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Christian Alandete, Jo Widoff
Hirmer, 2021
Alberto Giacometti forged a singular path within European Modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as the double of reality. His quest brought him into close, face-to-face contact with some of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century—including Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and Samuel Beckett. Tracing how these literary friendships molded the artist’s creative development, this book discovers new continuities among the various strains of modernist thought and develops a fresh approach to Giacometti and his work. This accessible overview of Giacometti’s career is illustrated by more than 150 reproductions of his sculptures and paintings as well as excerpts from the literature that shaped his ideas, tracking the evolution of his work from post-cubism through surrealism and into post-war realism.
EN - 252 Pages - 21.6 cm x 2.8 cm x 27.9 cm - 1.3Kg
ISBN: 9783777436487
Michael Maek-Gérard
Paul Holberton Publishing London, 2006
Elsheimer had an influence to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small oeuvre. Born in Frankfurt, he soon migrated to Rome, where the new Baroque style was being forged, both by Caravaggio and other Italians and by visiting northerners. Influenced himself by Altdorfer, Tintoretto, and Bassano, Elsheimer in turn became a revered model for both Rubens and Rembrandt, all the French and Flemish painters who visited Rome, and native Italians such as Agostino Tasso and Saraceni. He always worked on a small scale, painting meticulously in oil on a copper ground, but importing into his complex compositions sophisticated devices and effects comparable to the greatest commissions of the time. Accompanying a major exhibition in Frankfurt, Edinburgh, and London, this book incorporates new research and features superb color plates and details of the artist's paintings.
EN - 240 Pages - 24.6 cm x 2 cm x 32.1 cm - 1.8Kg
ISBN: 9781903470473
David Anfam, Jeremy Lewison, Susan Davidson, Carter Ratcliff
Royal Academy of Arts, 2019
This book on abstract expressionism is illustrated with superb color plates of major works by the protagonists of the movement (Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko...) as well as lesser-known figures, and essays by key scholars. Working primarily in New York and San Francisco from the 1940s on, a generation of American artists injected a new sense of confidence in painting, experimenting with improvisation, spontaneity and color. This publication reevaluates the movement, making the case that, far from being unified, abstract expressionism was in fact complex and ever-changing. Among the abundant archival materials are images of Hans Hofmann’s famous classes; artists such as Krasner, Frankenthaler, Pollock and de Kooning in their studios; installation shots of some of the key international exhibitions of the era, both internationally and at the galleries of Betty Parsons and others.
English - 320 Pages - 30 cm x 4 cm x 28 cm - 1.7KgISBN: 9781912520398
Balthus
Raphaël Bouvier
Hatje Cantz, 2018
Catalogue d'exposition à la Fondation Beyeler (2018)
En 2018, la Fondation Beyeler a consacré une rétrospective majeure au célèbre peintre français d'origine polonaise. Son chef-d'oeuvre monumental, Passage du Commerce-Saint-André, en prêt de longue durée à la Fondation Beyeler, est le point de départ de cette exposition. Cette peinture énigmatique réunit les préoccupations intenses de Balthus pour les dimensions spatiales et temporelles de l'image et leur relation à la figure et à l'objet. Suivant le fil rouge de ces considérations, ce catalogue réunit une cinquantaine de peintures majeures issues de toutes ses périodes. Dans cette perspective sont mises en lumière les stratégies parfois provocatrices de la mise en scène picturale de Balthus mais aussi l'ironie de son art.
French-169 pages - 30,5 x 24,5 x 2,2 cm - 1,1 kg
ISBN : 9783775744454