Edouard Vuillard
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few artists captured the quiet intimacy of domestic life with such chromatic brilliance as Édouard Vuillard, the Post-Impressionist master whose canvases transformed the mundane into the magnificent. This authoritative volume, part of the prestigious Library of Great Painters series, chronicles the life and work of the enigmatic Nabis painter, guiding the reader through his richly patterned interiors, tender portraits, and the luminous, decorative world he inhabited in late 19th- and early 20th-century Paris. Stuart Preston, writing with scholarly precision and genuine aesthetic enthusiasm, presents a compelling argument for Vuillard's enduring significance, illustrating how his radical flattening of form and his obsessive layering of pattern and colour place him at the very heart of the modernist project. Preston's text illuminates the deeply personal nature of Vuillard's art — his lifelong devotion to his mother, his close circle of Symbolist friends, and his almost obsessive return to the same intimate spaces — leaving the reader to wonder what further secrets these silent, shimmering rooms might yet conceal.
Author: Stuart Preston
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few artists captured the quiet intimacy of domestic life with such chromatic brilliance as Édouard Vuillard, the Post-Impressionist master whose canvases transformed the mundane into the magnificent. This authoritative volume, part of the prestigious Library of Great Painters series, chronicles the life and work of the enigmatic Nabis painter, guiding the reader through his richly patterned interiors, tender portraits, and the luminous, decorative world he inhabited in late 19th- and early 20th-century Paris. Stuart Preston, writing with scholarly precision and genuine aesthetic enthusiasm, presents a compelling argument for Vuillard's enduring significance, illustrating how his radical flattening of form and his obsessive layering of pattern and colour place him at the very heart of the modernist project. Preston's text illuminates the deeply personal nature of Vuillard's art — his lifelong devotion to his mother, his close circle of Symbolist friends, and his almost obsessive return to the same intimate spaces — leaving the reader to wonder what further secrets these silent, shimmering rooms might yet conceal.