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Antiquity as inspiration can be revealed in the works of Paul Delvaux as from the beginning of the 1930s and gets more important during World War II, for example with the theme of the tragic city. His interest in antiquity is characterized by antique sculpture and leads the artist to the elaboration of a theatralic human figure. These theatralic and dramatic representations put on mythical figures like Pygmalion, Venus or Penelope as well as sirens, ephebes and hamadryads. Delvaux also evokes a certain secret sacrality of so-called places of memory as temples and antique places like the Acropolis, Olympia or Pompeii. Places which Delvaux visited on the occasion of his two journeys to Italy in 1937 and 1939 as well as on his travel through Greece in 1956. Finally, we should not forget a most important aspect of Delvaux's reception of antiquity: that of melancholic withdrawal.Product Identifiers
PublisherBai NV
ISBN-139789085865414
eBay Product ID (ePID)88535650
Product Key Features
Book TitleDelvaux and Antiquity
AuthorKyriakos Koutsomallis, Alexandre Farnoux, Sophie Basch, Jean Clair, Michel Draguet, Philippe Jockey
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
GenreArt & Culture
Dimensions
Item Height240mm
Item Width300mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJean Clair, Michel Draguet, Philippe Jockey, Sophie Basch, Alexandre Farnoux, Kyriakos Koutsomallis
Country/Region of ManufactureBelgium