- Hardcover: 387 pages
- Publisher: Beaux Arts Editions (7 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0883633019
- ISBN-13: 978-0883633014
- Product Dimensions: 33.3 x 24.9 x 4.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,791,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It's Grrrreat!!, 26 Oct 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Monet: A Retrospective (Hardcover)
I saw this book in my local bookstore and immediatly snatched it up! It got a TON of paintings done by Monet, most of them in color. Though the actual biography about him is slim, the articles by past painters, colleagues, and friends are wonderful. Be warned: It's a heafty book, but undoubtedly delightful!!
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Good in parts, 21 Jan 2009
By Benjamin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Monet: A Retrospective (Hardcover)
The book opens with a chronology of about 15 pages and a short introduction. The remainder of the text comprises a vast array of contemporary reports and commentaries on Monet from news media and other sources by a numerous writers. These do make fascinating reading; the wide range of writers includes among others critics, philosophers and statesmen, and among these are some notable names such as Proust, Maupassant and Zola; the comments range from ridicule to praise. They run according the publishers, chronologically from 1865, but that is a very loose description for the sequence is far from consecutive. Usefully reference to colour plates is provided in the margin alongside the relevant text. The book includes an index.
It is illustrated throughout with 132 colour plates and 119 monochromes. The colour reproduction generally is acceptable, but there are a number of images that are noticeably dark with little detail evident in the darkest areas. The monochrome images are not so good; typical of poor quality offset-litho the images are too dark with large areas of solid black entirely lacking detail. The colour plates each occupy a page, although due to the book format some paintings may occupy no more than half the page. This problem has been overcome with a few of the very wide Water Lily paintings by employing fold out pages. A very wide range of Monet's work is covered.
Overall production does not impress, the presentation in some sections is crude, and it is badly let down by the quality of the monochrome images. It is a big and heavy book, and the large format does allow for many of Monet's paintings to be reproduced to a reasonable size; it is worth having for the colour reproductions and the interesting text.
13.25" x 9.75" (33.6 cm x 24.7 cm) Published 1985 ISBN 0883633019 Hardback
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A True Value With Over 100 Full-Color Plates, 28 Jun 2005
By G. Reid - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Monet: A Retrospective (Hardcover)
Enjoy Monet's greatest works with over 100 full-color plates. In addition to the vivid plates the text is overflowing with wonderful descriptions of his life and work.
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