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Simon Hantai and the Reserves of Painting (Hardcover)
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Simon Hantai and the Reserves of Painting (Hardcover)
Series: Refiguring Modernism
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The Hungarian-born French painter Simon Hantai (1922-2008) is best
known for abstract, large-format works produced using pliage: the
painting of a crumpled, gathered, or systematically pleated canvas
that the artist then unfolds and stretches for exhibition. In her
study of this profoundly influential artist, Molly Warnock presents
a persuasive historical account of his work, his impact on a
younger generation of French artists, and the genesis and
development of the practice of pliage over time. Simon Hantai and
the Reserves of Painting covers the entirety of Hantai's expansive
oeuvre, from his first aborted experiments with folding around 1950
to his post-pliage experiments with digital scanning and printing.
Throughout, Warnock analyzes the artist's relentlessly searching
studio practice in light of his no less profound engagement with
developments in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.
Engaging both Hantai's art and writing to support her argument and
paying particular attention to his sustained interrogation of
religious painting in the West, Warnock shows how Hantai's work
evinces a complicated mixture of intentionality and contingency.
Appendixes provide English translations of two major texts by the
artist, "A Plantaneous Demolition" and "Notes, Deliberately
Confounding, Accelerating, and the Like for a 'Reactionary,'
Nonreducible Avant-Garde." Original and insightful, this important
new book is a central reference for the life, art, and theories of
one of the most significant and exciting artists of the twentieth
century. It will appeal to art historians and students of
modernism, especially those interested in the history of
abstraction, materiality and Surrealism, theories of community, and
automatism and making.
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