Cornelia Homburg Livres

The narrative delves into the final years of Van Gogh's career, highlighting the significant people and locations that influenced his late masterpieces. It offers a fresh perspective on his artistic evolution, revealing how personal relationships and his surroundings shaped his iconic works. Through this exploration, the book uncovers the emotional and environmental factors that contributed to Van Gogh's unique style during his later life.

Classified as a Post-Impressionist, Van Gogh is perhaps one of the world's most famous and instantly recognisable artists. Famous almost as much for his embodiment of a tortured romantic artist as for his bold and usually distorted artworks, his works now fetch some of the highest prices in the world of fine art. This beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched project will be hugely popular as a collector's item for both Van Gogh's established fans and for those wishing to learn about him for the first time. With the inclusion of facsimiles of some 30 documents including Van Gogh's famous private letters, The Treasures of Van Gogh offers a unique insight into his life and works - from his childhood and youth in Zundert in southern Netherlands, the time he spent as a missionary and the gradual decline in his mental health that led him to cut off part of his ear and eventually to commit suicide.

The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phases of his career. Bringing together more than 60 of Gauguin's portraits in a wide variety of media that includes painting, works on paper, and sculpture, this handsomely illustrated volume is the first focused investigation of the multifaceted ways the artist approached the subject. Essays by a group of international experts consider how the artist's conception of portraiture evolved as he moved between Brittany and Polynesia. They also examine how Gauguin infused his work with symbolic meaning by taking on different roles like the Christ figure and the savage in his self-portraits and by placing his models in suggestive settings with alluring attributes. This welcome addition to the scholarship on one of the 19th century's most innovative and controversial artists reveals fascinating insights into the crucial role that portraiture played in Gauguin's overall artistic practice.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. 128 pp. with numerous duotones plates, printed by Sellier Druck GmbH, Germany, from separations by Lana Repro, Lana. 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Photographs by Catherine Wagner. Edited with text by Cornelia Homburg. Foreword by Joseph D. Ketner. Essays by William H. Gass and Helen E. Longino. Includes an artist biography, exhibition history and bibliography, brief biographies of the text contributors and an checklist of the exhibition.

French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a painter, lithographer, draftsman and pastellist, as well as a writer, critic and musician. This wide-ranging production between mediums and materials paralleled Redon's fascination with synaesthesia, the idea that an experience can be registered by several senses simultaneously, and that the experience could be more intense when several senses are solicited together--a phenomenon which captured the imaginations of many symbolists. To this end, Redon sought to interweave the expressive powers of literature, music and the visual arts together in works that combined and confused the senses. Next to literary themes and subjects linked to classical drama, Redon was particularly inspired by Richard Wagner's and Robert Schumann's music, among others. With more than 200 illustrations of works largely in private collections and held in the Kr�ller-M�ller Museum, and with essays by renowned experts on Redon and symbolism, this book provides extensive insight into the importance of literature and music in Redon's oeuvre. Addressing some of Redon's favorite themes in abundant visual detail, <i>Odilon Redon: Literature and Music</i> shows how the artist transposed literary and musical motifs in his work, and how he reinvented such themes over and over again to create new associations and meanings.

'Kunst dient der Erkenntnis, nicht der Unterhaltung', so lautet ein Diktum Max Beckmanns (1884-1950), in dessen Werk sich existenzielle und zeitgeschichtliche Fragen verdichten. Unter dem Titel Traum des Lebens - eine Textzeile, die der Künstler einem Gedicht Klopstocks entnommen und in eines seiner Skizzenbücher integriert hat - entfaltet dieser Band ein thematisch konzentriertes Panorama der Beckmann'schen Kunst. Seine Welt des Theaters, Varietés und der Musik, Traum und Wirklichkeit, Inszenierungen der Sinnlichkeit und die Rolle der weiblichen Muse, die Verfremdung romantisierender Bildmotivik im landschaftlichen und urbanen Kontext - diese zentralen, bisher wenig beachteten Themenkomplexe im Œuvre Max Beckmanns werden mit rund 60 Gemälden der Jahre 1917 bis 1950 breit vorgestellt und von renommierten Fachautoren wissenschaftlich erschlossen. (Englische Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-1695-6) Ausstellungen: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern 31.3.-18.6.2006 · Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal ab Juli 2006