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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1079-9265
- eISSN
- 1568-5292
- DOI
- 10.1163/156852903322694681
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book Reviews Berman, Patricia G. James Ensor : Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889. Getty Museum Studies on Art Series. Los Angeles CA: Getty Pub- lications for the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002. Pp. 114 + 87 illustrations. $17.95 paper. J ames Ensor (1860–1949) painted Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 , a masterpiece of urban spectacle, when he was 28 years old. He lived in the Belgian seaside town of Ostend, surrounded by his old-fashioned family and the homey wonders of their curio shop. Though formally trained, he liked to boast he was an autodidact who used house paints. He was a sharp-tongued political satirist who delighted in skewering King Léopold II, yet he turned remarkably complaisant when the king o V ered him a baronetcy in 1929. When a 1942 radio broadcast mistak- enly announced his death, Ensor marked the absurdity of the situation by making a solemn pilgrimage to his own monument to pay his respects. However, it is the Ensor of the 1880s who is the subject of Patricia Berman’s monograph. This pivotal decade saw Ensor, an acknowledged master of Belgian modernism and co-founder of Les XX, move from the forefront of the avant-garde
Journal
Religion and the Arts – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2003