Monet and the Mediterranean - Softcover

"The success of "Monet and the Mediterranean" suits Monet's own, because it is comparably multifaceted: as biography, it is insightful; as history, it is innovative; as critical interpretation, it is both poetic and sound. In Pissarrro's text, Monet's 'Southern' paintings emerge as if seen for the first time: never before have they been related so evocatively to the prevailing cultural myths of the Mediterranean . . . . "--Richard Shiff, author of "Cezanne and the End of Impressionism" "This is Joachim Pissarro's greatest gift: a deep love for painting which he communicates in an especially thoughtful and subtle way. At once a scrupulous historian, an imaginative theorest, and an incisive critic, Mr. Pissarro is committed to the highest standards of intellectual as well as aesthetic engagement with our inherited legacy of works of art. This is no merely custodial relation to the past, however, for through his work he means to transform how we will engage with the vital issues of our own culture today."--Steven Z. Levine, author of "Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection"

Monet and the Mediterranean includes the entire collection of paintings that the artist executed on the Italian and French Rivieras between 1884 and 1888 and the works he painted in Venice in 1908'