Monet Art Book
Monet Art Book
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 CRAIG ROUSSEAU GEN X COLORING BOOK p29 ART SKIN MONET  US $59.95
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 Monet Miniature Art Book Miniature Masterpieces US $1.00
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 Set of 3 German Art Books Renoir Cezanne Monet US $129.99
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 CLAUDE MONET ART ILLUSTRATE BOOK GERMANY LANG 228 PAGES SEE SCAN US $10.00
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 Monet by John House Impressionism Art Design Book US $22.45
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 Monet Nature into Art John House Very Good Book US $5.49 |
 CRAIG ROUSSEAU GEN X COLORING BOOK p23 ORIG ART MONET US $29.95
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 ART BOOK MONET A RETROSPECTIVE US $18.90
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 1990 Monet art book by Jean Jacques Leveque hc dj US $11.95
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'Do we really need another book on Monet, darling?' - Part 2
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Baby Einstein - Baby Monet - Discovering the Seasons $10.84 A playful introduction to the four seasons through art and music!-- Introduces babies to the sights and sounds of the four seasons-- Exposes little ones to famous Monet masterpiecesAs babies grow and change, so does the landscape around them. From fiery red leaves to falling snowflakes; from flowers in bloom to fireworks in July, every season of the year has its own special magic just waiting to b... |
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Monet: Shadow & Light [VHS] $11.77 Monet: Shadow and Light presents a rich portrayal of the trials of a struggling but stubborn Claude Monet and how a boy with budding talent shows him the importance of family. Set in 1869, five years before the Impressionist movement was recognized, 29 year-old Monet paints his view of the world while trying to support his young family with his art. Settling on the Seine near Paris, Monet discove... |
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Caress of the Vampire [VHS] $1.74 ... |
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The Impressionists $19.73 Lavish BBC mini-series stars Julian Glover as legendary artist Claude Monet, looking back on his life and recalling how his relationships with fellow painters Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, and Paul Cezanne--as well as their battle against the gallery elite of mid-1800s Paris--forever changed the art world. With Richard Armitage, Anthony Calf, Crispin Bonham-Carter, ... |
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Linnea in Monet's Garden $7.31 LINNEA IN MONET'S GARDEN - DVD Movie... |
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Monet - Verlaine - Debussy - The Impressionist Revolution - Explore Stunning Masterpieces of Art, Poetry and Music by the World's Greatest Artists (CD-ROM PC Version) $188.00 The story of the Impressionist Revolution is brought to life in a stunning multimedia mix of art, poetry and music. Travel back in time to the streets and salons of Monet, Verlaine, Debussy and their contemporaries. Excite your senses with beautifully designed interactive tours, explore themes and techniques, visit a virtual museum, listen to a captivating imaginary concert. Includes: . Over 200 ... |
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Monet's Passionate Art Monet's passionate art for computers. Disc has 22 differetn images for screen saver, wallpaper, and image puzzle.... |
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Monet - Water lilies Design Skin Decal Sticker for Apple MacBook PRO 13 Aluminum (w/ SD card slot released in 2009) $29.99 This skin decal sticker is designed for Apple MacBook PRO 13"" Aluminum (NO SEPARATE TOUCHPAD BUTTON) w/ SD card slot which released in June 2009 and a FireWire port. They are covered with a clear protectant layer for the ultimate in durability, it use a patented repositionable & removable adhesive backing for fast, easy and accurate installation and goo-free removal! They are paper-thin so they d... |
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Monet - Water lilies Design Protector Skin Decal Sticker for Apple MacBook Air 13 inch (released in Jan 2008) $29.99 This skin decal sticker is designed for Apple MacBook Air 13 inch (released in Jan 2008) with a SEPARATE TRACKPAD button. They are covered with a clear protectant layer for the ultimate in durability, it use a patented repositionable & removable adhesive backing for fast, easy and accurate installation and goo-free removal! They are paper-thin so they do not add any bulk. Skins are easy to apply (... |
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Monet - Water lilies Design Skin Decal Sticker for Apple MacBook 13 White Unibody (NO SEPARATE TRACKPAD released in 2009) $29.99 This skin decal sticker is designed for Apple MacBook 13"" White Polycarbonite Unibody (NO SEPARATE TOUCHPAD BUTTON) which released in fall 2009 and no FireWire port. They are covered with a clear protectant layer for the ultimate in durability, it use a patented repositionable & removable adhesive backing for fast, easy and accurate installation and goo-free removal! They are paper-thin so they d... |
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A City for Impressionism: Monet, Pissarro and Gauguin in Rouen $48.83 Some 100 painted works by the preeminent Impressionist masters depicting Rouen and its surroundings. Rouen played a major role in the history of late 19th-century art. While never ceasing to be a landmark for artists since Renaissance times, during the Impressionist period, the city's blossoming industry, beautifully intact architectural heritage and spectacular setting all combined to bring Rouen to the apex of its allure. From this time on, the city that Pissarro deemed "as beautiful as Venice" became one of the most emblematic settings in modern painting. Masterpieces of Monet, Gauguin, Pissarro, Sisley and other luminaries of late 19th century painting are assembled in this volume, which explores one of the last great themes in the story of Impressionism, one that has yet to be the object of an exhibition or a book: this Norman city as a workshop for the new frontier in painting, with its urban ferment and pastoral beauty, its time-honored stones and booming industry, all vibrantly reflected in the waters of the Seine. |
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A Train of Powder $14.99 Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is "Greenhouse with Cyclamens," a three-part essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision, clarity, and daring insight. She also reports on two particularly brutal murder trials — one for a lynching in North Carolina, the other for a "torso murder" in England — and the espionage trial of a British telegrapher. Throughout, the question of guilt inspires Ms. West to feats of psychological detection wherein unerring craftsmanship and a powerful narrative sense combine to a high purpose — the pursuit of truth. "An astonishing book.... As compelling as Court TV but without the frisson of voyeurism (and with the compensatory satisfactions of West's breathtakingly lucid prose style), these elegant narratives remind us of the preciousness and fragility of our right to trial by jury."—Francine Prose. "It is her unique magic to combine impressionism and precision, as if Monet and Ingres could somehow be fused. Time and again a passage begins as a sort of iridescent cloud, and culminates in a diamond point."—Telford Taylor, Saturday Review. "Rebecca West...has raised journalism to a high art, breathing into it a depth, a poetry, a subtlety, and an understanding and compassion for human beings and their endless follies and tragedies that give it a legitimate place in contemporary literature."—William L. Shirer. |
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A Train of Powder $16.95 Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is "Greenhouse with Cyclamens," a three-part essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision, clarity, and daring insight. She also reports on two particularly brutal murder trials — one for a lynching in North Carolina, the other for a "torso murder" in England — and the espionage trial of a British telegrapher. Throughout, the question of guilt inspires Ms. West to feats of psychological detection wherein unerring craftsmanship and a powerful narrative sense combine to a high purpose — the pursuit of truth. "An astonishing book.... As compelling as Court TV but without the frisson of voyeurism (and with the compensatory satisfactions of West's breathtakingly lucid prose style), these elegant narratives remind us of the preciousness and fragility of our right to trial by jury."—Francine Prose. "It is her unique magic to combine impressionism and precision, as if Monet and Ingres could somehow be fused. Time and again a passage begins as a sort of iridescent cloud, and culminates in a diamond point."—Telford Taylor, Saturday Review. "Rebecca West...has raised journalism to a high art, breathing into it a depth, a poetry, a subtlety, and an understanding and compassion for human beings and their endless follies and tragedies that give it a legitimate place in contemporary literature."—William L. Shirer. |
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Art Activity Pack: Matisse $9.99 In this innovative new series, readers will learn about four of the world's best known artists—Monet, Matisse, Cezanne, and Van Gogh—and they'll also get activity ideas that will inspire them to create their own masterpieces. Each Art Activity Pack comes with a paperback book about the artist and focuses on one of the concepts behind his work. In addition, the Cezanne, Monet and Van Gogh Packs include an art activity book and a poster to color. The Matisse Pack includes stencils and brightly colored paper young artists can cut to create their own collages. Included in the Art Activity Packs:(Cezanne, Monet and Van Gogh)Full Color BookArt Activity Book(Cezanne, Monet and Van Gogh)Large Format Poster(Matisse)Stencils & Colored Paper |
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Art Activity Pack: Monet $0.25 Mila Boutan (Editor), Chronicle Books,Other Format - Art Book & Poster,Series: Art Activity Packs Series, English-language edition,Pub by Chronicle Books LLC |
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Art Museums in Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, National Museum of American Illustration, Redwood Library and Athenaeum $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, National Museum of American Illustration, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, John N. A. Griswold House, Newport Art Museum. Excerpt: Rhode Island School of Design Museum is a prominent art museum in Providence, Rhode Island affiliated with the well-known Rhode Island School of Design. The museum was founded in 1877 and is the 20th largest art museum in the United States. The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (The RISD Museum) contains a broad range of works from around the world, including Egypt, Asia, Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, and the Americas. It also features many notable works by a range Rhode Island artists such as 17th century Newport furniture makers Goddard and Townsend and nineteenth century Rhode Island painters, such as Anglo-American impressionist John Noble Barlow and portraitist Gilbert Stuart. The museum also features prominent international and American artists such as Picasso, Monet, Manet, Paul Revere, and Andy Warhol. The RISD Museum houses over 80,000 works of art. Ancient Art The department of Ancient Art includes bronze figural sculpture and vessels, an exceptional collection of Greek coins, stone sculpture, Greek vases, paintings, and mosaics, a fine collection of Roman jewelry and glass, and teaching examples of terracottas. A number of objects represent the most outstanding examples in their categories. Among these virtually unique works of art are an Etruscan bronze situla (pail), a fifth-century B.C. Greek female head in marble, and a rare Hellenistic bronze Aphrodite. Among the Greek vases are works by some of the major Attic painters, including Nikosthenes and the Providence, Brygos, Pan, Lewis, and Reed Painters. The cornerstone of the Museums Egyptia... More: |
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Art across Time Volume One $154.33 30,000 years of art — one engaging guide. Can't tell a Manet from a Monet? Not sure why you should want to? Let scholar and author Laurie Adams introduce you to the story behind the history of art. Based on her art survey textbook of the same name,this edition of Art Across Time serves as an entertaining and readable introduction to the history of art. Providing biographical notes and historical context,Adams has created a vivid narrative. Each illustration has been carefully reviewed for color accuracy,and the large percentage of full-page reproductions presents a rare opportunity for readers to examine details of brushwork and texture that are lost in smaller images. All in all,this colorful book is an ideal gift that will compliment any library and interest any reader. |
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Art across Time Volume One $72 30,000 years of art — one engaging guide. Can't tell a Manet from a Monet? Not sure why you should want to? Let scholar and author Laurie Adams introduce you to the story behind the history of art. Based on her art survey textbook of the same name,this edition of Art Across Time serves as an entertaining and readable introduction to the history of art. Providing biographical notes and historical context,Adams has created a vivid narrative. Each illustration has been carefully reviewed for color accuracy,and the large percentage of full-page reproductions presents a rare opportunity for readers to examine details of brushwork and texture that are lost in smaller images. All in all,this colorful book is an ideal gift that will compliment any library and interest any reader. |
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Artful Accessories $1.65 Monet, Raphael, Fragonard, Botticelli, and more provide inspiration for more than 12 accessories informed by famous works of art. The book includes engaging information on each artist's life and work, offering lessons in art history to complement the crafting, andbest of allcomes with all the materials needed to create 5 accessories, so crafters can get started right away! |
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Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms $34.95 Lily Yeh is a global angel who not only believes in the power of people engaged, but inspires and ignites them through her own creative fire. Lily Yeh changed my life completely and if you read this book, your life as you know it will begin to change, as well, through the vibrancy of art in action called love.—Terry Tempest Williams, author, Finding Beauty in a Broken WorldAn inspiration for anyone who cares about kids, beauty and reinventing education to ignite greater joy, expression and leadership. At once visionary and eminently useful and practical, Lily Yeh celebrates the profound capacity of art to seed and support human transformation.—Matthew Fox, PhD, author, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet and The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human. A story about the beauty we each possess, the potential for rebirth at any time in life, and the power of an engaged, inspired community. This book shows the artist’s hand, eye, and mind at work, and its greatest reward is revealing the artist’s heart for us all to consider. —Glenn Holsten, filmmaker and director of An Angel in the Village, a documentary about Lily Yeh’s work in North PhiladelphiaLily Yeh is a passionate dedicated artist-alchemist who not only awakens creativity and beauty in broken places of the world she cultivates the human spirit to heal, transform, and blossom like the mosaic tree of life she helps communities create.—Elizabeth Murray, artist, garden designer, author, Cultivating Sacred Space: Gardening for the Soul and Monet’s PassionThis beautiful book shines a light on the hard work of making magic in the modern world. As with all of Lily’s adventures, her work in China is a powerful testament to enormous power of the creative spirit.—William |
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Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth $30.65 Two potent myths have traditionally defined our understanding of the artist Edvard Munch (1862–1944): he was mentally unstable, as his iconic work The Scream (1893) suggests, and he was radically independent, following his own singular vision. Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth persuasively challenges these entrenched perceptions. In this book, Jay A. Clarke demonstrates that Munch was thoroughly in control of his artistic identity, a savvy businessman skilled in responding to the market and shaping popular opinion. Moreover, the author shows that Munch was keenly aware of the art world of his day, adopting motifs, styles, and techniques from a wide variety of sources, including many Scandinavian artists. By presenting Munch’s paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to those of European contemporaries, including Harriet Backer, James Ensor, Vincent van Gogh, Max Klinger, Christian Krohg, and Claude Monet, Clarke reveals often surprising connections and influences. This interpretive approach, grounded in Munch’s diaries and letters, period criticism, and the artworks themselves, reintroduces Munch as an artist who cultivated myths both visual and personal. Becoming Edvard Munch features beautiful color reproductions of approximately 150 works, including 75 paintings and 75 works on paper by Munch and his peers.  |
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Berthe Morisot $30.38 A comprehensive, illustrated tribute to the life and works of the most influential female Impressionist painter. Berthe Morisot won over the Impressionists with her talent and became the first woman of the period alongside Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley. Morisot's paintings demonstrate how far ahead of her time she was when she created them, pioneering a new style of painting. However, she was underestimated for more than a century—most probably because she was a woman. This book, a comprehensive monograph showcasing the life and works of this influential artist, focusies on the important stages of her career, including her first participation in the Salon de Paris at the age of twenty-three in 1864. Moreover, the book assesses the significance of the time certain paintings were created, taking into consideration what was happening in the artist's life during that period. For example, in 1874 Berthe married Eugène, Manet's brother, and gave birth to their daughter, Julie Manet, who became the subject of many of Morisot's subsequent paintings. Berthe Morisot includes personal correspondence between Morisot and other important figures of the Impressionist movement, providing unique insight into this fascinating period. Portraits of her by her fellow artists have become significant works from the period. Likewise, she was heralded by the greatest writers of her time; a tribute anthology of citations from Paul Valéry, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Jean Cocteau offers an intimate portrait of the artist and her work. This book is an essential read for any lover of Berthe Morisot's work, and indeed for anyone who appreciates the work of the Impressionists. Her works can be found in: The National Gallery, Washington D.C., Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of the Arts, The Art Institute Williamstown, Massachusetts, as well as many other institutions. |
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California Impressionists $27.55 The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California. American Impressionism grew in popularity as artists from across the nation migrated to the Golden State. There they created a remarkable style, often referred to as California plein-air painting, combining several aspects of American and European art and capturing the brilliant mix of color and light that defined California.This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression. A joint effort of The Irvine Museum and the Georgia Museum of Art, it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia. Beautifully illustrated, with 72 full-color plates, California Impressionists recreates the vibrant splendor of a unique period in American art. |
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California Impressionists $17.14 The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California. American Impressionism grew in popularity as artists from across the nation migrated to the Golden State. There they created a remarkable style, often referred to as California plein-air painting, combining several aspects of American and European art and capturing the brilliant mix of color and light that defined California.This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression. A joint effort of The Irvine Museum and the Georgia Museum of Art, it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia. Beautifully illustrated, with 72 full-color plates, California Impressionists recreates the vibrant splendor of a unique period in American art. |
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California Impressionists $47.49 The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California. American Impressionism grew in popularity as artists from across the nation migrated to the Golden State. There they created a remarkable style, often referred to as California plein-air painting, combining several aspects of American and European art and capturing the brilliant mix of color and light that defined California.This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression. A joint effort of The Irvine Museum and the Georgia Museum of Art, it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia. Beautifully illustrated, with 72 full-color plates, California Impressionists recreates the vibrant splendor of a unique period in American art. |
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California Impressionists $27.95 The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California. American Impressionism grew in popularity as artists from across the nation migrated to the Golden State. There they created a remarkable style, often referred to as California plein-air painting, combining several aspects of American and European art and capturing the brilliant mix of color and light that defined California.This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression. A joint effort of The Irvine Museum and the Georgia Museum of Art, it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia. Beautifully illustrated, with 72 full-color plates, California Impressionists recreates the vibrant splendor of a unique period in American art. |
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Cezanne Art Activity Pack $6.17 Readers learn about the world's greatest artist and they'll also get activity ideas that will inspire them to create their own masterpieces. The pack comes with a paperback book about the artist and focuses on one of the concepts behind his work. The Cezanne, Monet and van Gogh Packs include an art activity book and a poster to color. The Matisse Pack includes stencils and colored paper for creating collages. Full color. |
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Charlotte in Paris $16.99 It''s 1892. Charlotte and her family have lived abroad in the famous artist colony in Giverny, France, for a year, when an exciting invitation arrives. The celebrated impressionist Mary Cassatt is having an exhibition in Paris. While in Paris, Charlotte dines at a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, watches a marionette show in the Tuileries gardens and celebrates her birthday at the Eiffel Tower. Illustrated with stunning museum reproductions of works by artists such as Monet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir and Rodin as well as lovely watercolor collages, this sequel to Charlotte in Giverny also includes biographical sketches of the featured painters. Charlotte''s charming scrapbook will leave fans of the first book, art lovers, Francophiles and readers of all ages shouting, Vive Charlotte! |
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Chasing Degas $17.95 Monsieur Degas likes to paint the students while they practice in ballet class—they’ve inspired many of his beautiful paintings. But one day he mistakenly leaves his bag of paints in the dance studio and instead takes a young ballerina’s bag, which contains her new tutu for the evening’s recital! And so the ballerina begins a great chase to find Degas before her big night. As she searches the streets of Paris, the ballerina encounters many other Impressionist painters, who are in the process of painting some of their great works. Monet, Renoir, Caillebotte, and Cassatt help the ballerina until she is reunited, at last, with Degas. Featuring the original Impressionist paintings that inspired this picture book of historical fiction, along with an author’s note about Impressionism and this vibrant period in Paris, Chasing Degas will delight young lovers of art and ballet. |
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Chocolate $1.99 When a greeting card just isn't enough...send something unique. It's as simple and inexpensive to mail as a card—but it's much more: an entire book to keep and treasure forever! Light as a feather, wonderfully personal, and colorfully visual, these small, self-enclosed little volumes go right into the mail with no wrapping required. Just write your dedication on the inside, address it on the back, seal the flap, stick on a stamp, and put it in the mailbox. Give one for holidays, for birthdays and anniversaries, for messages of cheer, or for any occasion when you want to remember friends and family. And, there's truly something for everyone: expressive dogs and cats for the animal lover; lush roses for the gardener; Monet's paintings for the art buff; a wine companion for the oenophile; and tributes to coffee, tea, chocolate, and more for the home chef—and Belle _poque nudes for...well, you know who! Each is a lasting value—for the recipient and the giver! 4 1/4 X 5 15/16. 32 Color Pages |
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Chocolate $0.99 When a greeting card just isn't enough...send something unique. It's as simple and inexpensive to mail as a card—but it's much more: an entire book to keep and treasure forever! Light as a feather, wonderfully personal, and colorfully visual, these small, self-enclosed little volumes go right into the mail with no wrapping required. Just write your dedication on the inside, address it on the back, seal the flap, stick on a stamp, and put it in the mailbox. Give one for holidays, for birthdays and anniversaries, for messages of cheer, or for any occasion when you want to remember friends and family. And, there's truly something for everyone: expressive dogs and cats for the animal lover; lush roses for the gardener; Monet's paintings for the art buff; a wine companion for the oenophile; and tributes to coffee, tea, chocolate, and more for the home chef—and Belle _poque nudes for...well, you know who! Each is a lasting value—for the recipient and the giver! 4 1/4 X 5 15/16. 32 Color Pages |
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Claude Monet $26.65 Where did Claude Monet live? What is special about Impressionist paintings? What did Claude Monet like to paint? Each book in this series tells the story of a famous artist. You''ll learn about their lives. You''ll see how the things that happened to them and the people they met changed the way they made their art. |
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Claude Monet $5.3 These books breathe life into art by exploring the lives of the world's greatest artists and the events that influenced their masterpieces. Each book includes reconstruction artwork or photos of the artists throughout their careers; beautifully reproduced samples of their work; and timelines that pull it all together. |
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Claude Monet, 1840-1926 $0.27 La serie de arte de Taschen son libros de magníficas reproducciones y textos inteligentes con precios sin competencia. Este se trata de Monet. English Translation: Monet, the man, the art with beautiful color reproductions. Taschen Art Book. |
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Claude Monet: The Magician of Colour $0.01 Learning about the life and work of the famous French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) doesn't have to start with reading an art history book. This CD-ROM lets you explore the best-known paintings of the great Impressionist master from an endless variety of angles, a playful, interactive approach that fits well with Monet's groundbreaking explorations of light and color. |
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Claude Monet: The Painter Who Stopped the Trains $3.98 Young readers will learn how Claude Monet came to paint trains as well as how he forever changed the minds of critics about his art and about the Impressionists in general. When his nine-year-old son raves over trains passing by in the countryside, Monet wishes his own art could excite critics as much as trains captivate his son. The book explains his painting technique, how critics viewed him and the other Impressionists, and how he came to paint trains. Jos. A. Smith’s beautiful illustrations are paired with P. I. Maltbie’s comprehensive text to create an inspiring tale of Monet. The book also includes an author’s note, reproductions of some of Monet’s paintings, a time line, a list of North American museums that house Monet’s paintings, a bibliography, and an index."A handsome and child-friendly introduction to the Impressionist master. The narrative works well, and much information is thoughtfully, accessibly presented." –Kirkus Reviews "Smith expertly illuminates the changing landscape of an evolving world, as Maltbie's thoughtful story of inspiration and imagination highlights a less remembered portion of Monet's work." –Publishers Weekly |
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Contemporary French Dramatists; Studies On The Th Tre Libre, Curel, Brieux, Porto-Riche, Hervien, Lavedan, Donnay, Rostand, Lema Tre, Capus $17.32 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book: was I was not long in learning. The moment there was a lull in the conversation he asked me to excuse him a moment. " I have something that may interest you! " While he was gone, I had occasion to remark the many pictures that hung on the walls of the library and hall, and noted examples of Monet, Manet, Cazin, and Millet. Was this man, too, an art collector? His strident voice called me into another room, where he bade me be seated at a table, upon which he spread some forty or fifty snap-shots. Beaming with pride, he asked me whether I liked hunting, and then proceeded to explain each of the pictures: Francois de Curel with a rifle slung over his back and a boar or deer at his feet, was the subject of most of these. Then there was Francois de Curel with two foresters, Francois de Curel in front of one of his hunting-lodges on his estate in Lorraine: Frangois de Curel as hunter was evidently more attractive to him than Francois de Curel as a dramatist. " I love the country," he exclaimed, " it is my home. I come to Paris only to superintend the production of a play or on other business. In Lorraine I look after my affairs, my factory, and my estate. Meantime I hunt -- I write occasionally. You see, I'm a bachelor, and I spend the long winter nights, sitting in front of a huge fire, with my dogs curled up about me, and read. I don't think I'm to be pitied, now, do you? " Again he laughed that genial laugh, and the author of L'Envers d'une sainte was less himself than ever. Francois de Curel was born at Metz in 1854. He was a precocious and avid reader; in his Reponse a I'enquete de M. Binet he says: " In my early youth, almost at the time I began to read, I felt that the writing of books was an enviable and honorable profession, the greatest of professions." |
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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty $39.99 Discover the techniques behind beautiful design?by deconstructing designs to understand themThe term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work—and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and explains the classical principles and techniques behind beautiful designs by deconstructing those designs in order to understand what makes them so remarkable. Author and designer David Kadavy provides you with the framework for understanding good design and places a special emphasis on interactive mediums. You'll explore color theory, the role of proportion and geometry in design, and the relationship between medium and form. Packed with unique reverse engineering design examples, this book inspires and encourages you to discover and create new beauty in a variety of formats.Breaks down and studies the classical principles and techniques behind the creation of beautiful designIllustrates cultural and contextual considerations in communicating to a specific audienceDiscusses why design is important, the purpose of design, the various constraints of design, and how today's fonts are designed with the screen in mindDissects the elements of color, size, scale, proportion, medium, and formFeatures a unique range of examples, including the graffiti in the ancient city of Pompeii, the lack of the color black in Monet's art, the style and sleekness of the iPhone, and moreBy the end of this book, you'll be able to apply the featured design principles to your own web designs, mobile apps, or other digital work. |
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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty $21.85 Discover the techniques behind beautiful design?by deconstructing designs to understand themThe term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work—and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and explains the classical principles and techniques behind beautiful designs by deconstructing those designs in order to understand what makes them so remarkable. Author and designer David Kadavy provides you with the framework for understanding good design and places a special emphasis on interactive mediums. You'll explore color theory, the role of proportion and geometry in design, and the relationship between medium and form. Packed with unique reverse engineering design examples, this book inspires and encourages you to discover and create new beauty in a variety of formats.Breaks down and studies the classical principles and techniques behind the creation of beautiful designIllustrates cultural and contextual considerations in communicating to a specific audienceDiscusses why design is important, the purpose of design, the various constraints of design, and how today's fonts are designed with the screen in mindDissects the elements of color, size, scale, proportion, medium, and formFeatures a unique range of examples, including the graffiti in the ancient city of Pompeii, the lack of the color black in Monet's art, the style and sleekness of the iPhone, and moreBy the end of this book, you'll be able to apply the featured design principles to your own web designs, mobile apps, or other digital work. |
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Dieppe Connection: The Town and Its Artists from Turner to Braque $0.99 Dieppe, a delightful port and resort on the Normandy coast, has been a source of inspiration to generations of British and French artists from Turner and Delacroix onwards. It is situated almost midway between London and Paris, and the town, more than any other in Europe, has been a location for the interaction of ideas between an extraordinary range of artists, writers and musicians. Dieppe has also been a place where British artists were exposed to the new developments in art taking place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The book, which is also the Catalogue of the 1992 exhibition Rendez-vous a Dieppe, at Brighton's Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museum, explores these themes and includes a colourful gallery of works by such artists as Cotman, Turner, Bonington; Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Gauguin; Beardsley, Conder, Blanche, Sickert and the Camden Town Group; William and Ben Nicholson and Braque. These and writers such as Gide, Proust, Wilde and Symons are discussed by John Willett (on the entire period from Turner to Braque), Anna Gruetzner Robins (on the 1880s and 1890s in Dieppe) and Sophie Bowness (on the period when Braque and Nicholson were meeting at Varengeville nearby). A detailed chronology and bibliography complete the text. |
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Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane $14.71 A compelling and illuminating guide to one of Ireland's foremost collections of modern and contemporary art, this book provides engaging commentaries on 120 of the most notable works in the gallery's collection. Masterpieces by such Impressionist and Barbizon painters as Puvis de Chavannes, Manet, Monet, Degas and Renoir are explored alongside works by their Irish counterparts Walter Osborne and John Lavery, and by the English Victorian painters Burne-Jones and Millais. Special attention is also given to the gallery's unique collection of twentieth-century Irish art, including pieces by Jack B. Yeats and Sean Keating, and to post-war European art. |
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Education in Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania $21.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: University of Pennsylvania, Saint Joseph's University, Villanova University, Barnes Foundation, Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School, Paul Vallas, Free Library of Philadelphia, Education in Philadelphia, Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School, Operation Alphabet, Philadelphia Center for Architecture, Philadelphia Student Union, Fox Chase Farm, Settlement Music School, I Am a Promise: the Children of Stanton Elementary School, Philadelphia Reading Olympics, St. Christopher's School, St. Barnabas Catholic School, Philadelphia. Excerpt: The Barnes Foundation is an educational art institution in Lower Merion Township , a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States . It was founded in 1922 by Albert C. Barnes , who collected art after making a fortune by co-developing an early antimicrobial drug marketed as Argyrol .Today, the Foundation possesses more than 2500 objects, including 800 paintings estimated to be worth about $25 billion. Among its collection are 181 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir , 69 by Paul Cézanne , and 59 by Henri Matisse , as well as numerous other masters, including Giorgio de Chirico , Paul Gauguin , El Greco , Francisco Goya , Edouard Manet , Amedeo Modigliani , Jean Hugo , Claude Monet , Pablo Picasso , Maurice Utrillo , Vincent Van Gogh , Maurice Prendergast , and a variety of African artworks, ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, and American and European decorative arts and metalwork. A notable aspect of the Barnes Foundations art collection is its display in "wall ensembles," which are intentional combinations of works from different time periods, geographic areas, and styles for the purpose of comparison and study.The Foundation became embroiled in controversy due to a financial crisis in |
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Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts $75 Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theories of evolution and natural selection have not only had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history, but also provided fertile territory for the creative imagination. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, in association with the Yale Center for British Art, that will coincide with the global celebration of the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). The essays in this exceptionally wide-ranging book examine both the profound impact that Darwin’s ideas had on European and American artists and the ways in which his theories were influenced by the visual traditions he inherited. In works by artists as diverse as Church, Landseer, Liljefors, Heade, Redon, Cézanne, Lear, Tissot, Rossetti, and Monet, from imaginative projections of prehistory to troubled evocations of a life dominated by the struggle for existence, Darwin’s sense of the interplay of all living things and his response to the beauties of the natural world proved inspirational. |
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Fabulous Felted Scarves $24.95 Felting is hotter than ever, and scarves are fabulous first projects for crafters to try. The simple process yields infinitely varied results, with rich colors, forms, and visual appeal. Created by two internationally-known designers, these 20 spectacular boas, wraps, shawls, and stoles are beautiful, wearable art. Ranging from understated elegance to simply outrageous, they come with easy-to-follow instructions, helpful how-to photos, and templates, when needed. An introduction covers all the basics, and the projects build a repertoire of skills as readers progress through the book. The standouts include a scarf with lacy designs snipped onto the felt surface; a wrap inspired by the delicate hues in Monet's water lily paintings; and a pretty dip-dye novelty yarn party scarf. |
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Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist $55 The color-drenched gardens and sun-dappled nudes by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) have long been loved by admirers of American Impressionism, and his paintings are treasured in museum collections across the country. This beautiful and comprehensive volume--with more than one hundred color and almost eighty black-and-white plates--is the most ambitious ever devoted to his work. It is being published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the artist's work.A biographical overview and a detailed chronology by the artist's grandson, including charming vintage photographs, provide much new information and correct several misconceptions about Frieseke's life and career. Three invaluable essays by leading scholars discuss the diverse stages of his work and place it in art historical context, detailing his experience as a student at Whistler's atelier in Paris and as a central member of the group of American expatriates who settled in Giverny, France, near the French master Monet. The book's groundbreaking scholarship casts new light on Frieseke, American Impressionism, and the art world at the turn of the last century.The contributors are Nicholas Kilmer, guest curator of the exhibition and the artist's grandson; Virginia M. Mecklenburg, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; David Sellin, art historian and author of American Painters in Brittany and Normandy; and H. Barbara Weinberg, curator of American painting and sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia March 20-June 3, 2001 The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis June 23-August 19, 2001 San Diego Museum of ArtSeptember 8-November 11, 2001 Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago December 8, 2001-February 3, 2002 |
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French Impressionist Paintings: The Janice H. Levin Collection $35 The French Impressionist paintings collected by Janice H. Levin and her husband, Philip, graced the walls of their Fifth Avenue apartment until her death in 2001. Among them were views by Claude Monet of his garden at Argenteuil and the cliffs at Pourville; works by Edgar Degas (the pastel Portraits at the Stock Exchange and a pastel and two bronzes of ballerinas); lush landscapes by Pierre Bonnard, Eugène Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; interiors by Morisot and Edouard Vuillard; and much more.This beautiful book, the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents these magnificent works and discusses each one's history and provenance as well as its connection to the Levins. Author Biography: Richard Shone is an editor at The Burlington Magazine and the author of several important books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. |
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From Monet to Cezanne $28.79 Grove Art: The New Grove Art series, focusing on the most important periods and areas of art history, is derived from the critically acclaimed The Dictionary of Art. Each book contains hundreds of articles by world authorities, written in clear, jargon-free language and provides an unprecedented guide to Western art. Grove Music: The scholarship of the world-renowned The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is now available in four convenientlysized paperbacks. These biographies offerallyou need to know about some of the most innovative and prolific composers ever known. |
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From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern $65 The Lone Star State is home to a dazzling array of world-class artworks, many in private collections and rarely exhibited. Reflecting the Kimbell Art Museum’s own collecting strengths, this book focuses on the art of Europe and the ancient Mediterranean from about 700 B.C. to around 1950. Over 40 prominent collections are featured along with works that have been given to museums in Texas or have left the state through gift or sale. Among the artists included are Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Gauguin, Guercino, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh. The distinguished scholar Richard R. Brettell contributes a comprehensive essay on the importance of private collecting in Texas. |
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Gendering Landscape Art $28 While gender has been the subject of extensive critical inquiry, the debate has focused primarily on the human, particularly the female, body. The spaces bodies occupy and the ways in which those spaces are depicted in landscape art has not, however, been subject to investigation. This book is the first sustained attempt to fill this gap in art history.Using approaches informed by cultural studies, feminism, and psychoanalysis, this collection of essays charts the ways in which artists from the late eighteenth century to the present have used notions of femininity and masculinity to understand and interpret the landscape and how it is represented.Various chapters in this volume offer new insights into how issues of gender have impacted on the work of well-known artists such as Monet and Cezanne. Other pieces focus on less familiar examples of landscape art over the past two centuries, from the public displays of monumental landscapes in late-eighteenth-century London to environmental art projects in present-day New York. |
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Gold of the Pharaohs $45.89 The fire-and-ice shimmer of carnelian and turquoise in a falcon-shaped necklace, the obsidian gaze of a lapis-encrusted mummy mask, the sheen of pearls and amethyst in a princess's belt, and above all, the dazzling, liquid splendor of gold -- representing the quintessence of godliness and encasing the divine Pharaoh's mummy to safeguard his immortality -- all of these and more are to be found in the feast for the eyes that is Gold of the Pharaohs.Featuring hundreds of spectacular color photographs, Gold of the Pharaohs presents the widest range of ancient Egyptian gold objects and jewels ever assembled in a single volume. As well as depicting the most highly prized possessions of a long-vanished civilization in all their opulence, the book serves as a vivid introduction to the life and culture of ancient Egypt.The belief in the magic and divine power of gold led the Egyptians to bury their dead among vast storehouses of treasures. Even after centuries of grave robbing, what remains is so overwhelming that Howard Carter, entering the tomb of Tutankhamen, and Pierre Monet, walking into that of the King of Tanis, could not believe their eyes.In addition to reproducing objects at those famous sites, the book showcases the huge caches of gold found in the pyramids of Meroe, in the grave of Cheop's mother, in Queen Ahotep's tomb, in the graves of princesses of the Middle Kingdom and Early Dynasties, in the Serapum of Saqqara, and elsewhere. Hans Wolfgang Muller not only describes the excavations but also recounts the adventures of the archeologists who made such momentous discoveries.Tracing the development of style and technique in the creation of gold masterpieces during threethousand years of Egyptian civilization, Muller discusses the function and symbolism of jewelry and the ways in which it was worn. He outlines the steps by which the ancients mined, refined, and transformed gold and precious stones into dazzling works of art.Muller tells of the monop |
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Green $13.93 When it was published last year, The New York Times Book Review hailed Blue as at once a spiritual challenge and a gorgeous typographical object . With Green Benjamin Zucker continues the challenge and the story of Abraham Tal, New York gem merchant and advice-giver to friends and neighbors in Greenwich Village.And continuing, too, is the involving rich world of prismatic color Tal inhabits. His life may be outwardly unexceptional, but he has inherited of world of voices jostling one another for their say, their Talmudic commentary on the action. Borges, Breton, Monet, Melville, Elihu Yale, Shah Jahan, Jewish mystics, many others -- all will be heard, emphatically, insistently, across the ages -- crowding into Tal's advice shop on Hudson Street with news, with reports, with something important to say to Tal, and to us.Each page of text is, once again, complemented by art -- a color photograph, a painting, an illustration -- that provides additional levels to the story. The result is a multifaceted novel that can be both read and re-experienced in an expanding variety of ways. |
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Guide to the Collection Stadel Museum $19.8 The St,del is one of the leading and best known art museums in Germany. It is a must for any visitor to Frankfurt. 700 years of European history from the early 14th century until today are represented in a collection of 2,700 paintings, 600 sculptures and 100,000 prints and drawings by artists ranging from D rer, Holbein and Cranach to Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh and C,zanne to Matisse and Picasso, Bacon and Baselitz, Serra and Palermo. The guide to the collection provides an overview about the museum?s history, followed by chapters covering the 14th-16th century Italian and German paintings, 15th-17th century Dutch paintings, 17th and 18th century Romanic and German paintings, paintings and sculptures from the 19th-21st century as well as a chapter about the department of print and paintings. Last but not least the book features an index of the represented artists. This book is a great onsite guide for visitors to the museum as well as a comprehensive in-depth lecture after the visit. |
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Guide to the Collection Stadel Museum $13.21 The St, del is one of the leading and best known art museums in Germany. It is a must for any visitor to Frankfurt. 700 years of European history from the early 14th century until today are represented in a collection of 2,700 paintings, 600 sculptures and 100,000 prints and drawings by artists ranging from D rer, Holbein and Cranach to Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh and C, zanne to Matisse and Picasso, Bacon and Baselitz, Serra and Palermo. The guide to the collection provides an overview about the museum''s history, followed by chapters covering the 14th-16th century Italian and German paintings, 15th-17th century Dutch paintings, 17th and 18th century Romanic and German paintings, paintings and sculptures from the 19th-21st century as well as a chapter about the department of print and paintings. Last but not least the book features an index of the represented artists. This book is a great onsite guide for visitors to the museum as well as a comprehensive in-depth lecture after the visi |
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Henri, Egg Artiste $134.14 Henri is a true artist who has grown tired of decorating his eggs in the same old way. Readers are led on an exploration of the art world as Henri creates beautiful works in the styles of celebrated painters of the past. Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, and Claude Monet are just a few of the geniuses who inspire Henri, Egg Artiste. A delightful way to introduce children to a world of masterpieces, this book has applications that extend far beyond the obvious Easter promotions. Marcus Pfister's bolder, brighter palette is sure to win this popular author/illustrator even more fans. |
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Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin $22 Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin. The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the lives and the art of their famous husbands? In this remarkable book of discovery, art historian Ruth Butler coaxes three shadowy women out of obscurity and introduces them for the first time as individuals. Through unprecedented research, Butler has been able to create portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuret—the models, and later the wives, respectively, of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin, three of the most famous French artists of their generation. The book tells the stories of three ordinary women who faced issues of a dramatically changing society as well as the challenges of life with a striving genius. Butler illuminates the ways in which these model-wives figured in their husbands’ achievements and provides new analyses of familiar works of art. Filled with captivating detail, the book recovers the lives of Hortense, Camille, and Rose, and recognizes with new insight how their unique relationships enriched the quality of their husbands’ artistic endeavors. |
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Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin $35 Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin. The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the lives and the art of their famous husbands? In this remarkable book of discovery, art historian Ruth Butler coaxes three shadowy women out of obscurity and introduces them for the first time as individuals. Through unprecedented research, Butler has been able to create portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuret—the models, and later the wives, respectively, of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin, three of the most famous French artists of their generation. The book tells the stories of three ordinary women who faced issues of a dramatically changing society as well as the challenges of life with a striving genius. Butler illuminates the ways in which these model-wives figured in their husbands’ achievements and provides new analyses of familiar works of art. Filled with captivating detail, the book recovers the lives of Hortense, Camille, and Rose, and recognizes with new insight how their unique relationships enriched the quality of their husbands’ artistic endeavors. |
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History of Western Art: From Prehistory to the Twentieth Century $0.01 Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 full-color reproductions of artworks, details, photographs, and documents, this informative book provides a sweeping overview of Western art. The book begins with the cave paintings at Lascaux, France, and continues on with the art and architecture of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome through Early Christian, Byzantine, and medieval art and on to the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Then it proceeds from Neoclassicism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Modernism up to the art of the late twentieth century. The book is filled with paintings, sculpture, mosaics, and architecture by such renowned artists as Paolo Uccello, Jan van Eyck, Filippo Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Goya, Turner, Monet, Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Georges Braque, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol. An essential tool for classrooms and libraries as well as a wonderful gift for young people interested in art. |
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Hokusai Manga $49.95 The legendary masterpieces of Hokusai-fifteen volumes in a single chunky book. Hokusai Manga is one of the masterpieces by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a master of Ukiyo-e art, depicting ordinary people''s lives, animals, plants, landscapes and human figures, historical and supernatural, even demons and monsters, as if it were a visual encyclopedia, amounting to fifteen volumes. Hokusai Manga turned out to be very popular among every class of people, from feudal lords to the general public, and became a long time best-seller in the Edo period. This book selects pieces from each volume and compiles them into one charming book. The original masterpiece spread throughout Japan and flowed into Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century, where it had a striking impact on artists, including Impressionists Manet, Monet, Degas, and others. The artistic movement ''Japonisme'' began in part due to its influence. |
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Impresionismo $13.67 Nathalia Brodskaya has been a curator at the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg since 1961. In this beautifully illustrated book, she brings her wide experience with art to bear on Impressionism. She analyzes its origins in Paris in the eventful years leading up to 1874, when a group of artists broke away from neo-Renaissance painting to record what they actually saw, the immediate “impressions” on their eyes. This thoughtful, informed history of the movement also examines Impressionism's influence on later schools of art, along with profiles of its greatest talents, including Renoir, Monet, Degas, and many others. |
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Impression $60.09 The point of Impressionist art was to capture the fleeting moment, the transient effect, the essential reality of a certain place, person, or time. Impressionist artists worked on site with speed and directness, hoping to distinguish their works with a new freshness, immediacy, and truthfulness. Yet the paintings they exhibited were in fact almost always completed in the studio later. This beautifully illustrated book investigates for the first time the impressions, or painted sketches, that were actually done on the spot. Renowned Impressionist scholar Richard R. Brettell focuses on impressions and how they differ from the finished pictures of some of the best-known artists of the Impressionist movement, among them Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Morisot, Degas, Pissarro, and Caillebotte.The book surveys the various practices of individual artists in the making, signing, exhibiting, and selling of impressions. Brettell discusses the pictorial theories behind the sketches, the sales strategies for them, and the various forms they took, including works completed in one sitting, apparent impressions, and repeated impressions. In a concluding chapter, the author considers a small group of works by Vincent van Gogh, who painted with an almost fanatical rapidity and was the only major post-Impressionist painter to push the aesthetic of the impression even further. |
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Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting $45 The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French and American art, with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Sargent. This colorful book, the first published on the collection, illustrates many of its highlights.Author Erica Hirshler outlines the history of the collection and considers the taste in Boston for atmospheric landscapes which, by the late 1880s, had led young Boston painters like Childe Hassam to Monet's door. Their willingness to embrace Impressionism helped to popularize this style of painting throughout the United States.All the high points of Boston's 19th-century collections are revealed here, with works by the leading French Impressionist painters and their American counterparts. |
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Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology, and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh $55 "With a wealth of fresh ideas and new interpretive perspectives on familiar pictorial examples, James Rubin provides a lucid, comprehensive account of the cultural significance of impressionist painting. He stresses the artists' interest in modern industry, technology, and productivity--a welcome corrective to our tendency to view this art almost exclusively as commentary on forms of bourgeois leisure. This is the type of book that will serve you well if it is the only one you read on impressionism, but also the one to read if you have already read all the others."--Richard Shiff, The University of Texas at Austin"James Rubin contends, contrary to the arguments of leading theorists of impressionist painting, that the painters' scenes of leisure and productivity should be read in tandem, for together they signify the impressionists' commitment to progressive modernism." --Dianne Sachko Macleod, author of Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity"Although a wealth of new writing on impressionism continues to appear, images of modern industry, technology, and commerce in the contemporary urban and rural landscape--a large body of evocative and often exquisite impressionist paintings--have received little sustained attention. Rubin's Impressionism and the Modern Landscape successfully fills this gap, approaching the new industrial landscape as an image of modern productivity essential for the pursuit of bourgeois leisure. Rubin argues persuasively for the industrial landscapes as a cohesive and revealing body of work, presenting an especially impressive analysis of canvases by Monet."--Mary Tompkins Lewis, editor of Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism |
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Impressionist Art Game $23.11 XVM1003: Features: -Impressionist art game.-Learn about great art as you play ''go fish'' and memory games.-Filled with fun facts about the artists, the stories behind each painting, and the times in which they lived.-Not for children under 3 years. Color/Finish: -Two-page spread in the full color companion art book. Specifications: -Discover the art of Monet, Renior, Degas, Pissarro, Caillebotte, and 2 extraordinary women artists, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. |
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Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life $0.99 Many Impressionist paintings of modern life and leisure include images of household pets. Their appealing presence lends charm to such works while alluding to middle-class prosperity and the growing importance of animals as family members. In many cases, such domestic denizens significantly complement representations of their owners. In certain others, the devotion of individual artists to their pets symbolically enhances their expressions of artistic identity. This enjoyable and informative book focuses on the role of pets in Impressionist pictures and what this reveals about art, artists, and society of that era. James H. Rubin discusses works in which artists paint themselves or their friends in the company of their pets, including several paintings by Courbet (who was fond of dogs) and Manet (a notorious lover of cats). He points out that in some works by Degas, dogs contribute to the artist's commentary on psychological and social relationships, and that in paintings by Renoir, dogs and cats have playful and erotic overtones. He also offers a theory to explain why Monet almost never painted pets. Drawing on early pet handbooks and treatises on animal intelligence, Rubin explores nineteenth-century opinions on cats and dogs and compares handbook illustrations to the animals shown in Impressionist works. He also provides fascinating information on pet ownership and on the place of Impressionism in the long history of animal painting.Author Biography: James H. Rubin is professor and chair of the department of art at Stony Brook, State University of New York. |
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Impressionists at Home $9 A celebration of domesticity and the daily life of the world's best-loved artists, filled with paintings, sketches, photographs, and quotations from diaries and letters.Impressionist artists and their homes are inseparably linked: Monet and Giverny, Renoir and Les Cagnes, Pissarro and his Hermitage. For each, home meant something slightly different: a place of comfort in a rapidly evolving society, a sanctuary immune to changing fortune and fame, a simpler way of life away from the city, or a place to entertain and to express individual taste. All of the artists, however, made their homes a mainstay of their art.Through this book we follow the artists' daily activities and routines—working, dining, bathing, socializing, sleeping—and come ever closer to the extraordinary characters behind the paintings. Here are Berthe Morisot's conversations with her cook; Degas' relationship with his devoted housekeeper; Monet's highly unconventional ménage with his second wife; the lingering mood of pleasure at the end of a good meal, as reflected in Renoir's Boatmen's Lunch. The reader witnesses the birth of the modern world, with its telephones and central heating, and explores the relationships between the artists and their models, mistresses, wives, friends, families, patrons, dealers, doctors, gardeners, and children.The extended Impressionist family includes the American "Givernistes" who gathered around Monet in his later life and Impressionist artists from other countries. All find their place, and the book is completed by biographies of the supporting characters and the locations of Impressionist homes for today's travelers. 180illustrations in color and black and white. |
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In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet $18.08 The Forest of Fontainebleau, located about 50 miles southeast of Paris, held a singular place in 19th-century art. Variously called “savage,” “wild,” “romantic,” and “beautiful” by visitors, Fontainebleau’s topography was viewed in many ways that reflected the sensibilities of the time. This is the first English-language publication to examine the significance of the region to the plein-air tradition in France. The book highlights four pivotal figures in the evolution of landscape painting: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, and Claude Monet. It integrates into this history the photographers who worked at Fontainebleau, including Eugène Cuvelier and Gustave Le Gray, and explores the role the forest played in the development of early photography. It also considers the reception of paintings of Fontainebleau at the Salons and the influence of Fontainebleau on the advent of Impressionism. |
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In the Garden of Impressionism $19.99 From Manet's earliest depictions of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to Monet's late waterlilies painted at Giverny, the Impressionists had an ongoing love affair with gardens. As places of rest, relaxation, and beauty, gardens were the Impressionist subject par excellence. This beautifully illustrated volume is the first consideration of this beloved theme in the Impressionists' work. Here the artists' fascination with gardens, parks, and flowers is explored in the context of the contemporary craze for horticulture and the changing political and cultural landscape in France. Drawing on archival sources such as horticultural journals as well as literature, poetry, and correspondence, the book describes how gardens, simultaneously modern and imbued with nostalgia, were central to the Impressionists' discovery of their distinctive plein-air (out-of-doors) style. At the same time, by bringing to life the 19th-century tradition of ?oral symbolism and exploring how it infiltrated the work of key Impressionists, the book gives familiar works radical new interpretations. This vital contribution to our understanding of the Impressionist world is sure to delight art and gardening enthusiasts alike. |
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Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past $65 Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists’ commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep exploration of the art of the past. Presenting Impressionist works by artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Bazille, Cassatt, and Cézanne alongside those of Raphael, El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez, and others, the book shows that while the Impressionists moved toward modernity and spontaneity, they remained conscious of and interested in the traditions, techniques, and subject matter of their predecessors. Essays by leading scholars reveal the ways Impressionists drew inspiration from earlier artists from periods ranging from the Italian Renaissance through the early 19th-century Classical and Romantic traditions. A detailed chronology and fascinating comparisons of landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lifes, and genre paintings provide readers with new opportunities to understand the work of both the Impressionists and Old Masters. |
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Irises: Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden $19.95 How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers! --Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917), French art critic and the first owner of IrisesVincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, where he was recuperating from an attack of mental illness. Although he considered the painting more a study than a finished picture, his brother Theo submitted it to the Salon des Indépendants in September 1889. Its energy and theme--the regenerative powers of the earth--express the artist's deeply held belief in the divinity of art and nature. This groundbreaking book fills a gap in Van Gogh scholarship with an in-depth study of Irises--among the J. Paul Getty Museum's most famous paintings--placed in the context of his glorious flower and garden paintings. Full-color reproductions include not only Irises, but also a panoply of nature paintings from collections around the world, by Van Gogh and the artists who inspired him, such as Albrecht Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, and Paul Gauguin. |
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Katie and the Waterlily Pond: A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces $8.99 Katie explores five of Monet's masterpieces and discovers just why he is one of the world’s most-loved artistsBringing classic art to life for children yet again, this newest installment in the hugely successful Katie series has the leading lady focusing on the fascinating works of Monet. Katie is desperate to win an art competition at the gallery, but the judging is at three o'clock—surely she can paint a terrific picture before the deadline, can't she? She must try. Featuring the most iconic paintings by one of the world's most loved artists, the masterpieces visited in the book include Bathers at La Grenouillere, Blanche Monet Painting; Path through the Poppies; The Rue Montorgueil, Paris; and The Waterlily Pond. |