Georges Rouault and Material Imagining - Couverture souple

Johnson, Dr. Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350213810 ISBN 13 : 9781350213814

Editeur : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023

Synopsis

This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint.

Rouault's work explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals the process of making as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Johnson is a research fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. She has previously been a tutor and lecturer at Oxford in History of Art and English Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350213810
• ISBN 13: 9781350213814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible