I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos: The Black Album
Автор:Odilon Redon Год: 2010 Издание:Solar Books Страниц: 208 ISBN: 0979984750 French artist Odilon Redon was a key precursor of Surrealist thought. A contemporary of the Impressionists, Redon instead chose to align himself with literary Symbolism, as evidenced by his friendship with poet Stephane Mallarme and his visual interpretations of the decadent texts of such writers as Baudelaire, Flaubert, Poe, and others. I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos collects Redon’s key "noirs", as he called his works in black—lithographs, etchings and charcoals — that evidence the artistic lineage from Symbolism to Surrealism. Never previously available in a single volume, the majority of Redon's noirs — over 250 illustrations — are finally collected here, along with illuminating excerpts from the texts which inspired their creation, including work by J.K.Huysmans, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and St John the Divine, as well as an autobiographical introductory essay by Redon himself. Within the pages of this dark and bizarre collection are grotesque and...
