Description: Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting, Hardcover by Warnock, Molly, ISBN 0271085029, ISBN-13 9780271085029, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Hungarian-born French painter Simon Hanta (1922'2008) is best known for abstract, large-format works produced using pliage: the painting of a crumpled, gathered, or systematically pleated canvas that the artist then unfolds and stretches for exhibition. In her study of this profoundly influential artist, Molly Warnock presents a persuasive historical account of his work, his impact on a younger generation of French artists, and the genesis and development of the practice of pliage over time. Simon Hanta and the Reserves of Painting covers the entirety of Hanta's expansive oeuvre, from his first aborted experiments with folding around 1950 to his post-pliage experiments with scanning and printing. Throughout, Warnock analyzes the artist's relentlessly searching studio practice in light of his no less profound engagement with developments in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Engaging both Hanta's art and writing to support her argument and paying particular attention to his sustained interrogation of religious painting in the West, Warnock shows how Hanta's work evinces a complicated mixture of intentionality and contingency. Appendixes provide English translations of two major texts by the artist, 'A Plantaneous Demolition' and 'Notes, Deliberately Confounding, Accelerating, and the Like for a 'reactionary," Nonreducible Avant-Garde." Original and insightful, this important new book is a central reference for the life, art, and theories of one of the most significant and exciting artists of the twentieth century. It will appeal to art historians and students of modernism, especially those interested in the history of abstraction, materiality and Surrealism, theories of community, and automatism and making.
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Book Title: Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Subject: Conceptual, History / Contemporary (1945-), General, European
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 50.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Molly Warnock
Item Length: 9.8 in
Subject Area: Art
Series: Refiguring Modernism Ser.
Item Width: 9.2 in
Format: Hardcover
