Fernand Leger - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870700537 ISBN 13 : 9780870700538

Editeur : Museum of Modern Art, 2002

Synopsis

New York, The Museum of Modern Art 1998, cm.26,5x25, pp.304 illustrato a colori. brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Fernand Lager is the only major modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series Contrastes de formes of 1913-14--the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism--through his paintings of construction workers from the late 1940s and early 1950s, his enduring subject was the pulse and dynamism of everyday life. Lager saw the 20th century environment as a "state of contrasts," a condition that he translated into art through forceful juxtaposition of shape, color, and line. His attempt to reconcile the formal concerns of artmaking with issues of social responsibility continues to be relevant to the art world of today. Accompanying texts recount Lager's experience of and interest in America and America's interest in him; explore refractions of Lager's interests in the work of more recent artists; and discuss Lager's ambition to make an art reflecting the "new visual state" of modern life. An illustrated chronology tells the story of the artist's life, focusing on his time in America, the plate section is complemented by a series of short essays tracing the formal and thematic developments in his art, and a selected bibliography and detailed exhibition history complete the book.This book was published to accompany the 1998 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en la Fundación Joan Miró (22/11/02-26/01/03). Plantea un recorrido por las diferentes etapas de la obra de este artista, desde 1905, fecha de sus primeras pinturas, hasta las grandes escenas de costumbres de los años cincuenta. El hilo conductor de esta trayectoria los constituyen las constantes de la investigación pictórica que hacen que un artista, en cierta manera, reinvente la modernidad, después de la convulsión que supone el cubismo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Museum of Modern Art
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870700537
• ISBN 13: 9780870700538
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Lanchner Carolyn
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Frago Srl; http://www.moma.it; ; Via Assisi, 15; Montecosaro; 62010; Italie