I Am The First Consciousness Of Chaos Av Odilon Redon

I AM THE FIRST CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHAOS collects the key noirs lithographs, etchings and charcoals of Odilon Redon, perhaps the most enigmatic and esoteric figure in the artistic lineage that leads directly from Symbolism to Surrealism. Never previously available in a single trade volume, the majority of Redon s noirs over 250 illustrations are finally collated here, along with illuminating excerpts from the decadent texts which inspired their creation. Authors featured include J-K Huysmans, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Baudelaire, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, St John the Divine, Edgar Allan Poe and others; the book also includes an autobiographical introductory essay by Redon himself. With proclamations such as everything in art occurs through voluntary submission to the advent of the unconscious and my originality consists in putting the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) established a theoretical legacy which now places him as one of the key