Aiming for the Stars
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Edmond Picard
Edouard Schure
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Franco-Prussian War
Joris-Karl Huysmans
literary circles
lithographs
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Rodolphe Bresdin
Societe des Artistes Independants
Symbolism
Wagner
Product details
- ISBN 9781836392705
- Dimensions: 190 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Aiming for the Stars is the first comprehensive English-language biography of Odilon Redon in decades, offering a fresh and vivid reappraisal of an artist whose work fascinated and perplexed his contemporaries. Ted Gott traces Redon’s lonely youth in the south of France, his experience of the Franco-Prussian War and his gradual emergence within avant-garde literary and artistic circles in Paris. Redon’s involvement with occult, Symbolist and Wagnerian circles, alongside his late renaissance as a master of decoration and colour, are brought into focus with clarity and nuance. Particular attention is given to the artist’s remarkable technical command of charcoal drawing and lithography, illuminated through the lens of abundant press commentary and correspondence. Ted Gott’s book restores Redon as a singular, restless presence in modern art.
Ted Gott is Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. He is the author of the groundbreaking study The Enchanted Stone: The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon (1990).
