Category - Non Fiction / Art
Format - Hardcover
Condition - New
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Est. Publication Date - Apr 2007
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#hardcover#art#nonfiction Fernand Léger (1881-1955) is famed for his mechanical-tubular Cubism of the 1920s and for the Futurist-inspired film Ballet Mécanique, his collaboration with composer George Antheil. Léger incorporated elements from a wide range of modernist artistic movements, including Fauvism, Neoplasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism and even Social Realism. This volume includes 35 color images; a commentary by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, accompanies each work, elucidating its significance and its context. Source: Publisher
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Fernand Léger Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Febr. 15 - May 12, 1998 : Essays by Carolyn Lanchner, Jodi Hauptman and Matthew Affron ; and Contrib. by Beth Handler and Kristen Erickson up
ISBN: 9780870700521
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Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series Contrastes de formes (1913-14), the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubis...
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