Henri-Gabriel Ibels: Fanfare for the working man
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Title
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Henri-Gabriel Ibels: Fanfare for the working man
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:416cbec89893:11028
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identifier
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11436
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Creator
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Hadzic, Gorica,
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Contributor
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Francesca C. Sautman
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Date
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2011
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art history | European history | French Canadian culture | 19c French poster | Antoine | Gemier | Ibels | Lugne-Poe | Toulouse-Lautrec
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Abstract
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This dissertation concerns the work of the artist Henry-Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936), and examines why, having been a founding member of the Nabis, an avant-garde group of painters active in the nineteenth century in Paris, having made major inroads in developing the relationship between art and text in modern terms, and having attained significant acclaim in his day, Ibels became, in subsequent decades, a virtual unknown. This neglect was so patent that contemporaries with whom he worked, like Andre Antoine, completely erased his role from the record and even attributed his work to others. I examine his important contribution to the artistic culture of his time in relation to the twists and turns of his public fame, and argue that it was largely because of his consistently leftist politics, that marked many of his artistic choices, that he was thus isolated from his original affinity group, the Nabis, and almost cut out of their history. Ibels's contemporaries enjoyed his art and his talent almost on a daily basis, and critics compared his rare attention to life and movement to that of the great masters, Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, as well as to his contemporaries Daumier and Degas. This shows that Ibels's contemporaries were responsive to his aesthetics and recognized that his art was representative of the new visual perspective that proved to be as significant in its own time as any other intellectual manifestation. This dissertation examines numerous articles and mentions which prove that Ibels's contemporaries also recognized his ideological and artistic contributions to the art of painting, poster design, theater, and caricature, as well as the fact that succeeding in all of these genres is reserved to only a few of the greatest talents.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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French
