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<p><p>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 <i>The Temptation of Saint Redon</i>, Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's conscious and considered response to changing social realities&#8212;an attempt to find refuge from the forces of modernization in an imaginative world of the macabre and the fantastic. Eisenman's careful attention to the circumstances of Redon's life (1840-1916) allows him to bring into focus the interconnections between Redon's complex style and the culture and society of his time. Born and raised on a sixteenth-century estate near Bordeaux, Redon was immersed as a child in traditional rural culture. "I spent my entire childhood in the M&eacute;doc completely free, among peasant children," he recalled in his memoirs. "I heard them tell supernatural tales&#8212;witches still exist there."<p>Indeed, local tales and legends of witches, ghosts, one-eyed monsters, evil eyes, and wood fairies figure prominently in Redon's graphic works, which he called his noirs, or "blacks." After formal training at Bordeaux and Paris in the 1850s

Author

Stephen F. Eisenman; Odilon Redon

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226195483

Subjects

Art, Arts