Wullschläger Jackie. Monet: The Restless Vision

Allen Lane, 2023. — 576 p. — ISBN 978-024118830X.In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his original vision. Although close to starvation when he invented impressionism on the banks of the Seine in the 1860s-70s, in the following decades he emerged as the powerful leader of the new painting in Paris at one of its most exciting cultural moments.Prologue: ‘The Throb of One Happy Moment’
PART ONE
Voyaging Out
The City and the Sea, 1840–57
Trembling Laughter, 1857–9
Oscar in Paris and Algiers, 1859–62
Bazille, 1862–5
Camille, 1865–7
‘Painter on the Run’, 1867–9
La Grenouillère, 1869–70
The Bridge to Argenteuil, 1871–3
‘This School of the Future’, 1873–6
À Montgeron, chez Monsieur Hoschedé, 1876–8
Pastoral, 1878–9
Alice, 1879–81
PART TWO
Eyes Turned Inward
The Path to Giverny, 1882–3
Home and Abroad, 1884–6
Betrayal and Loyalty, 1886
Les Demoiselles de Giverny, 1887–91
‘Now You Have Happiness’, 1891–2
Revolution in the Cathedral, 1892–7
Retreat to the Garden, 1897–9
Unreal City, 1899–1903
The Moment of Roses, 1904–8
Death in Venice, 1908–14
Blue Angel, 1914–20
‘Midnight in Full Sunshine’, 1920–26
Epilogue: ‘The Magic Mirror’