Author: Felix, Zdenek Title: Francis Picabia: Late Works, 1933-1953
Description: Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje, 1998. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with the title in white debossed lettering down the spine. There is a color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title in white down a red spine. Pages: (5), 6-159, (1). Profusely illustrated with many full-page, full-color plates. "While his reputation as a Dadaist pioneer is by now well established, his later work, from the 1930's onward, remains largely ignored. This book is the first to systematically document Picabia's final period, and the timing could not be more appropriate: for, while these works, with their kitschy qualities, have embarrassed the purists among Picabia's many admirers, they seem in retrospect to foreshadow much of the art of the self-consciously ironic 1980's. It is therefore fitting that this beautifully illustrated book is able to both challenge our assumptions about one of the legends of modernism and stand on its own as an important revision to the artist's oeuvre." Contents are as follows: Foreword / Zdenek Felix and Chris Dercon -- Avant-Garde Wrinkles and Realistic Artificial Light / Roberto Ohrt -- Francis Picabia's Painting during the Second World War and His Use of Photography / Sara Cochran -- Greatness and Decadence in Art: Picabia in the Post-war Period / Arnauld Pierre. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on top and bottom text block. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine.
Keywords: European Artists ; Picabia, Francis ; ;
Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 203063
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