Monet and His Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist's Life

Monet and His Muse: Camille Monet in the Artist's Life
ISBN-10
0226284808
ISBN-13
9780226284804
Category
Art
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
2010-09-30
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Mary Mathews Gedo

Description

"Mary Mathews Gedo's Monet and His Muse is a highly original work of impeccable scholarship, not only because it provides the first thorough and penetrating psychobiographical portrait of the artist, but also because of its unusual focus on the profound role that the painter's first wife played in his life and art. Gedo has absolute command of both the Monet literature and primary sources, and here she locates the artist's wife and frequent model Camille within the imaginatively rich network of Monet's associations with the women in his life and with various conscious and unconscious symbols in his paintings. But Camille was not simply a symbol; Gedo examines Monet and his wife's actual marriage in all its complex and fascinating glory. This book represents the crowning achievement of our country's best psycho-biographer of figures in the visual arts." Bradley I. Collins, Parsons, The New School For Design --

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