The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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• ISBN13: 9780486446592
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Customer Reviews

Giant Disappointment!
I'm a new admirer of Redon. I was truly excited to get this book so I could pour over the many bizarre and beautiful images I would find within it's pages. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with the poor quality of reproductions. It's a cheap book, I get it---but wow. The image quality is about as good a 10 cent black and white copy you'd get from the library copy machine. The delicacy is missing. The luminous quality which makes his work so stunning, brilliant, and unearthly is completely absent. I guess what was most disappointing is how vacant and lifeless the work appears. I really can't believe it.

Even though there aren't a lot of books available on Redon, but I'm pretty certain this particular one will be returned. I find no joy looking through it. I should have known better than to purchase a $15 art book. I have ordered, but have yet to receive, the Redon book "As In Dream" and here's hoping it's not a let down, too.

2007-06-29 | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 1

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Late 19th Century French Symbolist Graphic Works
Odilon Redon's graphic works are eerie yet beautiful. Many are in the public domain and you may have seen some already (think hot air balloon with an eyeball searching upward). His artistry is a combination of a lonely childhood filled with enormous rooms and heavy drapery, and a desire to draw what the Romantics were writing about. His work is dark but joyful. Many references to the saints and Christianity, but that was the world he lived in. Overall, a treasure to own, occasionally peruse and learn from. If you like smiling spiders this book is for you.

2006-03-19 (Malibu, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Odilon Redon: Pastels

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Having seen the originals, this is the best
In 1987 my wife and I were backpacking (and living) in various places in Europe and ended up spending about 6 weeks at a hole in the wall hotel in Paris. Her sister had told us that if we ever had the chance to go to the Musee D'Orsay to look up the works of this guy called "Odilon Redon" (somebody we'd never heard of).

We found ourselves on the second floor in a some very darkened rooms peering into glass cases and seeing the most ethereal and stunning pastels we'd ever seen. They literally glowed. For years I looked for books that could reproduce what we saw (Redon's original pastels) and discarded them all.

Until this one.

It was a wedding anniversary present that I gave to her and we treasure it to this day. The originals are better, but if you can't go to Paris, buy this book. The reproductions are spectacular.

Oh, if you do go to Paris, you should also go to the Musée de l'Orangerie and check out Claude Monet's Water Lilies. No book has ever reproduced seeing an entire room designed for, and devoted to, those paintings.

2009-10-23 | The universe is a big place . . . perhaps the biggest. (MIssouri 2nd / United States) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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A great book of Odilon!
The book is full of nice and beautiful pastel works of Odilon, it was wonderful! The price is reasonable. If anyone loves Odilon's works, I will recommand this book surely!

2008-02-27 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Sensual Symbolism
Having long been in search for the ultimate Redon book, eureka, we found it at last. Too bad this gorgeous book is out-of-print, causing the supply to be so limited (and thus the price to be so high). Nonetheless, it is well worth the expense. The full page color plates are accompanied by brief but well-written text and detalied provenance. The plates are also organized in the book by subject matter, saving, in our mind, the best for last--Redon's series of stunning still life vases.

2006-11-19 | Esoterica (San Diego, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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The Dark Side Of Nature: Science, Society, And The Fantastic In The Work Of Odilon Redon (Refiguring Modernism) (Refiguring Modernism)

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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 not attempt to deny him melancholia but does go a long way toward dismantling the paradigm that treats the cult of the irrational as the essential condition of his work. Larson instead contends that Redon should be seen as a gifted mediator of a context in which new scientific ideas mingled with the fears of social and racial decadence widespread in France after the debacle of the Franco-Prussian War.

Larson begins by investigating Redon s early years in the Bordeaux region, where he met Armand Clavaud, a botanist who encouraged his interest in the mixture of botany, geology, zoology, and landscape studies then called Naturalism. Subsequent chapters integrate Redon s concentration upon black-and-white graphic media and his absorption of Darwin s teachings and new trends in physiology, psychology, and microbiology. All this enables Larson to offer insightful readings of Redon s predilection for bizarre, polymorphous forms.

The Dark Side of Nature demonstrates that at least insofar as Redon is concerned, late-nineteenth-century science meant not positivistic engagement with a stable material world, but rather the exploration of vast invisible realms, from microbes to electricity. With its clear exposition of scientific thought, Larson s book will undoubtedly make a significant contribution not only to Redon studies but also to the interdisciplinary study of art and science.

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Customer Reviews

Artist DAL LAZLO loves dis book!!!
my only complaint with this otherwise excellant book is that it should have been a hardcover, it is sure to be regular referance and inspiration to any artist, or normal person in possession of it, and $55.00 for a softie is a little stiff! after grappling with that, get dis thing...it is super to see his actual inspirational clippins from mags and papers of his time...this is so much like Francis Bacon's routine it's scary, he relied on arcane flotsam much like dis guy, it really is beautiful and extensively illustrated and ,as a collector myself, I assure you, once out of print it is sure to become a valuable item, fettching way over it's cover price...so dont bend the covers, while you pour over Redons world , a definite must have.

2007-06-11 (Madison Wi.) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams (1840-1916)

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The work of French Symbolist painter Odilon Redon has long been seen as a direct link between the 19th century and the development of modern art. Now Douglas W. Druick, Searle curator of European paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago, has gathered more than 500 color and black-and-white reproductions of the artist's well-known and more obscure works.

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AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG INTO THE COLORS OF REDON
I bought the book titled Odilon Redon, Prince of Dreams, in order to have a visual record of his art work. This book contains much of his significant work. Although some of the images are small, the reproduction quality is fine enough for close study. In addition to cataloging the work; this book examines Redon's life and his importance within the symbolist art movement; and provides an in-depth dissection of Redon's process of applying color to his works. In fact, the authors provide in great detail a near "archaeological" dig down through the layers of color that Redon applied to his painting, pastel, and charcoal drawing surfaces. The reader is rewarded with an exploration of the technique that made Redon one of the most accomplished artists within the symbolist movement. Copyright. 2009. John Kurtz

2009-09-12 | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Dream anaylsis
An excellent, detailed overview of Redon's career and artistic output, this book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the artist's life and times. The only disappointment I felt was the lack of real insight into his work. Fabulous reproductions of the artist's incredible works tantalize as you search for interpretation in the text. Historical fact is all you get however. Somehow this seemed ironic in a book about a "Prince of Dreams". An absolute must have for any lover of Redon's art - the most complete published source - and the reproductions are truly phenomenal!

2000-05-18 (Little Rock, AR USA) | Helpful Votes: 28 | Rating: 4

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Odilon Redon: Écrits

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This is the first edition of nine fictional writings by the French painter, Odilon Redon (1840-1916). The text has been established from a transcription made by André Mellerio (the original manuscript being unavailable).

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To Myself: Notes on Life, Art and Artists

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