Monet and his muse : Camille Monet in the artist's life / Mary Mathews Gedo.

Author/creator Gedo, Mary Mathews
Other author Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxiii, 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Camille Monet in the artist's life
Contents Prologue. Monet's character -- The youth of the artist, the art of his youth -- The perils of young love, Monet's magnificent failure -- Success and scandal -- Camille as Flora -- Painted metaphors for the absent woman -- Ariadne on the Grande Île / William Conger -- The myth of the bourgeois family -- Honeymoon and exile : Camille's status legitimized -- The Argenteuil years -- Argenteuil, 1872-1873 : classic Impressionist landscapes, mythic and enigmatic images -- Camille as collective muse -- Camille ascendant; Camille redux -- Camille's captive samurai -- The muse of the past, the muse of the future -- Camille and Argenteuil in decline -- The course of Camille's final iIllness and its repercussions in Monet's art -- Death and transfiguration -- Epilogue. The memorial garden of Claude Monet.
Local noteLittle-305131061914Y
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009048499
ISBN9780226284804 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226284808 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks ND553.M7 G33 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold