James Ensor : Christ's entry into Brussels in 1889 / Patricia G. Berman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Patricia G.

Contributor:

Ensor, James, 1860-1949.

Series:

Getty Museum studies on art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ensor, James, 1860-1949. Entry of Christ into Brussels.

Ensor, James.

Ensor, James, 1860-1949--Criticism and interpretation.

Jesus Christ--Art.

Jesus Christ.

Ensor, James, 1860-1949.

Allegories.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

114 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 28 cm.

Other Title:

Christ's entry into Brussels in 1889

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2002]

Summary:

The brash young artist James Ensor painted Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 during a period of extraordinary artistic and political foment in his native Belgium. It is understood today to be one of the most dazzling, innovative, and perplexing paintings created in Europe in the late nineteenth century, and it rivals any work of its period in audacity and ambition. Huge in scale, complex in design and execution, and brimming with social commentary, the painting is one of the most challenging works in the Getty Museum's paintings collection. This book examines Christ's Entry in light of Belgium's rich artistic, social, political, and theological debates in the late nineteenth century, and in the context of James Ensor's exceptional career, in order to decipher some of the painting's messages and meanings. James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 is part of the Getty Museum Studies on Art series, which is designed to introduce individual works of art or small groups of related works to a broad public with an interest in the history of art. Each monograph is written by a leading scholar and features a close discussion of its subject as well as a detailed analysis of the broader historical and cultural context in which the work was created. The Getty Museum Studies on Art series is also intended to give readers a sense of the range of approaches that can be taken in analyzing works of art that come from a wide variety of periods and cultures.

Contents:

Painting and its paradoxes

City, the street, and the urban spectacle

Ensor and the Belgian art world

Unholy alliances: the politics of church and state in Léopold's Belgium

Artist as rebel and redeemer

"Kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113).

ISBN:

0892366419

OCLC:

49225347