Jean Fautrier, one of France's most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the "Otages", his series of abstract paintings featuring partially obliterated or disfigured faces -victims of Nazi atrocities in France during World War II. This work discusses his significance to the history of avant-garde and modern art. Essays examine Fautrier's early work of 1926-28 in relation to "art informel"; analyze the formal and social aspects of the "Otages" paintings; consider Fautrier's "Originaux multiples" ...
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Jean Fautrier, one of France's most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the "Otages", his series of abstract paintings featuring partially obliterated or disfigured faces -victims of Nazi atrocities in France during World War II. This work discusses his significance to the history of avant-garde and modern art. Essays examine Fautrier's early work of 1926-28 in relation to "art informel"; analyze the formal and social aspects of the "Otages" paintings; consider Fautrier's "Originaux multiples" of 1950, a radical series of original reproductions that questions modernist notions of the unique art object; and discuss the influence of American abstract expressionism on his late work. The book also includes contemporary critical essays on Fautrier written by leading French literary figures, including Andre Malraux, Jean Paulhan and Francis Ponge as well as a group of translated letters, sent by Fautrier to Malraux and Paulhan.
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Fine. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Soft cover, folded card covers. no flaws or wear, clean. no markings. no bumps, tears, creases. tight sewn binding.; 221pp., 65 color plates with numerous color details and b/w figures throughout text.; contains five essays and detailed catalogue entries, appendices and reference material, plus the artist's own writings.
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Fine Condition. Book 221 pages with 82 illustrations, 77 of which are in color. Text in English. Minimal shelfwear to the edges, but else the binding is tight, the spine uncreased, and the interior clean and free of markings. Softcover monograph bound in stiff paper covers and published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI September 19-December 29, 2002; the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY January 28 to March 29, 2003 and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA April 26 to July 20, 2003.
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Good+ (Wraps are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; personal-ownership stamp on half-title; textblock edges are lightly worn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) Color illus. wraps; 221 pp.; 77 color plates, 5 bw figures. Major retrospective exhibition catalogue on this important French abstract artist; Accompanied a 2002 traveling exhibition of the same name; Includes several essays and a biography of the artist.
