This catalog for a show at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which is traveling to the Royal Academy in London, is the first to consider Monet as a 20th-century artist. In four focused, critical essays by specialists, it chronicles the still-powerful older painter, who was not involved with formulae but with seeing and redefining 19th-century art with experience, color, feeling, refraction, and multiplicity while freeing painting from perspective and spatial observation. His work later influenced American abstract expressionists and color field artists of the mid-20th century. The second part of the book contains resplendent full-color reproductions, including 12 four-page foldouts of the water lily murals, hinting at their huge scale. Tucker (art, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston), who authored Claude Monet: Life and Art (Yale Univ., 1995), has made a thought-provoking and important contribution. Highly recommended for special, academic, and public collections.?Ellen Bates, New YorkCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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