"The book is admirable, and magnificently produced. The colour plates are first-class."--Bevis Hillier, The Spectator
"The French painter Gustave Moreau was a visionary who resisted getting swept up in the late-19th-century tides of naturalism and Impressionism and pursued instead his own version of an epic past. . . . Gustave Moreau . . . examines Moreau's amazingly varied influences. . . . The many excerpts from Moreau's own writings give the reader the clearest idea of what he aspired to."--Suzanne MacNeille, The New York Times Book Review
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet Moreau was also a prominent public figure in the Paris art world, winning praise for exhibits at the Salon, becoming a respected teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and exerting a powerful influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with a spectacular international exhibition that marks the centenary of Moreau's death, presents a wide range of the artist's most famous and beautiful works along with penetrating essays and catalogue entries that explain his unique achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness.
The volume reproduces and describes in detail more than 200 of Moreau's works, ranging from such well-known paintings as Orpheus and The Apparition (one of his many treatments of Salome and the beheaded John the Baptist) to lesser known but revealing watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. Two particularly important paintings--Oedipus and the Sphinx and Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra--are the focus of longer descriptions that cast light on Moreau's working methods. Geneviève Lacambre, Director of the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris, introduces the volume and contributes an essay about Moreau's passionate interest in the "exoticism" of other cultures, particularly those of Persia and India. Marie-Laure de Contenson describes the artist's powerful attraction to medieval art and aesthetics. Larry Feinberg shows that Moreau was deeply influenced by the Italian Renaissance and, in particular, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Douglas Druick writes about Moreau's evocative symbolic language, which drew on unique reinterpretations of mythical figures and events to convey the artist's anxieties about the immorality and materialism of his age.
This is a powerfully written and visually stunning record of the creativity and exquisite craftsmanship of Moreau's distinctive contributions to nineteenth-century art.
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Hard cover. Text in English, French. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket. Shelf wear, scuffing to jacket, now in mylar. Rear board has two small indentations. Text is unmarked with tight binding. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Alibris.0003587
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Hard Cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. Illustrated by Gustave Moreau (illustrator). Stated First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, lettering blind-stamped on front cover, black endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color and B&W reproductions. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine, condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW. B&W and Color reproductions. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xi, (i), 308 pp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17339
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Zustand: fine. 1st Edition. xi,308pp. Large quarto. Orange cloth boards with debossed lettering on front and gilt on spine. Black endpapers and colour painting frontispiece. Many large B&W and bright colour illustrations throughout. fine A gorgeous volume displaying over 200 of Moreau's works. Moreau often chose mythological and biblical themes for his art, and several curators have contributed essays on the artist and the Italian Renaissance, Exiticism, Symbolism and his reinvention of the Middle Ages. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, this book also comes with an extensive catalogue and chronology. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 134146
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Hardcover. Text in English, French. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Fine in a fine dust jacket in mylar. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Alibris.0003069
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Anbieter: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Fine. Folio in full color illus jacket; 308 pages: illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 31 cm; bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index. Color postcard of Moreau's Galatea laid in. Beautifully realized, with many full-page color reproductions, The book does justice to Moreau's work. "Hardcover edition published in 1999 in association with Princeton University Press"--Title page verso. Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Réunion des musées nationaux, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and held at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Sept. 29, 1998-Jan. 4, 1999; the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 13-Apr. 25, 1999; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 1-Aug. 22, 1999. In English. Translated from the French. "Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet Moreau was also a prominent public figure in the Paris art world, winning praise for exhibits at the Salon, becoming a respected teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and exerting a powerful influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with a spectacular international exhibition that marks the centenary of Moreau's death, presents a wide range of the artist's most famous and beautiful works along with penetrating essays and catalogue entries that explain his unique achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness"--Pubisher. // Contents: Introduction / Geneviève Lacambre -- Gustave Moreau and the Italian Renaissance / Larry J. Feinberg -- Gustave Moreau and exoticism / Geneviève Lacambre -- The Middle Ages as reinvented by Gustave Moreau / Marie-Laure de Contenson -- Gustave Moreau and the symbolist ideal / Douglas W. Druick -- Catalogue. // Painting, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. Symbolism (Art movement) -- France -- Exhibitions. Peinture française -- 19e siècle -- Expositions. Symbolism (Art movement) Painting, French. Named Person: Moreau, Gustave, 1826-1898 -- Exhibitions. Moreau, Gustave, 1826-1898 Moreau, Gustave, 1826-1898 Moreau, Gustave, (1826-1898) -- Catalogues d'exposition. Genre/Form: Exhibition catalogues. exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition. Time: 1800-1899 Geographic: France. Note(s): Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Gustave Moreau, between epic and dream", organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Réunion des musées nationaux, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; exhibition dates: Sept. 29, 1998-Jan. 4, 1999, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Feb. 13-Apr. 25, 1999, Art Institute of Chicago; June 1-Aug. 22, 1999, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. // **A large, heavy book. Weighs 4lbs 12 ounces before packing. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**. As new. Very fine in fine jacket. Tiny area of possible sunning to upper left corner for jacket front (possibly part of painting?) in as new dust-jacket First edition, first printing (full number line). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 93690
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