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King, Ross, 1962-
Subjects
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926. Water lilies.
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Last years.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
Water lilies in art.
RBC Taylor Prize.
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King, Ross, 1962-
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926. Water lilies.
Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Last years.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
Water lilies in art.
RBC Taylor Prize.
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Mad
enchantment
:
Claude
Monet
and the
painting
of the
water
lilies
/ Ross King.
by
King, Ross, 1962-
Bond Street Books/Doubleday Canada, c2016.
Call #:
759.4 K54m
Subjects
Monet
,
Claude
, 1840-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Monet
,
Claude
, 1840-1926.
Water
lilies
.
Monet
,
Claude
, 1840-1926 -- Last years.
Painters -- France -- Biography.
Water
lilies
in art.
RBC Taylor Prize.
ISBN:
9781632860125 (hc.)
9780385684620 (hc)
Description:
viii, 403 p., 16 [p.] of plates, : ill. (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Claude
Monet
is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the
water
lilies
in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of
Monet
's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature.
Monet
himself intended them to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration
Monet
experienced at the difficulties of capturing the fugitive effects of light,
water
, and color. They also reflect the terrible personal torments
Monet
suffered in the last dozen years of his life.
Mad
Enchantment
tells the full story behind the creation of the
Water
Lilies
, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny, and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that
Monet
, by then 73 and one of the world's wealthiest, most celebrated painters, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision--what Paul Cezanne called "the most prodigious eye in the history of
painting
"--was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age,
Monet
began
painting
again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait of an iconic figure in world culture--from his lavish lifestyle and tempestuous personality to his close friendship with the fiery war leader Georges Clemenceau, who regarded the
Water
Lilies
as one of the highest expressions of the human spirit.
Awards:
Winner of the RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, 2017.
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