Balthus

A Biography
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-56478-992-1
Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 656 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1107 g

Reihe: American Literature Series

This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time--the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola--whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. The artist's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in a book that derives its immediacy from the author's long and intense conversations with Balthus himself--who never previously consented to discuss his life and work with a biographer--as well as Weber's interviews with the painter's closest associates. First published by Knopf in 1999, now available for the first time from Dalkey Archive Press.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weber, Nicholas Fox

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Fox Weber is the Executive Director of the Josef and Anna Albers Foundation and has written extensively about each artist, as well as curating many major exhibitions and retrospectives of their work. Weber is a graduate of Columbia College and Yale University; he is the author of fourteen books including The Bauhaus Group, Le Corbusier, The Clarks of Cooperstown, Patron Saints, The Art of Babar and The Drawings of Josef Albers. Weber is currently at work on a biography of Piet Mondrian.