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The brush and the pen

Odilon Redon and literature

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Odilon Redon and literature

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Brush and the Pen: Odilon Redon and Literature
2017, University of Chicago Press
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The brush and the pen: Odilon Redon and literature
2011, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

The 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London

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Dewey Decimal Class
759.4092, B
Library of Congress
NC980.5.R43 G3513 2011, ND553

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25011510M
ISBN 10
0226280551
ISBN 13
9780226280554
LCCN
2011034930
OCLC/WorldCat
714301813

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