Georges Rouault and Material Imagining
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2020
216 pages
978-1-5013-4611-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
14 colour and 49 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-4611-8 (9781501346118)
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Jennifer Johnson is a Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Oxford, UK.
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Georges Rouault's Modernism
Chapter 1: 1903-1907: Mutilation, Revivification and Imaginative Play on the Surface
Chapter 2: The Interwar Years: Materiality, Theatricality, and Social Critique
Chapter 3: 'Le métier de peindre' or Making as Thought: Bergson, Maritain, and Rouault's landscapes
Chapter 4: Light Thickens: Theology, Phenomenology and the Veronica
Chapter 5: Material Imaginings: Matter, Materiality, and Modes of Being
Index
Introduction: Georges Rouault's Modernism
Chapter 1: 1903-1907: Mutilation, Revivification and Imaginative Play on the Surface
Chapter 2: The Interwar Years: Materiality, Theatricality, and Social Critique
Chapter 3: 'Le métier de peindre' or Making as Thought: Bergson, Maritain, and Rouault's landscapes
Chapter 4: Light Thickens: Theology, Phenomenology and the Veronica
Chapter 5: Material Imaginings: Matter, Materiality, and Modes of Being
Index
