Yves Tanguy and Surrealism

by Maur, Karin Von

• ISBN13: 9783775709682
• ISBN10: 3775709681
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Ur-Surrealist Yves Tanguy belonged to the inner circle of the 1920s Parisian avant-garde, alongside such figures as Salvador Dal', Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti, making essential contributions to Surrealist manifestoes, magazines, and exhibitions. Tanguy's artistic obsession was the world of imagination, of dreams and reveries, and his cryptically codified imagery continues to perplex audiences today. His paintings seem to exist in a hazy, oddly beautiful limbo dimension beyond time and space, a world at once vertiginous and calm, disturbing and breathtaking. The central focus of Yves Tanguy and Surrealismis the Surrealist mode, to which Tanguy dedicated himself like no other painter of his time, cementing the movement's place in the history of visual art. On the basis of previously unpublished documents and works, authors discuss Tanguy's otherworldly oeuvre in all its aspects--from his development as an artist to the reception of his work in the United States. With stunning reproductions in full color as well as black and white, Yves Tanguy and Surrealismis an extensive overview of the work of an artist whose forays into the creative unknown continue to resonate.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Stuttgart Venue	7	(4)
Christian Von Holst
Yves Tanguy or ``The Certainty of the Never-Seen'' Transitions in His Painterly Oeuvre	11	(124)
Karin Von Maur
Genesis of a New World The Graphic Art of Yves Tanguy	135	(40)
Beate Wolf
A Breton in Connecticut Yves Tanguy and His American Audience	175	(24)
Susan Davidson
Yves Tanguy and the New Subject in Painting	199	(8)
Gordon Onslow Ford
Shoe Trees and Pebbles Confessions of a Later Generation	207	(4)
Konrad Klapheck
Yves Tanguy 1900-55 A Chronicle of His Life and Work	211	(20)
Andreas Schalhorn
Catalogue	231	(11)
Bibliography	242	(8)
Index	250