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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 159 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001) was one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of the 20th century. In his formative years his art was sponsored by, among others, Henri Matisse, and later he was much admired by Picasso. This illustrated work provides a visual and narrative survey of the Balthus' body of work . . . Mieke Bal's analysis is focused in the eerie sense of very real and very unreal that the paintings emanate. She considers this the heart of Balthus's work. Bal argues that the paintings draw the viewer into a world we know not to exist. This canny fictionality makes allegations of erotic appropriation naive and censoring. Reducing Balthus's work to the paintings of nude adolescent girls is, moreover, ignoring his many works that are not in the least focused on this theme. Color, space, genres or history are some of the key concepts that the author put in the center of Balthus's work." - Publisher. Size: 4to.…

Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jack.

Hardcover. Condition: Befriedigend. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. B : 21 x 28 cm, 296 Pages, 178 Photos - In a unique collaborative retrospective, the museums Castello di Rivoli and Centre Pompidou have featured the transnational two-part exhibition Nalini Malani: The Rebellion of the Dead, Retrospective 1969-2018 . The catalogue of Part II contains three new articles, the descriptions of each of the artworks, an extensive and richly illustrated exhibition list, bibliography and biography, compiled in collaboration with the archive of the artist.…