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George Condo: Humanoids
Didier Ottinger; Foreword by H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover
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The Louvre Abu Dhabi's exciting exhibition programme explores the
enduring dialogue between Eastern and Western artistic expression.
Abstraction and Calligraphy brings together a rich array of works,
from 10th-century ceramics from Samarkand to paintings and drawings
by Kandinsky, Matisse, Miro, Twombly and other modern masters. The
ways in which these artists respond to Eastern calligraphic
traditions enriches our understanding of the dynamic between modern
art in the West and long-established forms from Asia and the Near
East.
Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in
Paris for twenty years, this catalogue analyses Bacon's works from
1971 onwards in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon
always vigorously opposed over-analysis of his paintings,
preferring to interpret them in purely illustrative or symbolic
terms; he admitted, however, that literature was a powerful
stimulus to his imagination. The artist was inspired by the images
conjured up by certain texts: Aeschylus' phrase 'the reek of human
blood smiles out at me' in particular haunted Bacon, while his 1978
work Painting refers to T. S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land.
The inventory of Bacon's personal library has identified more than
1,300 books, ranging from Bataille and Conrad to Nietzsche and
Leiris. Including twelve of Bacon's renowned triptychs, this lavish
publication features eleven gatefolds and some sixty paintings
created by Bacon between 1971 and his death in 1992. Reproduced
here with analyses of Bacon's paintings in the light of some of his
most admired authors, these specially commissioned texts reveal new
ways of understanding some of the most powerful works in the modern
canon.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi's exciting exhibition programme explores the
enduring dialogue between Eastern and Western artistic expression.
Abstraction and Calligraphy brings together a rich array of works,
from 10th-century ceramics from Samarkand to paintings and drawings
by Kandinsky, Matisse, Miro, Twombly and other modern masters. The
ways in which these artists respond to Eastern calligraphic
traditions enriches our understanding of the dynamic between modern
art in the West and long-established forms from Asia and the Near
East. Text in French.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi's exciting exhibition programme explores the
enduring dialogue between Eastern and Western artistic expression.
Abstraction and Calligraphy brings together a rich array of works,
from 10th-century ceramics from Samarkand to paintings and drawings
by Kandinsky, Matisse, Miro, Twombly and other modern masters. The
ways in which these artists respond to Eastern calligraphic
traditions enriches our understanding of the dynamic between modern
art in the West and long-established forms from Asia and the Near
East. Text in Arabic.
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