ISBN：9780300118629

书名：Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings / 鲜为人知的莫奈：色粉和素描

作者：James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall

出版：Yale University Press，2007

装帧：精装，328页，74幅黑白图+223幅彩插

语种：英文

开本：24 × 29cm

内容提要：

克劳德·莫奈（1840–1926年）是艺术史上最著名和最受欢迎的画家之一，大量的出版物和展览呈现、研究了他的作品。而在其职业生涯中，还有一个此前未被发现的方面：他作为绘图员所扮演的令人惊讶的重要角色。本书是首本聚焦莫奈的色粉画、素描画和速写本的出版物，对艺术家的生活和工作进行了革命性的诠释。

Claude Monet (1840–1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly significant role as a draftsman. This book is the first to focus on Monet’s pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artist’s life and work.

Monet has long been seen as an anti-draftsman, an artist who painted his subjects directly and whose rarely seen graphic works were marginal to his artistic process. In an effort to develop his public image, Monet denied the role of drawing in his working method. In actuality, Monet began his career as a caricaturist and as a teenager developed a passion for drawing that was never extinguished. He went on to master the medium of pastel and included seven in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.
Citing recently discovered, unpublished documents that overturn the accepted image of the artist, The Unknown Monet reveals an extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the artist’s career, many of which are unknown to the general public and to scholars: beautiful pastels, stunning black chalk drawings, and fascinating sketchbooks, which include pencil studies that relate to many of his paintings. The book also shows how Monet exploited the print media to promote his art.
The most important publication on Monet to appear in a generation, this illuminating volume is essential to anyone interested in his work, Impressionism, and nineteenth-century French culture.