Claude Monet's Water Lilies are widely recognized as a celebration of nature and a call to visual experience.
The skilled brushwork, vivid color, and immersive quality of the paintings suspend thoughts of the outside world and its concerns.
And yet, when one realizes that these works were made during a period of social and political turmoil--rapid changes of government, the Dreyfus Affair, and the destruction and devastation of World War I--questions arise about the personal, cultural,.
Penn State University Press Why monet matters: meanings among the lily pads, hardcover/james h. rubin
