Claude Monet (Essential Series)

From dust jacket: "Celebrated during his life and deified upon his death, Claude Monet is now a popular figure of near-mystical proportions. A child of modest beginnings, Monet became Impressionism's poster boy out of a fierce determination to succeed....Find out: why Monet wished he had been born blind. Why we are drawn to Monet. How Money and the Impressionists were transformed from art-world bad boys into the most powerful artists of their time. Which of Monet's paintings inspired the scornful name Impressionism."