{"product_id":"16003-victor-hugo","title":"Victor Hugo","description":"\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eIn his dark, visionary drawings and watercolors, Victor Hugo \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e(1802–1885)\u003cSPAN style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003e sought responses to the political developments and social unrest of his epoch. He dripped or blew ink onto his paper, used decalcomania or color washes\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e, and integrated his inky fingerprints into his compositions. The prints thus created are astonishingly modern, and the Surrealists hailed them as predecessors of their own aesthetic.\u003cBR\u003eOn his travels—along the \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eRhine\u003c\/st1:place\u003e, for instance—Hugo also produced many traditional vedutas. During his years in exile on Jersey and \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eGuernsey\u003c\/st1:place\u003e, he created a large number of Romantic seascapes. Later, when he was briefly a member of the National Assembly, he drew caricatures in which his sharp quill captured the weaknesses of his subjects.\u003cBR\u003eThis volume presents selected prints, linking them to Hugo’s body of written work and referring to Goethe to shed light on Hugo’s reception. It also contains a groundbreaking essay on Arnulf Rainer’s overpainting of Hugo’s drawings.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eExhibition schedule: Schiller Museum, Weimar, May 16–July 27, 2008\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874818945288,"sku":"9783775722179","price":39.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775722179_f6d4b474-e77c-4fe8-903a-c8d9e9f2ab23.jpg?v=1744144318","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16003-victor-hugo","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}