Nouvelles et contes fantastiques. Religion and simplicity with panache

and simplicity with panache

principalement sur deux monuments interprétés jusqu'alors comme ceux d'un grand lieu de culte

the degradation of the body became inevitable and immortality was threatened

the mythographers

Nouvelles et contes fantastiques. Religion and simplicity with panacheThese ten short, unpublished texts by the painter Odilon Redon (1840 1916) reveal a little known aspect of his creative work. They are fantastical in that they bring together the everyday environment and the enigmatic universe, the tangible and the irrational. In her introduction, Alexandra Strauss situates them in their context and comments on the image text relationship for each. A graphic work by Redon appears as the frontispiece of each of these