{"product_id":"the-unknown-monet-pastels-and-drawings","title":"The unknown Monet: Pastels and drawings","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook Description 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 Monets pastels  drawings  and sketchbooks  offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artists 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 Citing recently discovered  unpublished documents that overturn the accepted image of the artist  The Unknown Monet reveals an extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the artists 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. About the Author James A. Ganz is curator of prints  drawings  and photographs  and Richard Kendall is curator at large  both at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946800410677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0931102723","price":99.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780931102721.jpg?v=1770848184","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-unknown-monet-pastels-and-drawings","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}