"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible." -Balthus One of the last great 20th-century masters, Balthus pursued a path that ran exactly contrary to that of the modernist avant-gardes with which he was contemporary. At once quiet and intriguing, his paintings unite colliding contrasts, combining reality and dream, eroticism and innocence, practicality and mystery, the familiar and the uncanny in unique ways. This volume, published for a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, ...
Read More
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible." -Balthus One of the last great 20th-century masters, Balthus pursued a path that ran exactly contrary to that of the modernist avant-gardes with which he was contemporary. At once quiet and intriguing, his paintings unite colliding contrasts, combining reality and dream, eroticism and innocence, practicality and mystery, the familiar and the uncanny in unique ways. This volume, published for a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, gathers around 50 key paintings from all phases of this legendary artist's career. It commences with the monumental masterpiece Passage du Commerce-Saint-Andr (1952-54), in which Balthus' intensive study of the dimensions of space and time and their relationship to figure and object is especially apparent. Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus (1908-2001), was born in Paris to Polish expatriate parents. He was raised in an exceptionally artistic milieu, with visitors to his household including Rilke (who became his mother's lover), Andr Gide, Jean Cocteau, Maurice Denis and Pierre Bonnard. Balthus was one of the few living artists to be represented in the Louvre, when his painting The Children (1937) was acquired from the private collection of Pablo Picasso.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized. PAPERBACK.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fair. Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Oversized. PAPERBACK.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
VG. Color-illustrated wraps with lavender lettering. 180 pp. Mainly color illustations. Text in Spanish. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 19 February-26 May 2019. Previously held at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2 September 2018-1 January 2019.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
VG, covers show some wear along bottom edge. Illustrated card covers. 171 pages: illustrations (chiefly color), portraits. This volume, published for a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, gathers around 50 key paintings from all phases of this legendary artist's career. It commences with the monumental masterpiece Passage du Commerce-Saint-André (1952-54), in which Balthus' intensive study of the dimensions of space and time and their relationship to figure and object is especially apparent. Contents: Developing a visual idiom: Early works--Provocation and transgression: Balthus's first exhibition at the Galerie Pierre--Representation and intimacy: Balthus's portraits from the 1930s--The years in Champrovent and Fribourg: Works from the first half of the 1940s--Return to Paris: Works from the second half of the 1940s--From the studio in Paris to the Château de Chassy: Works from the 1950s--Frome Rome to Rossinière: Late works--Short texts by Raphaël, Christine Burger, Yves Guignard, Michiko Kono, and Juan Ángel López-Manzanares--"Time mastered: Isn't that perhaps the best definition of art? ": Aspects of time in Balthus's work / Raphaël Bouvier--Between sensuality, dignity, and grace: The female figure in Balthus's work / Michiko Kono--"The throbbing tragedy of a drama of the flesh": Balthus and Antonin Artraud's theatre of cruelty / Juan Ángel López-Manzanares--Thérèse, time and again: Balthus's paintings of girls / Beate Söntgen--Transgression and purity: Balthus's precarious equilibrium / Olivier Berggruen--A secret passage into eternity: Passage du Cmmerce-Saint-André / Wim Wenders--Balthasar Klossowski de Rola: Biography.