Jean Clair Books

Tls review 5/1/98, Transl. fr/French, Pub. 1st in UK by Thames & Hudson, Exhib. catalog.

One of the most significant and least studied aspects of Picasso's art is his link with the Italian art tradition, which has never been clearly documented. This catalogue accompanying an exhibition in February 1998 at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, reveals the importance of the Italian experience for the best-known artist of the 20th century. Essays by renowned art historians cover topics ranging from the photographic sources of Picasso's Italianate images, to his work in relation to Eric Satie, and the remarkable painting The Parade. Notes, sketches, drawings and graphic works as well as the greatest masterpieces of painting and photography, etchings and engravings and theatre design are given as evidence of the close relationship between the Renaissance, Classicism, Mannerism, Italian culture and Picasso's art.

This catalogue which accompanies an exhibition opening in February 1998 at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, reveals the importance of the Italian experience for Pablo Picasso. The catalogue includes colour illustrations of all the works exhibited in the exhibition.

The role of art in the rise of totalitarian ideologies is the focus of an international group of scholars and curators whose goal - unlike other publications on the period - is not to expose the ties between art and power, but to go to the heart of that power : biology. By focusing on the period s fascination with biology, they compare two impacted areas: the arts, where the idea of metamorphosis produced an aesthetic revival; and politics, where the struggle to bring about a eugenic and racist renewal had unprecedented consequences for society. Highlighting the enormous stylistic diversity and sociopolitical complexity of the times, this thematically-driven publication takes the form of a story in nine episodes. The complexity is reflected in the works of the artists who dealt with dramatic upheavals according to their personal convictions, fears, hopes or disappointments. Richly illustrated with works by, notably, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, August Sander, Alexander Rodchenko, Lisette Model, Jean Arp, Jackson Pollock, Walker Evans and Diego Rivera

Aucune disposition de l'âme n'a occupé l'Occident aussi longtemps et continûment que la mélancolie. Le sujet reste au coeur des problèmes auxquels l'homme est aujourd'hui confronté et il touche de multiples domaines : la philosophie, la littérature et l'art, la médecine et la psychiatrie, la religion et la théologie... La mélancolie, par tradition cause de souffrance et de folie, est aussi, depuis Aristote, le tempérament des hommes marqués par la grandeur : les héros et les génies. Sa désignation même de "maladie sacrée" implique cette dualité. Mystérieuse, la mélancolie l'est toujours, bien qu'elle soit surtout soumise de nos jours, sous le terme de "dépression", à une analyse médico-scientifique. L'attitude mélancolique ne peut-elle pas aussi s'entendre comme une mise à distance de la conscience face au "désenchantement du monde" (Starobinski) ? Depuis certaines stèles antiques jusqu'à de nombreuses oeuvres contemporaines, en passant par de grands artistes comme Dürer, La Tour, Watteau, Goya, Friedrich, Delacroix, Rodin ou Picasso, l'iconographie de la mélancolie, d'une richesse remarquable, offre une nouvelle approche de l'histoire du malaise saturnien et montre comment cette humeur sacrée a façonné le génie européen.

Ouvrage publié sous la direction de Jean Clair à l'occasion de l'exposition "Vienne, 1880-1938: naissance d'un siècle" présentée en 1986 au Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris): vie artistique et intellectuelle (arts plastiques, arts décoratifs, architecture, littérature, cinéma, musique, sciences humaines...); notices biographiques; glossaire; bibliographie

Rayon : Art Editeur : Gallimard Date de parution : 2005 Description : In-4, 192 pages, broché remplié, occasion, très bon état. Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les commandes sont adressées sous enveloppes bulles. Photos supplémentaires de l'ouvrage sur simple demande. Réponses aux questions dans les 12h00. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. Merci. Référence catalogue 65291. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks

The catalogue for a traveling exhibition of work by Cartier-Bresson, held at the Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, August 19 - September 10, 1978; Side Photographic Gallery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, September 20 - October 29, 1978; Hayward Gallery, London, November 11, 1978 - January 7, 1979. Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson; essay by Ernst Gombrich; biographical notes, chronology, and bibliography by Mark Haworth-Booth. Second printing, revised. 40 pages; 18 full-page b&w plates; 7 x 8.75 inches. Checklist.

With the death of Balthus in February 2001, the world lost one of the great painters of the twentieth century. Born into an aristocratic Polish family in 1908, Balthus grew up amid the most cultivated and artistic circles of Geneva, Berlin and Paris. Brilliantly precocious, he developed early his twin fascinations with the East and with Europe's old masters - inspirations that show in the poise and peculiar timelessness of his paintings. But his work is also suffused with an eroticism and sense of mystery that betray much more modern influences. Balthus was an artist of unflinching integrity. Out of step with the modern movement, until the 1960s he was hailed by only a tiny group of connoisseurs - among them, Picasso. By the mid- 1980s his work had achieved international renown, but he remained acutely wary of public scrutiny. He believed passionately that his paintings were to be looked at, not read about, or read into. As a result the enigmatic aura of his art came to envelop the man himself - even when, in his later years, he finally let down his guard and allowed journalists and scholars into his magnificent chalet home at Rossiniere in the Swiss Alps. Following his father's de