Odilon Redon Hardcover – May 31, 2014

Really splendid book...terrific repro and for sure worth getting for all the right reasons, if you crave a decent publication on him at a reasonable price buy it now before goes out of print and the gouge jackals descend .

Delivery was quick, packaging good. This large format, 478 p. book is easy to read and yet gives excellent information on the writer and his life experiences impact on his work. My copy is not hardcover, but soft

Thats it, I was hoping for a collection of his amazing color paintings and pastels, and this isn't it. Keep looking.

Yes it met my expectation for the book and received very quickly and carefully packagead.

Great print

Very disappointed with the picture quality and choices. I'd love to find a book that really shows his remarkably beautiful and colorful works with high quality picture printing, but this is unfortunately not that.

it was a gift

Symbolism was always more of an artistic trend than a movement, despite loose associations like 'Les XX' and 'Le Rose et la Croix' in fin-de-siecle Belgium & France, as well as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England. Each shared thematic and aesthetic predilections that marked them as spiritual relatives of Gustave Moreau and Arnold Bocklin, the two men whose art would best define the vague terrain of Symbolism for later historians and critics. While many of these artists were intentionally forgotten by 20th Century Modernists, only now being recognized as essential and often brilliant predecessors of the true movements to come in the following decades. Two Symbolists who were not ignored in favor of their Impressionist and Divisionist contemporaries were James Ensor and Odilon Redon. Both men have been well-regarded by most critics throughout the intervening years, and both have had excellent English language monographs devoted to them, both in the past and very recently. Odilon Redon's self-titled, just released monograph accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. It is a beautiful book, forgoing the dust-jacket for wraparound illustrated cover-boards depicting a painting detail that makes evident his mastery of color and dream-like compositions. Although it's only 170 pages in length, there are many large-scale reproductions of both his paintings and his early charcoal 'Noirs'. The imagery of his black-and-white period, with it's cryptic themes and disturbing motifs, is just as fascinating to explore as his celebrated career as a painter, where his bold use of colors and nearly abstract subject matter would have a profound impact on the next generation of artists. Hatje Cantz are one of the best publishers of art books around, and the production of this book incorporated the best paper and binding suited for monographs, at a 10" x 12" size format ideal for art books. Book Design/Material: 5/5 - Subject Matter: 5/5...

Symbolism was always more of an artistic trend than a movement, despite loose associations like 'Les XX' and 'Le Rose et la Croix' in fin-de-siecle Belgium & France, as well as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England. Each shared thematic and aesthetic predilections that marked them as spiritual relatives of Gustave Moreau and Arnold Bocklin, the two men whose art would best define the vague terrain of Symbolism for later historians and critics. While many of these artists were intentionally forgotten by 20th Century Modernists, only now being recognized as essential and often brilliant predecessors of the true movements to come in the following decades. Two Symbolists who were not ignored in favor of their Impressionist and Divisionist contemporaries were James Ensor and Odilon Redon. Both men have been well-regarded by most critics throughout the intervening years, and both have had excellent English language monographs devoted to them, both in the past and very recently. Odilon Redon's self-titled, just released monograph accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. It is a beautiful book, forgoing the dust-jacket for wraparound illustrated cover-boards depicting a painting detail that makes evident his mastery of color and dream-like compositions. Although it's only 170 pages in length, there are many large-scale reproductions of both his paintings and his early charcoal 'Noirs'. The imagery of his black-and-white period, with it's cryptic themes and disturbing motifs, is just as fascinating to explore as his celebrated career as a painter, where his bold use of colors and nearly abstract subject matter would have a profound impact on the next generation of artists. Hatje Cantz are one of the best publishers of art books around, and the production of this book incorporated the best paper and binding suited for monographs, at a 10" x 12" size format ideal for art books. Book Design/Material: 5/5 - Subject Matter: 5/5...

un catalogue qui publie des œuvres jamais vues à Paris magnifique livre à recommander à tous les fans de Redon

I saw the exhibition and wanted the catalog before I went there. It is well put together and is of very high quality. Lots of color and interesting texts.

Worth buying, good colour reproductions, full of information visually and the text is relevant too.

Everything perfect. Tks!