Kupka - Waldes - The Artist and His Collector (Hardcover)

Czechoslovakia's leading twentieth-century painter, Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) is a pioneer of modernist abstraction. As early as 1911, he was one of the most visible and widely exhibited abstract artists in the world; later, in the early 1930s, he was a founding member of the Abstraction-Creation group. This hefty volume--the only monograph on Kupka currently available--offers a massive survey of his paintings, drawings, prints, posters, sculptures, correspondence and other ephemera from the collection of Jindrich Waldes, Kupka's close friend and gallerist. Waldes' collection was confiscated first by the Nazis, who deemed abstraction decadent, and later by the Communists, who declared his work "an example of imperialist ideology and cosmopolitan nihilism that is harmful to the people." Also included is a foreword by Jiri Waldes, the collector's son, and Ludmila Vachtova, one of the most knowledgeable experts on the artist.

General

Imprint:	Divus
Country of origin:	Czech Republic
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	April 2014
Text writers:	Jindrich Toman • Ludmila Vachtova
Illustrators:	Frantisek Kupka
Foreword by:	George Waldes
Dimensions:	338 x 267 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	445
ISBN-13:	978-80-86450-81-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN:	80-86450-81-3
Barcode:	9788086450810

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