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Ce qui est arrivé par la peinture - Écrits et entretiens 1953-2006 De Simon Hantaï (1922-2008), on ne retient habituellement que les peintures éclatantes nées à partir de 1960 du « pliage comme méthode » et son attitude, si hors du commun aujourd'hui, de repli silencieux à l'égard du monde de l'art et de son marché. Cela revient à occulter un peu vite que son oeuvre s'élabore à Paris dès 1948 et ...

"Warnock's monograph makes a signature contribution to the study of Hantaï's body of work and to the wider history of modernism. She explicates the fundamental theoretical and practical concerns of an understudied artist whose work, while important, is not well known to a broad audience. Without a doubt, her scholarship provides the most sophisticated art-historical analysis of Hantaï's thought an...

As part of New Art from Wall to Wall, the Museum of Modern Art is presenting never-before and rarely shown works in themed, reimagined collection galleries. The gallery Touching the Void explores an important artistic tendency of the 1960s: a shift away from the idea that art should express the artist's interior life. Works in this vein searched for a poetics of bare form and focused on structural...