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Modern Art

Author: J.-K. Huysmans

Translator: Brendan King   Cover design: Marie Lane  

First published in 1883, but never before translated into English, this collection of J.-K. Huysmans’ art criticism reveals the author of Against Nature to be as combative in his aesthetic opinions as he was in his literary ones. At a time when the Impressionists were still being ridiculed, or worse still ignored, Huysmans defiantly proclaimed Degas to be the best painter in France. He filled his pages with analyses of the works of artists whose genius and popularity have been confirmed by time: Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau.
Huysmans intersperses his reviews of these independent artists with those of the annual Official Salon, whose conventional and dryly academic works he lambasts with his customary gusto and invective.
This is the first complete translation of L’Art moderne, and includes 200 black and white illustrations, notes and a glossary of artists.

RRP: £10.99

No. of pages: 313

Publication date: 14.02.2019

Re-print date: 27.05.2020

ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 910213 99 5
Ebook
978 1 912868 07 0

Rights:
Dedalus World Rights in this translation