Balthus
2018183625Basel: Switerland 2018. Softcover. VG covers show some wear along bottom edge. Illustrated card covers. 171 pages : illustrations chiefly color portraits. This volume published for a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler gathers around 50 key paintings from all phases of this legendary artist's career. It commences with the monumental masterpiece Passage du Commerce-Saint-André 1952-54 in which Balthus' intensive study of the dimensions of space and time and their relationship to figure and object is especially apparent.<br/>Contents: Developing a visual idiom : Early works -- Provocation and transgression : Balthus's first exhibition at the Galerie Pierre -- Representation and intimacy : Balthus's portraits from the 1930s -- The years in Champrovent and Fribourg : Works from the first half of the 1940s -- Return to Paris : Works from the second half of the 1940s -- From the studio in Paris to the Château de Chassy : Works from the 1950s -- Frome Rome to Rossinière : Late works -- Short texts by Raphaël Christine Burger Yves Guignard Michiko Kono and Juan Ãngel López-Manzanares -- "Time mastered : Isn't that perhaps the best definition of art" : Aspects of time in Balthus's work / Raphaël Bouvier -- Between sensuality dignity and grace : The female figure in Balthus's work / Michiko Kono -- "The throbbing tragedy of a drama of the flesh" : Balthus and Antonin Artraud's theatre of cruelty / Juan Ãngel López-Manzanares -- Thérèse time and again : Balthus's paintings of girls / Beate Söntgen -- Transgression and purity : Balthus's precarious equilibrium / Olivier Berggruen -- A secret passage into eternity : Passage du Cmmerce-Saint-André / Wim Wenders -- Balthasar Klossowski de Rola : Biography. Switerland unknown books
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