Paul Delvaux: Surrealizing the Nude

Author:   David Scott
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
ISBN:  

9780948462399


Pages:   136
Publication Date:   01 November 1992
Format:   Paperback
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Paul Delvaux: Surrealizing the Nude


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Although Paul Delvaux (born 1897) is an artist of international standing, his work is relatively little known in the Anglo-Saxon world. This book, the first on the artist written in English, places Delvaux's work in the tradition of European figurative painting, as well as in the more immediate context of twentieth-century Surrealism, exploring the relationship between them as they came together in the artist's works from the 1930s. David Scott identifies Delvaux's most characteristic contribution to twentieth-century art as that of problematizing academic history painting by surrealizing it. He concentrates on recurrent themes in Delvaux's art, notably his continuing, indeed unremitting, focus on the nude, and on the question of the 'legibility' of the works, given the contradictory pictorial codes - academic and Surrealist - that Delvaux adopts in them.

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Author:   David Scott
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9780948462399


ISBN 10:   0948462396
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   01 November 1992
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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David Scott is Associate Professor of French at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the editor of the Garnier-Flammarion edition of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris.

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