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xiii, 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Prologue. Monet's character -- The youth of the artist, the art of his youth -- The perils of young love, Monet's magnificent failure -- Success and scandal -- Camille as Flora -- Painted metaphors for the absent woman -- Ariadne on the Grande Île / William Conger -- The myth of the bourgeois family -- Honeymoon and exile : Camille's status legitimized -- The Argenteuil years -- Argenteuil, 1872-1873 : classic Impressionist landscapes, mythic and enigmatic images -- Camille as collective muse -- Camille ascendant; Camille redux -- Camille's captive samurai -- The muse of the past, the muse of the future -- Camille and Argenteuil in decline -- The course of Camille's final iIllness and its repercussions in Monet's art -- Death and transfiguration -- Epilogue. The memorial garden of Claude Monet.
Includes bibliographical references and index.