Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Claude Monet: 1840-1926 by Charles F. Stuckey, Claude Monet, Sophia Shaw, Art Institute of Chicago ISBN: 0-86559-134-2 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Visual Treat!
Comment: This Claude Monet art book is a great book, I received it as a gift over 10 years ago and I think it's very well put together and has beautiful images of Monet's best artwork and the book also gives some info as well. I recommend this book which is a good read, a visual treat and makes an excellent coffee table book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Water Lily Heaven
Comment: If you are in love with Claude Monet's Water Lily Pond paintings, this is the best book for an explanation as to their origins and where Monet found his inspiration. There is a photograph from 1926 showing the bridge covered with climbing plants.
The Japanese Bridge at Giverny, 1924 is just one of the outstanding paintings in a series of works devoted to the bridge that preoccupied Monet during his final years.
Monet loved his garden at Giverny with such a passion that one could say it bordered on obsession. Harmony in Green, The White Water Lilies, The Water Lily Pond are all explained in detail. There is even a picture of Monet photographed in his beloved garden in 1917.
In every life there is beauty and sadness. The beauty of the water lilies contrasts with the pain Monet felt when he painted Camille on her death bed.
When Monet's wife died, she not only left him without a companion, he then had small children depending on him. He spent most of his meager earnings on his wife's medical treatments and he was also deeply depressed and alone.
This type of revealing information makes him so very human and the paintings then contain a certain depth when these secrets are revealed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Comprehensive tour du force
Comment: A must-have for any student of Monet. Volumne I contains covers his biography proper, while volumes II-IV provide a COMPLETE record of the artist's body of work.
Wilderstein protrays Monet life for the most part as that of a debtor. However to his credit, he tempers the romantic "suffering artist" idealism with insight into Monet the creditor. By illustrating what a jackass the artist could also be, the author creates a deep and lively narrative.
Most of the personal insight into Monet come to us by way of coorespondance with Alice Hoeschede. Due to 'appearances' however she requested of Monet her letters be destroyed immediately and thus we're sadly left with a one-sided portrait of the man. While his artistic talents we're unparalled, it's his devotation to correspondance that allows Wildenstein to bring him back to life. Without giving away the ending, it's Monet's inability to write rather than paint that signals the end.
 |
Title: Eyewitness: Impressionism by Jude Welton ISBN: 0789455838 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
 |
Title: Vincent Van Gogh: 1853-1890, Vision and Reality (Basic Art) by Ingo F. Walther, Taschen America ISBN: 382286322X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
 |
Title: Eyewitness: Manet by Patricia Wright ISBN: 0789448793 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
 |
Title: Eyewitness: Van Gogh by Bruce Bernard, Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0789448785 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
 |
Title: Rembrandt 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form (Basic Art) by Michael Bockemuhl, Taschen ISBN: 3822863203 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
