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Foreword by Manuel J. Borja-Villel.
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The work of Antoni Tàpies offers a unique case of the artist-as-shaman--that is, the artist as an alchemist who is capable of discovering the nature of materials, transforming their substance, and bringing meaning to life. A self-taught painter, Tapies began his career in the lively and exciting period directly following World War II: in 1947 he founded, along with Joan Brossa, the journal ''Dau al Set,'' which championed Surrealist aesthetics. Drawing upon the latter, Tapies created a Spanish analogue to the so-called Abstract Expressionism of the New York School, combining the techniques and forms of "action painting" with his own deep sense of human pathos. As time went by, Tapies increasingly incorporated social themes into his work, achieving a rare and impassioned mix of experimental painting and politics. This new monograph surveys the artist's career from the late 1940s to the present day, selecting works that show the diversities and unities within the artist's consistently rewarding oeuvre. What we find is an artist who has always questioned and challenged our ways of seeing art and the world, and in the process, created true masterpieces. Hardcover, 11.5 x 12.5 inches, 352 pages, 150 color illustrations. ... Read more

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This book is the fifth in a series that catalogs the complete works of artist Antoni Tàpies. Born in 1923 in Barcelona, Spain, Tàpies is a self-taught painter. He turned to abstraction in 1953 and became known for his use of raw materials in his paintings, including dust, dye, dirt, and plaster. The book contains an interesting essay by Serge Guilbaut that begins by discussing the relationship between Tàpies's early work and the Franco regime: "Decay, destruction, laceration, smashed and sullied parts were some of the elements into which the painter chose to immerse objects to signal the loss of freedom, the lack of progress and hope." Guilbaut traces changes in Tàpies's work and changes in politics and the social climate after Franco's death, describing the difference in the painter's work as an "art of burials to an art of flight." From there Guilbaut considers Tàpies's reaction to more everyday pain and his later interest in Eastern philosophy.

Volume 5 is a magnificent book: 504 oversize pages with 1,072 illustrations. It is rare indeed to see an artist's work so carefully and beautifully cataloged. --Jennifer Cohen ... Read more

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Antoni tapies,anna agusti (editor)
Volume 5 of the complete works of Antoni Tapies, edited by Anna Agusti, is a sumptuous and thoroughly revealing tome in the tradition of volumes 1 through 4. The mystical, yet highly guided and personal iconography, both two and three dimensional in media, illustrates the unique painted speech of one of this century's greatest artists. Tapies works, reproduced in the finest presswork of offset printing, are multi-layered in symbolism, signs and visual metaphor aptly reviewed and discussed with the editorship of Anna Agusti. I, like many others, anticipate the future volumes. ... Read more

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Foreword by Jacques Dupin. Compiled by Anna Agusti.
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Foreword by Andreas Franzke.
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on September 15, 1997. The length of the article is 468 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Moholy-Nagy: pinturas de luz. (Lszlo Moholy-Nagy, Fundacin Tapies, Barcelona, Espaa)(TT: Moholy-Nagy: paintings of light) (TA: Lszlo Moholy-Nagy, Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 15, 1997
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: n655Page: p70(2)

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