Gustave Doré Livres

Parmi la kyrielle des artistes qui ont illustré les Fables de La Fontaine, de Jean-Baptiste Oudry et Fragonard jusqu'à Marc Chagall, en passant par Grandville et Gustave Doré, la version de Benjamin Rabier acquiert dès sa publication en 1906 une pérennité sans faille. Car cet artiste animalier sait en l'occurrence utiliser en le réinterprétant un style grandement et génialement inspiré des estampes japonaises. Il adopte un cadrage extrêmement diversifié, variant les motifs, les coloris, les plans et le format des vignettes, tout en permettant une lisibilité et une parfaite symbiose entre textes et images. L'anthropomorphisme qu'il applique tant au monde animal que végétal insuffle un supplément d'humour à l'oeuvre du poète. Sa liberté de dessin, sa fantaisie alliée à une maîtrise formelle préfigurent la bande dessinée dans l'esprit de la " ligne claire " chère à Hergé, mais également les tout premiers dessins animés qu'il réalisera peu après avec Émile Cohl. Le florilège présenté dans cette édition illustre parfaitement le mot du grand fabuliste : Si la vérité vous offense, La fable au moins se peut souffrir.

Anthologie de l'œuvre du dessinateur, peintre, sculpteur Gustave Doré (1832-1883) pour le centenaire de son décès

En 1867, les éditions Hachette publiaient les Fables de La Fontaine illustrées par Gustave Doré en deux volumes. Plus de huit cents pages parmi lesquelles ont été choisies, pour le présent ouvrage, les plus belles gravures de l'artiste. Ces quarante-trois oeuvres, mises en couleurs, sont l'occasion de redécouvrir avec émerveillement le travail unique de Gustave Doré et les textes de La Fontaine, monument de la littérature française.

"Vous n'avez peut-être entendu parler que confusément de mes étranges aventures, et des dangers que j'ai courus sur mer dans les sept voyages que j'ai faits; et puisque l'occasion s'en présente, je vais vous en faire un rapport fidèle..." Ainsi parle Sindbad le marin, ainsi commence l'un des contes les plus célèbres des Mille et Une Nuits...

This authoritative retrospective of Doré’s prints and paintings showcases over 10,000 works in a spectacularly ornate package that reflects the artist’s dramatic style. If you were a literature consumer in the nineteenth century, your library likely featured his illustrations. From the Bible to Shakespeare, Balzac to Poe, Doré’s intricate and exuberant drawings brought great works to life, making them as cherished as the stories they illustrated. This magnificent volume also reveals his talents as a sculptor, painter, and cartoonist. It spans Doré’s entire career, with chapters dedicated to specific works such as The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and medieval fairy tales, each accompanied by exquisite full-page reproductions that highlight his genius in line, shading, and texture. The authors provide insights into the techniques Doré used to create his masterpieces. Fans will appreciate the book's stunning production, featuring quarter binding, gold foil stamping, embossing, a belly band, and silkscreen printing on three edges. Filled with incisive analysis and expert historical perspectives, this volume is a consummate collector’s item—expansive and sensational, just like the artist himself.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Poem relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

'London: A Pilgrimage' was conceived in 1868 by the journalist and playwright Blanchard Jerrold. Accompanied by the famous artist Gustave Dore, Jerrold prowled every corner of the heaving metropolis, sometimes with plain-clothes police for protection. 'London: A Pilgrimage' is a forgotten classic of social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty striken, gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a perceptive, bold and gripping style.180 incredible etchings by Dore escort Jerrold on his odyssey through the pulsating city, into the Lambeth gas works, seedy opium dens and grubby bathing houses; peering curiously into the desperate lives of the flower sellers, lavender girls and organ grinders. 'London: A Pilgrimage' is an enlightening work that brings to life the chaotic and gloomy past of a great city on the cusp of modern times.Peter Ackroyd's excellent introduction sheds further light on the period and the context in which Jerrold and Dore felt compelled to reveal to the world the squalor into which London was slowly sinking.

Reproductions of Dore's scenes from the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso are accompanied by lines from Longfellow's translation

This 1895 book presents the text of the seventh and eighth books of Milton's Paradise Lost, which contain an account of the creation of the earth after the fall of Lucifer. The poem is accompanied by a biography of Milton, a history of the poem and a discussion of the cosmology of Paradise Lost.