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Distributed for Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess

Edited by Christoph Becker

Félix Vallotton

The Swiss Master of Symbolism

With Essays by Linda Schädler and Christoph Becker
208 pages, 120 color plates, 20 halftones  8-1/2 x 11-1/2  © 2007

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9783858817075   Published January 2007
Not for sale in the United Kingdom or Europe

Foreword

 

The Distant Observer. Biography

 

Discrete Glimpses

Rendezvous, Denudations, Adultery: The Interior Paintings

 

Sub-Zero Distance

Portraits of Unerring Precision

 

Painterly Sensation

Working out the Materiality

 

Unsparing Perspective

Alienating Aspects in Depictions of Nudes

 

Melancholic Expanse

Between Topography and Imagination

 

“grandes machines”

Irony and Skepticism on a Large Scale

 

Appendix

Notes

Catalogue of Exhibited Works

Selected bibliography

Credits

Subjects


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