Maurice Denis Et La Belgique, 1890-1930 (KADOC Artes) - Hardcover

Catherine Verleysen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9058678083 ISBN 13: 9789058678089

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This richly illustrated book analyzes the artistic relationship of Maurice Denis (1870-1943), French painter and theoretician, with Belgium at the end of the nineteenth century and during the first decade of the twentieth century. In Belgium, Denis was able to harmonize the two central values of his art: a modern taste for formalism combined with Christian spirituality. In his works, Denis illustrated the historical evolution of the Belgian Catholic Church and the way Catholicism embraced the modern artistic creation: first the Church was tempted to adopt modernism as a vehicle of a new Christian art, but then it started to doubt the modernist values and finally rejected all contemporary forms of expression.

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Product Description:

This richly illustrated book analyzes the artistic relationship of Maurice Denis (1870-1943), French painter and theoretician, with Belgium at the end of the nineteenth century and during the first decennia of the twentieth century.

About the Author:

Cathérine Verleysen is Doctor in Art History, obtained at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV). She is research curator at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9058678083
• ISBN 13: 9789058678089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176