Félicien Rops
Laboratorium der Lüste
£40.00
208 pages, 93, 27 x 23 cm,
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4748-3
A master of Belgian Symbolism rediscovered! Félicien Rops erotic works remain provocative today and in the nineteenth century, they transgressed every boundary of art. With a keen eye and a sharp pen, Rops exposed the hypocrisies of the respectable middle class. I am Rops, and I wish to be no other! he declared, and adhered to this maxim throughout his life.
The most poisonous berry of Symbolism, a scourge of the bourgeoisie many terms have been used to describe Ropss radical art. Celebrated by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Joris-Karl Huysmans, he was a transgressive figure who deliberately aimed his works against the double standards of bourgeois society. His pictures representing an absolute highpoint of printmaking and draughtsmanship from the period invite a critical examination of fin-de-siècle social attitudes, particularly with regard to gender roles.