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Redon's thinking about dreams, intuition, and invention corresponded to contemporary Symbolist thought. As a way to access mind and spirit, the dream offered a perfect subject for Symbolist artists and writers.

In reaching for the vague, the nebulous, the obscure in both form and subject matter, Redon made an art of the imagination that is inseparable from his use of charcoal...

One of the most striking aspects of Redon's marriage of the real and the fantastic is the way he gives his monsters an emotional life.

One of the most striking aspects of Redon's marriage of the real and the fantastic is the way he gives his monsters an emotional life.

With his inclusion in Huysmans's notorious book, Redon himself became notorious, finally, at the age of forty-four, achieving the fame he had always hoped for.

The interest in the fantastic, the cultivation of the dream, the exploration of the supernatural, mystical, and occult, and the fascination with the workings of the mind - all rooted in Romanticism - become crucial features of both Decadence and Symbolism, the two movements with which Redon was most closely associated.

In probing the power and impact of Goya's caricature, Baudelaire makes discoveries that will be a guide in our investigation of Redon.

In his essay "Unpacking my library", the critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin describes the process and meaning of collecting: the links to memory, the paradoxical chaos and order, the childlike sense of renewal.