Catalogue de l'exposition de la Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (Juin-Sept.2008). L'oeuvre de Fernand Léger mise en perspective par l'art américain de son époque...
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Résumé :
The work of art is reserved for those who feel it is their revenge on the intellectuals. Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger (1881-1955), one of the twentieth-century's most important classic artists, was a great mediator : in his enthusiasm for the cool, mechanical side of modernity, he understood how to lend form to the emerging artistic style, which was also particularly appealing to an American audience.
With essays by Yve-Alain Bois, Raphaël Bouvier, Philippe Büttner, Christian Derouet, Brigitte Hedel-Samson, and Daniel Framer, this richly illustrated publication covers the artist's entire oeuvre -from the early, Cubist-influenced work to the cheerful, large-format canvases he painted later in his career. Special attention is given to the American dimension of Léger's work. The artist visited the US on several occasions, where between 1940 and 1945 he lived in exile in New York. He was deeply impressed by this vast country by its architecture, dynamics, and modernity and he consequently created some of his most important works there. Furthermore, this volume traces his remarkable influence on twentieth-century American artists, primarily on Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly, but also on others, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Al Held, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.
208 pages, 201 illustrations, 190 in color.
Exposition : RIEHEN / BASEL 2008
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