Description: Further DetailsTitle: Claude Monet, Free ThinkerCondition: NewSubtitle: Radical Republicanism, Darwin's Science, and the Evolution of Impressionist AestheticsEAN: 9781433130809ISBN: 9781433130809Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/30/2015Description: This revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet’s artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a nineteenth-century libre penseur, a position characterized by radical republicanism, a progressive social agenda, and fierce anticlericalism. His efforts to create a style reflecting his personal political code led him to produce paintings proclaimed by like-minded free thinkers as «a science being constantly perfected» (Gustave Geffroy), that is, emphasizing only observable phenomena in the immediate present through scrupulous, insistent on-site observation, capturing the raw data of sensations and sensory experience, and purporting to record a world free of embedded meaning. Darwin’s world similarly comes with no prepackaged reassurance of humankind’s privileged place in it; it is instead a space in which all varieties of organisms and species compete for limited resources in a struggle for survival. The Darwinian model of nature appears to have influenced Monet’s artistic production increasingly as his style evolved over several decades. In opposition to post-Renaissance art that privileged the human presence in both representation and the viewing act, Monet’s later paintings create a sense of virtual and visual equality among all observable phenomena. The human – and the viewer, by extension – is thus represented as neither separate from nature as a disengaged observer nor superior to it but rather co-equal with all other organic life forms surrounding it. This approach, while echoing Darwin’s admiration of nature and its laws, also reminds humankind of its own fragility and the hard choices it must make to avoid extinction.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 370gAuthor: Michael J. CallGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: History, Philosophy & Spirituality, Children's Learning & EducationBook Series: American University StudiesRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Claude Monet, Free Thinker
Title: Claude Monet, Free Thinker
Subtitle: Radical Republicanism, Darwin's Science, and the Evolution of Imp
EAN: 9781433130809
ISBN: 9781433130809
Release Date: 09/30/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 230mm
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Children's Learning & Education
Number of Pages: 175 Pages
Publication Name: Claude Monet, Free Thinker : Radical Republicanism, Darwin's Science, and the Evolution of Impressionist Aesthetics
Language: English
Publisher: Lang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General, Europe / France, Art & Politics, General, Regional, European, History / General
Features: New Edition
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Nature, Art, History
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Michael J. Call
Series: American University Studies: Series 20: Fine Arts
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
