Monet : the restless vision /
Wullschlager, Jackie.
Monet : the restless vision / Jackie Wullschlager. - London : Allen Lane, 2023. - 464 pages ; 24 cm.
Behind this great and famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man, largely unknown. Jackie Wullschlager's enthralling biography, based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, is the first account of Monet's turbulent private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous, sensational painting. He was as obsessional in his love affairs as in his love of nature, and changed his art decisively three times when the woman at the centre of his life changed. Enduring devastating bereavements, he pushed the frontier of painting inward, to evoke memory and the passing of time. His work also responded intensely to outside cataclysms - the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War. This rich and moving biography immerses us in that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement.
9780241188309 (hbk.) : 35.00 024118830X (hbk.) : 35.00
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Painters--France--Biography.
Impressionist artists--France--Biography.
Biography.
Biography.
France.
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
c 1900 to c 1909.
History of art.
Biography & non-fiction prose.
ND553
920 MON
Monet : the restless vision / Jackie Wullschlager. - London : Allen Lane, 2023. - 464 pages ; 24 cm.
Behind this great and famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man, largely unknown. Jackie Wullschlager's enthralling biography, based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, is the first account of Monet's turbulent private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous, sensational painting. He was as obsessional in his love affairs as in his love of nature, and changed his art decisively three times when the woman at the centre of his life changed. Enduring devastating bereavements, he pushed the frontier of painting inward, to evoke memory and the passing of time. His work also responded intensely to outside cataclysms - the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War. This rich and moving biography immerses us in that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement.
9780241188309 (hbk.) : 35.00 024118830X (hbk.) : 35.00
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Painters--France--Biography.
Impressionist artists--France--Biography.
Biography.
Biography.
France.
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
c 1900 to c 1909.
History of art.
Biography & non-fiction prose.
ND553
920 MON