Bray, Patrick;
(2025)
“Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy of Arts”.
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https://thinkpieces-review.co.uk/2025/04/16/astoni...
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Abstract
The towering figure of intellectual and political life in much of nineteenth century France: Victor Hugo. Every moderately-sized French town owns a rue/avenue Victor Hugo. Who does not know his name? Surprisingly, however, his talent in drawing with ink on paper, rather than writing, is still not as widely known as his books and plays. Even though Victor Hugo produced some 4,000 drawings in his lifetime. Truly Romantic in sujet and atmosphere; dark, eerie, creepy at times. Political, imaginary, even abstract; decades before abstract art was conceived of. A comparatively small selection of 70 of Hugo’s drawings is on view at the Royal Academy.
| Type: | Digital scholarly resource |
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| Title: | “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy of Arts” |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://thinkpieces-review.co.uk/2025/04/16/astoni... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Hugo, Drawing |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208417 |
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