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.
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