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André Kertész : postcards from Paris /

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2021]Distributor: New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 239 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 27 cmContent type:

still image
text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300260038
0300260032

Other title:

Postcards from Paris

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DDC classification:

779.092 23

LOC classification:

TR647 .A54528 2021

Contents:

Foreword / James Rondeau -- André Kertész's carte postale period : Paris, 1925-28 / Elizabeth Siegel -- "The grotesque dancer from Pest" : Magda Förstner and the making of Satiric Dancer / Sarah Kennel -- "It was a beautiful paper" : notes on Guilleminot cartes postales / Sylvie Pénichon -- Catalogue of known carte postale prints.

Summary: "This elegant book unites all of the known carte postale prints by the photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), including portraits, views of Paris, careful studio scenes, and exquisitely simple still lifes. Essays shed new light on the artist's most acclaimed images; themes of materiality, exile, and communication; his illustrious and bohemian social circle; and the changing identity of art photography. Playful yet refined, the book's design reflects the spirit of 1920s Paris while underscoring the modernity of the catalogue's more than 250 illustrated works. Kertesz made his rigorously composed prints on inexpensive but lush postcard stock, sharing them with friends and sending them back to family in Hungary. The works reveal the artist learning his craft as he encountered an international group of modernists-including Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, and Joseph Csaky-in the interwar metropolis. Prized by collectors as well as by Kertesz himself, the cartes postales influenced his compositions and the intimate scale of his picture making for decades."--Provided by publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Carleton University, AVRC	Open-stacks	TR 647 A54528 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16055000362

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2, 2021- January 17, 2022; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 18-May 29, 2022.

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