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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)-on
the occasion of its first public showing in more than 60 years. The
piece is composed of 51 separate 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, Patrick
Florizoeone, and Nancy Ireson analyze the drawing's meaning; Herwig
Todts details its origins and early history; and Kimberly J.
Nichols recounts the work's restoration. Distributed for the Art
Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: The J. Paul Getty Museum
(06/10/14-08/31/14) The Art Institute of Chicago
(11/23/14-01/25/15)
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