Barbara Chase-Riboud.
Aware/Manuella editions| N° d'inventaire | 31170 |
| Format | 13 x 21 |
| Détails | 99 p., numerous black and white and color photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782490505425 |
Interview with Guillaume Désanges.
A particularly precocious American visual artist, Barbara Chase-Riboud won a scholarship at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy in Rome. She took the opportunity to travel to Egypt, where the art of the pharaohs deeply impressed her, as evidenced by The Last Supper (1958). Returning to the United States in 1958, she enrolled at Yale. The only African-American student in her department, she studied painting with former Bauhaus master Josef Albers and design with Louis Kahn.
The rigor of J. Albers and the spirituality of L. Kahn stimulate her creativity. Her visual language, largely abstract, brings together opposing elements: the hard and the soft, the noble and the trivial, the masculine and the feminine... Based in France and married to the Magnum agency photographer Marc Riboud, she traveled extensively, notably to the USSR and China. Her encounter with the figures of the Black Panther Party at the Pan-African Festival in Algiers in 1966 transformed her work, which became definitively more committed, as evidenced by the series Malcolm X (1970).
Interview with Guillaume Désanges.
A particularly precocious American visual artist, Barbara Chase-Riboud won a scholarship at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy in Rome. She took the opportunity to travel to Egypt, where the art of the pharaohs deeply impressed her, as evidenced by The Last Supper (1958). Returning to the United States in 1958, she enrolled at Yale. The only African-American student in her department, she studied painting with former Bauhaus master Josef Albers and design with Louis Kahn.
The rigor of J. Albers and the spirituality of L. Kahn stimulate her creativity. Her visual language, largely abstract, brings together opposing elements: the hard and the soft, the noble and the trivial, the masculine and the feminine... Based in France and married to the Magnum agency photographer Marc Riboud, she traveled extensively, notably to the USSR and China. Her encounter with the figures of the Black Panther Party at the Pan-African Festival in Algiers in 1966 transformed her work, which became definitively more committed, as evidenced by the series Malcolm X (1970).