Monet

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. In 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.

Product details

• Authors: James H. Rubin
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780500204474
• ISBN: 978-0-500-20447-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: world of art; world of art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Individual artists, art monographs, Impressionism;France