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Explores the intriguing story of porcelain glaze at the end of the 18th century in China, in the 19th century in France, and in the work of two 20th century ceramic artists: Fance Franck and Thomas BohleAccompanies a show at the Fondation Baur, (Geneva) beginning 13th September 2022This book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Baur, explores the intriguing story of porcelain glaze at the end of the 18th century in China, in the 19th century in France, and in the work of two 20th century ceramic artists. Part one investigates the development of opaque glazes for use on porcelain and copper during the 18th century in work from three collections: Alfred Baur's vast collection of imperial ceramics; the Canton glazes of the Zubov Foundation; and export porcelain from the Ariana Museum in Geneva. The second part begins in France, in the 19th century, at the Sèvres factory, tracing the various journeys to China to bring back samples of color, analyze them chemically, and tirelessly attempt to reproduce them. The catalog ends in the present, with the experiments conducted by the American-born artist Fance Franck (1927-2008) on "sacrificial red" and the work on color carried out by the Austrian ceramist Thomas Bohle. Text in English and French.

A beautifully illustrated 2-volume set introducing Fondation Gandur's collection of classical antiques gathered over more than 40 years by founder Jean Claude Gandur.

La famosa citazione di Jean Dubuffet è celebre tra coloro che si interessano all'Art Brut. Questa sollecitazione che invita ad esplorare è molto chiara, e offre a chiunque l'accoglie gli indizi utili affinché si possa scoprire ciò che non si considera perché troppo vicino, e ciò che non si vede perché lontano dagli spazi espositivi più consueti. Questo è il caso delle fotografie di famiglie trovate nei mercati delle pulci e nei negozi di seconda mano dai collezionisti autori della presente pubblicazione. Antoine Gentil e Lucas Reitalov, dopo essersi incontrati nel 2017, hanno iniziato insieme una raccolta di fotografie di famiglia che oggi vanta diverse decine di migliaia di stampe e qualche centinaio di photomachinées tutte pubblicate in questo libro. Tale neologismo, inventato dai due collezionisti, indica forme che non sono né interamente fotografie né oggetti: sono piccoli feticci carichi di emozioni che non sono mai stati pensati per essere esposti. Grazie a una paziente ricerca i collezionisti hanno dato vita a una raccolta di ricordi altrimenti condannati all'oblio, che comprende semplici ritagli così come messe in scena più complesse dove le fotografie originali diventano parte di una narrazione articolata. Queste creazioni, realizzate a partire dalla fine del XIX secolo, sono via via scomparse contemporaneamente al cadere in disuso della stampa delle fotografie su carta e al subentrare coevo della tecnologia digitale. L'osservazione attenta di queste photomachinées ha fatto sì che si evidenziassero delle somiglianze indipendenti dal luogo di origine e dall'epoca di produzione, e ha consentito ai collezionisti di dare vita a insiemi omogenei: photorejetées, photorescapées, photocaviardées, photoencadrées, photoadorées...

A survey of contemporary artists who use cut paper - from small-scale intricate cuttings to monumental architectural interventions and sculpture - as an art form.

In the spring of 2022, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present the first exhibition in Canada devoted to the Swiss artist Nicolas Party, whose unique visual language both challenges and celebrates the conventions of pictorial representation. Text in English and French.

This catalogue for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne highlights the museum's holdings with a selection of works that address belief in its many manifestations, including religion, spirit, and the occult.

This book presents the roughly 63 statues of the Bari tribe that are known today and provides both historical context and current scholarship for these works, their use and their stylistic diversity. Text in English and French.

Stunning, colour-saturated, studio photographs by a Senegalese photographer whose costumed portraits and self-portraits reflect on the history of Black Africans and the African diaspora. Text in English and French.

This catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Baur brings together paintings by French artist Pierre Soulages and sculpture by the Japanese bamboo master, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV. Text in English and French.

Italian artist Maria Lai's best-known large-scale collective art project, a 3-day event in her small hometown in Sardinia in 1981, carried out entirely by the residents and photographed by Piero Berengo Gardin.

This book offers a review of Matteo Pugliese's art over the past 20 years. The figures the Milanese sculptor creates are distinguished by their great power, revealing an inner torment that can no longer be disguised. Text in English and Italian.

This volume is a continuation of the first instalment of the editorial project Canova | In Four Tempos.

Gathered together for the first time in one book, an exceptional collection of handmade notebooks, sketchbooks, and journals by 60 remarkable visionary artists, including Aloeise Henry Darger, Dan Miller, Charles Dellschau, James Castle, and Adolf Woelfli, among others. Text in English and French.

For the first time African headrests are brought to life with detailed information on their carvers, and the stories of their creation, ownership, and use.

The book is dedicated to two major large collaborative canvases by male and female artists of the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands and the Kulata Tjuta installation by artists of that same region. Text in English and French.

This book celebrates the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm designed and furnished by Gio Ponti. Text in English and Italian.

Collects the best works from the Ceil Pulitzer Collection of African Art, put together over more than 30 years.

A 4,000-kilometre journey exploring a little-known network uniting highways, back roads, forests, parks, rivers, and nature reserves throughout the Italian peninsula. Text in English and Italian.

The aim of this first volume is to catalog the works in the collection, whose decorative aspects are every bit as important as their narrative content.

This monograph on Susanna Bauer presents the artist's work to an international audience for the first time in book form. The essential ingredients of Bauer's artistic production are leaves, stones, twigs...

Contemporary Aboriginal and Western artwork from two important private collections on view at the Fondation Opale.

A collection of black and white images of hidden artefacts from Pompeii, held at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples

Many of Gauguin's portraits of Breton and Polynesian sitters, as well as his self-portraits, include inanimate objects. Intriguing as these are, the works in Paul Gauguin's portrait "gallery" have never really been the subject of a thorough study. Text in French.

Over the years, the cosmic ideas of distant foreign lands were incorporated in the Hausas' system of thought and the allo kafii gida have thus turned into cosmological time capsules impressed on wooden panels.

The book is a new take on perception and preconceptions about the unclothed body and how, through art, the naked becomes the nude.

The theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled 'Art Brut - The Collection', published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale.

This book presents the Josette and Jean-Claude Weill Collection. Expanded over the decades under the enthusiastic stewardship of their son Jean-Pierre, the collection now includes over 120 works of the very highest order, covering Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

This book is the most important monograph devoted to the Swiss artist-photographer Beatrice Helg. Text in English and French.