Yves Tanguy Livres

""L'inquiétante étrangeté sera cette sorte de l'effrayant qui se rattache aux choses connues depuis longtemps, et de tout temps familières." C'est à l'aune du célèbre essai de Sigmund Freud, intitulé L'Inquiétante Étrangeté, que le musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes propose de confronter les chefs-d'oeuvre de ses collections. Signées par les plus grands artistes de l'histoire de l'art du XVIIe siècle au XXIe siècle La Tour, Ingres, Kandinsky, Tanguy, Brassai, Michaux, On Kawara ou Gilbert & George, les oeuvres réunies interrogent le pouvoir de l'imaginaire, du visionnaire et de l'hallucinatoire. Articulée en plusieurs thèmes l'enfer, le rêve, la mort..., leur mise en résonance, à la fois artistique et littéraire à travers des citations de Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Perec..., permet de découvrir des sens cachés et de percevoir d'inquiétantes étrangetés."--P. [4] of cover.

Ur-Surrealist Yves Tanguy belonged to the inner circle of the 1920s Parisian avant-garde, alongside such figures as Salvador Dal', Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti, making essential contributions to Surrealist manifestoes, magazines, and exhibitions. Tanguy's artistic obsession was the world of imagination, of dreams and reveries, and his cryptically codified imagery continues to perplex audiences today. His paintings seem to exist in a hazy, oddly beautiful limbo dimension beyond time and space, a world at once vertiginous and calm, disturbing and breathtaking. The central focus of Yves Tanguy and Surrealism is the Surrealist mode, to which Tanguy dedicated himself like no other painter of his time, cementing the movement's place in the history of visual art. On the basis of previously unpublished documents and works, authors discuss Tanguy's otherworldly oeuvre in all its aspects--from his development as an artist to the reception of his work in the United States. With stunning reproductions in full color as well as black and white, Yves Tanguy and Surrealism is an extensive overview of the work of an artist whose forays into the creative unknown continue to resonate.

Tentoonstellingscatalogus (Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1982).Met biografie en bibliografie