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Eleanor Nairne

Jean Dubuffet

Brutal Beauty

Hardcover
$ 50.00| £ 39.99 (* recommended retail price)

Featuring newly commissioned essays and photography of rarely exhibited orks, this book highlights the radicalism of Jean Dubuffet, who was one of the most provocative voices of the postwar avant-garde.

In 1940s occupied Paris, Jean Dubuffet began to champion a progressive vision for art; one that rejected classical notions of beauty in favor of a more visceral aesthetic. Taking a pioneering approach to materiality and technique, the artist variously blended paint with sand, glass, tar, coal dust, and string. At the same time, he began to assemble a collection of art brut—work that was made outside the academic tradition of fine art—even visiting psychiatric wards from 1945 to collect work by patients. This book features texts from leading scholars and is accompanied by images that illuminate Dubuffet’s attempts to move beyond the artistic expectations of his time. The works are grouped into six thematic sections that focus on specific series, from his graffiti-inspired “Walls” and his notorious portrait series, “People are Much More Beautiful Than They Think” to the “Corps de dames,” a controversial series of “female” landscapes, and his anthropomorphic sculptures, “Little Statues of Precarious Life.” Exquisitely produced, this celebration of Dubuffet’s work embraces his world view that art is for everyone, not just the elite.

With contributions by Sophie Berrebi, Charlotte Flint, Camille Houzé, Sarah Lombardi, Kent Minturn, Rachel Perry, and Sarah Wilson

Published in association with the Barbican Art Gallery, London


Hardcover, 288 pages, 24,0 x 28,0 cm, 9.4 x 11.0 in, 300 color illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-7913-5979-3
Published:
US May 04, 2021
UK May 04, 2021
Status of delivery: This title is available.

Biography

Eleanor Nairne

Eleanor Nairne ist Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator und Leiterin der Abteilung für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst am Philadelphia Museum of Art. Zuvor war sie leitende Kuratorin an der Barbican Art Gallery in London, wo sie unter anderem Ausstellungen wie Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle (2023), Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty (2021), Lee Krasner: Living Colour (2019) und Basquiat: Boom for Real (2017) kuratierte. Sie schreibt regelmäßig für London Review of Books und Publikationen wie frieze und The Art Newspaper.

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