Author: Lacambre, Genevieve (and) Larry Feinberg (and) Marie-Laue de Contenson (and) Douglas Druick
Title: Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream
Description: Paris, Reunion des Musee Nationaux, 1999. Hardcover. An orange fabric casebound book with the title in gilt lettering down the spine and debossed lettering on the front cover. There is a glossy dust jacket with the title in white down a beige spine. Pages: (7), viii-xi, (1), 1-308. Profusely illustrated with color images. "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." Contents are as follows: 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. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp on last page.

Keywords: ; Moreau, Gustave ; ;


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