I is for India (World Alphabets) - Softcover

Debra N. Mancoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847807577 ISBN 13: 9781847807571

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2016

Synopsis

This book focuses on Monet's garden at Giverny as seen through his paintings, offering a revealing insight into the artist and his work. Monet's garden was a private haven where domestic pleasure, artistic vision and aesthetic delight converged. It became as powerful a passion in his life as painting he chose his planting schemes as carefully as he chose colours for his palette. It was also the inspiration for his art, and the subject of some of his greatest paintings. Exploring his vision of the world of beauty he brought into being, Debra N. Mancoff shows how Monet's endeavours as a gardener were part of his identity as a painter and how his artistic vision drew strength from his passion for his garden.

About this title

Review:

Informative and a useful addition to the study of the Indian subcontinent.

(www.writeaway.org.uk)

This book is a refreshing change from the many detailed, often tedious, accounts of life in a foreign country.

(Junior Education)

Beautifully photographed pictorial alphabet which replaces Kiplingesque view of the Subcontinent with vibrant images of contemporary Indian life.

(Independent)

About the Author:

DEBRA N. MANCOFF is an art historian and the author of more than twenty books on European and American art and culture. She lectures regularly at many of the major museums in the United States and Great Britain. Based in Chicago, she is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1847807577
• ISBN 13: 9781847807571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176