Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

Zusatztext In Jennifer Johnson's reading of Rouault's surfaces, meaning accrues in a richly layered manner. Drawing upon theorists and philosophiesboth contemporaneous and more recentJohnson returns the reader to Rouault's thick, reworked, slabs of paint with new understandings of how the artist grappled with questions at the heart of modernism through his subjects, materials, and making. Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Johnson is a research fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. She has previously been a tutor and lecturer at Oxford in History of Art and English Literature. Klappentext This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint. Rouault's work explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals the process of making as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century. Vorwort Georges Rouault and Material Imagining is a book about questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault. Zusammenfassung This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint.Rouault's work explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals the process of making as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Georges Rouault's ModernismChapter 1: 1903-1907: Mutilation, Revivification and Imaginative Play on the SurfaceChapter 2: The Interwar Years: Materiality, Theatricality, and Social CritiqueChapter 3: 'Le métier de peindre' or Making as Thought: Bergson, Maritain, and Rouault's landscapesChapter 4: Light Thickens: Theology, Phenomenology and the Veronica Chapter 5: Material Imaginings: Matter, Materiality, and Modes of BeingIndex...

Préface
Georges Rouault and Material Imagining is a book about questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault.

Auteur

Jennifer Johnson is a research fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. She has previously been a tutor and lecturer at Oxford in History of Art and English Literature.

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This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint.

Rouault's work explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals the process of making as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century.

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List of Illustrations Introduction: Georges Rouault's Modernism Chapter 1: 1903-1907: Mutilation, Revivification and Imaginative Play on the Surface Chapter 2: The Interwar Years: Materiality, Theatricality, and Social Critique Chapter 3: 'Le métier de peindre' or Making as Thought: Bergson, Maritain, and Rouault's landscapes Chapter 4: Light Thickens: Theology, Phenomenology and the Veronica Chapter 5: Material Imaginings: Matter, Materiality, and Modes of Being Index