The Temptation of Saint Redon: Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

by Stephen F. Eisenman

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Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In The Temptation of Saint Redon, Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's conscious and considered response to changing social realities--an attempt to find refuge from the forces of modernization in an imaginative world of the macabre and the fantastic. Eisenman's careful...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226195481

ISBN13:9780226195483

Release Date:December 1992

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:310 Pages

Weight:2.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 10.4"

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Art Art History Artists, Architects & Photographers Arts & Literature Arts, Music & Photography Design Graphic Design History & Criticism Humanities Individual Artists Techniques

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