Claude Tousignant
By: Paulette Gagnon, Mark Lanctôt, Marc Mayer ; avec la collaboration de Daniel Lanthier, Denise Leclerc
Contributors: Tousignant, Claude, 1932-; Lanctôt, Mark, 1974-; Mayer, Marc (Marc Daniel), 1956-; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Publisher: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal / ABC Art Books Canada
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9782551237364
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: "Retrospsepctive on the life's work of an artist considered an abstractionist visionary of the first order. The work of Claude Tousignant, from the 1950s to today, encompasses the full range of modernist expression. With his geometric shapes and solid colors coupled with his refusal to incorporate human or identifiable shapes, Tousignant pushed the boundaries to simplify the expression itself in the act of painting, incorporating huge circles, square angles and vivid colors in his pieces. Through a discussion of the exceptional qualities of his profoundly structured oeuvre, this publication outlines the artist's painstaking quest for the essence of art, not only with painting but also with watercolour, gouache and sculpture, and always with a rigour and an unwavering commitment to an ideal."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Feb. 5-Apr. 26, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in French and English.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Marc Mayer; title: Painting As Nothing But Sensation  -- Paulette Gagnon; title: Color Speaks  -- Denise Leclerc; title: The Elusive Monochromes of Claude Tousignant  -- Mark Lanctot; title: Contra Tousignant  -- Daniel Lanthier; title: Chronology -- Martine Perreault.