The Brush and the Pen : Odilon Redon and Literature / DARIO GAMBONI ; translated by Mary Whittall.

Author/creator Gamboni, Dario
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Descriptionxxi, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePlume et le pinceau. English
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011034930
ISBN9780226280554 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
ISBN0226280551 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Standard identifier# 99946450324

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks NC980.5.R43 G3513 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold