Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

by Jennifer Johnson

Book Overview

This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint.

Rouault's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350213810
• ISBN13: 9781350213814
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"