Gustave Moreau
Subtitle: between epic and dream
By: Geneviève Lacambre ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg, Marie-Laure de Contenson, and Douglas W. Druick.
Contributors: Lacambre, Geneviève.; Feinberg, Larry J.; Contenson, Marie-Laure de.; Druick, Douglas W.; Réunion des musées nationaux (France); Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France); Art Institute of Chicago.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Réunion des musées nationaux; Art Institute of Chicago
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Paris; Chicago
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Moreau, Gustave, 1826-1898 -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Between epic and dream
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301) and index.
"Hardcover edition published in 1999 in association with Princeton University Press"--Verso t.p.
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.
French texts translated by John Goodman.