Gustave Moreau : between epic and dream

Author(s)

• Lacambre, Geneviève
• Druick, Douglas W.
• Feinberg, Larry J.
• Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)
• Moreau, Gustave
• Contenson, Marie-Laure de
• The Art Institution
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Réunion des musées nationaux (France)

Bibliographic Information

Gustave Moreau : between epic and dream

Geneviève Lacambre ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg, Marie-Laure de Contenson, and Douglas W. Druick

Réunion des musées nationaux , The Art Institute of Chicago, in association with Princeton University Press, 1999

Other Title

Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898

Note

Exhibition catalogue

Catalogue of exhibitions held at Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 29 Sept. 1998-4 Jan. 1999; The Art Institute, Chicago, 13 Feb.-25. April 1999; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1 June-22 Aug. 1999

"The exhibtiion was organized by The Art Institute of Chicago, The Réunion des musées nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art" --T.p.verso

French ed. published under the title: Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the 19th-century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, history and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic. Yet he 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 an influence on Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and the schools of Symbolism and Surrealism. This book, published to coincide with an 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 essays and catalogue entries that explain his achievements in all their intellectual complexity and visual richness.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Gustave Moreau and the Italian Renaissance Gustave Moreau and Exoticism The Middle Ages as Reinvented by Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau and the Symbolist Ideal Catalogue First Achievements as a History Painter Dossier: Oedipus and the Sphinx Dossier: Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra Chronology Bibliography List of Exhibitions Index Photography Credits

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Details

• NCID: BA41410991
• ISBN:
  • 0691007349
• LCCN: 98073863
• Country Code: fr
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Paris],[Chicago]
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 308 p.
• Size: 32 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NC248.M667
  • DC19 : 741.944
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : 展覧会カタログ
  • LCSH : Moreau, Gustave, 1826-1898 -- Exhibitions