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Monet and His Muse
Mary Mathews Gedo
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Description for Monet and His Muse
Hardcover. Interweaving biographical insight with psychoanalytic criticism, this title takes us on an exploration of Claude Monet's (1840-1926), conflicted relationships with women. Num Pages: 304 pages, 50 colour plates, 73 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACVT; AFC; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1474.
'The mourning never stops, it just changes'. For Claude Monet (1840-1926), the founder of French Impressionist painting, these words were a fitting testament to his lifelong relationship with the female muse, most notably - and most hauntingly - with his first wife, the model Camille Doncieux. For the esteemed clinical psychologist and art historian Mary Mathews Gedo, "Monet and His Muse" represents a project twenty years in the making. Artfully interweaving biographical insight with psychoanalytic criticism, Gedo takes us on an exploration of Claude Monet's conflicted relationships with women, complete with exquisitely researched material never before understood about one of ... Read more
'The mourning never stops, it just changes'. For Claude Monet (1840-1926), the founder of French Impressionist painting, these words were a fitting testament to his lifelong relationship with the female muse, most notably - and most hauntingly - with his first wife, the model Camille Doncieux. For the esteemed clinical psychologist and art historian Mary Mathews Gedo, "Monet and His Muse" represents a project twenty years in the making. Artfully interweaving biographical insight with psychoanalytic criticism, Gedo takes us on an exploration of Claude Monet's conflicted relationships with women, complete with exquisitely researched material never before understood about one of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226284804
SKU
V9780226284804
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About Mary Mathews Gedo
Mary Mathews Gedo is the author of Picasso: Art as Autobiography and Looking at Art from the Inside Out, as well as the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art.
Reviews for Monet and His Muse
"Monet and His Muse is a highly original work of impeccable scholarship, not only because it provides the first thorough and penetrating psychobiographical portrait of the artist, but also because of its unusual focus on the profound role that the painter's first wife played in his life and art.... This book simply represents the crowning achievement of our country's best ... Read more