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Monet and his muse : Camille Monet in the artist's life
- Title
- Monet and his muse : Camille Monet in the artist's life / Mary Mathews Gedo.
- Author
- Gedo, Mary Mathews.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
- Description
- xiii, 289 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Camille Monet in the artist's life
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-2795
- ISBN
- 9780226284804 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226284808 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009048499
- OCLC
- 457149374
- Author
- Gedo, Mary Mathews.
- Title
- Monet and his muse : Camille Monet in the artist's life / Mary Mathews Gedo.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-2795