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Zao Wou-Ki, 1935 2010

[edited by Françoise Marquet and Yann Hendgen ; translation by Jane Marie Todd and Monique Etienne]

Abbeville Press, 2018

タイトル別名

无極Zao

趙無極

Zao Wou-Ki, 1935-2010

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注記

"De Villepin"--Spine

"The present edition of this book, published in the United States of America in 2018 by Abbeville Press, is a translation of the third French edition, published in France in 2017 by Flammarion. An English translation of the first French edition (2009) was published in Hong Kong in 2010 by Kwai Fung Hin"--T.p. verso

Chronology: p. [354]-377

Filmography: p. 380

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-383)

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内容説明

Born in Beijing, raised in Shanghai, Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) rose to prominence in his adopted France, and was one of the world's most celebrated artists at the time of his death. Trained in both Western and Chinese painting, Zao's work bridged both. He became a master when he transcended both vocabularies."I wanted to paint differently," Zao Wou-Ki wrote about leaving China in 1948, and shortly after he landed in Paris, his work took on Western influences: a nude and a portrait of his wife, both 1949, recall Matisse in their subjects, loose style, and use of pattern. In 1951, Zao saw Paul Klee and began creating city scenes and landscapes with a similarly inky, slightly fantastical hand. The Western artists, he said, led him back to China, a statement evidenced in the ideograms and Shang dynasty motifs in his 1956 Ste le pour un ami (Stela for a friend). As Zao moved beyond the West for inspiration, he gradually moved beyond China, too. In doing so, he found his own style. His first abstract painting, Vent (Wind), from 1954, features invented signs and evokes the movement of air without directly representing it. His work continued to evolve, with his experimentation with india ink; his exploration of enormous, multi-panel paintings; his use of bright colors that recall J.M.W. Turner or Franz Kline. His creative maturity lasted for more than half a century, expressed in pictures that marry the lyricism of classical Chinese painting and the expressive force of European modernism, and yet are entirely individual. Prepared in cooperation with the artist's estate, Zao Wou-Ki: 1935-2010 features more than 300 works and is the most complete monograph available on the artist. It highlights his great abstract oil paintings, while also giving due attention to the other facets of his oeuvre, including his student work, his first Matisse- and Klee-influenced canvases, his lithographs and travel notebooks, and his work in watercolours and brush painting. In addition to a penetrating essay by prominent statesman, intellectual, and friend of the artist Dominique de Villepin, the book includes detailed notes on key works, a selective bibliography, a critical anthology, and an illustrated chronology of Zao's life.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB28314174
  • ISBN
    • 9780789213037
  • LCCN
    2017049176
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    fre
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    399 p.
  • 大きさ
    32 cm
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