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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Fernand Khnopff and the Belgian Avant-garde
Author: Fernand Khnopff and the Belgian Avant-garde
Author: Fernand Khnopff and the Belgian Avant-Garde
Author: Fernand Khnopff and the Belgian avant-garde
Author: Fernand Khnopff and the Belgian Avant-garde
Author: Cheryl KemplerFernand Khnopff and the Belgian Avant-Garde
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Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Les XX and the Belgian Avant-garde
Author: Jane BlockPublisher: University of Washington Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Overzicht van het grafische werk van de Belgische groep avantgarde kunstenaars (1883-1893).
Fernand Khnopff
Author: Michel DraguetPublisher: Agrarian Studies
ISBN: 9780300246506
Category : Art, Belgian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A comprehensive look at an important member of the artistic vanguard of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Draguet, an internationally recognized authority on fin-de-siècle art, offers an enlightening examination of the life and art of Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921). Khnopff achieved widespread acclaim during his lifetime for his moody, dreamlike paintings, as well as his numerous commissioned portraits, designs for costumes and sets for the theater and opera, photography, sculpture, book illustrations, and writings. Khnopff was a reclusive personality, and in 1900 he focused his attention on the design and construction of a lavish, secluded home and studio in Brussels, a structure that became deeply entwined with the artist's work and sense of self. Although the house was demolished in 1936, Draguet uses new archival research to reconstruct its spaces and explore the home as emblematic of the artist, guiding the reader through Khnopff's very personal world and analyzing his art in the context of its generative surroundings. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Les XX and Belgian Avant-gardism, 1868-1894
Author: Jane BlockRichard Wagner and the Art of the Avant-Garde, 1860-1910
Author: Donald A. RosenthalPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538180006
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles, rather than a phrase the artists applied to themselves. Chapters are on individual artists or groups, rather than an attempt to survey all of nineteenth-century Wagnerian visual art. They deal with paintings and drawings inspired by Wagner and his operas, not with the composer’s larger cultural influence through his writings and personal example. Thus artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who knew of Wagner’s music and writings but did not depict scenes from his operas, are not discussed in detail. The emphasis is on the diverse effects Wagner had on the works of leading avant-garde artists, varying according to their personalities and stylistic interests. The period beginning in the 1880s, often associated with post-Impressionism, was characterized by a movement away from realist subject matter to more personal or imaginary themes, a general intellectual trend of the fin-de-siècle. Wagner’s remote quasi-historical or mythological subjects fit well with this escapist tendency in the art and culture of the time, in part a return to the Romantic sensibility that was dominant in Wagner’s youth. Wagner’s influence peaked in the period between his death in 1883 and 1900, though a few long-lived artists continued their Wagnerian explorations from this era well into the early twentieth century. There is no “Wagner style” in art, yet Wagner’s pervasive influence is immediately evident in these works. Artists whose works are discussed include Eugène Delacroix, Henri Fantin-Latour, Odilon Redon, Max Klinger, James Ensor, Fernand Khnopff, John Singer Sargent and Aubrey Beardsley, among others. The book features 60 art reproductions, half of them in color.