The impressionist Claude Monet, created more than 2500 paintings, drawings and pastels - radically altering the way art was made and understood. This book is a comprehensive study of Monet's achievement that sets his rich legacy into the context of his life and times. Instead of reading Monet's work as engaged only with the beauties of nature, the author offers interpretations based on an examination of individual paintings, Monet's biography and the multiple forces that shaped his aesthetic. The artist's oeuvre is seen as an evolving enterprise that was intricately linked to such events as the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune insurrection of 1870-71, the Dreyfus Affair of 1898 and World War I. This book also explores the demands that Monet placed upon himself, his responses to market pressures and his steadfast belief in the power of art to express ideas. Combining documentary material with an analysis of the public's reaction to his work, the book demonstrates how Monet was able to achieve enormous success during his lifetime. It argues that Monet was fully aware of his talents, that he consciously chose sites and subjects that were layered with meaning and that he was intent on becoming one of France's greatest artists - an honour he was accorded by the end of the 19th century - much earlier than is generally assumed.

Author: Paul Hayes Tucker
Paperback:  260 pages
Company: Yale University Press  (1998-01-21)
ISBN: 0300072864
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Julie lives in Paris, but she longs to walk in a beautiful country garden. When her mother takes her on a visit to rural Giverny, Julie discovers a beautiful garden and befriends the man she believes is the gardener. In fact, he is the garden?s owner, the immortal artist Claude Monet. This is a title in Barron?s Anholt?s Artists Books for Children series, in which author and illustrator Laurence Anholt recalls memorable and sometimes amusing moments when the lives of the artists were touched by children. Anholt?s fine illustrations appear on every page and include reproductions of works by the artists.

Author: Laurence Anholt
Paperback:  32 pages
Company: Barron's Educational Series  (2007-08-17)
ISBN: 0764138553
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This new edition asks probing questions. Where did Claude Monet live? What is special about Impressionist paintings? What did Claude Monet like to paint? Read 'The Life and Work of: Claude Monet' to answer these questions and more. Each book in 'The Life and Work of ...' series tells the story of a famous artists. You'll learn about their lives. You'll see how the things that happened to them and the people who they met changed the way they made their art.

Author: Sean Connolly
Paperback:  32 pages
Company: Heinemann  (2006-05-06)
ISBN: 1403485003
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water-lily pond which he was to paint on huge canvases well into the 1920s. He thereby sought to render not reality as objectively experienced, but rather that which takes place "between the motif and the artist". In their open, merely tenuously representational structure and impressive scale, his water lily paintings - created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-garde - point the way to the developments of the future.

Author: Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet
Paperback:  96 pages
Company: Benedikt Taschen Verlag  (1996-06)
ISBN: 382289317X
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The first biography of Monet written especially for young readers. This highly readable text traces Monet's life as a young boy in LeHavre, his studies in Paris, and his eventual achievement of international renown in his forties. 53 illustrations, 33 in full color.

Author: Ann Waldron
Hardcover:  92 pages
Company: Harry N. Abrams  (1991-09-30)
ISBN: 0810936208
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Strokes of genius: the magic of Monet...

Claude Monet (1840?1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter associated with the Impressionist movement. His long life and extraordinary work were dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. Monet?s poplars, grain stacks, Rouen Cathedral, and waterlily paintings ? among the most beloved works of the Impressionist period ? were created long before the currents of the contemporary avant-garde and had an inestimable influence on the development of modern art. This book traces the life?s work of one of art history?s most beloved painters.

Author: Karin Sagner
Hardcover:  220 pages Illustrated
Company: Taschen  (2006-06-01)
ISBN: 3822850241
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Author: Susie Hodge
Paperback:  46 pages
Company: Franklin Watts  (2002-09)
ISBN: 0531166198
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Hardcover:  24 pages
Company: Lerner Classroom  (2003-05)
ISBN: 0822533642
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Claude Monet was a true magician of light and of colour. Yet it is not only his painting that fascinates us, but also the interesting life he led with his family and many friends. This book tells the tale of an unusual artist and his wonderful pictures.

Author: Stephan Koja, Katja Miksovsky
Hardcover:  32 pages
Company: Prestel Publishing  (1997-04)
ISBN: 3791318128
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