Between Street and Mirror
Subtitle: The Drawings of James Ensor
Contributors: Catherine De Zegher (Editor)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780816640126
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Individual Painters - 19th Century; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Themes, motives; Art & Art Instruction; Individual Artist; Art; Exhibitions; Ensor, James,; European; Techniques - Drawing; 1860-1949
Description: "Early in his career, Belgian painter James Ensor (1860-1949) broke away from Impressionism, rejecting its prettiness in favor of an original, highly dramatic style. Incorporating elements of satire, caricature, masquerade, and the grotesque, Ensor was a sharp observer of his social and political milieu and a skilled controversialist.

Bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and not easily fitting into one particular movement or group, his drawings are increasingly valued for their innovative subjects and techniques, as well as the strong social criticism at their heart. This volume, published to accompany the first major New York exhibition of Ensor's drawings, includes more than one hundred plates, most of them in color. Essays by Susan M.

Canning (College of New Rochelle), Marcel De Maeyer (University of Ghent), and Robert Hoozee (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent), along with a chronology by Xavier Tricot, serve to place Ensor's drawings in the context of both artistic and historical developments of his time and his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.