Eileen Agar - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0854882928 ISBN 13 : 9780854882922

Editeur : Whitechapel Gallery, 2021

Synopsis

A major survey of the pioneering cult British painter, collagist and photographer and her unique passage from biomorphic Surrealism to Tachist abstraction

Painter and photographer Eileen Agar (1899-1991) was born in Buenos Aires and spent the majority of her life in Great Britain. In spite of her own pioneering contributions to painting, collage, photography and sculpture, Agar's career has largely been appraised in relation to her connections with major male figures of European modernism such as Paul Nash, Ezra Pound, Roland Penrose and Paul Éluard. This monograph seeks to overturn that narrative and delve into Agar as a fully autonomous artist whose unique style was a crucial element in the development of European culture in the 20th century.Dense with pattern and color, Agar's work across various media draws from Cubist and Surrealist tendencies of material juxtapositions and fractured imagery, evoking emotion through distortion. Alongside reproductions of rarely seen artworks, writer Marina Warner, poet Daisy Lafarge and Agar's biographer Andrew Lambirth reflect on the artist's progressive attitudes toward art, sexuality and art history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marina Warner's study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (2011) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013; in 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Whitechapel Gallery
• Date d'édition: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0854882928
• ISBN 13: 9780854882922
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Smith Laura
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible