine Bridge, Camille Doncieux, Green Dress, Havemeyer Collection, Overcast Weather, Rough Sea, Sun Effect, The Woman, Waterloo Bridge, Afternoon Effect New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Oscar Claude Monet, second son of grocer Claude Adolphe Monet and his wife Louise Justine Aubree, was born on 14 November 1840 at 45, Rue Lafitte, Paris. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Museum of Fine Arts, Gare Saint-Lazare, New York, Argenteuil Oil, The Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, The Luncheon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Camille Monet, Madame Monet, Poppy Field, Giverny Oil, The Matsukata Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, The Picnic, The Seine Bridge, Camille Doncieux, Green Dress, Havemeyer Collection, Overcast Weather, Rough Sea, Sun Effect, The Woman, Waterloo Bridge, Afternoon Effect New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 13
books:
See all 13 books this book cites
47
books
cite this book:
See all 47 books citing this book
- Water Lilies by Claude Monet on 14 pages
- Claude Monet by Georges Clemenceau on 5 pages
- Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Marcel Proust on 4 pages
- Claude Monet by National Gallery of Art in Front Matter, and page 143
- The End of Summer by Nancy Lamb on page 160, and page 161
See all 13 books this book cites
- Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self by Steven Z. Levine on 13 pages
- Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige by Charles S. Moffett on 9 pages
- Monet or the Triumph of Impressionalism (Midi Series) by Daniel Wildenstein on page 219, page 251, and page 360
- Musee D'Orsay by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren on page 191, and page 258
- Monet in the 20th Century by Professor Paul Hayes Tucker in Front Matter, and page 57
See all 47 books citing this book
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
