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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Impressionism: 2009 Engagement Calendar
by Universe Publishing (Calendar)

A year's worth of the mastery of color and light from one of the world's premier Impressionist collections, with signature works from such artists as Degas, Monet, Homer, Renoir, Hassam, and Cassatt.* Offers a strikingly diverse selection of Impressionist works, appealing to all lovers of fine art.* This calendar features some of the world's most celebrated European Impressionist masters.

ROSS KING
The Judgement of Paris
by BBC AUDIOBOOKS (CD)

Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Jumbo Royals)
by Taschen (Leather Bound)

Sue Roe
The Private Lives of the Impressionists
by Harper Perennial (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-10-23)

Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for their paintings. Their dazzling works are familiar to even the most casual art lovers—but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? Sue Roe's colorful, lively, poignant, and superbly researched biography, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, follows an extraordinary group of artists into their Paris studios, down the rural lanes of Montmartre, and into the rowdy riverside bars of a city undergoing monumental change. Vivid and unforgettable, it casts a brilliant, revealing light on this unparalleled society of genius colleagues who lived and worked together for twenty years and transformed the art world forever with their breathtaking depictions of ordinary life.

Jean-Dominique Rey, Denis Rouart
Monet: Water Lilies: The Complete Series
by Flammarion (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-09)

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 dedicated to those paintings, and opens with a biography of Monet that links the artist’s childhood passion for nature and for drawing to his later fascination with light. Monet’s experiments with how to best capture light and its effect on the sky and on water at different times of the day include paintings such as Impression, Sunrise (1872), which inspired the name of the impressionist movement. A critical text analyzes Monet’s ingenuity, audacity, and modernity, as well as his influence on other artists, from Zao Wou-ki to music to Shirley Goldfarb. This definitive catalog is completed by 210 color reproductions of the water lily paintings with annotated captions, period shots of Giverny by photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, and rare documents including Monet’s personal ...

Mike Venezia
Monet (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
by Childrens Press Chicago (Paperback)

Ruth Butler
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin
by Yale University Press (Hardcover)

Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Auguste Rodin. The names of these brilliant nineteenth-century artists are known throughout the world. But what is remembered of their wives? What were these unknown women like? What roles did they play in the lives and the art of their famous husbands?  In this remarkable book of discovery, art historian Ruth Butler coaxes three shadowy women out of obscurity and introduces them for the first time as individuals. Through unprecedented research, Butler has been able to create portraits of Hortense Fiquet, Camille Doncieux, and Rose Beuret—the models, and later the wives, respectively, of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin, three of the most famous French artists of their generation. The book tells the stories of three ordinary women who faced issues of a dramatically changing society as well as the challenges of life with a striving genius. Butler illuminates the ways in which these model-wives figured in their husbands’ achievements and provides new ...

Mike Venezia
Van Gogh (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
by Children's Press(CT) (Paperback)

Presents a biography of Van Gogh

H. Anna Suh
Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait in Art and Letters
by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (Hardcover)

Throughout his life, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) wrote hundreds of letters, many to his brother Theo. Theo acted as patron, agent, and sounding board to the artist whose life was fraught with poverty, a struggle for recognition, and alternating fits of madness and lucidity. Van Gogh also corresponded with other family members and fellow artists, including his dear friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. His letters, originally collected by Theo’s wife, Johanna, exhibit Van Gogh’s genius, his depth of observation, and his feelings in their most naked form. In Vincent Van Gogh these letters have been excerpted, newly translated, and set side-by-side with more than 250 of his drawings and paintings. Van Gogh’s words and art illuminate each other and reveal a portrait of the artist as never seen before. The commentary of H. Anna Suh frames Van Gogh’s work and puts his art, letters, life, and struggles into rich context. The result is this timeless jewel of a collection, ...

Christoph Heinrich
Claude Monet, 1840-1926 (Basic Art)
by Taschen (Paperback)

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water-lily pond ...

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