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James Ensor : the Temptation of Saint Anthony / Susan M. Canning, Patrick Florizöone, Nancy Ireson, Kimberly J. Nichols ; With a preface by Herwig Todts.

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  1. James Ensor : the Temptation of Saint Anthony / Susan M. Canning, Patrick Florizöone, Nancy Ireson, Kimberly J. Nichols ; With a preface by Herwig Todts.
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  1. Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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Additional authors
  1. Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Canning, Susan Marie.
  3. Florizoone, Patrick, 1958-
  4. Ireson, Nancy.
  5. Nichols, Kimberly.
Description
  1. 168 pages : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
  1. This engaging volume describes the creation and restoration of the extraordinary large-scale drawing 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' - a work by late 19th-century Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) that is composed of fifty-one sheets of paper collaged into a hallucinatory social critique and artist's manifesto. Each sheet of the nearly six-foot-high work is reproduced at actual size, revealing Ensor's remarkable technique and fertile imagination. Here, Saint Anthony is surrounded not with nature - as customary - but with the moral decay of society. Replete with tiny scenes depicting both sexual temptation and spiritual piety, Ensor splices potent imagery from travelogues, popular science and technology magazines into a Symbolist masterpiece. Susan M. Canning and Kimberly J. Nichols recount the fascinating tale that led to the work's restoration and first public showing in more than sixty years.
Subject
  1. ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
  2. ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
  3. ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
  4. ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious
  5. Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356 > Exhibitions
  6. Drawing, Belgian > Chicago > Exhibitions
  7. Drawing, Belgian > Los Angeles > Exhibitions
  8. Ensor, James, 1860-1949 > Criticism and interpretation
  9. Ensor, James, 1860-1949. > Exhibitions
  10. Symbolism in art > Belgium > Exhibitions
  11. Symbolism in art > Exhibitions
Contents
  1. The Trials of The Temptation : The Genesis of James Ensor's Saint Anthony / Nancy Ireson and Patrick Florizöone -- Revelation, Resistance, and Resilience : (Re)presenting James Ensor's The Temptation of Saint Anthony / Susan M. Canning -- Transcending Tradition : James Ensor's Innovative Drawing Process in The Temptation of Saint Anthony / Kimberly J. Nichols.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony was published in conjunction with an exhibition titled Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor, organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from November 23, 2014, to January 25, 2015."
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  1. Includes bibliographical references.
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