Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

惊世骇俗 维克多·雨果的绘画

✦产品信息——

出版社 ‏ : ‎ Royal Academy of Arts (2025年 6月 3日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 172页

ISBN-10 ‏： ‎ 1915815118

ISBN-13 ‏： ‎ 978-1915815118

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 1.06 Kilograms

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 27 x 2.5 x 23 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

✦内容简介——

雨果的画作忧郁、令人难忘且近乎抽象，是他想象力的证明，也是浪漫主义者、象征主义者和超现实主义者的试金石

小说家、诗人和政治家维克多·雨果是 19 世纪法国社会的杰出人物，在政治和流行文化领域都占有重要地位。他的演讲、诗歌、散文和其他作品成为法兰西共和国平等和自由理想的集结点。在 1851 年至 1870 年的流亡期间，他创作了一些最著名的作品，同时追求他对绘画的热爱。雨果一生创作了 4,000 多幅画作，其中 3,000 幅至今仍存。他的水墨画描绘了想象中的城堡、怪物、受折磨的人物和海景，这些画作可能不如他的作品那么出名，但它们启发了浪漫主义和象征主义诗人以及几代艺术家，直到 20 世纪 20 年代的超现实主义者；文森特·梵高曾将它们比作“令人惊叹的东西”。

这本插图丰富的书由皇家艺术学院与维克多·雨果故居和法国国家图书馆联合出版，书中收录了雨果许多最优秀纸质作品的复制品，从早期的漫画和旅行素描到戏剧性的风景画和抽象实验。

Moody, haunting and almost abstract, Hugo's drawings are a testament to his imagination and a touchstone for Romantics, Symbolists and Surrealists alike

Novelist, poet and politician Victor Hugo was a towering figure of 19th-century French society, both in the realm of politics and popular culture. His speeches, poems, prose and other writings became rallying points for the French Republic’s ideals of equality and freedom. While living in exile from 1851 to 1870, he wrote some of his most famous works and simultaneously pursued his passion for drawing. Hugo created over 4,000 drawings during his lifetime, 3,000 of which survive today. His ink-and-wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters, tortured figures and seascapes may be less well known than his writings, but they inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets and several generations of artists up to the Surrealists of the 1920s; Vincent van Gogh once compared them to "astonishing things."

This richly illustrated book―published by the Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with Maison de Victor Hugo and the Bibliothèque nationale de France―includes reproductions of many of Hugo's finest works on paper, from early caricatures and travel drawings to dramatic landscapes and experiments in abstraction.

✦作者简介——

维克多·雨果(1802-85)出生于法国贝桑松，在长达 60 年的文学生涯中创作了小说、戏剧、诗歌、散文等。1848 年，他当选为第二共和国国民议会议员，开始了动荡的政治生涯，期间他主张废除奴隶制、死刑和绝对君主制。他最著名的小说是《巴黎圣母院的驼背》和《悲惨世界》。

Born in Besançon, France, Victor Hugo (1802–85) wrote novels, plays, poetry, essays and more in a literary career spanning 60 years. In 1848 he was elected to the National Assembly of the Second Republic, launching a tumultuous political career in which he advocated for an end to slavery, capital punishment and absolute monarchy. He is best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables.