The dark side of nature, Science, Society and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon

"The artist . . . will always be a special, isolated, solitary agent with an innate sense of organising matter." --Odilon Redon

"Disturbing," "hallucinatory"--words that evoke pathology rather than history-- have long framed our understanding of Odilon Redon (1840-1916), a French artist admired by the Surrealists as a precursor in their exploration of the irrational. In this book, Barbara Larson takes a radically different view of Redon, one that does... >Voir plus