“An unspeakable ceiling of shadows; a depth of obscurity that no diver can fathom; a light mingled with the obscurity, a strange somber vanquished light; brightness reduced to powder.” Victor Hugo’s ...

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is presenting an exhibition on mid-nineteenth-century French artists who looked beyond realistic subject matter. With its Third Resonance, GAM ...

Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...

Victor Hugo, one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century, is well known for his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Less known is the fact that his vast talents overflowed from the ...

Victor Hugo's name has deservedly been attached to the cry for social justice. Indeed, with such socially charged books such as Les Misérables (1863) and The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), the ...

Installation view ‘Eros Hugo’ Auguste Rodin’s “Iris étude” (1893, left) and “Victor Hugo, assis, nu, étude pour le Monument avant” (1909, right) (photo by Benoit Fougeirol, Terra Luna Films) (click to ...

FeatureDuring his long exile in Guernsey, France's most famous writer obsessively arranged every corner of his home. Ornate yet strikingly modern, his decorative vision is now the focus of an ...

The last several months have witnessed something rare in art — the birth and consolidation of a new art myth. A longstanding belief has been toppled, replaced by a brand-new conviction. The fable: ...

Victor Hugo was born two hundred years ago this year and his countrymen have been trying ever since to contain him. They resorted first to the tried-and-true: ostracism and outrage at his brazen ...

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