My Name Is Maryan

Alison M Gingeras, Chana Sheldon,Maryan, Jamieson Webster, Noa Rosenberg, Piotr Slodkowski

ISBN 10: 3753301426 / ISBN 13: 9783753301426

Published by Walther Konig Verlag 2023-05-30, 2023

Seller Inventory # 6666-LBR-9783753301426

Synopsis:

On the surreal figuration of an influential postwar artist, covering four decades of paintings, sculptures, drawings and film

Published with Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.

Working in the wake of postwar trauma and traversing the European and American avant-gardes, the prolific Polish-born painter Maryan (né Pinchas Burstein, 1927-77) created a thrilling post-expressionist vocabulary that has never seemed so prescient.
My Name Is Maryan explores the totality of Maryan's career, including how his work was impacted by his firsthand experiences of the Holocaust; his dialogue with peers, from CoBrA artists such as Constant, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky to his American circle of artists, particularly H.C. Westermann, June Leaf and Leon Golub; his black-and-white works of the 1950s; and a recreation of his studio at the Chelsea Hotel, where he made his final works in the 1970s.
Maryan's historically important single-figure Personnage paintings--highly influential on artists such as Caroll Dunham and Eddie Martinez, and first shown in Paris in 1960--are included, recreating the bulk of that exhibition for the first time.

From the Back Cover: Der Katalog setzt sich kritisch mit Leben und Werk des in Polen geborenen Künstlers Maryan auseinander und zeigt über hundert Schlüsselwerke, darunter Gemälde, Drucke, Ephemera, Fotografien und Archivmaterial. Als Holocaustüberlebender setzte er sich zeit seines Lebens für die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte ein.

Text: Piotr Slodkowski, Jamieson Webster.

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Name Is Maryan
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag 2023-05-30
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New