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Balthus - Cats and Girls (Hardcover, New)
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Balthus - Cats and Girls (Hardcover, New)
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An insightful new look at Balthus's ongoing fascination with cats
and girls, including his controversial paintings of young
adolescents Balthus's lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and
dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic
works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908-2001) mingles intuition
into his young sitters' psyches with overt erotic desire and
forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful
depictions of childhood and adolescence ever committed to canvas.
Often included in these scenes are enigmatic cats, possible
stand-ins for the artist himself. Balthus: Cats and Girls is the
first book devoted to this subject, focusing on the early decades
of the artist's career from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Drawing on
extensive knowledge of the artist's life and work, as well as on
interviews with Balthus and the models themselves, Sabine Rewald
explores the origins and permutations of Balthus's obsessions with
adolescents and felines. She addresses the crucial influence of
such key figures as poet Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother's lover,
who acted as Balthus's surrogate father, but also includes the
previously unknown voices of the girl models: their recollections
and comments provide a unique perspective on some of the best known
and most controversial paintings of the 20th century.
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