Gustave Moreau : vers le songe et l'abstrait /

Was Gustave Moreau (1826-98) - the Symbolist painter famed for his mysterious and moody paintings of biblical and mythological subjects - actually a pioneer of abstraction? This was a theory posited in the 1960s by some observers based on works in the Moreau archives that had no clear subject matter...

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Main Authors: Moreau, Gustave, 1826-1898
Corporate Authors: Muse?e Gustave Moreau
Group Author: Forest, Marie-Ce?cile; Mace?, Emmanuelle
Published: Musée Gustave Moreau : Somogy éditions d'art,
Publisher Address: Paris :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: French
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Summary: Was Gustave Moreau (1826-98) - the Symbolist painter famed for his mysterious and moody paintings of biblical and mythological subjects - actually a pioneer of abstraction? This was a theory posited in the 1960s by some observers based on works in the Moreau archives that had no clear subject matter. Now the Musée Gustave Moreau has put together an exhibition, "Gustave Moreau: Vers le Songe et l'Abstrait" (Toward the Dream and the Abstract), to investigate the question.--Paris Update.
Item Description: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris, France, October 17, 2018-January 21, 2019.
Carrier Form: 191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-189) and index.
ISBN: 9782757213919
2757213911
Index Number: ND553
CLC: J205.565
Call Number: WF/J205.565/M837
Contents: Gustave Moreau. "L'au-delà abstrait" /
Le Triomphe d'Alexandre le Grand. L'abstrait dans le figuratif /
Les "essais de couleur" sur papier de Gustave Moreau /
Gustave Moreau, grand-père de l'abstraction ? /
Abstraction, matière et imagination dans l'oeuvre et la pensée de Gustave Moreau /
Un travail de deuil ? /
Catalogue des oeuvres exposées --
Le Triomphe d'Alexandre. La fabrique de l'oeuvre --
La tache qui fait sens --
Le bleu comme support --
En de?à de la figuration --
Le paysage, science des valeurs --
La peinture comme champ coloré --
"Les merveilleux effets de la pure plastique"