Keys to a passion
By: edited by Suzanne Pagé and Béatrice Parent ; translation of the French texts, Anthony Allen [and five others] ; translation of the German texts, Michael Scuffil ; translation of the Dutch text, Guy Shipton ; translation of the Norwegian text, Cecilie Bjernes Aarre
Contributors: Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France)
Publisher: Editions Hazan, Paris
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780300215427
Subjects: European Painting; European Sculpture; Modern Art; Exhibitions; Modern Painting
Description: This beautiful and authoritative book brings together a number of exceptional works of art whose audacity disrupted the course of art history at the beginning of the 20th century. Major artists including Monet, Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko, Bonnard, Picasso, Munch, Giacometti, Bacon, Leger, Picabia, Matisse, Kupka, and Kandinsky are each represented by a key piece from their oeuvre. The text comprises 20 essays on the individual artists by a team of internationally renowned experts. Additional essays grapple with important questions and current debates within the art world, such as which artists are now making art history, and what gives a work lasting iconic status. The book focuses on well-known, landmark works that are models of the passionate creation of art as well as staples of scholarship on art history.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, April 1-July 6, 2015.--Fondation Louis Vuitton website.

"Fondation Louis Vuitton"

Issued also in French with title Les clefs d'une passion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282).
Table of contents: title: The nature of the work, the eye set free / Jacqueline Lichtenstein; title: The museum in the making / Patricia Falguières; title: The canon and stories of modern art / Elisabeth Lebovici; title: The sensory and its critics / Alain Cueff; title: Pictures at an exhibition / Robert Storr; title: Eleven digressions on art history / Jean-Pierre Criqui; title: Francis Bacon: 'To create something is a sort of echo from one artist to another' / Michael Peppiatt; title: Pierre Bonnard: Le bel été / Olivier Kaeppelin; title: Constantin Brancusi: A traditional motif transmuted into an icon of modernity / Marielle Tabart; title: Robert Delaunay: 'Pop' before pop / Pascal Rousseau; title: Otto Dix: Notorious and famous : Otto Dix and the dancer Anita Berber / Ulrike Groos; title: Akseli Gallen-Kallela: In the wake of dream and reality / Anne Robbins Josse; title: Alberto Giacometti: 'Every man is every other man, and I as much as the others' / Véronique Wiesinger; title: Ferdinand Hodler: 'Now it's magnificent' / Philippe Büttner; title: Wassily Kandinsky: Towards the absolute work / Annegret Hoberg. Dissonances in art / Marcella Lista; title: František Kupka: The art of fugue and the beginnings of abstraction / Marcella Lista; title: Fernand Léger: The dynamics of contrast / Isabelle Monod-Fontaine; title: Kazimir Malevich: The square, the cross, the circle, the black and the white - or the suprematist emergence of the space of the world / Jean-Claude Marcadé; title: Henri Matisse: Grandeur obtained 'by the simplest means' / Isabelle Monod-Fontaine; title: Piet Mondrian: 'The natural in its most profound manifestation' / Wietse Coppes; title: Claude Monet: Birth of an icon : evolution of the critical fortunes of the water lilies / Marianne Mathieu; title: Edvard Munch: The scream as a vision of despair / Arne Eggum; title: Emil Nolde: Nature : an energy field / Jörg Garbrecht. A sense of nature : Hodler, Nolde, Mondrian / Ludovic Delalande; title: Francis Picabia: A 'pop-ist' modernism / Arnauld Pierre; title: Pablo Picasso: Marie-Thérèse, the blonde muse / Marie-Laure Bernadac; title: Mark Rothko: The pulse of the painting / Riccardo Venturi; title: Helene Schjerfbeck: Bare vitality / Elisabeth Lebovici; title: Gino Severini: Futurism and dancing music / Giovanni Lista.