Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection
The Modernist Myth of the Self

388 pages
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127 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 1994
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
1: Baudelaire and the Error of Narcissus (1859-70)
2: From Self-Infatuation to Self-Reflection (1870-80)
3: Normandy’s Beaches and Maritime Origins (1880-83)
4: The Riviera and the Impossibility of the Blues (1884-85)
5: Etretat and Death by the Sea (1885-86)
6: Belle-Ile and the Oceanic Feeling (1886-87)
7: Antibes and the Intoxication of Solitude (1888)
8: Mirbeau and the Cult of the Self (1889)
9: The Creuse and Neurotic Obsession (1889)
10: Mallarme, Women, and Water Lilies (1889-91)
11: Allegories of Narcissus: Valery, Gide, Mauclair (1891-95)
12: Allegories of Narcissus: Regnier, Gasquet, Rollinat (1895-99)
13: Giverny and Paradise (1899-1909)
14: Bending over the Source (1909)
15: War, Water Lilies, and Death (1909-26)
16: Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Notes
Bibliography
Photography Credits
Index
Preface and Acknowledgments
1: Baudelaire and the Error of Narcissus (1859-70)
2: From Self-Infatuation to Self-Reflection (1870-80)
3: Normandy’s Beaches and Maritime Origins (1880-83)
4: The Riviera and the Impossibility of the Blues (1884-85)
5: Etretat and Death by the Sea (1885-86)
6: Belle-Ile and the Oceanic Feeling (1886-87)
7: Antibes and the Intoxication of Solitude (1888)
8: Mirbeau and the Cult of the Self (1889)
9: The Creuse and Neurotic Obsession (1889)
10: Mallarme, Women, and Water Lilies (1889-91)
11: Allegories of Narcissus: Valery, Gide, Mauclair (1891-95)
12: Allegories of Narcissus: Regnier, Gasquet, Rollinat (1895-99)
13: Giverny and Paradise (1899-1909)
14: Bending over the Source (1909)
15: War, Water Lilies, and Death (1909-26)
16: Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Notes
Bibliography
Photography Credits
Index
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