书名：Mad Enchantment 莫奈 和他痴迷的睡莲

作者：KING ROSS

出版社名称：INTERART

出版时间：2017

语种：英语

ISBN：9781408861974

商品尺寸：12.9 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

克劳德·莫奈的《睡莲》是上个世纪极具代表性和极受喜爱的艺术作品之一。然而，这些令人陶醉的图像是在艺术家的私人生活陷入可怕的动荡和悲伤的时候创作的。这些画作背后的戏剧性历史鲜为人知；

本书作者罗斯金讲述了莫奈的完整故事，并在此过程中为莫奈呈现了一幅引人注目的原创肖像。

1914年战争爆发时，70多岁的莫奈是世界上有名、成功的画家之一，他在乡下有一栋大房子，有一支汽车队，并享有巨大的声誉。然而，在他的妻子爱丽丝于1911年去世和一年后失明后，他几乎放弃了绘画。然而，正是在这段悲伤、健康状况不佳和创作不稳定的时期，当西线的枪声响起时，他开始了他所尝试的苛刻和创新的绘画。

在法国无畏的总理乔治克莱蒙梭（Georges Clemenceau）等亲密朋友的鼓励下，莫奈在整个战争年代都在创作这些宏伟的画作，然后终其一生。他如此痴迷于他的巨大任务，以至于当他在池塘边工作时，村里的理发师被召唤来给他剪头发，他用闪亮的颜料层覆盖了数百码的画布。随着他的野心随着他的画作而扩大，他开始计划他留给世界的遗产：位于巴黎桔园的 "克劳德-莫奈博物馆"。

《莫奈，和他痴迷的睡莲》以信件和回忆录为基础，以艺术家生命中的这一非凡时期为重点，对克劳德莫奈的所有动荡不安的复杂性进行了亲密的描绘，并将他的睡莲画作牢牢地置于艺术史上伟大的成就之中。

Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment tells the full story for the first time and, in the process, presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most popular and cherished artists.

By the outbreak of war in 1914, Monet, then in his mid-seventies, was one of the world's most famous and successful painters, with a large house in the country, a fleet of automobiles and a colossal reputation. However, he had virtually given up painting following the death of his wife Alice in 1911 and the onset of blindness a year later. Nonetheless, it was during this period of sorrow, ill health and creative uncertainty that - as the guns roared on the Western Front - he began the most demanding and innovative paintings he had ever attempted.

Encouraged by close friends such as Georges Clemenceau, France's dauntless prime minister, Monet would work on these magnificent paintings throughout the war years and then for the rest of his life. So obsessed with his monumental task that the village barber was summoned to clip his hair as he worked beside his pond, he covered hundreds of yards of canvas with shimmering layers of pigment. As his ambitions expanded with his paintings, he began planning what he intended to be his legacy to the world: the 'Musée Claude Monet' in the Orangerie in Paris.

Drawing on letters and memoirs and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist's life, Mad Enchantment gives an intimate portrayal of Claude Monet in all his tumultuous complexity, and firmly places his water lily paintings among the greatest achievements in the history of art.

作者罗斯 金（Ross King）生长于加拿大，多伦多约克大学英国文学博士。在伦敦大学学院做博士后研究时开始写历史小说，之后转到非小说领域，以《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上的《圆顶的故事》获2001年BookSense*佳非小说奖，2003年又以《米开朗琪罗与教宗的天花板》获美国国家书评奖提名。

任何熟悉罗斯金写作风格的人都知道，他对于欧洲文化史有令人惊讶的渊博知识。他获得英语文学的博士学位，在学术界开始职业生涯，他移居英格兰担任伦敦大学的研究职位。

Born and raised in Canada, Ross King has lived in England since 1992. In 2002-03, two books of his were published in the United States, Domino, about the world of masquerades and opera in 18th century London and the New York Times bestselling Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling.

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