The impressionist Claude Monet, created more than 2500 paintings, drawings and pastels - radically altering the way art was made and understood. This book is a comprehensive study of Monet's achievement that sets his rich legacy into the context of his life and times. Instead of reading Monet's work as engaged only with the beauties of nature, the author offers interpretations based on an examination of individual paintings, Monet's biography and the multiple forces that shaped his aesthetic. The artist's oeuvre is seen as an evolving enterprise that was intricately linked to such events as the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune insurrection of 1870-71, the Dreyfus Affair of 1898 and World War I. This book also explores the demands that Monet placed upon himself, his responses to market pressures and his steadfast belief in the power of art to express ideas. Combining documentary material with an analysis of the public's reaction to his work, the book demonstrates how Monet was able to achieve enormous success during his lifetime. It argues that Monet was fully aware of his talents, that he consciously chose sites and subjects that were layered with meaning and that he was intent on becoming one of France's greatest artists - an honour he was accorded by the end of the 19th century - much earlier than is generally assumed.
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This review is from: Claude Monet: Life and Art (Hardcover)
This book gives a very good over view of his life and work. What he went through to get to where he became well known. This books is well illustrated with work that is not well known and several of his more well known work.
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i thought that this was a great book. it was wonderfully written, giving you a new understanding of the life of a great artist. not only was the book well writen but it was also full of hundreds of great recreations of monets best work.
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- Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Monet in the 20th Century by Professor Paul Hayes Tucker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pleasure Wars (Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud, Vol V) by Peter Gay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Artist Revealed: Artists and Their Self-Portraits by Ian Chilvers in Back Matter
- Artistic Greatness: A Comparative Exploration of Michelangelo, Beethoven, & Monet by Thomas McBurney in Back Matter
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