Monet

von James H. Rubin

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: World of Art
• Themen: Kunst Themen und Techniken Kunstgeschichte
• ISBN: 9780500204474
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.04.2020
• Größe: 212 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Thames & Hudson