Antoni Tapies in Print - Softcover

Wye, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870706039 ISBN 13: 9780870706035

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Wye, Deborah

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Spanish artist Antoni Tapies's lithographs and intaglio prints bristle with ambivalent allusions to sexuality, mysticism, dismemberment and death. He anthropomorphizes chairs, mixes everyday objects with spiritual symbols, and depicts words or single letters combined with his own calligraphic signs. Familiar objects like scissors and pitchers are invested with transcendent meaning; sexual images, cleverly hidden in some compositions, burst forth in others. In his prints, the eminent painter gives surrealist automatism a distinctly Spanish flavor, with a Romantic undercurrent that calls to mind freewheeling American abstract expressionism and the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, which he witnessed as a teenager in Barcelona. This well-produced catalogue of a traveling exhibition weds 75 plates (25 in color) to a thoughtful essay in which Wye, a curator at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, illuminates Tapies's complex symbolism.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0870706039
• ISBN 13: 9780870706035
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128