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001 2011034930
003 DLC
005 20120201130359.0
008 110817s2011 ilua b 001 0beng c
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020 $a9780226280554 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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050 00 $aNC980.5.R43$bG3513 2011
082 00 $a759.4092$aB$223
100 1 $aGamboni, Dario.
240 10 $aPlume et le pinceau.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe Brush and the Pen :$bOdilon Redon and Literature /$cDARIO GAMBONI ; translated by Mary Whittall.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c[2011]
300 $axxi, 401 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe artist and his myth -- The quest for origins and their effacement -- Indecision and artistic vocation -- Art versus determinism -- The painter as poet-philosopher -- The review of the 1868 salon -- The later writings -- The ethical basis of drawing -- Recourse to literary sources -- Entering the artistic field -- A late start, individualism, and marginal status -- Lithography as an expedient -- Astray on the boulevard? : the exhibitions of 1881 and 1882 -- The writers' role -- Introductions -- Redon and the decadents: homologies and affinities -- Criticism and its interests -- J.-K. Huysmans, priority, and primacy -- Writers as artists' agents -- Criticism as transubstantiation -- Portraits of the bourgeois as an artist -- The Edgar Poe of the graphic arts -- A literary public, a literary art? -- The question of illustration -- Translating Poe -- Literary references, titles, captions, and albums -- "On the frontiers of all the arts" -- J.-K. Huysmans and poetic criticism -- An album and its transposition -- J.-K. Huysmans, "the new album by Odilon Redon" -- The homage to Goya campaign and the crystallization of symbolism -- The technique and principles of transposition -- Face of mystery: iconology and communication -- Pre-iconographical analysis -- From Dürer to Pascal: sources, comparisons, and the semantic field -- Face of mystery as self-portrait: an image of the artist and of art -- Face of mystery as a mirror -- Ambiguity, exegesis, and a community of equals oo -- The expanse and the limits of the restricted field -- Internationalism and marginality -- Proselytism and exclusiveness -- The limitations of literary friendships -- Estrangement from Huysmans and the move to the right bank -- Redon's change of direction -- The turning point explained -- The end of artistic isolation -- Illustration as interpretation -- La tentation: avatars of literary associations -- The "renaissance of lithography" -- "Consecration" and ambiguities of symbolism -- The primacy of admirers and the limits of recognition -- Redon in the arena of criticism -- Avowals, denials, and polemics -- The brush takes up the pen: the late writings -- New views of art, literature, and criticism -- Friends and foes: the pen and the brush -- A posthumous triumph -- Family quarrels -- A fin-de-siècle crisis in artist-writer relations -- The rise of formalism and the complicity of adversaries.
600 10 $aRedon, Odilon,$d1840-1916$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aIllustration of books$zFrance$y19th century$xThemes, motives.
650 0 $aUt pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
600 10 $aHuysmans, J.-K.$q(Joris-Karl),$d1848-1907.