This book considers questions of materiality and painting,
focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault,
and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions
raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and
dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of
the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous
landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint. Rouault's work
explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave
Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical
theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and
re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional
chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the
coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals
the process of making as both a search for understanding and a
response to the problematic world of the 20th century.
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