An illustrated examination of Monet's work between 1900 and 1926, which sets the paintings in a personal as well as an historical context. The authors also assess the artists public persona and his personal and professional strategies. The text is designed to accompany an exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in September 1998.
First published on the occasion of the exhibition "Monet in the 20th century" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 20 - December 27, 1998; Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23 - April 18, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Library Journal Review
This catalog for a show at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which is traveling to the Royal Academy in London, is the first to consider Monet as a 20th-century artist. In four focused, critical essays by specialists, it chronicles the still-powerful older painter, who was not involved with formulae but with seeing and redefining 19th-century art with experience, color, feeling, refraction, and multiplicity while freeing painting from perspective and spatial observation. His work later influenced American abstract expressionists and color field artists of the mid-20th century. The second part of the book contains resplendent full-color reproductions, including 12 four-page foldouts of the water lily murals, hinting at their huge scale. Tucker (art, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston), who authored Claude Monet: Life and Art (Yale Univ., 1995), has made a thought-provoking and important contribution. Highly recommended for special, academic, and public collections.Ellen Bates, New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
CHOICE Review
Recently there have been highly popular retrospectives and outstanding traditional books reevaluating Monet, among them Tucker's Claude Monet: Life and Art (CH, Oct '95) and Charles F. Stuckey's Claude Monet, 1840-1926 (CH, Nov '95). Tucker offers another important exhibition catalog, a must for this list of serious studies. Unfortunately it is overly unwieldy and difficult, highly technical, with constant references to the massive tome on Monet by Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographic et catalogue raisonne (1996). It is understood that Monet's late works were created in theme series, with at least dozens of very similar works in existence. But one is referred constantly to approximately 100 isolated color plates at the end of the volume, many of which are fold-outs next to fold-outs, making it very difficult to visually assess the progression of Monet's late works while they are discussed. Nevertheless, two especially fine essays offer interesting new observations on Monet : John House's brief "Monet: The Last Impressionist?" and Paul H. Tucker's primary chapter "The Revolution in the Garden: Monet in the 20th Century." Michael Leja adds "The Monet Revival and New York School Abstraction," of general concern to modernists and feminist scholars. Highly recommended, not to be overlooked. General readers; graduates; faculty. M. Hamel-Schwulst; Towson University
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BookPublisher: New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 1998Description: x, 300 p. : col. ills. ; 29 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0300079443.Subject(s): Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Exhibitions | Painters -- France