Mangelos

Piron, Francois and Mangelos (Dimitrije Basicevic)

ISBN 10: 2918252263 / ISBN 13: 9782918252269

Published by Paraguay Press, 2014

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Softcover with dustjacket, 112 pages; in English; as new condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mangelos
• Publisher: Paraguay Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2918252263
• ISBN 13: 9782918252269
• Binding: Soft cover
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Synopsis

Acknowledged today as one of the most influential figures of post-war Yugoslavian art, mangelos is the pseudonym that the Yugoslavian art critic and historian Dimitrije Baši?evi? (1921–1987) used for his artistic activity, a parallel career he would only make public in the 1970s. Although he never considered himself an artist, he never stopped producing paintings, blackboards on which he inscribed poems, stories, quotations and philosophical manifestos, all inspired by his historical pessimism and the idea that language is infected by ideologies. He saw the civilization as a process of sensory deprivation, producing a “society devoid of art,” and the evolution of mankind as only aimed at dominating and instrumentalizing nature.  He opposed to it a counter-education, through the character of the naïve man, whose intuitions and instincts are contained in the encrypted sentences he traced with the childlike handwriting he created for his oeuvre. A comprehensive survey of mangelos’ art across all mediums, this book includes three essays which renew the interpretation of his art and its context. It offers a particular focus on his early work and notebooks, which are extensively reproduced for the first time.

About the Author

François Piron (né en 1972) est critique d'art et commissaire d'expositions. Il est l'un des fondateurs de l'espace d'exposition castillo/corrales en 2007, et de la maison d'édition Paraguay Press. Depuis 2012, il dirige le post-diplôme Art de l'Ensba Lyon. Il a auparavant co-dirigé le centre de résidence et de création Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers et a fondé la revue critique Trouble.