Closely allied with the Symbolist movement, Redon offered his own interpretations of literary, biblical, and mythological subjects; created a universe of strange hybrid creatures; and presented landscape in a singular way: we see grinning disembodied teeth, smiling spiders, melancholic floating faces, winged chariots, unfamiliar plant life, and velvety black or colored swirls of atmosphere. With a recent gift from the Ian Woodner family, The Museum of Modern Art is now the site of the most significant body of the artist's work outside France, and this book will showcase the full range of Redon's varied oeuvre--charcoal "noirs," luminous pastels, richly textured canvases, literary collaborations, and experiments in printmaking--and will illuminate the hold his particular kind of modernism has had on both 20th-century and contemporary artists.

Director's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Beyond the Visible

The Secret Life of Monsters

Redon and the Lithographed Portfolio

Plates

Chronology

Odilon Redon in the Collection

of The Museum of Modern Art

Exhibition History

Reference List

Index of the Plates

Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art