Museum Tinguely Basel: The Collection - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3868283404 ISBN 13: 9783868283402

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2013

Synopsis

The collection of the Swiss Museum Tinguely contains sculptures, drawings, sketches, and documents of the important avant-garde artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) up until his later work. The book is a standard reference work for lovers of Tinguely's art and the European avant-garde of the 1950s and '60s.

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About the Author:

Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland ? 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. Tinguely grew up in Basel, but moved to France in 1952 with his first wife Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid-twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960. His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.In 1971, Tinguely married Niki de Saint Phalle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3868283404
• ISBN 13: 9783868283402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 551
• Editor: Miranda Fuchs, Dominik Müller, Annja Müller-Alsbach