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Claude Monet: 1840-1926 is published to coincide with a major exhibition of Monet's works at The Art Institute of Chicago - the largest retrospective of Claude Monet ever held. A lavishly illustrated record of the exhibition, it presents in full color 161 assembled masterpieces, drawn from collections all over the world. Charles F. Stuckey, a leading Monet scholar, presents an extensive month-by-month chronology of the artist, examining his life and...

"This illustrated book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition - the first of such scale and depth to be organized around this subject - that traces the roots of Modernism in mid-nineteenth-century French Realism. In 1804, at the dawn of the French Empire, there were no more than a handful of Spanish paintings in public collections in France. During the course of the nineteenth century, however, French collectors and museums assembled substantial...

"This illustrated volume examines the lines of influence leading from Monet to the great modern exponents of Abstract Expressionism. The book emphasizes the innovative aspects of Monet's late works, including his famous waterlily paintings and Rouen Cathedral series. His paintings are juxtaposed with those of 30 modern artists, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Ellsworth Kelly." "The ground-breaking importance...

A retrospective exhibition of the French painter and sculptor whose idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art."

IMPRESSIONISM. Looking at Monet assembles works by the French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) and presents them together with selected paintings and photographs of Austrian artists active during the same period in question. Besides Edouard Manet, the Viennese art scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regarded Monet as the central and formative figure of French Impressionism. His works were on display in exhibitions at the Kunstlerhaus,...

"Impressions of Light introduces a new level of complexity into the discussion of French landscapes. Rather than considering the landscape as a steady, linear development, it takes into account the many crosscurrents and intersecting paths in French art, from the foundations of the Barbizon School through the Post-Impressionist period. In addition, it studies the landscape in a variety of media - painting, printmaking, drawing, and photography - exploring...

"Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, bekannt als Le Corbusier (1887-1965), beeinflusste die Gestaltung, Funktion und Bauweise von Gebäuden und Wohnhäusern ebenso wie die Kunst und das Design des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine ausführliche, präzise Betrachtung seiner Rolle als Künstler steht jedoch aus. Über fünf Jahrzehnte pendelte Le Corbusier zwischen widersprüchlichen Polen: der Hingabe an mechanische Objekte einerseits und der Suche nach einer poetischen...