The brush and the pen
Subtitle: Odilon Redon and literature
By: Dario Gamboni ; translated by Mary Whittall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226280554
Subjects: Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics); Criticism and interpretation; Illustration of books; Themes, motives
Work titles: Plume et le pinceau
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The artist and his myth; title: The quest for origins and their effacement; title: Indecision and artistic vocation; title: Art versus determinism; title: The painter as poet-philosopher; title: The review of the 1868 salon; title: The later writings; title: The ethical basis of drawing; title: Recourse to literary sources; title: Entering the artistic field; title: A late start, individualism, and marginal status; title: Lithography as an expedient; title: Astray on the boulevard? : the exhibitions of 1881 and 1882; title: The writers' role; title: Introductions; title: Redon and the decadents: homologies and affinities; title: Criticism and its interests; title: J.-K. Huysmans, priority, and primacy; title: Writers as artists' agents; title: Criticism as transubstantiation; title: Portraits of the bourgeois as an artist; title: The Edgar Poe of the graphic arts; title: A literary public, a literary art?; title: The question of illustration; title: Translating Poe; title: Literary references, titles, captions, and albums; title: "On the frontiers of all the arts"; title: J.-K. Huysmans and poetic criticism; title: An album and its transposition; title: J.-K. Huysmans, "the new album by Odilon Redon"; title: The homage to Goya campaign and the crystallization of symbolism; title: The technique and principles of transposition; title: Face of mystery: iconology and communication; title: Pre-iconographical analysis; title: From Dürer to Pascal: sources, comparisons, and the semantic field; title: Face of mystery as self-portrait: an image of the artist and of art; title: Face of mystery as a mirror; title: Ambiguity, exegesis, and a community of equals oo; title: The expanse and the limits of the restricted field; title: Internationalism and marginality; title: Proselytism and exclusiveness; title: The limitations of literary friendships; title: Estrangement from Huysmans and the move to the right bank; title: Redon's change of direction; title: The turning point explained; title: The end of artistic isolation; title: Illustration as interpretation; title: La tentation: avatars of literary associations; title: The "renaissance of lithography"; title: "Consecration" and ambiguities of symbolism; title: The primacy of admirers and the limits of recognition; title: Redon in the arena of criticism; title: Avowals, denials, and polemics; title: The brush takes up the pen: the late writings; title: New views of art, literature, and criticism; title: Friends and foes: the pen and the brush; title: A posthumous triumph; title: Family quarrels; title: A fin-de-siècle crisis in artist-writer relations; title: The rise of formalism and the complicity of adversaries.