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Astonishing things : the drawings of Victor Hugo /

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"Novelist, poet and politician Victor Hugo was a towering figure of 19th-century French society, both in the realm of politics and popular culture. His speeches, poems, prose and other writings became rallying points for the French Republic's ideals of equality and freedom. While living in...

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Other Authors: Lea, Sarah (Curator, Contributor), Thompson, Rose (Curator) (Curator, Contributor), Salter, Rebecca, 1955- writer of foreword, Audinet, Gérard (Contributor), Cazentre, Thomas (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2025]
Subjects:
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885 > Exhibitions.
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885.
Hugo, Victor > (1802-1885) > Dessin > Critique et interprétation.
Drawing > Exhibitions.
Drawing.
Drawing, French.
Authors as artists.
France.
1800-1899
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Table of Contents:
  • President's foreword / Rebecca Salter
  • Double vision: Victor Hugo's Mind Eye / Sarah Lea
  • How a poet becomes a painter / Gérard Audinet
  • Architecture in the drawings of Victor Hugo / Thomas Cazentre
  • Catalogue plates / with section introductions by Rose Thompson
  • Writing and drawing
  • Observation and imagination
  • Fantasy and reality
  • Ocean
  • Chronology / Rose Thompson.