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Gustave Moreau : Between Epic and Dream by Geneviève Lacambre (1999, Hardcover)
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780691007342
- Book Title
- Gustave Moreau : between Epic and Dream
- Item Length
- 12in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General
- Item Width
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 77.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet Moreau was also a prominent public figure in the Paris art world, winning praise for exhibits at the Salon, becoming a respected teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and exerting a powerful influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with a spectacular international exhibition that marks the centenary of Moreau's death, presents a wide range of the artist's most famous and beautiful works along with penetrating essays and catalogue entries that explain his unique achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness. The volume reproduces and describes in detail more than 200 of Moreau's works, ranging from such well-known paintings as Orpheus and The Apparition (one of his many treatments of Salome and the beheaded John the Baptist) to lesser known but revealing watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. Two particularly important paintings-- Oedipus and the Sphinx and Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra --are the focus of longer descriptions that cast light on Moreau's working methods. Genevi ve Lacambre, Director of the Mus e Gustave Moreau in Paris, introduces the volume and contributes an essay about Moreau's passionate interest in the "exoticism" of other cultures, particularly those of Persia and India. Marie-Laure de Contenson describes the artist's powerful attraction to medieval art and aesthetics. Larry Feinberg shows that Moreau was deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance and, in particular, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Douglas Druick writes about Moreau's evocative symbolic language, which drew on unique reinterpretations of mythical figures and events to convey the artist's anxieties about the immorality and materialism of his age. This is a powerfully written and visually stunning record of the creativity and exquisite craftsmanship of Moreau's distinctive contributions to nineteenth-century art.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691007349
ISBN-13
9780691007342
eBay Product ID (ePID)
350063
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gustave Moreau : between Epic and Dream
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
12in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
9in
Item Weight
77.1 Oz
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Reviews
"The French painter Gustave Moreau was a visionary who resisted getting swept up in the late-19th-century tides of naturalism and Impressionism and pursued instead his own version of an epic past. . . . Gustave Moreau . . . examines Moreau's amazingly varied influences. . . . The many excerpts from Moreau's own writings give the reader the clearest idea of what he aspired to." --Suzanne MacNeille, The New York Times Book Review, "The French painter Gustave Moreau was a visionary who resisted getting swept up in the late-19th-century tides of naturalism and Impressionism and pursued instead his own version of an epic past. . . . Gustave Moreau . . . examines Moreau's amazingly varied influences. . . . The many excerpts from Moreau's own writings give the reader the clearest idea of what he aspired to. . . ." --Suzanne MacNeille, The New York Times Book Review, The book is admirable, and magnificently produced. The colour plates are first-class. ---Bevis Hillier, The Spectator, "The book is admirable, and magnificently produced. The colour plates are first-class. . . ." --Bevis Hillier, The Spectator, The French painter Gustave Moreau was a visionary who resisted getting swept up in the late-19th-century tides of naturalism and Impressionism and pursued instead his own version of an epic past. . . . Gustave Moreau . . . examines Moreau's amazingly varied influences. . . . The many excerpts from Moreau's own writings give the reader the clearest idea of what he aspired to. ---Suzanne MacNeille, The New York Times Book Review, "The book is admirable, and magnificently produced. The colour plates are first-class." --Bevis Hillier, The Spectator, The French painter Gustave Moreau was a visionary who resisted getting swept up in the late-19th-century tides of naturalism and Impressionism and pursued instead his own version of an epic past. . . . Gustave Moreau . . . examines Moreau's amazingly varied influences. . . . The many excerpts from Moreau's own writings give the reader the clearest idea of what he aspired to. . . .
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Lenders Directors' Preface Introduction 1 Gustave Moreau and the Italian Renaissance 5 Gustave Moreau and Exoticism 15 The Middle Ages as Reinvented by Gustave Moreau 22 Gustave Moreau and the Symbolist Ideal 33 Catalogue Formative Years 42 First Achievements as a History Painter 75 Dossier: Oedipus and the Sphinx Years of Success 133 Dossier: Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra Final Years of the Symbolist Painter 231 Chronology 275 Bibliography 299 List of Exhibitions 302 Index 304 Photography Credits 308
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-073863
Dewey Decimal
759.4
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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