Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne - nature transformed:

"François-Xavier (1927-2008) and Claude (1925-2019) Lalanne were a husband-wife team of artists who created inventive, whimsical works that have been widely admired and collected since the 1960s. This book presents a carefully selected group of objects that focus on a shared preoccupation of th...

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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Williamstown, Massachusetts Clark Art Institute [2021]
New Haven ; London Ylae University Press
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Zusammenfassung:"François-Xavier (1927-2008) and Claude (1925-2019) Lalanne were a husband-wife team of artists who created inventive, whimsical works that have been widely admired and collected since the 1960s. This book presents a carefully selected group of objects that focus on a shared preoccupation of the artists: the transformation of natural forms to new purposes, such as François-Xavier's rhinoceros sculpture that opens into a writing desk and Claude's bench made of galvanized metal branches and vines such that it remains as much a forest as a place to sit. Critical analysis explores the full breadth of the artists' careers; offers important historical context for the artists' origins in the Paris art scene of the 1960s; and prompts a reevaluation of the place their art occupies in the context of art museums, all while encouraging readers to consider relationships among nature, art, and their own encounters with both"--
Beschreibung:"Published by the Clark Art Institute on the occasion of the exhibition Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, May 8-October 31, 2021"--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:135 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781935998433
9780300250848

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