Shadow Visionaries – French Artists Against the Current, 1840–1870 - Geoffrey Batchen, Anne Leonard, Valerie Sueur–hermel

A look at the imaginative work of artists and photographers who defied the aesthetics of realism in nineteenth-century France Though realism is regarded as the dominant aesthetic of nineteenth-century France, an equally fervent movement of dreamlike, allegorical, and eerie literature and art was produced by figures as renowned as Victor Hugo and Odilon Redon. These “shadow visionaries” traversed the boundaries of reality in their work, recognizing the potential for art to construct a spiritual... Zobrazit více