Hardback book with dust jacket, Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture, 409 pages, 1979, OUP

Orphism: The Evolution of Non-Figurative Painting in Paris, 1910-1914 (Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture)

Spate, Virginia

Arts & Photography

Oxford University Press

MONET : COLOUR OF TIME

Thames&Hudson

Monet is one of the greatest Impressionists as well as being the most popular, yet books about him have concentrated either on aesthetic or on social aspects of his work without attempting a synthesis. Here Virginia Spate provides a full interpretation of Monet's paintings, examining the various ways in which they can be read; the tension between image and reality that energizes them; and the mysterious interactions between the work, its exhibition, promotion, and sale, and its reception both in public and in private. Based on a study of the artist's complete oeuvre, his surviving letters, 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's often neglected figure paintings, always of family or friends, are analyzed alongside his landscapes, which ranged from 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. This definitive treatment of a hugely important artist makes an indispensable contribution to the art history of Impressionism and the roots of modernism. 135 color and 165 b/w illustrations. Originally published in hardcover under the title: Claude Monet: Life and Work.

Claude Monet: The Color of Time

Reference

Monet never traveled to Japan, but he surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Like a number of other Parisians, he first collected Japanese prints in the 1860s. He shared the European view of Japanese culture as supremely artistic, shaped by the refined aesthetic tastes of its people, in harmony with its legendary beauty. As early as the 1870s, critics were writing about the influence of Japanese art on Monet's Impression. Monet and Japan shows how Japanese prints and paintings helped to shape Monet's art during six decades, influencing not only his style and subject matter, but the very way he saw the world around him. It includes Japanese prints and paintings that we know Monet saw, or could have seen, or works very like them. The book also contains Monet's paintings of his pays, that part of France which he knew best, where he was born and brought up--the Seine Valley from Le Havre on the Norman coast to Paris. It is in his paintings of the landscapes that he knew intimately that one can best observe how Monet used Japanese art to shape his vision of his world.

Monet and Japan: An Exhibition Organised by the National Gallery of Australia

Monet, Claude

Hickey, Gary

History & Criticism

Natl Gallery of Australia

Monet and Japan

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Gardners Books

French painting: The revolutionary decades, 1760-1830

Australian Gallery Directors Council

In association with the Bridgeman Art Library these mini monographs celebrate four of the most popular painters. Each book contains 50 key paintings, 20 gorgeous details and a brief introduction by an eminent art historian mapping out the significant moments of the artist’s career.

Life and Works: Degas (Life and Works)

Sourcebooks, Inc.

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