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Delvaux and antiquity / Sophie Basch ... [et al.].

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Delvaux and antiquity / Sophie Basch ... [et al.].
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[Wommelgem, Belgium] : BAI [2009].

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Additional Authors
  • Basch, Sophie, 1963-
  • Delvaux, Paul
  • Hidryma Vasilē kai Elizas Goulandrē
  • Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique
Description
189 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Summary
Antiquity as inspiration can be revealed in the works of Paul Delvaux as from the beginning of the 1930s and gets more important during World War II, for example with the theme of the tragic city. His interest in antiquity is characterized by antique sculpture and leads the artist to the elaboration of a theatralic human figure. These theatralic and dramatic representations put on mythical figures like Pygmalion, Venus or Penelope as well as sirens, ephebes and hamadryads. Delvaux also evokes a certain secret sacrality of so-called "places of memory" as temples and antique places like the Acropolis, Olympia or Pompeii. Places which Delvaux visited on the occasion of his two journeys to Italy in 1937 and 1939 as well as on his travel through Greece in 1956. Finally, a most important aspect of Delvaux's reception of antiquity: that of melancholic withdrawal.
Subject
  • Delvaux, Paul > Exhibitions
  • Surrealism > Belgium > Exhibitions
  • Art > Classical influences > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Andros, June 27-Sept. 27, 2009, and, at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Oct. 23, 2009-Jan. 31, 2010.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-184).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
From Journey to the centre of the earth to Homer / Takis Theodoropoulos -- Magic and fantasy in the work of Paul Delvaux / Kyriakos Koutsomallis -- On a voyage to Greece / Paul Delvaux -- The fantasies of origin and the origin of fantasies / Jean Clair -- At 'the limit of the antique fatherland of the children of men' / Michel Draguet -- The fairground antiquity of Paul Delvaux / Sophie Basch -- Delvaux and ancient schulpture / Philippe Jockey -- Avant-garde and antiquity 1919-1949 / Alexandre Farnoux.
ISBN
  • 9789085865414
  • 9085865417
OCLC
  • 456904548
  • SCSB-9954380
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library