La version anglaise de l'album Jazz, qui constitue une oeuvre-clé dans l'évolution de l'oeuvre de Matisse : c'est le laboratoire qui lui permet de passer de la peinture à la pratique du papier découpé, technique développée dans la dernière décennie de sa vie.
Retour sur une exposition organisée en 1944 à New York par Julien Levy, Max Ernst et Marcel Duchamp qui avaient demandé aux plus éminents représentants de l'avant-garde artistique de l'époque de créer des échiquiers.
From ornate floral patterns to cityscapes, the boldest book designs of the Golden Age are gathered here. Readers accustomed to today's more utilitarian bindings will find breathtaking images-gold leaf patterns intricate enough to replicate the shimmer of feathers, forests rendered in rich color and silver, and elegant allusions to Asian art. The diversity and ingenuity of these books will capture the imagination of book lovers and collectors-and anyone who enjoys design.
Selecting the most beautifully crafted and influential pieces from his two-volume, limited edition catalog, Minsky uncovers the world behind a lost art. Dividing these breathtaking designs into distinct categories, he discusses the use of silhouettes, pattern, Oriental influence and more. He also reveals key artists, their signature designs and flourishes, the designs they inspired, and the designs that inspired them.
A dazzling combination of colour plates and reflective handwritten thoughts on the nature of art, this si the closest thing to an autobiography that Matisse ever created. It is a syncopated composition of pictures and text that Matisse felt was the visual equivalnet5 of Jazz music. It has been translated from the French by Sophie Hawkes.
En 1988, John Cage, invité au Mountain Lake Workshop de Blacksburg, a créé 55 dessins sur des serviettes en papier. Cet ouvrage présente pour la première fois ces oeuvres influencées par la philosophie zen.
Les Soixante-neuf stations du Kisokaido est une série d'estampes japonaises créées par Utagawa Hiroshige et Keisai Eisen, entre 1834 et 1842. Réalisé d'après un manuscrit, ce livre très soigné reproduit l'ensemble de cette oeuvre maîtresse qui dresse un portrait vivant de la vie quotidienne dans le Japon du XIXe siècle.
By applying the bright colours of the peasant costumes from her native Russia to the elegant silhouettes that were currently in vogue in Paris, Sonia Delaunay translated theory into practice and produced a stunning series of clothes for the Jazz Age. Like the contemporary Orphist paintings created by her husband Robert, Sonia Delauney s designs were characterised by their vibrant colours and sharply patterned geometric collages. They were worn by starlets Gloria Swanson and Gaby; her imaginative theatre costumes were commissioned by another great advocate of Modernism, Diaghilev, for the Bullet Russes. Indeed, Sonia Delauney's clothing, as exalted in the poetry of Tristan Tzara and Guillaume Apollinaire, epitomised the spirit of the new age.
