Fernando Botero

Hanstein, Mariana

ISBN 10: 3836548828 / ISBN 13: 9783836548823

Published by TASCHEN, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fernando Botero
• Publisher: TASCHEN
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3836548828
• ISBN 13: 9783836548823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Fernando Botero (1932–2023) was an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian’s “Boterismo” technique captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces worldwide with a unique, fleshy, overblown approach to the human body. Through these corpulent creations, Botero became one of the most recognized artists from Latin America, his artworks displayed in prominent places around the globe, including Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

This TASCHEN Basic Art edition offers an essential introduction to this leading artist of figures in contemporary art. Tracing Botero’s oeuvre from his earliest caricatures of animals through to late large-scale bronze sculptures, the book examines the artist’s diverse array of influences, from Paolo Uccello to Abstract Expressionism, and celebrates the wit, irony, insight, and critical acumen that round out his compositions, however absurd the proportions.

About the Author

Mariana Hanstein, a native of Chile, studied art history in Munich, Bonn, and Venice. She is an art historian who has published works about Peter Paul Rubens and 18th-century Venetian painting and was an art critic and editor of the art market section of the German newspaper Die Welt for almost ten years. Hanstein lives and works in Cologne.