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An introduction to the work of Claude Monet.

John House

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Overview

One of a series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art
This volume on Monet contains an extensive essay, 48 full-page colour plates, and is accompanied by extensive notes and comparative illustrations
Provides incomparable value
Highly regarded for its insight and authority

Specifications

Paperback
English
305 x 225 mm, 12 x 8 7/8 in
128 pp
50 colour illustrations, 36 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714827230
ISBN-10: 0714827231

About the book

Impressionism took its name from the title of a painting that Claude Monet (1840-1926) exhibited in 1874. More than any other artist, Monet was the creator of the Impressionist vision, which has so forcefully shaped the way in which he habitually see nature today. For sixty years he continuously explored ways of translating his experiences into paint, in pictures that take us from the bustling life of Paris in the 1860s to the seclusion of his own water-garden, which he painted in his last years.

John House’s introduction to Monet’s life and work presents a sequence of dazzling illustrations that chart the artist’s progress as he became increasingly preoccupied with colour and atmospheric effect, and the direct studies of nature gave way to paintings of greater richness and harmony, in which the play of varied colours replaced the conventional drawing and modelling of forms.

In The Press

'Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers.' (Independent)

About the author(s)

John House is Professor of the History of Art and Deputy Director of the Courtauld Institute, London.