{"product_id":"claude-monet-free-thinker-9781433130809","title":"Claude Monet Free Thinker","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet's artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a nineteenth-century \u003ci\u003elibre penseur\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 appea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Claude Monet was a free thinker and a secularist. Did such commitments matter to his painting? This is the question that Michael J. Call addresses through a close reading of the artist’s oeuvre. The result is a beautiful evocation, oftentimes lyrical, of Monet’s understanding of humankind’s place in time and nature.»\u003cbr\u003e (Philip Nord, Princeton University)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: The Triumph of Secularism – Republicanism and Science – Claude Monet, Free Thinker – A Scientific Style and Its Interpreters – The Demise of Anthropocentrism – Time and Mortality – The Search for Harmony – The Painted Garden.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039589597527,"sku":"9781433130809","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433130809.jpg?v=1750944190","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/claude-monet-free-thinker-9781433130809","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}