Functions of Painting

Leger, Fernand; Anderson, Alexandra (Translated by), and Fry, Edward F. (Edited with an Introduction by), and Morris, George L. K. (Preface by)

ISBN 10: 0670332216 / ISBN 13: 9780670332212

Verlag: Viking Press; Documents of 20th-Century Art Ser., New York, 1973

Beschreibung

Cloth, xiv, 221 pages, illustrations, portraits; 22 cm. English translation of author's Fonctions de la peinture, 1965, Gonthier, Paris. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear/closed tear on the front cover, protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: Publishers' note; Preface, by George L.K. Morris; Introduction, by Edward F. Fry; Chronology; The origins of painting and its representational value (1913); Contemporary achievements in painting (1914); A critical essay on the plastic quality of Abel Gance's film The Wheel (1922); Notes on contemporary plastic life (1923); Notes on the mechanical element (1923); The spectacle : light, color, moving image, object-spectacle (1924); Ballet Me canique (c. 1924); The machine aesthetic : the manufactured object, the artisan, and the artist (1924); The machine aesthetic : geometric order and truth (1925); The ballet-spectacle, the object-spectacle (1925); Popular dance halls (1925); The street : objects, spectacles (1928); Abstract art (1931); New York (1931); The wall, the architect, the painter (1933); Speaking of cinema (1933); The new realism (1935); The new realism goes on (1937); Color in the world (1938); The human body considered as an object (1945); The painter's eye (1946); Art and the people (1946); Modern architecture and color (1946); How I conceive of the figure (1949); A new space in architecture (1949); Mural painting and easel painting (1950); The problem of freedom in art (1950); Modern painting (1950); The circus (1950); Mural painting (1952); New conceptions of space (1952); Color in architecture (1954); The Spartakiades (1960); A bibliographical guide to Le ger, by Bernard Karpel. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Functions of Painting
• Verlag: Viking Press; Documents of 20th-Century Art Ser., New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1973
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0670332216
• ISBN-13: 9780670332212
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good
• Buchtyp: Collectible
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  • Movements::Cubism
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  • European::9. Contemporary
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Book by Fernand Leger