# Monet (World of Art)

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- Authors: [James H. Rubin](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-h-rubin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-03-12

## Description

Claude Monet (1840–1926) is one of the most admired and famous painters of all time, and the architect of Impressionism: a revolution that gave birth to modern art. His technique – painting out of doors, at the seashore or in the city streets – was as radically new as his subject matter, the landscapes and middle-class pastimes of a newly industrialized Paris. Painting with an unprecedented immediacy and authenticity, Monet claimed that his work was something new: both natural and true. In this new introductory study, James H. Rubin – one of the world’s foremost specialists in 19th-century French art – traces the development of Monet’s practice, from his early work as a caricaturist to the late paintings of waterlilies and his garden at Giverny. Rubin explores the cultural currents that helped to shape Monet’s work: the utopian thought that gave rise to his politics; his interest in Japanese prints, gardening, and trends in the decorative arts; and his relationship with earlier French landscape painters as well as such contemporaries as Manet and Renoir.

## Editions

### Monet (World of Art)

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0020-447-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2020-03-12
- Language: en_GB