Redon

1994 · 74166 — Boston Massachusetts U.S.A.: Abrams Inc. New. 1994. Hardcover. 0810937697 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- As essential source for scholars and lovers of Redon this marvelously illustrated biographical-critical study catalogs a traveling retrospective exhibit of the French symbolist's works. Drawing on recently released archival material an international team of scholars led by exhibition curator Druick present evidence that Redon suffered from childhood epilepsy which his parents attempted to conceal. Feeling unloved and rejected by his Creole mother Redon raised apart from his siblings married Camille Falte a nurturing practical Creole from the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean a telegraph operator's daughter whom Redon a rebel against his bourgeois class idealized as a "daughter of the people." Redon's affiliation with Romantic artists his friendships with Gauguin Huysmans and Gide and his role as mentor of Nabis Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard are explored in a major work that features many hitherto-unseen pictures from private collections among the 550 illustrations including 160 color plates. - Publishers Weekly -- TABLE OF CONTENTS : Foreword 8 Acknowledgments 10 Prologue: Painful Origins 13 Ch. I Under a Cloud 1840-1870 25 Ch. II Taking Wing 1870-1878 73 Ch. III In the Public Eye 1879-1889 119 In the Public Eye 3a 120 Odilon Redon: The Image and the Text 3b 175 Ch. IV Changing Directions 1890-1900 195 Redon and the Transformation of the Symbolist Aesthetic 4a 196 Redon's Spiritualism and the Rise of Mysticism 4b 215 Redon and the Marketplace Before 1900 4c 237 Ch. V Redon in the New Century 1900-1916 257 Redon and the Marketplace After 1900 5a 258 Redon's Artistic and Critical Position 5b 281 The Late Work 5c 305 Pt. I The Emergence of a Decorative Aesthetic 305 Pt. II The Artist as Mythmaker 333 Ch. VI Beneath the Surface: Redon's Methods and Materials 353 Notes 378 List of Lenders 432 Notes to the Reader 433 Documentation Catalogue 434 Chronologies 450 Early Gifts 451 Works Before 1870 to 1895 MRC 451 Lifetime Exhibitions 453 Selected Exhibitions After 1916 455 Writings by Redon 456 Lifetime Bibliography 457 Selected Bibliography After 1916 462 Photo Credits 464 -- with a bonus offer-- . Abrams Inc hardcover