Beyond The Visible: The Art Of Odilon Redon - Hardcover

Hauptman, Jodi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870707027 ISBN 13: 9780870707025

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005

Synopsis

Caught between description and dream, the felt and the imagined, French artist Odilon Redon, whose career bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, transformed the natural world into nightmarish visions and bizarre fantasies. Closely allied with the Symbolist movement, Redon offered his own interpretations of literary, biblical and mythological subjects; created a universe of strange hybrid creatures; and presented landscape in a singular way: we see grinning disembodied teeth, smiling spiders, melancholic floating faces, winged chariots, unfamiliar plant life, and velvety black or colored swirls of atmosphere. With a recent gift from the Ian Woodner family, The Museum of Modern Art is now the site of the most significant body of the artist's work outside France, and this book will showcase the full range of Redon's varied oeuvre--charcoal "noirs," luminous pastels, richly textured canvases, literary collaborations and experiments in printmaking--and will illuminate the hold his particular kind of Modernism has had on both twentieth-century and contemporary artists.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870707027
• ISBN 13: 9780870707025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256