Claude Monet : water lilies and the garden of Giverny
(2015)
By:
Beecroft, Julian
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
759.4/MONET,C/BEE
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
London : Flame Tree Publishing, 2015
©2015
©2015
DESCRIPTION
191 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781787552326, 1787552322 :, 9781783616077, 1783616075, 1787552322, 9781787552326
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Introduction to Claude Monet: a painter of modern light -- Giverny: a prospect of paradise -- the growth of vision -- an artist of the floating world -- a gathering darkness -- the illusion of an endless whole -- further reading
Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Its famous green wooden footbridge was built across the water and its waterlilies became the focus of perhaps the most famous series of paintings the world has ever seen