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Item Number: 127676
Title: JAMES ENSOR : The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Author: Canning, Susan M. (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300203912
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014. 28cm., hardcover, 144pp., 98 color illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: 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.
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