Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840-1870 - Hardcover

 
9780300286625: Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840-1870
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300286627 ISBN 13: 9780300286625
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2026

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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 consciousness. Highlighting haunted representations of the natural world, Shadow Visionaries provides an extraordinary look at a popular yet understudied era of French art.

In bringing together a variety of media--from photographs to literature--this catalogue challenges traditional art historical narratives and facilitates ground-breaking dialogues between creative works. Essays by leading curators and historians illuminate the cultural and societal currents that inspired widespread Gothic nostalgia and uncanny constructions of the natural world.

Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Exhibition Schedule:

The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
(December 13-March 8, 2026)

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Leonard is the Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300286627
ISBN 13 
9780300286625
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
160
Herausgeber
Leonard Anne
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