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16 avril 2013

Misia Sert: the muse

La double tragedie de Misia Sert Misia Sert de Alex-Ceslas Rzewuski Jean Chalon Marie Sophie Olga Zenaide Godebska, plus communément appelée Misia Sert (1872-1956), fille d'un sculpteur polonais, épouse successivement Thadée Natanson, fondateur de la...

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Tags: Coco Chanel, Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gabriel Fauré, Mallarmé, Misia sert, Proust, Stravinsky, Vuillard, Toulouse Lautrec

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28 mars 2013

Villéglé in conversation at the French Institute in London: 9th April 2013

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Tags: posters, New Realism, Villéglé, affiches lacérées, legend, urban historian

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19 mars 2013

art13, London

'N 6', Yiyong Zhu, 2008 - 'The House, Marie Amar, 2007' - Lair, Lu Song, 2012 - sliced photographs, Jonny Briggs, 2011 - 'Self portrait with arrow', Tianbing Li, 2011-12 Ignacio Llamas www.artfairslondon.com

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Tags: collection, photographies, art fair, london, gallery

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12 novembre 2012

Zola Photographer

A fascinating book whose pages are filled with Emile Zolas's photographs. Zola took 700 hundred photographs from 1894 to his brutal death in 1902. This book illustrates Zola's life, shared between his two families: Alexandrine in Medan and Jeanne and...

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Tags: Medan, Verneuil, Zola, Denise Jacques, black white

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17 octobre 2012

'I began to conceive of works based on nothing' Jonathan Jones on how Doris Salcedo's art grew out of the horrors she witnessed

In 1858, in a speech that warned of imminent civil war between the anti-slavery northern and slave-owning southern states of the US, presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln drew on the Bible to warn: "A house divided against itself will not stand." For Lincoln,...

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Tags: Colombian artist, Doris Salcedo, Moma, shoes

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1 mai 2012

Re-appropriation by Rauschenberg...

Could art just be that: Just finding, taking out of the circulation and introducing the objects in the museums? This interview by Rosetta Brooks of Robert Rauschenberg illustrates the way of thinking of the artists who gather images, pieces, objects appropriate...

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Tags: Villegle, appropriation, duchamp, collecting, new realists

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20 avril 2012

Variation with August Sander's characters

Obsession.. I cannot stop working with these pictures. With and without the background, with and without the characters. The idea was to go on with the presence of the absents. The absents being the characters which have been taken off the photographs...

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Tags: August Sander, collage, photomontages

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20 avril 2012

Kurt Schwitters, Color and Collage

"Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was one of the outstanding figures in European modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century, and together with Marcel Duchamp one of the father figures for the generation of the avant-garde after the 2WW." He started...

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Tags: affiches, avant-garde, collage, duchamp

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9 avril 2012

Republique in Villegle's mood

A few days ago, I enjoyed the beauty of the walls of the tube station Republique, in Paris. There are still walls were affiches are glued in the pure tradition of les colleurs d'affiches. These walls are absolutely beautiful and Villegle certainly make...

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Tags: Rotella, Villegle, affiches, advertising, decollages, tube, metro

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2 mars 2012

Susan Sontag, On photography

This book gathers several essays written by Susan Sonntag on her thoughts about photography. There is an isatiability of the photographing eye. The photographers choose for us what is worth looking at and what we have a right ot observe. Photograph is...

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Tags: photography, Susan Sonntag

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