In Katherine M. Bourguignon (ed.), Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915, Musée d'Art Américain and Terra Foundation of American Art, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp.29-43

Also published as 'Pétit déjeuner chez Monet: Giverny dans le contexte des colonies d'artistes en Europe', translated by Jeanne Bouniort, in Katherine M. Bourguignon (ed.), Giverny impressionniste: une colonie d'artistes 1885-1915, Terra Foundation for American Art and Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007, pp.29-43.

Focusing on one artists' colony in particular, Giverny, and examining the implications of tourism, place-myths and practices of social interaction for this specific configuration, this original research draws on the literature of, and on, tourism as well as on artists' letters and on the examination of archival material (documents, photographs).

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