Les Quatre Saisons de Monet

Les Quatre Saisons de Monet
Author: Ethan Safron
Publisher: Odéon Livre
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2018-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1645740900

Learn the seasons of the year in French and English with the great impressionist painter, Claude Monet. This bilingual volume features 16 paintings, each spread out across two pages. On every even page is a French sentence-- on the odd side, an English sentence. Each season has 4 paintings. One of these paintings introduces the season ("Au printemps¿" / "In spring¿"), while the other three cover specific weather events ("Il pleut" / "It rains"). Some of the paintings in "Les Quatre Saisons" include: "Spring by the Seine", "The Beach at Honfleur", "Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son", and selections from the "Haystacks" series.

Monet's Palate Cookbook

Monet's Palate Cookbook
Author: Aileen Bordman
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-06-23
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1423639987

Take a culinary journey in Monet’s footsteps with this book featuring recipes and photographs from his bucolic Normandy home—forward by Meryl Streep. Monet's Palate Cookbook brings to life Claude Monet's beloved kitchen garden at his exquisite home in Giverny, France. With sixty recipes drawn from Giverny’s farm-to-table tradition and the artist’s own cooking journals, the book explores Monet’s passion for gardening and includes detailed information about the herbs and vegetables he grew. On his two-acre vegetable garden, Monet grew zucchini, cherry tomatoes, radishes, pearl onions, brussels sprouts, asparagus, rosemary and mint. A few of the recipes are of French origin, such as the famous Normandy apple tart. Others are from locations abroad where he traveled, such as the Savoy Hotel in London where Monet acquired their recipe for Yorkshire pudding. Capturing Monet's lifestyle, Monet’s Palate Cookbook includes beautiful photographs by Steven Rothfeld, descriptions of the house interiors and gardens, French entertaining tips, and more.

The Gardens at Giverny

The Gardens at Giverny
Author: Stephen Shore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 71
Release: 1983
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

A Colorful Photographic Tribute to the Gardens Celebrated in Monet's Paintings Claude Monet found inspiration in the rose-covered trellises, the wild ramble of nasturtiums, and the idle drift of water lilies in the gardens of Giverny outside Paris. So, too, did Stephen Shore, who photographed the gardens one hundred years later, upon their painstaking restoration to the state they had enjoyed during Monet's lifetime. Originally commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to photograph the renaissance of the gardens, Shore visited Giverny over a period of six years beginning in 1977. Going before dawn and leaving after dusk, visiting in different seasons, he came to know the gardens in all the moods and textures that nurtured Monet. "With the sensitivity of a poet, Stephen Shore has given a new interpretation of this garden, which so enchanted Claude Monet," writes Gerald Van Der Kamp, the man in charge of spearheading the careful revival of Monet's beloved gardens. Shore's uncompromising fidelity to both the gardens' plenitude and his desire to present the abstract beauty of nature results in exquisitely serene photographs that express the essence of Giverny.

Travelogues and Reflections

Travelogues and Reflections
Author: Laszlo Gyermek
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1496973992

This book is about the travels of Laszlo Gyermek, MD, PhD, a retired physician and researcher who has immigrated to the USA from Hungary in 1957 after the defeat of the uprising against the Soviet occupation and oppression of his native country. The source of his travelogues has been the numerous trips he has taken from the United States to more than sixty countries, particularly in the last three decades, which encompass mostly recreational trips/vacations, reflecting the authors wide-ranging interests in geographic and cultural explorations all over the world, but particularly in Europe, where he has established two regional residences: one in Southern France in 1983 and another one in Budapest, Hungary, in 2000. From these bases he originated many of these trips. The book is narrated in a unique, perhaps scattered and unusual, style, considering the many destinations in different time frames, often repeatedly, and covering the common, practical aspects of todays travels into foreign lands: from ticket purchases to challenges during travel-e.g., jet lag and other health problems. There is varied information from many social, economical, educational, and artistic aspects about many European countries first and, in the second half of the book, encountered in several overseas countries on five continents. The last part of the book deals with episodes in selected cities in the United States and abroad, often with a humoristic veneer. In essence, the reader is presented with a lot of material and with analytically aspired, but often critical and subjective, stories. Still, the author believes that the contents are worth going through and pondering about.

Millet to Matisse

Millet to Matisse
Author: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300097808

The City of Glasgow possesses an internationally renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. This magnificent book, the catalogue for a major exhibition, features sixty-four of the finest paintings in this collection, including important works by Rousseau, Corot, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse, and Rouault. The lavishly illustrated book provides a short essay on each work as well as full catalogue details. There are also four introductory essays by prominent scholars that set the paintings in context. Irene Maver examines the social, political, and economic environment of Glasgow from its beginnings until the First World War; Frances Fowle charts the taste for French art in the west of Scotland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; Hugh Stevenson explores the early history of the city's collection and its assimilation of contemporary French paintings; and Belinda Thomson discusses how Glasgow's collection relates to the wider historical context of French painting of the period.

Monet and French Landscape

Monet and French Landscape
Author: Frances Fowle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A collection of essays which look in depth at the political, economic, scientific, religious and art historical context for this complex and often contradictory period in Monet's lfie.

Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism

Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism
Author: Marie-Sophie Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2013-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443850756

Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism continues the discussion of Émile Zola and French naturalism with examinations of unexplored areas of the founding father’s project and legacy. In addition to offering essays on Zola’s lesser known naturalist contemporaries, the volume extends the investigation of the naturalist literary current to include areas of Europe outside France, as well as the Americas and Asia, tracking its persistence in various forms through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The authors pay particular attention to the ways naturalism was conceived and then received, including in other channels, undergoing transformations in new social conditions and creating other versions of the basic precepts. This work features multidisciplinary and comparative approaches to the study of naturalism, paying tribute to Anna Gural-Migdal—a Professor of French Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in Canada, who specializes in the visual aspect of Zola’s Rougon Macquart novels and the transfer of these strategies to naturalist film. She has been a leader in the field of Zola and naturalism in her role as president of the AIZEN for almost fifteen of its twenty years of existence.