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Explosive Acts: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, F Elix F Enaeon and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin De Siaecle

Explosive Acts: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, F Elix F Enaeon and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin De Siaecle


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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is known as the disfigured and dangerously self-destructive artist who recorded prolifically the louche world of sexy night-club dancers, lounging whores, and drunken bohemian merriment. Both in his life and art, he is thought to embody the climate of inebriated hilarity and excess of the fin de siecle. But as David Sweetman, the noted biographer of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, shows in this definitive work, there was another Toulouse-Lautrec, a committed and concerned man who moved in a secret community of anarchist revolutionaries, whose work betrayed a deep concern for human suffering, an artist who etched his sympathy for fallen women and lesbians into his portraits, and who remained loyal to the disgraced Oscar Wilde when the poet was abandoned and reviled by most. Sweetman's enlightening study of Toulouse-Lautrec has uncovered a man whose alliance with radicals and outspoken social critics (such as Felix Feneon) is implicit in his work. Toulouse-Lautrec was also a man on the cutting edge of radical art. He helped design the sets for the play "Ubu Rio," which, with its foul language and politically subversive imagery, stirred up a frenzy of public outrage and condemnation yet changed the course of theatrical history. Toulouse-Lautrec also created seminal works in the field of graphic art; his posters advertising performances and artistic events were often stolen from their public posting places and reappeared in the living rooms of middle-class homes, making his posters "the Trojan Horse of modern aesthetics." Toulouse-Lautrec's seemingly endless capacity for debauched revelry and his larger-than-life persona are undeniable. Yet hisart is as complex as he was, more varied and disturbing than it has been perceived in our century. Sweetman has introduced in "Explosive Acts" an altogether new way of looking at Toulouse-Lautrec, who, along with Oscar Wilde, Felix Feneon, and their cross-Channel cohort of artists, theorists, and writers, was responding to many of the same social issues and political currents we now face at our own turn of the century.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780684811796
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster
  • Height: 241 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 771 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0684811790
  • Publisher Date: 29 Nov 1999
  • Binding: Other book format
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, F Elix F Enaeon and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin De Siaecle
  • Width: 165 mm


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