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. rf ' •V# *•T5 ^ 1 '. r'i' -k.. , ' v C * '• V , %r "V- *. f-r., f '- :’ ^ 1' .i Semblance Reality in Stephen Schloesser MYSTIC MASQUE: SEMBLANCE AND REALITY GEORGES ROUAULT. IN 1871-1958 Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Georges Rouault’s death in 1958, this volume accompanies an exhibition mounted at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College from August 30 to December 2008. Focusing on meanings 7, preserved in the French word masque, the book explores the many “masks” that Rouault painted, those of circus players, dancers, prostitutes, and judicial figures, as well as the iconic Sainte Face (holy face) of Christ. More than thirty essays based on new research by scholars from a variety of disciplines recover Rouault’s keen sense of disjunction, unintended conse- quences, and ironic reversals. Several scholars focus on works from the artist’s early period (1903-1920) to demonstrate Rouault’s preoccupation with social inequalities. Other essays on the Reincarnations du Pere Uhu (1932) decode his pictorial commentary on the French colonial enterprise abroad. Study of “unfinished works,” donated by the Rouault family in 1963 to the French state, reveals details of the artist’s working process throughout four decades. Indebted to and building on recent groundbreaking scholarship in France, this volume aims to introduce Rouault to a new generation. By uncovering dissonant aspects of his work, frequently obscured by forced conventional con- sonances, Mystic Masque unveils the artist in a paradoxical light: on the one hand, simpler, freer and more visceral; on the other, more luminous, sensuous, and intellectually complex than the Rouault known before. (U o> < Semblance and Reality in | GEORGES ROUAULT i Edited by Stephen Schloesser McMullen Museum ofArt, Boston College distributedbyUniversityofChicago Press ThispublicationisissuedinconjunctionwiththeexhibitionMysticMasque:SemblanceandRealityinGeorges Rouault,1871-1958,organizedbytheMcMullenMuseumofArt,BostonCollege. McMullenMuseumofArt,BostonCollege August30-December7,2008 MysticMasquewasmadepossiblewiththesupportoftheFondationGeorgesRouault.CuratedbySte- phenSchloesser,theexhibitionhasbeenorganizedbytheMcMullenMuseumandunderwrittenbyBoston CollegewithmajorsupportfromthePatronsoftheMcMullenMuseum.Additionalsupporthasbeen providedbytheFlorenceGouldFoundationandtheLoSchiavoChair,UniversityofSanFrancisco.This exhibitionisalsosupportedbyanindemnityfromtheFederalCouncilontheArtsandHumanities. Copyright©2008bytheMcMullenMuseumofArt,BostonCollege,ChestnutHill,MA02467. LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2008923814 ISBN:9781892850140 DistributedbytheUniversityofChicagoPress ExhibitionCoordination:NaomiBlumberg,DianaLarsen Copyediting:NaomiBlumberg Design:JohnMcCoy Cover:GeorgesRouault,Pierrot(withaRose),ca.1936.Oiloncanvas,361/2x245/16inches.Philadelphia MuseumofArt,theSamuelS.WhiteHIandVeraWhiteCollection,1967. Back:GeorgesRouault,Veronique,ca.1945.Oiloncanvas,mountedonpanel,193/5x14inches.Musee NationaldArtModerne,CentreGeorgesPompidou,Paris(AM4250P). AllreproductionsofworksbyGeorgesRouault:©ArtistsRightsSociety,NewYork/ADAGPParis Photography:nos.3-4:©2007MuseumAssociates/LACMA;nos.5,12-15:©Museed’ArtModerne/Roger-Viollet;nos. 7,51,52,54:©TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt;nos.8,11,16:©TheMuseumofModernArt/LicensedhySCALA/ ArtResource,NY;no.50:©LaSalleUniversityArtMuseum,Philadelphia;nos.41,67,71-88:PhillipeMigeat,CNAC/ MNAM/Dist.ReuniondesMuseesNationaux/ArtResource,NY;nos.2,17,20-22,25,26,32-34,38,39,42-44,46, 56-58,63,66,69,70:Jean-LouisLosi,Paris;nos.27,28b-f,28h-t,35,36,45,47:StephenVedder;no.49:Graydon Wood;nos.65,28g:TomBlake. CONTENTS Preface NancyNetzer 7 Introduction:VoltaireandVeronica, Symbolist-RealistJudgment StephenSchloesser 11 PART 1871-1901 1: 1871-1901:Realism,Symbolism,MysticModernism StephenSchloesser 23 TheRefugeof Art:GustaveMoreauandtheLegacy ofSymbolism JefferyHowe 45 ErasingTimeandPlace:Rouaultand'Medieval"Art VirginiaReinburg 63 PART 1902-1920 11: 1902-1920:TheHardMetierof Unmasking StephenSchloesser 79 GeorgesRouault: ActionPainter Jean-MarieTeze,S.J. 105 RouaultandtheDynamicsofSelf-Deception MargaretR.Miles 109 Tearsat theHeartofSpectacular Paris:Rouault's Prostitutes MaryLouiseRoberts 117 1908/2008:Rouault'sWhore, Freud'sGender-bent Judge,andUnmasking asInfiniteRegression PaulBreines 125 PART 1921-1929 111: 1921-1929: JazzAgeGraphicShock StephenSchloesser 133 NotesontheMiserereplatesexhibitedinMysticMasque StephenSchloesser 157 "Spleen andIdeal inStrife": Rouault'sBaudelaire,1918-1927 SooYunKang 181 TheAesthetics ofShock: Baudelaire,Benjamin, Rouault SusanA.Michalczyk 193 Rouault's DyingSlave:BeingHuman asan Unfinished Work NaomiBlumberg 205 RouaultandExpressionism Claude Cernuschi 215 PereUbu:ArchetypeofSocialDysfunction JohnJ.Michalczyk 229 TheMysteryofRouault'sRdncarnations:ASixteen-'YearObsession MarieGarraut 247 TheColonialScourge: PereUbufromtheBrazza Mission totheParisExposition Coloniale JodyBlake 257 TechniqueandSpaceintheMiserere JohnMcCoy 277 PARTIV:1929-1939 1929-1939:MysticMasque,HieraticHarmony StephenSchloesser 285 HieraticGrandeur:Weightless World,HiddenOrder, Magnifying theModest,1930-1943 GaelMooneyandStephenSchloesser 309 inDeed and inNeed: theFriendshipin Art of GeorgesRouaultandAndreSuares ThomasEpstein 321 AndreSuares,Passion (excerpts) TranslatedbyThomasEpstein 335 PARTV:1940-1958 1939-1958:PerpetualPeregrinus:Toutevue des chosesquinestpasefrangeesf fausse StephenSchloesser 341 FrenchResistance: Rouault's Partisan History oftheModern TaraWard 357 TheMaskofVillon:Neo-MedievalistRealism in Rouault'sDivertissement AnneA.Davenport 365 "Pilgrimofart”:ArtisticAutonomyandChristian Commitment inRouault’sLate Work StephanDahme 379 Lacrymae rerum:CreativeIntuitionoftheTransapparentReality BernardDoering 389 CreatingRouault'sLegacy,1945-1965:Commanderinthe Legiond'honneur,Artist ofCatholicModernity SheilaNowinski 399 Rouault's FacesofChrist: Notesfor aPictorialContemplation NoraPossentiGhiglia 411 RouaultinNew'Vbrk:ArtandReputation in theMid-Century UnitedStates DavidQuigley 423 PART UNFINISHEDWORKS VI: 1963:Lesinacheves:TheDonationofMmeRouaultandherChildren StephenSchloesser 431 EtVeroniqueautendrelinpasseencoresurlechemin... JaniesF.Keenan,S.J. 437 Rouault's Christ:ACallto AestheticConversion RobertoS.Goizueta 449 PLATES 459