书名：Balthus: Cats and Girls / 巴尔蒂斯：猫与女孩

ISBN：9780300197013

作者：Sabine Rewald

出版：Yale University Press，2013

装帧：精装，176页，100幅彩插+20幅黑白图

语种：英文

开本：22.9×25.4cm

内容简介：

对巴尔蒂斯（Balthus）一直以来对猫与少女的迷恋进行的深刻全新解读，包括他那些备受争议的描绘青春期少女的画作。

巴尔蒂斯对童年的模糊性与黑暗面的终生好奇，成就了他最著名且最具标志性的作品。在这些画作中，巴尔蒂斯（1908 - 2001）将对年轻模特内心世界的直觉，与明显的情欲渴望和冷峻严肃相融合，使这些画作成为有史以来画布上对童年与青春期最为有力的描绘之一。这些场景中常常出现神秘的猫，它们可能是艺术家本人的替身。

《巴尔蒂斯：猫与女孩》是第一本专注于这一主题的书籍，聚焦于艺术家从20世纪30年代中期到50年代的早期职业生涯。凭借对艺术家生活与作品的广泛了解，以及对巴尔蒂斯和模特本人的采访，萨宾·雷瓦尔德（Sabine Rewald）探究了巴尔蒂斯对青春期少女和猫的痴迷的起源与演变。她阐述了诸如诗人莱纳·玛利亚·里尔克（Rainer Maria Rilke）等关键人物的重要影响，里尔克是巴尔蒂斯母亲的情人，扮演着他的代理父亲的角色，但书中也纳入了此前不为人知的少女模特们的声音：她们的回忆与评论为20世纪一些最著名且最具争议的画作提供了独特视角。 

An insightful new look at Balthus’s ongoing fascination with cats and girls, including his controversial paintings of young adolescents

Balthus’s lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908-2001) mingles intuition into his young sitters’ psyches with overt erotic desire and forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful depictions of childhood and adolescence ever committed to canvas. Often included in these scenes are enigmatic cats, possible stand-ins for the artist himself.

Balthus: Cats and Girls is the first book devoted to this subject, focusing on the early decades of the artist’s career from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the artist’s life and work, as well as on interviews with Balthus and the models themselves, Sabine Rewald explores the origins and permutations of Balthus’s obsessions with adolescents and felines. She addresses the crucial influence of such key figures as poet Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother’s lover, who acted as Balthus’s surrogate father, but also includes the previously unknown voices of the girl models: their recollections and comments provide a unique perspective on some of the best known and most controversial paintings of the 20th century.

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