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Some of our favorite books
about Claude Monet, the impressionist painter are listed below.
(Some of our other recent favorites.)
Title:Claude Monet: Life at Giverny ISBN: 0865650535
Publisher: Vendome Press, The
Publication Date: September 1985
Format: Paperback, 151pp.
Notes:
Giverny was the French country home where Monet spent his last 43
years painting and cultivating the gardens that would inspire many of
his greatest works. Joyes describes the artist's days at Giverny, his
routines and work habits, his fiery temper and love of life, his financial
worries before Impressionism became popular, his family (Alice
Hoschede and her children, deserted by her husband, lived at Giverny
with the widowed Monet and his children; they married in 1892) and
the friends and artists who visited, including Rodin, Cezanne, Sisley
and Cassatt. The grounds, which went to ruin after Monet's death in
1926, are now restored and open to the public, looking much as they
did during Monet's lifetime. Color photographs of the gardens and
reproductions of Monet's work grace the pages of this portrait of the
artist
Title:Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self ISBN: 0226475441
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: November 1994
Format: Paperback, 388pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
Steven Z. Levine provides a new understanding of the life and work of
Claude Monet and the myth of the modern artist. Levine analyzes the
extensive critical reception of Monet and the artist's own prolific
writings in the context of the story of Narcissus, popular in late
nineteenth-century France. Through a careful blending of
psychoanalytical theory and historical study, Levine identifies
narcissism and obsession as driving forces in Monet's art and
demonstrates how we derive meaning from the accumulated verbal
responses to an artist's work.
Title:Monet: Late Paintings of Giverny from the Musee Marmottan ISBN: 0810926105
Publisher: Abrams,Harry N Inc
Publication Date: March 1995
Format: Paperback, 87pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
Claude Monet was a skilled landscape designer as well as a great artist.
He turned his garden at Giverny into a magnificent living canvas which
appears and reappears in many of his paintings. In an intriguing mix of
art history and garden theory, this beautifully illustrated book provides
a unique look at the late master works of this ever-popular
impressionist painter.
Title:Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist ISBN: 0810928833
Publisher: Abrams,Harry N Inc
Publication Date: March 1993
Format: Paperback, 182pp.
Notes:
Throughout his long life, Claude Monet transformed light and color
into art. In 1874 his renowned Impression, Sunrise caused an uproar
among conservative art critics and gave birth to a revolution in
painting. This new title in the Discoveries series features excerpts from
the artist's letters and other writings. 236 illustrations, 195 in full
color.
Title:Claude Monet: Life and Work ISBN: 0847815714
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
Publication Date: October 1992
Format: Hardcover, 348pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
Monet is incontestably one of the greatest Impressionists, as well as
being the most popular. Yet hitherto books on this great figure have
been partial, concentrating either on aesthetic or on social aspects of his
work without attempting a synthesis. Now Virginia Spate restores
plenitude of meaning to Monet's paintings, examining the various ways
in which they can be read; the tension between image and reality which
energizes them; and the mysterious interactions between the work
itself, its exhibition, promotion and sale, and its reception both in
public and in private. Based on a complete study of the artist's work -
made possible as never before by recently published catalogues of his
oeuvre - his surviving letters (nearly 3,000 in all) and contemporary
documentary material, this is the fullest account available of a complex
and influential man whose style changed and evolved considerably
during his long career. Monet is considered as an intelligent and
cultured being, a friend to writers such as Zola, Mallarme and Octave
Mirbeau, fully informed as to the cultural and intellectual tendencies
of his time. His often neglected figure paintings, always of family or
friends, are analyzed alongside his landscapes, which ranged from
timeless river scenes to steam-filled railway stations. Changes in his
output in response to shifts in demand are linked to the new system of
art dealers and to his financial situation. The France of Monet's youth
and maturity is covered in depth, especially the traumatic legacy of the
Franco-Prussian war and the Paris Commune; and his famous garden at
Giverny is shown to be both a personal Utopia and a vital part of his
creative processes. The dialectic of the real world and its representation
in art is explored in detail as manifested in his splendid canvases -
faithfully reproduced in over 130 colour plates. This definitive
treatment of a hugely important artist makes an indispensable
contribution to the art history of Impressionism
Title:Claude Monet: 1840-1926 ISBN: 0500279047
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: September 1996
Format: Paperback, 282pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
Claude Monet: 1840-1926 is published to coincide with a major
exhibition of Monet's works at The Art Institute of Chicago - the
largest retrospective of Claude Monet ever held. A lavishly illustrated
record of the exhibition, it presents in full color 161 assembled
masterpieces, drawn from collections all over the world. Charles F.
Stuckey, a leading Monet scholar, presents an extensive
month-by-month chronology of the artist, examining his life and work
in absorbing detail. In an introductory essay he emphasizes a variety of
overlooked issues at the heart of Monet's work: the importance of
structure in his art, for example; the significance of the early landscape
paintings; and his stature not only as the leading impressionist painter
but also as a major twentieth-century artist. Monet is considered here
primarily in terms of his own ambitions to be a virtuoso, a
revolutionary, and a perfectionist. As this book makes clear, despite his
present popularity he is still not credited for many of his most
remarkable achievements.
Title:Claude Monet: Life and Art ISBN: 0300072864
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: October 1997
Format: Paperback, 260pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
This lavishly illustrated book presents the first complete overview of
the life, art, and times of the quintessential Impressionist. Tucker, one
of our foremost authorities on Monet, offers a striking new view of the
artist, showing him to be a far more complicated figure than previously
acknowledged, fiercely competitive and ambitious, as well as sensitive
and inventive.
Title:Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings ISBN: 0300049137
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: January 1992
Format: Paperback, 324pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
In this book the author provides a fresh context for these canvases. The
author also proposes that Monet's series paintings were not only an
artistic response to the beauties of nature but were also related to
contemporary events in France and to Monet's determination to
provide active leadership for his nation's artistic production.
Title:Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny ISBN: 1556704151
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc.
Publication Date: May 1995
Format: Hardcover, 168pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
Season by season, Monet's Garden charts the splendor of the
world-renowned garden Monet cultivated and then translated into
more than 500 paintings. Here is a unique and visionary portrait of one
of the most frequently visited places in all of France. Starting with the
story of how Monet acquired and transformed the land, author Vivian
Russell details the history of the garden and traces the development of
Monet as an artist and gardener. She presents a vivid account of the
evolution of Giverny, with insights from the people who restored the
garden to its former glory, as well as from its current caretakers.
Title:Secrets of Monet's Garden: Bringing the Beauty of Monet's Style to Your Own Garden ISBN: 1567994636
Publisher: Friedman, Michael Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication Date: October 1997
Format: Hardcover, 144pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
In Secrets of Monet's Garden, premier garden writer and photographer
Derek Fell examines Impressionist painter Claude Monet's planting
philosophies, shedding light on his use of color, sense of structure,
extravagant combinations of form and texture, and favorite flowers.
Fell unveils the mysteries behind Monet's famous water lily plantings,
cottage garden, vegetable garden, and more. Specific suggestions for
incorporating Monet's exuberant style into home gardens are included,
whether the garden in question is a small potager or a full-scale water
garden. With hundreds of full-color photographs, as well as
reproductions of many of Monet's garden paintings, this is a book that
garden enthusiasts will find thoroughly enjoyable, both for the
enlightening insight into Monet's garden and for the many useful ideas
for bringing the painter's distinctive style to contemporary garden
spaces.
Title:Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism ISBN: 0810921839
Publisher: Abrams,Harry N Inc
Publication Date: September 1978
Format: Paperback
Remarks from the Publisher:
This book comprises eighty-one of the finest works painted by Claude
Monet at Giverny between 1883, when he settled there, and 1926, the
year of his death.
Title:Monet's House: An Impressionist Interior ISBN: 0517706679
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication Date: August 1997
Format: Hardcover, 144pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
It is a summer's day in the late 1890s and Monet's house at Giverny is
in its heyday. Outside, the pink stucco walls are punctuated by brilliant
green shutters, and a new green balcony spans the length of the house.
Inside, light streams through open windows, illuminating the vibrant,
innovative colors Monet chose to color his rooms.
Here is a guided tour of the house where Monet lived for forty years
with the woman who would become his second wife, Alice Hoschedé,
and their eight children. The original furniture, much of it painted in
vivid hues, is here as well as appointments--china, linen, and small
antique collectibles--authentic to what is known of Monet's lifestyle
and the period.
Here is the famous dining room painted in two shades of yellow,
embellished with Japanese prints and blue-and-white china. Here is
the kitchen with its blue- and-white Rouen tiles and copper pots, the
fabled studio where Monet not only painted but entertained his family
and friends, the blue drawing room where the family gathered for
games, the bedrooms and dressing rooms with their simple and elegant
appointments, the foyers, the épicerie, even the cellar where wine and
provisions were stored. Paint dabs showing the colors used in major
rooms allow the reader to duplicate them in their own homes.
Heide Michels opens a door onto Monet's private world, giving us a
vivid impression of the family's day-to-day routine, including family
activities and mealtime rituals. She describes Monet's love of the good
life; good food, good wine, and the company of stimulating friends,
among them Monet's fellow painters, Renoir and Caillebotte, and a
circle of writers and critics.
Monet's House reveals the artist as a master decorator as innovative in
his choice of wall and furniture colors as he was in his canvases. It also
captures a vivid picture of domestic life as it was lived by one of the
world's greatest Impressionist painters.
Title:The Garden of Claude Monet: The Four Seasons of Giverny ISBN: 0812065123
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
Publication Date: September 1995
Format: Hardcover, 120pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
Taking readers to Monet's private gardens at Giverny--the subject of
many of his finest landscape paintings--this collection of beautifully
evocative modern photos depicts how the appearance of Giverny
changes over the course of all four seasons. An informative text
accompanies 35 photos and illustrations.
Title:A Blue Butterfly: A Story about Claude Monet ISBN: 0385311028
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: July 1995
Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 32pp.
Remarks from the Publisher:
In a garden of spectacular beauty in Giverny, France, Claude Monet
painted flowers. Dazzled by the light, he painted with rich colors of
vermilion, emerald, and violet. His poppies, tulips, irises, and
waterlilies have awed the world. In her radiant watercolors, Bijou Le
Tord uses Monet's own palette of only eight colors. Her magnificent
paintings and poetic words celebrate the extraordinary vision of the
beloved impressionist painter, Claude Monet.
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