First published in France in 2017 by aEditions Citadelles & Mazenod.
The first-ever history of the representation of dreams in Western painting, illustrated with works by more than 130 artists
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"?Bergez's survey is almost like a museum exhibition between the covers of a book. It is full of rich analysis of individual works animated by sleep, reverie, nightmares, and the unconscious. ? The book features many of art history's usual stars (Dürer, Picasso) but also introduces less well-known figures, like Tamara de Lempicka, whose angular and sharply cropped painting of a sleeping woman offers an entrée into synthetic Cubism. In other words, Bergez delivers not only a survey of the dream in painting, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, but also an alternate history of European art." —
Booklist
"[A] beautifully illustrated volume. ... This is a revealing, contemplative historical survey of imagination depicted in Western art." —
Publishers Weekly
"The commentary, like the images that accompany it, is informative and fascinating. The selection of illustrations is masterful." —
Le Figaro
"The author's exploration of these dreamlike territories, more iconographic than theoretical, is full of literary knowledge that clarifies and enriches the subject." —
Connaissance des Arts
