Monet / / James H. Rubin.
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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Superior document: | World of art |
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Place / Publishing House: | London : : Thames & Hudson,, [2020] Ã2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | World of art.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly color). |
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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. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780500204474 9780500775066 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | James H. Rubin. |