Fantasy and Faith : The Art of Gustave Dore

by Edited by Eric Zafran, with Robert Rosenblum and Lisa Small

• ISBN13: 9780300107371
• ISBN10: 0300107374
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2007-05-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Gustave Dore (18321883) is best known as one of the finest book illustrators of the nineteenth century, but he was also a painter and sculptor of international repute. His illustrated Bible, first published in 1865, has appeared in over 700 editions and in its day was the most successful book in the world. Mentioned by Mark Twain, it influenced popular imagery from the films of Cecil B. DeMille to the illustrations of Edward Gorey. Religious subjects also feature in Dore's large-scale paintings as well as political commentaries on events of his time, genre scenes, and dramatic landscapes. This beautifully illustrated book situates Dore in the context of French nineteenth-century art, focuses on his major works, and assesses his impact on North American collectors and museums. It accompanies the first retrospective of Dore's work in the United States.

Author Biography

Eric Zafran is curator of European painting and sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Robert Rosenblum is Henry Ittleson Jr. Professor of Modern European Art at New York University. Lisa Small is associate curator at the Dahesh Museum of Art.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Foreword	p. 8
Editor's Acknowledgments	p. 11
Chronology	p. 13
Resurrecting Gustave Dore	p. 17
L'Annee Terrible and Political Imagery	p. 32
Dore's Subjects	p. 64
Religion	p. 64
Caricatures and prints	p. 90
Literary subjects	p. 94
Portraits	p. 110
Genre	p. 113
Mythology	p. 118
Landscapes	p. 121
Drawings	p. 128
Sculpture	p. 135
"A Strange Genius:" Appreciating Gustave Dore in America	p. 143
Checklist of Dore's Work in North American Collections	p. 177
Notes	p. 191
Bibliographic Abbreviations	p. 205
Index	p. 207
Photographic credits	p. 212
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