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Antoni Tàpies: Political Biography: Fundació Antoni Tapies

Antoni Tàpies: Political Biography: Fundació Antoni Tapies

Tàpies, Antoni
Antich, Xavier
Domènech, Glòria

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ISBN10: 3960984197
ISBN13: 9783960984191
Publisher: Walther Konig Dap
Published: Dec 15 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

An artist's responses to the political conditions of his native Catalonia, including letters and manifestoes alongside reproductions of his work

In works that occupy a unique midground between painting and sculpture, Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) fused the material vocabulary of Arte Povera and the gestural energy of abstract expressionism with the mystical sensibility of Iberian Catholicism. Tàpies showed a preference for an austere palate and unconventional materials reflecting the limited resources of his political environment. He spent three decades of his long productive career in Barcelona, where he lived and died, under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. In that time, Tàpies confronted many of the paradoxes a creative artist faces under an authoritarian and anti-intellectual regime. In painting, sculpture, writing and other mediums, his work existed in conversation with the currents of contemporary art in the West while within the strictures of an oppressive state.

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