Who speaks of art speaks of poetry.There is no art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colours, of lights,of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting.

The long and illustrious career of Edouard Vuillard spans thefin-de-si&le and the first four decades of the twentieth century, during which time the French painter, printmaker, and photog-rapher created an extraordinary body of work.This is the first volume to explore Vuillard's rich and varied career in its totality, presenting nearly 350 works that demonstrate the full range of his subject matter and reveal both the public and pri-vate sides of this quintessentially Parisian artist.In a series of gloriously illustrated essays and catalogue entries, the authors explore Vuillard's complex and diverse artistic development, begin-ning with his academic training in Paris in the late 188os and the innovative Nabi paintings of the 1890s for which he is best known, including his provocative, disquieting middle-class interiors and his work associated with the avant-garde theatre. The authors also examine Vuillard's splen-did but lesser known large-scale decorations, his luminous landscapes, and the elegant portraits from the last decades of his career. In addition to paintings, the volume includes a substantial selec-tion of drawings and graphics, together with a large group of striking photographs by the artist,many of which are published here for the first time This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the work of Edouard Vuillard (1868-I94o).The exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and travels to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts. London.

Backward Glances

Guy Cogeval

Permanent Transgression

Nos

Vuillard Onstage

Nos

Behind Closed Doors

Nos

The Decorative Impulse

Nos

The Turning Point

Nos

Vuillard and His Photographs

Nos

The Triumph of Light

Nos

Tradition, Genre, Modernity

Nos

"I Don't Paint Portraits"

Nos

Vuillard and Ambiguity

Dario Gamboni

The Intentional Snapshot

Elizabeth Easton

Vuillard and the "Vill6giature"

Kimberly Jones

Vuillard between Two Centuries

Laurence des Carx