This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chro...(展开全部)

About the book: Prince of the Impressionists Hailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. Working “en plein air” with rapid, impetuous brush strokes, he interrogated the play of light...(展开全部)

文字作者 萨拉·帕普沃斯（Sara Pappworth），一位艺术史家、教师和摄影家，她在美术馆和画廊教学二十多年，目前在泰特不列颠、泰特现代艺术馆、维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆、华勒斯典藏馆和国家美术馆工作。 插图作者 奥德·范·莱恩（Aude Van Ryn），曾就读于伦敦的中央圣马丁和皇家艺术学院。她的作品包括剧院海报、“每日面包”糕点店的外包装，以及为英国心脏基金会等客户设计的广告宣传画。她的插图曾在伦敦和东京的若干展览及画廊展销会中展出。 中文译者 北寺，自由译者，本名徐蓓思，纳西族，出生于云南昆明，现旅居美国。先后在北京大学、香港大学、卫斯理学院和伦敦考陶尔德艺术学院学习艺术史。译有《纽约往事》等。

Giverny, automne 1886. Émilie, jeune protégée de Claude Monet fait la rencontre de Francis Hawkins, fils d'un galeriste de New York venu rencontrer le célèbre peintre impressionniste. L'une vit en France, l'autre aux États-Unis mais, malgré cette distance, ils le savent : un jour, ils se marieront. Cette promesse marque le début d'un amour pur qui sera pourtant souvent perturbé...(展开全部)

Monet's dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure colour, changed the way we perceive our natural surroundings. His numerous series, in which he depicts the same object at varying times of the day and in different seasons, pushed the limits of representational art. His final series of water lilies are conside...(展开全部)

This complete catalog of Monet's famous Water Lilies-âfeaturing 210 paintings from private and public collectionsâ - is an essential volume on a key contribution to impressionist art. Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny.This volume is d...(展开全部)

This complete catalog of Monet's famous Water Lilies-âfeaturing 210 paintings from private and public collectionsâ - is an essential volume on a key contribution to impressionist art. Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny.This volume is d...(展开全部)

Du Salon des Refusés au mouvement des Impressionnistes, de jeune peintre désargenté à grand bourgeois tutoyant les huiles, du mari à l'amant... la vie de Claude Monet fut pour le moins plurielle. Chef de file, à son coeur défendant, d'un mouvement qui bouleversa la vision de la peinture au XIXe siècle, l'homme n'est finalement resté fidèle qu'à une seule quête : celle de la lum...(展开全部)