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F. Léger /

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Publisher: New York, N.Y. : BDD Illustrated Books, [1993]Description: 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cmISBN:
  • 0792458486
  • 9780792458487
Other title:
  • Fernand Léger
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ND553.L58 N47 1993
Contents:
The fourth great one -- Farewell to Impressionism -- From Cubism to tubism -- Contrast of form -- Poetics of the machine -- A robotics of characters -- The temptation of the cinema & the attraction to set design -- From purism to pop art, or the triumph of the object -- Return to the human form -- Monumental language -- The New York years -- The builders -- Country outing -- The big parade.
Summary: "Léger is one of the giants of twentieth century art, yet his work has never received the full attention that it deserves. This book, with 350 illustrations, over 150 in color, by renowned critic and art historian Gilles Néret, sets out to remedy this unfortunate oversight. Léger created daring experiments with color. The formal construction of his paintings extended the cubist program which still have the power to surprise and stimulate the viewer. The uncompromising manner in which Léger set out to make art the property of the common man, by embracing all levels of culture as fitting material for the artist, has served as a model for the generations of artists that succeeded him."--book jacket.
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Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography (page 249).

The fourth great one -- Farewell to Impressionism -- From Cubism to tubism -- Contrast of form -- Poetics of the machine -- A robotics of characters -- The temptation of the cinema & the attraction to set design -- From purism to pop art, or the triumph of the object -- Return to the human form -- Monumental language -- The New York years -- The builders -- Country outing -- The big parade.

"Léger is one of the giants of twentieth century art, yet his work has never received the full attention that it deserves. This book, with 350 illustrations, over 150 in color, by renowned critic and art historian Gilles Néret, sets out to remedy this unfortunate oversight. Léger created daring experiments with color. The formal construction of his paintings extended the cubist program which still have the power to surprise and stimulate the viewer. The uncompromising manner in which Léger set out to make art the property of the common man, by embracing all levels of culture as fitting material for the artist, has served as a model for the generations of artists that succeeded him."--book jacket.

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