书名：Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed
定价：218.0
ISBN：9780300250848
作者：Kathleen M. Morris
版次：1
出版时间：2021-11

内容提要：

书名：Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed/克劳德和弗朗索瓦·萨维尔·拉兰：大自然的转变
作者：Kathleen M. Morris
出版：Yale University Press，2021
装帧：平装，128页
语种：英文
尺寸：27x23 cm

 

A beautifully illustrated, concise critical analysis of the art, careers, and reception of the husband-wife team of artists known as Les Lalanne

Fran?ois-Xavier (1927–2008) and Claude (1925–2019) Lalanne were a husband-wife team of artists who created inventive and often surprising works that have been widely admired and collected since the 1960s. This book presents a carefully selected group of sculptures that focus on a shared preoccupation of the artists: the transformation of natural forms to serve new purposes, such as Fran?ois-Xavier’s giant grasshopper sculpture that opens into a bar and Claude’s bench made of galvanized metal branches and vines such that it remains as much a forest as a place to sit. Critical analysis explores the full breadth of the artists’ careers; considers the complex issues of reception and categorization of their work; and prompts a reevaluation of the place their art occupies in the context of art museums, all while encouraging readers to consider relationships among nature, art, and their own encounters with both.