Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

by Florian Rodari, Lucy Sante

In a series of 5 essays, leading experts on the drawings of Victor Hugo describe and analyse his works i n this catalogue, that is published to coincide with the fir st ever exhibition of his art at the Drawing Centre, New Yor k. '

160 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1998

Reviews

[Lanny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot praise this book enough. This is a book of Victor Hugo's drawings. It is written well and has a large format making the drawings easy to get into. Mostly washy sepias, these things are very lovely and quite advanced in terms of innovative techniques. Sometimes he would do a sort of initial aleatory splash of ink, find a realistic contour, and voila and weird seascape would emerge. there are little sea trolls, and grand houses made from his initials. He sort of had a weird thing for his own initials. This is great book for Hugo-philes.