9781789141603-1789141605-Venus Betrayed: The Private World of Edouard Vuillard

Venus Betrayed: The Private World of Edouard Vuillard

ISBN-13: 9781789141603
ISBN-10: 1789141605
Edition: 1
Author: Julia Frey
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover 424 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781789141603
ISBN-10: 1789141605
Edition: 1
Author: Julia Frey
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover 424 pages

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Venus Betrayed: The Private World of Edouard Vuillard (ISBN-13: 9781789141603 and ISBN-10: 1789141605), written by authors Julia Frey, was published by Reaktion Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Monographs (Individual Artists, Criticism, Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent Venus Betrayed: The Private World of Edouard Vuillard (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Monographs books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.71.

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"Marvelous, beautifully illustrated."—Wall Street Journal

Édouard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, at once a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in conflicting desires. From the 1880s until the advent of World War II, using styles from academic to pointillist to Nabi to Fauve, Vuillard’s abundant paintings revealed his turmoil of love and hatred: models pose beside a plaster torso cast from the Venus of Milo, women appear without faces, anxiety radiates from many masterpieces—while other works were left unfinished for months or years.

Drawing on insights and images from Vuillard’s still unpublished diaries, Julia Frey takes us into Vuillard’s private world of cabarets, experimental theaters, holiday resorts, and intimate boudoirs, showing how his art reflects his fraught personal relations and his artistic struggles. Frey highlights many of his finest works, from his famous intimate interior scenes to book illustrations and poster designs, and she examines his complex relationships with iconic friends like Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Felix Vallotton, as well as with the women he loved—his mother and sister, penniless models, and rich men’s wives.
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