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Drawing Surrealism
\"Drawing, often considered a minor art, was central to Surrealism from the very beginning. Automatic drawing, exquisite cadavers, and frottage are just a few of the techniques invented by Surrealists as means to tap into the subconscious realm. While previous books have examined the connection between drawings and Surrealist paintings, Drawing Surrealism is the first to recognize the medium as a fundamental form of Surrealist expression, and to explore its impact on other media as well. Surrealist collage, photography, and even paintings are presented in the context of drawing as a metaphor for innovation and experimentation. It is also the first book to encompass a wide array of artists on a global scale--from the great figures in Surrealist history to lesser-known Surrealists from Japan, Central Europe, and the Americas, where the movement had a profound and lasting effect. In addition to brilliant reproductions of drawings and other works by more than 100 artists, this volume also includes a substantial historical essay by the exhibition's curator as well as informative essays by leading scholars. This groundbreaking book offers a deep understanding of the techniques and concerns that made Surrealism such an intimate perceptual revolution\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Psychological Cubism
An interview with American visual artist George Condo is presented. Among other things, Condo discusses what the appeal of drawing to him was as a a child, the drawings he made as a teenager and now part of Morgan Library and Museum's collection, and why he is only doing imaginary portraits. Last year, the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, acquired an important group of twenty eight drawings by American artist George Condo (b. 1957). Condo rose to prominence in the 1980s when his work played a key role in reviving figurative painting in the American avant-garde. Engaged in a continuous dialogue with earlier masters. from Rembrandt and Goya to Picasso and De Kooning, Condo uses traditional styles and techniques to create imaginary portraits in which wild distortions suggest extreme psychological states. From the start, drawing has been central to his practice. The drawings acquired by the Morgan—thanks to the generosity of several donors—were selected with the artist's collaboration to offer an overview of his career over the last forty-five years. Last fall the artist sat with Isabelle Dervaux, the Acquavella Curator and Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan, to discuss the donation.
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A passion for drawing : the Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou
Two decades ago, art collectors Florence and Daniel Guerlain decided to focus their energies on shaping a collection of contemporary works on paper. In 2013 they donated a large part of their holdings -- 1,200 works in total -- to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This book includes exquisite full-page reproductions of one hundred drawings and offers readers the chance to experience the extraordinary scope of the Guerlain collection through spectacular contemporary examples from an often overlooked medium. Among the artists featured in the book are Robert Longo, Kiki Smith, Jorinde Voigt, Marcel Dzama, Catharina Van Eetvelde, and Sandra Vasquez de la Horra. Works by other artists who are better known for their painting, sculpture, and performance art, deepen and enhance our experience of their respective oeuvres. This volume opens with an interview with Florence and Daniel Guerlain continuing with brief essays by curator Elsy Lahner about each of the artists and their artwork, while an essay by Isabelle Dervaux explores the significance of this specific collection.
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Wayne Thiebaud Talks about Drawing
On the occasion of the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York (18 May-23 September 2018), artist Wayne Thiebaud sat with the show’s curator and the journal’s associate editor, Isabelle Dervaux, to discuss his practice of drawing. A slighted edited transcript of the occasion is presented.
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Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970
A breathtaking exploration of one of Twombly's largest paintings, the second version of his Treatise on the Veil. One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil and, in a short period of focused creativity, produced a painting-Treatise on the Veil (Second Version)-on a single, 33-foot canvas along with more than a dozen related drawings. This handsomely produced oversize book features three essays that examine these works in relation to Twombly's oeuvre, contemporaneous explorations of time, the Orpheus myth, and a musical composition that Twombly cited as an influence. Large images and details bring us in close to Twombly's magnificent meditation on time and space.
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The drawings of Al Taylor
\"Featuring nearly eighty drawings and pages from a dozen sketchbooks from Al Taylor's entire career, The Drawings of Al Taylor documents the artist's important achievements as a draftsman. This book investigates important and illuminating aspects of Al Taylor's drawings, which numbered over five thousand at the time of his death. It includes a chronological survey of Taylor's drawings from the mid-1980s, when he abandoned painting in favor of sculpture and drawing, and highlights the combination of technical refinement, humor, and sensuousness that characterizes his works on paper. Stunning reproductions of the works, which were inspired by such ordinary things as tin cans, pet stains, and rat guards, reveal the drawings' minute details, nuanced shading, and playfully agile pencil lines. Lively texts explore how Taylor's style resonates with that of late Renaissance and Baroque Old Masters in the rich and complex visual sensibility of his drawings. The book also examines Taylor's innovative approach to process and materials, such as photocopier toner, with its intense black, and the extreme white of correction fluid. Created with equal parts humor and technical virtuosity, and informed by scientific models as well as everyday minutiae, Al Taylor's magnificent drawings are meditations on form and structure that stand alone as testament to great draftsmanship\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sol Le Witt: Folded and Torn Drawings
Dervaux reviews Sol LeWitt: Folds & Rips, 1966-1980 by Dieter Schwarz and Sol LeWitt: Not to be Sold for More than $100: Folds, Rips + Maps by Veronica Roberts.
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