Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France) is a master of contemporary conceptual art who has worked in all media, from painting and sculpture to film, music and ballet. In his early work, Venet sought to distill art, to strip it of aesthetic or expressive content, and to reestablish it as purely "conceptual." He withdrew from the art world in 1971, fulfilling a promise he had made four years prior to stop producing new work once he perceived that his term was up. After a six-year hiatus, the artist reemerged, and over the next thirty ...
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Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France) is a master of contemporary conceptual art who has worked in all media, from painting and sculpture to film, music and ballet. In his early work, Venet sought to distill art, to strip it of aesthetic or expressive content, and to reestablish it as purely "conceptual." He withdrew from the art world in 1971, fulfilling a promise he had made four years prior to stop producing new work once he perceived that his term was up. After a six-year hiatus, the artist reemerged, and over the next thirty years produced a vast body of work in diverse media. This monograph, complete with over 300 illustrations, addresses the struggle of aesthetic and intellectual forces at play in contemporary art through the work of one of its foremost practitioners.Today, Venet's sculptures-massive iron structures in three categories: lines and angles, arcs, and "indeterminate" lines-are exhibited in museums and public spaces across the world. These forms, whether striking out independently into the air, leaning against a ch???teau, curving upward from the earth, or twisting arbitrarily around themselves or each other, stand at the threshold between the physical and the abstract, between the material and the purely geometric-testing the liminal spaces between art, world, and mind.
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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.
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Near Fine in Fine Condition jacket. 322 pages. Hardcover monograph with illustrated paper dustjacket. Light bump to the lower right corners of the covers. Otherwise, the binding remains tight and solid, with a clean interior free of markings. Illustrated paper covered board binding. Texts in English. Exhibition history and bibliography accompany a handsomely and lavish display of color illustrations of the artist's work.
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Good in Hardcover jacket. CG1-An English-language edition hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Bernar Venet to previous owner on the front free endpaper in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has less than 2" tear with wrinkling, chipping, peeling and crease on the front bottom left corner, some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, scattered scratches, rubbing and scuffing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has less than 3" tear with inside showing and some wrinkling and chipping on the bottom right side, some bumped corners and dents, some light stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Introduction by Thomas McEvilley. 11.25"x9.5", 319 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Bernar Venet is one of the best-known and most frequently exhibited French artists in the international public arena. Since his provocative beginnings in the 1960s, with his radical Performance dans le detritus ["Performance in Garbage"] and Tas de charbon ["Pile of Coal"] he has built up a many-faceted oeuvre. His prolific output encompasses monumental sculptures, performances, paintings, installations, and drawings, all underpinned by a rigor and internal coherence that have made him a major figure in conceptual art and contemporary sculpture. This monograph offers a dual approach: a visual exploration designed by the artist and accompanied by his writings, together with a retrospective study by Thierry Lenain, professor at the Université Libre in Brussels. Lenain's authoritative text examines the unusual career of Bernar Venet and analyzes the uniqueness and complexity of his output. It is introduced with a foreword by Thomas McEvilley, professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and a specialist on the artist and his work.
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illustrated. Good in Good jacket. Book A bright, tight copy in publisher's original shrink-wrap. A red remainder mark on textbox edge, bumps to both spine ends, creasing both DJ & book.
