Synopses & Reviews
Early in his career, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) spent six formative years (1948and#150;54) in France, where he discovered the late work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840and#150;1926). Visits to the remote island of Belle-and#206;le off the coast of Brittany in 1949 and a visit to Monetand#8217;s house and studio in Giverny in 1952 inspired a series of drawings, as well as Kellyand#8217;s first monochrome work, Tableau Vert. Kelly returned to France on subsequent journeys in 1965, 2000, and 2005, visiting Belle-and#206;le again and Provence, continuing to draw motifs depicted by Monet, as well as by Cand#233;zanne and Matisse. This publication includes two paintings and eighteen unpublished drawings by Kelly, bringing them together with nine paintings by Monet from his Belle-and#206;le series and from his garden in Giverny. All the works have been selected by Ellsworth Kelly himself. Essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Sarah Lees explore the significance of Kellyand#8217;s work from this key moment in his career and the significance of the later paintings of Monet.and#160;
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Widely praised for its fine collection of Latin American geometric abstract art, the Colecci n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros of Caracas, Venezuela, contains the compelling work of such leading artists as Uruguayan Joaqu n Torres-Garcia, Brazilians Lygia Clark and H lio Oiticica, Venezuelans Gego and J sus Rafael Soto, and Argentinians Tom s Maldonado, Ra l Lozza, and Alfredo Hlito.
This lavishly illustrated book presents a selection of more than eighty paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the Cisneros collection, representing some two dozen Latin American artists. The works were completed between 1934 and 1988, but the vast majority date from the "heroic" years of geometric abstraction, 1948-1966.
This special bilingual volume explores in both English and Spanish the history and importance of the major movements that were dedicated to geometric abstraction. These movements include Concretism and Neo-Concretism in Brazil, Constructivism in Uruguay, the Madi Group and Concrete artists in Argentina, and Kinetic Abstraction and Neo-Constructivism in Venezuela. The book also offers biographies of the artists and an intriguing selection of their statements and manifestos.
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Visionary, inspired, and original, contemporary Latin American artists draw from influences near and far. This colorful survey, which features 178 carefully selected works, celebrates some of the most exciting modern Latin American artworks to date, and also shows North American and European works that offered inspiration to these artists. Included are works by such masters as Alexander Calder and Joaquin Torres-Garcia, and by younger artists such as Carmelo Arden Quin, Juan Bay, and Alberto Biasi. The book covers New Realist and geometric abstract art of the 1940s and 1950s; optical and kinetic art from the 1950s and 1970s; and contemporary works from the 1970s to the present day, including abstract art, architecture projects, and art that incorporates new technologies.
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This book pairs drawings and paintings of the French landscapeand#160;by Ellsworth Kelly with paintings of the same subject by Claude Monet, examining the influence of Monet on the renowned abstract artist.
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Since the 1990s, Mexican neo-conceptualist artist Teresa Margolles has been creating powerful, award-winning work that grapples with and comments on social violence and death. This book, the first to focus solely on Margolles throughout the length of her career, explores her artistic output from such theoretic perspectives as the philosophy of death; the spectatorship of death and the corpse; the artist representation of death and dead bodies, and the ethics of such art; and the response of art to traumatic events in Mexico during and since the 1990s. This book will be of interest to scholars of Margolles and of art history more generally, as well as those interested in the aesthetics and philosophy of death applied to how we see art, both in Mexico and internationally.
About the Author
Domitille dOrgeval has taught contemporary art at the Sorbonne.
Laurent Salomé is director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts and the Musées de la Ville de Rouen.
Matthieu Poirier is a teacher and researcher at the Sorbonne.
Serge Lemoine is the former director of the Musée dOrsay.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Social Corpus to Social Corpse: Social Issues in Teresa Margollesandrsquo; Artwork
Chapter 2: The Aesthetics of Death
Chapter 3: Morgue and Corpse Art
Chapter 4: Performance of Objects and Substances
Chapter 5: Margolles, Mexican Art and Mexicanness
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography