Erik Desmazieres: Imaginary Places - Hardcover

Praud, Maxime

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 887439411X ISBN 13: 9788874394111

Publisher: 5 Continents Editions Srl, 2007

Synopsis

'There are printmakers and printmakers, and then there is Erik DesmaziSres, a Frenchman who stands in a class by himself.' The New York Times Erik DesmaziSres is considered to be one of the finest French printmakers of his generation. His etchings and drawings, rendered with masterly precision and attention to detail, range from intimate interiors to wild architectural fantasies, and recall Old Masters such as Bosch and Goya. A prolonging of childhood fairytales, the allure of Erik DesmaziSres' prints lies in part in their ambiguity, but also in the technical virtuosity, careful observation, and singularity of his inventions. This volume surveys the artist's earlier production from the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on DesmaziSres imaginary places, through 80 prints and drawings. It includes the artist's masterpieces The Temptation of St Anthony , the prints used to illustrate Borges's Library of Babel, Imaginary Alphabets , and Rembrandt's Curiosity Cabinet , to name a few. The Argentine write

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About the Author:

Maxime Preaud is head curator, responsible for the Holdings of the Prints Department in the Bibliotheque nationale de France. A painter and print-maker himself, he specialises in the history of prints of the 17th century, and is the author of the Inventory of the French bequest dedicated to Claude Mellan, Sebastien Leclerc and Jean Lepautre. He has organised a number of exhibitions, including 'Abraham Bosse savant graveur' (2004), 'Rodolphe Bresdin 1822-1885 Robinson graveur' (2000), 'Anatomie de la couleur' (1996) and 'Les effets du soleil' (1995).Alberto Manguel is an Argentine writer and critic. His most well-known works are 'The Dictionary of Imaginary Places' (1998), 'A Reading Diary' (2005), and most recently 'Magic Land of Toys' (2006) and 'The Library at Night' (2006). 'Lauren Laz' is a curator at the Cantonal prints cabinet at the Musee Jenisch, Vevey.

About this edition

• Publisher: 5 Continents Editions Srl
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 887439411X
• ISBN 13: 9788874394111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128