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Venus Betrayed

Julia Frey

  • Categorie: Kunst & Fotografie
  • EAN: 9781789141603
The Private World of Edouard Vuillard
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:14 oktober 2019
Aantal pagina's:400
Illustraties:Met illustraties
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Hoofdauteur:Julia Frey
Hoofduitgeverij:REAKTION BOOKS
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:193 mm
Verpakking hoogte:36 mm
Verpakking lengte:249 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:1440 g


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Edouard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in conflicting desires. From the 1880s until the advent of World War II, using styles from academic to Pointillist to Nabi to Fauve, he abundantly revealed his love and hatred in his paintings: models pose beside a plaster torso cast from the Venus of Milo, women appear without faces, anxiety radiates from many masterpieces, while other works were left unfinished for months or years. Drawing on insights and images from Vuillard's still unpublished diaries, Julia Frey takes the reader into Vuillard's private world of cabarets, experimental theatres, holiday resorts and intimate boudoirs, showing how his art reflects his fraught personal relations and his artistic struggles. Frey chooses many of his finest works, from the famous intimate interior scenes to book illustrations and poster designs, and examines his complex relationships with friends such as Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Stephane Mallarme, Felix Vallotton, and the women he loved: his mother and sister, penniless models and rich men's wives.