Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting /

The Hungarian-born French painter Simon Hantaï (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 influent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warnock, Molly (Author)
Other Authors: Schuster, Jean (Contributor), Hantaï, Simon (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART 1 Writing and Painting
  • 1. Unfolding Automatism
  • 2. Excessive Gestures 1
  • 3. Excessive Gestures 2
  • 4. Ordinary Painting
  • PART 2 Folding and Cutting
  • 5. The Passage to Pliage
  • 6. Figuring Finitude 1
  • 7. Figuring Finitude 2
  • 8. Abandoned Painting
  • Envoi
  • Appendix 1: "A Plantaneous Demolition" 219
  • Appendix 2: "Notes, Deliberately Confounding, Accelerating, and the Like for a 'Reactionary,' Nonreducible Avant-Garde"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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