The Temptation of Saint Redon: Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

by Stephen F. Eisenman

Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In The Temptation of Saint Redon, Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's conscious and considered response to changing social realities--an attempt to find refuge from the forces of modernization in an imaginative world of the macabre and the fantastic. Eisenman's careful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226195481
• ISBN13: 9780226195483
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.4"