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Théodore Géricault

1997 / ISBN 0-88865-600-9
251 pages, colour, paperback

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Exhibition catalogue from Théodore Géricault: The Alien Body / Tradition in Chaos at the Belkin (15 August–19 October 1997) edited by Serge Guilbaut, Maureen Ryan and Scott Watson with texts by Serge Guilbaut, Maureen Ryan, Bruno Chenique, Abigail Soloman-Godeau, Philippe Bordes, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer and James Cuno. The exhibition presents over 80 works by the French Romantic master, Théodore Géricault (1791-1824). These are rarely-seen treasures borrowed for an exclusive engagement from the Musee du Louvre, the Ecole nationale superior des Beaux Arts (Paris) and other prestigious French and Canadian museums. This is a unique, once in a lifetime opportunity to experience these drawings and watercolors which are rarely on public display due to their fragility. In his short, tempestuous life, Géricault became one of the great artists of history. The painter of the Raft of the Medusa (1819) was among the first artists to reject the academic practice of copying antique models of mythological subjects. Fascinated with the war veterans and their tales of military glory and defeat, Géricault, brings to life post-Napoleonic Paris and the great metropolis of London where he spent two years.

  • Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

    Writer
  • Philippe Bordes

    Writer
  • Bruno Chenique

    Writer
  • James Cuno

    Writer
  • Théodore Géricault

    Artist
  • Serge Guilbaut

    Editor, Writer
  • Maureen Ryan

    Editor, Writer
  • Abigail Soloman-Godeau

    Writer
  • Scott Watson

    Editor

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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    15 August 1997 – 19 October 1997

    Théodore Géricault: The Alien Body / Tradition in Chaos

    The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia presents an exhibition of over 80 works by the French Romantic master, Théodore Géricault (1791-1824). These are rarely seen treasures borrowed for an exclusive engagement at the Belkin Gallery from the Musee du Louvre, the Ecole nationale superior des Beaux Arts (Paris) and other prestigious French and Canadian museums. This is a unique, once in a lifetime opportunity to experience these drawings and watercolours which are rarely on public display due to their fragility.

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