| | TITLE | James Ensor | IMPRINT | Hatje Cantz Publishers | PRICE US | $60.00 CDN $60.00 | ISBN | 9783775717038 TRADE | FORMAT | Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in., 288 pgs, 130 color, 110 b&w. | CATALOG | SPRING 2006 p. 96 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 3/1/2006 | STATUS | Out of print | STOCK | Not available |
| | RELATED MONOGRAPHS Text by Xavier Tricot.
HATJE CANTZ Edited by Anna Swinbourne. Text by Anna Swinbourne, Susan Canning, Michel Draguet, Robert Hoozee, Laurence Madeline, Jane Panetta, Herwig Todts.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK Text by Theresa Papanikolas, Kevin Salatino.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | |
| | | James EnsorEdited by Max Hollein and Ingrid Pfeiffer. Essays by Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg, Rudolf Schmitz and Xavier Tricot.Few artists of the late nineteenth century produced an oeuvre more bizarre, ironic, profound and rich in interpretive possibilities than the Belgian painter James Ensor. Ensor lived from 1860 until 1949, and has enjoyed newfound fame since 1994 as the subject of the They Might Be Giants song "Meet James Ensor." His unusual work challenged standards of taste and technique by mingling the influence of his Belgian forbears, Bosch and Breugel, with a bright, loosely brushed impressionist style. Ensor offered unmistakable symbols of the absurdity of existence--particularly in portraying the tourists who flooded his native Ostend on their vacations, whom he caricatured mercilessly as clowns and skeletons, or concealed behind brightly colored carnival masks. His painting influenced both German Expressionists and French Surrealists. When seen in the light of new trends towards the grotesque and comic in contemporary painting, his work obtains new currency. James Ensor includes some eighty masterpieces on canvas and sixty works on paper from international museums and private collections, with key pieces from each of his creative periods. Particular attention is paid to his late work, long neglected by scholarship, in order to prepare the ground for a re-evaluation. | |
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