Shadow visionaries : French artists against the current 1840-70 /

"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 boundar...

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Other Authors:	Leonard, Anne (Anne Rachel) (Editor), Batchen, Geoffrey (Contributor), Sueur-Hermel, Valérie (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2025] ©2025
Subjects:	Art, French > 19th century > Exhibitions. Engraving, French > 19th century > Exhibitions. Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions. Prints > France > 19th century > Exhibitions. Art français > 19e siècle > Expositions. Gravure française > 19e siècle > Expositions. Photographie artistique > Expositions. Estampe > France > 19e siècle > Expositions.

Table of Contents:

Shadow visionaries / Anne Leonard
Perpetual gothic / Geoffrey Batchen
Printmaking as a medium for the fantastical / Valérie Sueur-Hermel.