Monet - The Restless Vision

Wullschlager''s biography describes him excellently and makes shrewd deductions, while leaving a core of unknowability (of which Monet would doubtless have approved)... His true biography, as Wullschlager understands, is the biography of his art>

About the author

Jackie Wullschläger is Chief Art Critic of the Financial Times. Her books include the prize-winning Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller (2000) and Chagall: Love and Exile (2008), which won the Spear's Biography of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. She lives in London.

Report

A deeply researched and immensely readable biography that gives the reader a compelling and original understanding of the works and the life of a universally admired but misunderstood painter. Miranda Seymour

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Wullschlager, Jackie Wullschläger
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 03.10.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780141980621
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198062-1
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), c 1800 to c 1900, Biography: arts & entertainment, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Impressionism, C 1900 - C 1914, Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism