The Brush and the Pen : Odilon Redon and Literature

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gamboni, Dario
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Redon, Odilon, > 1840-1916 > Criticism and interpretation.
Huysmans, J.-K. > (Joris-Karl), > 1848-1907.
Illustration of books > France > 19th century > Themes, motives.
Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Uniform Title:Plume et le pinceau.
Table of 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.

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