Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschl?ger (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Monet by Jackie Wullschläger A magnificent new biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Yet behind this great and famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man, largely unknown.Jackie Wullschl gers enthralling biography, based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, is the first account of Monets turbulent private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous, sensational painting. He was as obsessional in his love affairs as in his love of nature, and changed his art decisively three times when the woman at the centre of his life changed. His work also responded intensely to outside cataclysms - the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War. Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was his closest friend. Rich intellectual currents connected him to writers from Zola to Proust; affection and rivalry to Renoir, Pissarro and Manet.Monet said he was driven wild with the need to put down what I experience. This rich and moving biography immerses us in that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jackie Wullschl ger is Chief Art Critic of the Financial Times. Her books include the prize-winning Hans Christian Andersen- The Life of a Storyteller (2000) and Chagall- Love and Exile (2008), which won the Spears Biography of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. She lives in London. Review Jackie Wullschlägers magisterial and utterly engrossing biography of Monet is a tour de force. Many of us know the painter but this beautifully written and meticulously researched book brings alive Monet as a man, and fundamentally changes our understanding and appreciation of his life and work. A triumph. -- Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait GalleryMonet is in luck, and so are we. The man who emerges from Jackie Wullschlägers pages is vulnerable, relentless, complex, believable. He has found a biographer who cares deeply for painting, and who tells his life-story always wondering, as we must, how Monets pursuit of brightness became the grave, even tragic, thing it is. Only a critic of Wullschlägers gifts could make us look at Impression: Sunrise again and see the uncertain northern light in it. Her book is an utterly absorbing read. -- T.J. ClarkJackie Wullschläger brings Monet to life with thrilling immediacy as he moves via a series of terrifying leaps into the unknown from nineteenth-century naturalism into Impressionism and ends up, after a long and astonishing career, bringing painting to the brink of twentieth-century abstraction. This is a captivating biography of great emotional warmth, delicacy and pictorial intelligence - and so gripping I found it difficult to put down. -- Hilary SpurlingThis is a very thorough and enjoyable biography of a very great painter, perhaps the greatest of the nineteenth century. He also loved smoking. -- David HockneyA deeply researched and immensely readable biography that gives the reader a compelling and original understanding of the works and the life of a universally admired but misunderstood painter. -- Miranda SeymourThis magical biography ... is a suitably sybaritic book. Really you should read it on a terrace with a glass of something pink ... You come away with a clearer picture not only of Monet ... but a generation of artists; you understand Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas, Cézanne and the dawn of impressionism better for the light that Wullschläger shines on it all ... Usually when reviewing a big biography I feel relieved at the end. This time I felt bereft ... This is a book to be savoured like an orange candied in honey ... Its an intoxicating read. -- Laura Freeman * The Times *Wullschläger writes magnificently about the paintings … Years of looking, together with masses of original research, have yielded a richly detailed book that will be invaluable for years to come. -- Sue Prideaux * Literary Review *Jackie Wullschlägers rich and detailed biography..beautifully illustrated...has done Monet the service of turning him back into a rounded human being. -- Christopher Bray * Mail on Sunday *Wullschläger writes powerfully ... with [a] subtlety that characterizes every page of this immense, engrossing biography ... It would be hard to overstate the scale and ambition of the project. -- Ruth Scurr * Times Literary Supplement *It is a story Wullschläger tells with aplomb ... few have engaged so thoroughly with the journals, memoirs and rich cache of [Monets] letters. Wullschläger uses these to animate a life of plunging lows and soaring highs...failures and successes, despair and happiness ... This, though, is not simply good history or good biography ... it is her deep engagement with Monets art that makes this book such a pleasure to read. -- Honor Clerk * Spectator *Ground-breaking. * Bookbrunch *Magnificent. * The TLS Podcast *In a colourful new biography, Jackie Wullschläger reveals the tempestuous man behind the canvases ... Monet has found a sympathetic, skilled biographer. Ms Wullschläger has a gift for seeing and sifting ... This biography most excels when it explains Monets paintings. * Economist *Eloquent and penetrating. This book has made me look again at familiar paintings, revisit well-worn assumptions about Impressionism, and given me hours of joy just savouring exceptionally well-crafted sentences and observations. * Financial Times Books of the Year *This bold and inspiring biography ..the first account of the Impressionists private life, and a work of impressionism in its own right. Jackie Wullschläger captures her subject in sun and shade and shifting colour. -- Frances Wilson * Telegraph *Enthralling ... Jackie Wullschläger gives us a portrait of Monet as full and as carefully calibrated as we could ever wish for. Part of its strength is that it embeds the life story so completely into the making of the art, painting by painting. Some of its finest moments show off some of Wullschlägers best qualities as a journalist, giving us the essence of a painting in just a few sentences, demonstrating with a few deft strokes of the pen, how it contributes to the ever-thickening skein of the ever-shifting moods of the Monet story. -- Michael Glover * Tablet *Fascinating. * Art Newspaper *The many currents of a passionate life flow through this superbly accomplished biography. * Telegraph Books of the Year *By delving deep into his correspondence and researching his life in detail, Wullschläger emerges with a strikingly different portrait of the artist. Passionate, edgy, prickly and unstable, her Monet, the unrecognisable Monet, is a powerful new character in art. -- Waldemar Januszcyck * Sunday Times Books of the Year *A beautifully written and insightful account of Monet, the man and the artist, and the first substantial biography in English. The author is art critic for the Financial Times and writes with intelligent sympathy for the man as well as insightfully on the art * Evening Standard Books of the Year *This fine study by the distinguished art critic Jackie Wullschläger sets the Father of Impressionism within the turbulence of late 19th-century France and the first two decades of the 20th century — revealing the upheavals of a complex private life as he moved from naturalism to impressionism... This critical and perceptive biography of a dynamic painter deserves to win prizes -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail Books of the Year *Anyone who has followed Wullschlägers amazing writing and art criticism over the years will probably not be surprised to find that her deep dive into the life of the great Claude Monet is both comprehensive and engrossing... a "tour de force." And anyone who has marveled at Monets dreamlike waterlilies, haystacks, views of the Waterloo Bridge, or the Houses of Parliament will come away with an even deeper appreciation of him as an artist, father and husband -- Eileen Kinsella * Artnet *Exemplary -- Michael Prodger * New Statesman *Wullschlägers biography describes him excellently and makes shrewd deductions, while leaving a core of unknowability (of which Monet would doubtless have approved)... His true biography, as Wullschläger understands, is the biography of his art -- Julian Barnes * London Review of Books *Wullschläger tells us to look again [at] Impressionisms heroic tale ... A new biography [that] gives fresh insight into the making of the Monet myth. -- Emily Cox * Apollo Magazine *An Impressionist biography of the central Impressionist ... What others treat as mundane context Wullschläger turns into full-on characterization. She is equally sharp on her heros day-to-day [so that] the overall shape of his eighty-six years is clear. -- Jackson Arn * New Yorker *A sumptuous biography .... spans the painters lengthy life and career, a portrait of anartist mercurial and materialist, ambitious and conceited, yet unstintingly loyal to all inhis orbit. Just as the Impressionists liberated easel painting from the treacly academic stylesprized by the Salon, Wullschläger liberate[s] Impressionism from the clichés ofdorm-room posters and greeting-card sentimentality ... a delight. -- Hamilton Cain * Los Angeles Times * Details ISBN024118830X Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Language English ISBN-10 024118830X ISBN-13 9780241188309 Format Hardcover Imprint Allen Lane Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-10-12 UK Release Date 2023-10-12 Subtitle The Restless Vision Author Jackie Wullschläger Audience General DEWEY 759.4 NZ Release Date 2023-10-23 AU Release Date 2023-10-23 Pages 576 Alternative 9780241188316 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:157855109;

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