Monet and his muse
Subtitle: Camille Monet in the artist's life
By: Mary Mathews Gedo.
Contributors: Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226284804
Subjects: Monet, Claude, -- 1840-1926 -- Psychology; Monet, Claude, -- 1840-1926 -- Relations with women; Monet, Camille, -- 1847-1879; Painters -- France -- Biography; Painters' spouses -- France -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Camille Monet in the artist's life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Monet's character; title: The youth of the artist, the art of his youth; title: The perils of young love, Monet's magnificent failure; title: Success and scandal; title: Camille as Flora; title: Painted metaphors for the absent woman; title: Ariadne on the Grande Île; title: With William Conger; title: The myth of the bourgeois family; title: Honeymoon and exile : Camille's status legitimized; title: The Argenteuil years. Argenteuil, 1872-1873 : classic Impressionist landscapes, mythic and enigmatic images; title: Camille as collective muse; title: Camille ascendant; Camille redux; title: Camille's captive samurai; title: The muse of the past, the muse of the future; title: Camille and Argenteuil in decline. The course of Camille's final iIllness and Its repercussions in Monet's art; title: Death and transfiguration; title: Epilogue. The memorial garden of Claude Monet.