The Pioneers. In the studios of 20th-century women artists.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 21220 |
| Format | 23 x 27.5 |
| Détails | 200 p., 250 illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757213056 |
This book is above all a tribute to eleven women artists, through their portraits, immersed in their daily work, in their favorite place: the studio. Geneviève Asse, Etel Adnan, Pierrette Bloch, Geneviève Claisse, Parvine Curie, Sheila Hicks, Shirley Ja?e, Véra Molnar, Aurélie Nemours, Judith Reigl, Marta Pan, are all from the same generation, the one that gave birth to them before the Second World War, the one that made them reach their artistic maturity in the 1950s and 1960s, the one that made them resurface after the year 2000 in museums and galleries, at the end of their lives. The other link that brings them together is that of abstraction, of all kinds of abstractions because under this label hides as many artistic approaches and possibilities of expression as there are artists. Among them, many asserted themselves, for or against, the second School of Paris that reigned over art at the time. None, however, is "figurative" or, as the following generation would be for the most part, none expresses everyday life, feelings, revolt, the observation of the world, or the reinvention of the "I" and the woman's body. All the women in this book have rather tried to extract themselves from realism, to flee any manifestation of personal introspection, pathos or societal disorder. This book, initiated about ten years ago before they were so celebrated and present in the greatest museums and private collections, is intended to be a light and attractive testimony of a few stolen moments, snatches of conversations, moments of relaxation, moving memories, imbued with smells, changing lights, colors, laughter and silences, in the intimacy of the studio.
This book is above all a tribute to eleven women artists, through their portraits, immersed in their daily work, in their favorite place: the studio. Geneviève Asse, Etel Adnan, Pierrette Bloch, Geneviève Claisse, Parvine Curie, Sheila Hicks, Shirley Ja?e, Véra Molnar, Aurélie Nemours, Judith Reigl, Marta Pan, are all from the same generation, the one that gave birth to them before the Second World War, the one that made them reach their artistic maturity in the 1950s and 1960s, the one that made them resurface after the year 2000 in museums and galleries, at the end of their lives. The other link that brings them together is that of abstraction, of all kinds of abstractions because under this label hides as many artistic approaches and possibilities of expression as there are artists. Among them, many asserted themselves, for or against, the second School of Paris that reigned over art at the time. None, however, is "figurative" or, as the following generation would be for the most part, none expresses everyday life, feelings, revolt, the observation of the world, or the reinvention of the "I" and the woman's body. All the women in this book have rather tried to extract themselves from realism, to flee any manifestation of personal introspection, pathos or societal disorder. This book, initiated about ten years ago before they were so celebrated and present in the greatest museums and private collections, is intended to be a light and attractive testimony of a few stolen moments, snatches of conversations, moments of relaxation, moving memories, imbued with smells, changing lights, colors, laughter and silences, in the intimacy of the studio.