Jean Dubuffet: Metamorphoses of Landscape

Language: English

Published by Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2016

390605330X / 9783906053301

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Condition: Fine, unread, and excellent book; all pages and cover are pristine, with no markings or tears. // Jean Dubuffet is one of the most influential and versatile artists of the postwar period. With his novel aesthetic inspired by Art Brut (a term he coined), Dubuffet succeeded in breaking away from modernist conventions and redefining the concept of art, leaving his mark on the second half of the 20th century and exerting a considerable influence on numerous young artists. Jean Dubuffet: Metamorphoses of Landscape—the first substantial English-language Dubuffet monograph in decades—is published to accompany a large-scale retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, featuring around 100 major works from all of the artist’s important creative phases. It opens with an exploration of Dubuffet’s multilayered notion of landscape, which the artist transforms into bodies, faces or objects. Dubuffet experimented with new techniques and materials and, in the process, created a completely independent, fascinating pictorial cosmos. Besides important paintings and sculptures from international museums and private collections, the book also presents the ensemble of figures from Dubuffet’s stage play Coucou Bazar, his unparalleled Gesamtkunstwerk synthesis of the arts. The French painter, sculptor, and writer Jean Dubuffet (1901–85) developed his artistic style from images created spontaneously by children, self-taught artists, and the mentally ill. In 1948, he founded the Compagnie de l’Art Brut, which advocated working artistically outside the bounds of art canon norms and academic training. During this decade, he developed a powerful reputation in the US, where his work was championed by Clement Greenberg and the Abstract Expressionists; he also forged close relationships with writers and artists such as Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, and Antonin Artaud. In 1962 he developed a semi-figurative, semi-abstract artistic idiom in a large series of works he called Hourloupe. In his later work, Dubuffet returned to the gestural techniques of Art Informel. // 228 pages; format: 31,0 x 27,8 x 2,4 cm; bookweight: 1790 g.

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Title
Jean Dubuffet: Metamorphoses of Landscape
Author
Bouvier, Raphael
Publisher
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Publication year
2016
Condition
Fine
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
390605330X
ISBN 13
9783906053301
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing
Item weight
2,000 grams
Dimensions
31 centimeters width by 27.5 centimeters height by 2.4 centimeters depth
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