This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonné of Francis Picabia (1879–1953), one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia’s early pieces as an Impressionist in the 1890s to his Cubist and abstract paintings of 1912–14, which constitute landmarks in the history of modern art. This volume allows for new critical and scientific readings of his work and piques interest in his lesser-known pieces. Along with illustrations of each featured work, the book includes an introduction, chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions, and indices.

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné: Volume I (Mercatorfonds)

Arts & Photography

CAMFIELD, William A.

Pierre, Arnauld

Clements, Candace

Calté, Beverley

History & Criticism

Mercatorfonds

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia’s elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by looking at the artist’s central role in the formulation of the Paris Dada movement. That irreverent movement included Picabia’s increasingly provocative mechanomorphic compositions, complemented by his unorthodox writings and graphic designs as well as socially powerful performances. In the 1920s, Picabia turned to striking geometrical abstractions, subversive figurative art, and a collaboration in 1924 with the Swedish Ballet. The volume finishes with a look at Picabia’s creations of the mid-1920s, which included memorable collages and flamboyant figurative compositions known as the "monsters.”

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné: Volume II (1915-1927)

Verdier, Aurélie

Calté, Pierre

Hungarian-born French artist Nicolas Schöffer (1912–1992), though relatively unknown today, was during his lifetime a significant presence in the art world. His 1956 piece CYSP 1 is considered the first cybernetic sculpture, making use of motors, microphones, and photo-electric cells to create a work based on feedback loops and responsiveness to its environment. For Schöffer, cybernetics enabled a crucial artistic exploration of the boundary between the living and the technological. This important reevaluation of Schöffer’s work features sculptures, paintings, and drawings, including unpublished pieces from the artist’s studio and archive, as well as documentation of his interdisciplinary and experimental collaborations with architects, musicians, choreographers, scientists, and industrialists. Particular attention is paid to the innovative work he created between 1945 and 1975, which takes on particular resonance in our current, digitally saturated world.

Nicolas Schöffer: Space, Light, Time

Delot, Sébastien

Mari, Pauline

Trudel, Dominique

This publication is the fourth volume of an important catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia\nThis publication, the fourth volume of an important catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia (1879–1953), includes paintings and selected drawings dating from 1940 into 1952. During the war years, while still residing in the south of France, Picabia was primarily occupied by figural subjects⁠—multi-figure allegories, female nudes, and glamorous female "portraits"⁠—painted in bold illusionistic relief. Notorious even in his lifetime, most of these works are now known to have adapted photographic illustrations in older "girly" magazines and other popular media.\nUpon his return to Paris in the post-war period, Picabia renewed his earlier interests in abstract and sometimes non-objective art, still often drawing upon published sources ranging from prehistoric art to Nietzsche, and pursued frequent exhibition of his distinctive, constantly mutating responses to critical currents of the day. These included a series of severely reductive, subtly effective "point" or dot paintings beginning in 1949—three years before ill-health effectively ended Picabia’s half-century of artistic provocation.\nDistributed for Mercatorfonds

Francis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonne Volume IV (1940–1953) (Catalogue Raisonne, 4)

Arnauld (art history, U. of Picardie, Amiens, France) examines the two visual books Abstractions and Four Stories of White and Black by Frank Kupka (1871-1957). Includes a selection of writings by Kupka, as well as a short bibliography. 10x 12.5". Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Frank Kupka: In White and Black

Liverpool Univ Pr

This volume of 12 essays fills a broad gap in Modernist art history. Taken together, these case studies on artists and concepts present Dada as a coherent movement with a set of operating principles. Among the “ tactics” elaborated are the hyperbolic mimicry of dominant social and linguistic conventions, the performance of gender and other aspects of identity, the usurpation of the modes of a new media culture and the marketplace, and the recycling of history and memory in a world traumatized by war. The Dada Seminars developed out of a series held by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, in advance of 2005's major traveling exhibition on international Dada. Contributors include George Baker, T.J. Demos, Leah Dickerman, Uwe Fleckner, Hal Foster, Amelia Jones, David Joselit, Marcella Lista, Helen Molesworth, Arnauld Pierre, Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew S. Witkovsky.

The Dada Seminars (CASVA Seminar Papers)

FOSTER, HAL

Joselit, David

Molesworth, Helen

Jones, Amelia

Schnapp, Jeffrey T.

Baker, George

Fleckner, Uwe

Witkovsky, Matthew

Demos, T.J.

Lista, Marcella

D.A.P./The National Gallery of Art, Washington

Calder: Mouvement et réalité

Hazan

Magic moirés: Gerald Oster et l’art des moirages

MACULA

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné. Volume II (1915-1927) (Multilingual Edition)

a. camfield, William

MERCATOR

Nicolas Schöffer

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