Talk - Worth a thousand words? Symbolist book illustration in France

Avant-garde artists in late 19th-century France upended many time-honoured conventions of book illustration - not least, the relationship between text and image.

Royal Holloway, University of London, hosts Dr Rachel Sloan (The Courtauld Gallery), who will explore these changes through three case studies: Paul Gauguin's memoir Noa Noa, Maurice Denis and André Gide's Le Voyage d'Urien, and Odilon Redon's albums inspired by Gustave Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint-Antoine.

Image detail from Paul Gauguin, Maruru © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London