Monet and his muse : Camille Monet in the artist's life

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gedo, Mary M. (Author)
Gedo, Mary Mathews (Author)
Other Authors: Monet, Claude (Illustrator)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press , 2010
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Author Notes:Mary Mathews Gedo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Monet's characterThe youth of the artist, the art of his youth
  • The perils of young love, Monet's magnificent failure
  • Success and scandal
  • Camille as Flora
  • Painted metaphors for the absent woman
  • Ariadne on the Grande Île / William Conger
  • The myth of the bourgeois family
  • Honeymoon and exile : Camille's status legitimized
  • The Argenteuil years
  • Argenteuil, 1872-1873 : classic Impressionist landscapes, mythic and enigmatic images
  • Camille as collective muse
  • Camille ascendant; Camille redux
  • Camille's captive samurai
  • The muse of the past, the muse of the future
  • Camille and Argenteuil in decline
  • The course of Camille's final iIllness and its repercussions in Monet's art
  • Death and transfiguration
  • Epilogue. The memorial garden of Claude Monet.