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The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900
This exhibition catalogue explores the appeal of a European print collector’s cabinet, and the intellectual pursuits and techniques of artists in the late nineteenth-century. While much of the art from this period is often associated with light—impressionist depictions of parks and cityscapes, or the buoyant life of cafés and brasseries—there was another side, a darker side, to public life in Paris at the time. Investigating the dream-like and often enigmatic subjects of artists such as Félix Bracquemond, Victor Hugo, Edvard Munch, James McNeill Whistler, and Odilon Redon, the selected works share the dark naturalism and rebelliousness of the writings of Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe, among other literary figures of the time. The revival of the etching technique during this period is particularly evident in this volume. According to Baudelaire, etching compelled an artist to express the most intimate degrees of self-revelation. Not least because of its exploratory latitudes, the etching medium drew attention from many different camps: academic painters, realists, impressionists, and symbolists alike, and became an arena for opposing styles and schools of thought. More than 120 works on paper from France, Germany, Britain, Belgium and the United States are featured, including prints, drawings, illustrated books and portfolios; several small sculptures are also featured. In addition to 90 color images, the book contains four scholarly essays.
ETCHING/PRINTMAKING/DRAWING
2009, 8 x 11 inches, 180 pp, b&w and color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-84822-021-8 :
code: nga drk K-5
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