James Ensor
Subtitle: Christ's entry into Brussels in 1889
By: Patricia G. Berman.
Contributors: Ensor, James, 1860-1949.
Series: Getty Museum studies on art
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Ensor, James, 1860-1949; Ensor, James, 1860-1949 -- Criticism and interpretation; Jesus Christ -- Art; Allegories
Genres: Art.
Other titles: Christ's entry into Brussels in 1889
Description: "The brash young artist James Ensor painted Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 during a period of extraordinary artistic and political foment in his native Belgium. It is understood today to be one of the most dazzling, innovative, and perplexing paintings created in Europe in the late nineteenth century, and it rivals any work of its period in audacity and ambition.

Huge in scale, complex in design and execution, and brimming with social commentary, the painting is one of the most challenging works in the Getty Museum's paintings collection. This book examines Christ's Entry in light of Belgium's rich artistic, social, political, and theological debates in the late nineteenth century, and in the context of James Ensor's exceptional career, in order to decipher some of the painting's messages and meanings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113).
Table of contents: title: A painting and its paradoxes; title: The city, the street, and the urban spectacle; title: Ensor and the Belgian art world; title: Unholy alliances: the politics of church and state in Léopold's Belgium; title: The artist as rebel and redeemer; title: "A kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness".