Mystic masque: semblance and reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958.

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Schloesser, Stephen, ed. Mystic masque: semblance and reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958. Chestnut Hill, MA : [Chicago]: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College ; Distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2008, 594pp., large and heavy PAPERBACK, cover worn around edges, otherwise very good, note however that this is a glued binding and a very heavy book, it will not lie flat like a sewn binding, glued bindings at this weight are not forever. "More than thirty essays based on new research by scholars from a variety of disciplines recover Rouault's keen sense of disjunction, unintended consequences, and ironic reversals." - Accompanies an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Aug. 30-Dec. 7, 2008. - CONTENTS: Preface / Nancy Netzer -- Introduction. Voltaire and Veronica, Symbolist-Realist Judgment / Stephen Schloesser -- pt. I. 1871-1901 -- 1871-1901: Realism, Symbolism, Mystic Modernism / Stephen Schloesser -- Refuge of Art: Gustave Moreau and the Legacy of Symbolism / Jeffery Howe -- Erasing Time and Place: Rouault and "Medieval" Art / Virginia Reinburg -- pt. II. 1902-1920 -- 1902-1920: The Hard Metier of Unmasking / Stephen Schloesser -- Georges Rouault: Action Painter / Jean-Marie Teze -- Rouault and the Dynamics of Self-Deception / Margaret R. Miles -- Tears at the Heart of Spectacular Paris: Rouault's Prostitutes / Mary Louise Roberts -- 1908/2008: Rouault's Whore, Freud's Gender-bent Judge, and Unmasking as Infinite Regression / Paul Breines -- pt. III. 1921-1929 -- 1921-1929: Jazz Age Graphic Shock / Stephen Schloesser -- Notes on the Miserere plates exhibited in Mystic Masque / Stephen Schloesser -- "Spleen and Ideal in Strife": Rouault's Baudelaire, 1918-1927 / Soo Yun Kang -- Aesthetics of Shock: Baudelaire, Benjamin, Rouault / Susan A. Michalczyk -- Rouault's Dying Slave: Being Human as an Unfinished Work / Naomi Blumberg -- Rouault and Expressionism / Claude Cernuschi -- Pere Ubu: Archetype of Social Dysfunction / John J. Michalczyk -- Mystery of Rouault's Reincarnations: A Sixteen-Year Obsession / Marie Garraut -- Colonial Scourge: Pere Ubu from the Brazza Mission to the Paris Exposition Coloniale / Jody Blake -- Technique and Space in the Miserere / John McCoy -- pt. IV. 1929-1939 -- 1929-1939: Mystic Masque, Hieratic Harmony / Stephen Schloesser -- Hieratic Grandeur: Weightless World, Hidden Order, Magnifying the Modest, 1930-1943 / Gael Mooney and Stephen Schloesser -- In Deed and in Need: the Friendship in Art of Georges Rouault and Andre Suares / Thomas Epstein -- Andre Suares, Passion (excerpts) -- pt. V. 1940-1958. ISBN 9781892850140. N° de ref. del artículo 91276

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