Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne : nature transformed / Kathleen M. Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Kathleen M., 1959- author.

Contributor:

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lalanne, François Xavier--Exhibitions.

Lalanne, François Xavier.

Lalanne, Claude--Exhibitions.

Lalanne, Claude.

Nature (Aesthetics)--Exhibitions.

Nature (Aesthetics).

Animals in art--Catalogs.

Animals in art.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 27 cm

Other Title:

Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne

Place of Publication:

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2021]

Summary:

"François-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 François-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"-- Provided by publisher.

"François-Xavier (1927-2008) and Claude (1925-2019) Lalanne were a husband-wife team of artists who created inventive, whimsical works that have been widely admired and collected since the 1960s. This book presents a carefully selected group of objects that focus on a shared preoccupation of the artists: the transformation of natural forms to new purposes, such as François-Xavier's rhinoceros sculpture that opens into a writing desk 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; offers important historical context for the artists' origins in the Paris art scene of the 1960s; 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Published by the Clark Art Institute on the occasion of the exhibition Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, May 8-October 31, 2021"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781935998433

1935998439

9780300250848

0300250843

OCLC:

1243906198

Publisher Number:

40030720356