Maria Lassnig: The Future is Invented with Fragments from the Past

Lassnig, Maria, artist.

ISBN 10: 3960981244 / ISBN 13: 9783960981244

Published by Municipal Gallery of Athens, Maria Lassnig Foundation, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, [2017]., Athens, 2017

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Square quarto, 131pp, color reproductions, numerous essays by different authors, in publisher?s pictorial wrappers (minor wear and dusting, very good).

Seller Inventory # 09264

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maria Lassnig: The Future is Invented with Fragments from the Past
• Publisher: Municipal Gallery of Athens, Maria Lassnig Foundation, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, [2017]., Athens
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3960981244
• ISBN 13: 9783960981244
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • art reference

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Synopsis

This book documents the last exhibition project that Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) was able to plan personally with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.

It gathers around 50 works―paintings and works on paper, especially watercolors―that deploy motifs from Greek mythology, also expressing characteristics typical of her work: the awareness of the body, the painterly rendering of the inner and outer world, as well as animal portraits and landscapes. The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past includes contributions from leading scholars and artists discussing her unique visual idiom.