A review by veramarsova
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King

3.0

Monet’s paintings are “made from a dream and a magical breath...leaving for the eyes only a mad enchantment that convulses vision, reveals an unsuspected nature, lifts it up unto the symbol by way of this unreal and vertiginous execution.”

This opus is a most curious amalgamation of genuinely insightful commentary on Monet's life in general and his final canvases in particular, and the most tedious details of all the bureaucratic process associated with the installation of said canvases (which somehow took hours of audiobook, I kid you not).