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Fernand Léger: Painting in Space
Katia Baudin (Ed.)
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Description for Fernand Léger: Painting in Space
Paperback. In close dialogue with architects like Wallace K Harrison and Le Corbusier French artist Fernand Leger (1881-1955) produced fascinating, often unexpectedly experimental and frequently abstract projects for houses, flats, churches, ships and world exhibitions. This book deals with his work. Num Pages: 312 pages, 280 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 275 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1236.
The goal should be an understanding by all three parties: the wall, the architect and the painter , observed the French artist Fernand Leger (1881-1955) in 1933. His projects reveal a willingness to try out new things and demonstrate his striving to extend painting beyond the boundaries of the easel and to integrate it into the social, everyday space. They shed new light on one of the influential artists of the twentieth century. Fernand Leger, known for his Cubist paintings and his representational works of the mechanical period, was a trained architectural draughtsman who from the early 1920s until the ... Read more
The goal should be an understanding by all three parties: the wall, the architect and the painter , observed the French artist Fernand Leger (1881-1955) in 1933. His projects reveal a willingness to try out new things and demonstrate his striving to extend painting beyond the boundaries of the easel and to integrate it into the social, everyday space. They shed new light on one of the influential artists of the twentieth century. Fernand Leger, known for his Cubist paintings and his representational works of the mechanical period, was a trained architectural draughtsman who from the early 1920s until the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783777425948
SKU
V9783777425948
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Ref
99-15
About Katia Baudin (Ed.)
Katia Baudin is assistant director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In September 2016, she will become director of the Kunstmuseum Krefeld.
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