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The French city of Limoges was world famous for the production of champlevé enamels during the Middle Ages. During the Renaissance a revival of Limoges enamels took place, but the technique employed was that of painted enamel.Triptychs with a sacred subject, conceived as a painting but shining like jewelry and built with durable materials, became popular.
The exhibition catalogue reproduces more than one hundred works, both drawings and assemblages by Louis Pons. His entire period of activity is represented and allows us to appreciate the unity and coherence of the work of this singular artist.
Guido Remi (1575–1642) was the star painter of the Italian Baroque and one of Europe’s most successful artists in his lifetime, widely sought after by prominent patrons.
An exhibition dedicated to art collections in exile. It aims to evoke the critical role of cultural heritage in the construction of an identity by and for communities in times of conflict.
The Giacometti Foundation in Paris explores the relationship between surrealist artists Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali within the context of a project for an extraordinary garden designed for Viscount Noailles and his wife in the early 1930s.
The prolific and unclassifiable universe of the painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist Joan Miró.
This volume is the first monograph dedicated to the work of the Swiss artist Anne Pantillon, and it collects all of her serial works and the results of her research since the Aughts.
Julien Saudubray graduated in 2012 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and since then has exhibited in Belgium, France, Italy and England. This young artist excels in experimenting.
Designed by the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and installed on the Champ-de-Mars, the Grand Palais Éphémère is a temporary building of 10,000 m2 supported by the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais and Paris 2024, and built by the company GL events.
The gender politics of abstraction: embroidered paintings and more from Ghada Amer New York-based painter and embroiderer Ghada Amer (born 1963) was raised in Cairo, Egypt, and later educated in Nice and Paris, France.
Cet ouvrage réunit cinquante lettres écrites par Agnès Thurnauer adressées à Henri Matisse.
Saint-Étienne was the crucible for change that pushed France into modernity between 1780 and 1850 ...
This book presents a selection of works by Alfred Basbous (1924-2006). Its publication coincides with a new presentation of the permanent collections of the Alfred Basbous Foundation in Rachana (Lebanon).
The catalog of the exhibition on the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) and Martin Parr (born in 1952). This exhibition reconciles the two photographers, separated by a “gulf” as Martin Parr describes it himself, through their gaze, at three different times, on the society of Northern England at work and during his leisure time. • See exhibition...
The work of Nicole Bottet can be seen in private collections and museums throughout Europe, Japan, China, the United States and Canada.
Questo catalogo presenta l’arte di un solo popolo africano, i Songye della Repubblica Democratica del Congo, e una sola tipologia di oggetti magico-protettivi: in lingua locale nkishi (al singolare) e mankishi (al plurale).
This publication, the fourth in an important multi-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia (1879–1953), includes the paintings and a selection of drawings from 1940 to 1952.
Belgian artist Philip Aguirre y Otegui (b. 1961) is particularly known for his sculptures, installations and monumental works in public space. Less well known is his large body of drawings and graphic works. For Aguirre drawing is essential, allowing him to think and analyse the world: “I draw therefore I think.”
This thought-provoking essay by Corinna Thierolf stems from the art created by Fabienne Verdier in a visual and spiritual dialog with the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald (1516), housed at the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar. • See exhibition details
The exhibition catalogue is the first of its kind and covers many artistic fields: painting, sculpture, furniture, design, architecture and photography, as well as numerous references to literature, theatre, the press, cinema and music, thanks to contributions from specialists in their respective fields. • See exhibition details
As Afghanistan stands once again in the shadow of the Taliban since 15 August 2021, the civilians' cultural resistance has never been more crucial.
In Florence in 1568, Giorgio Vasari publishes the second version of The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, a work destined to lay the foundations of the historiography of Italian Renaissance art.
An entirely immersive exhibition, "The Mona Lisa" combines 360° projections, sound envelopes and digital technology, all of which provide clues to penetrate to the heart of this portrait, painted in 1503 by Leonardo da Vinci.
We humans have always been fascinated by the cosmos and have always wondered about our place in it. Our ancestors tried to decrypt its mysteries, reproducing their ideas, and some of these have survived to this day. > Book preview
The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou traces Patti Smith's travels with Soundwalk Collective, a collective working on experimental sound from an anthropological, ethnographic and psycho-geographic approach. • See exhibition details
A facsimile edition of the Holker Album, a unique album of textile samples. In 1751, John Holker (1719-1786), an English textile manufacturer exiled in France, undertook a perilous industrial espionage mission to England to collect samples of English textiles on behalf of the French king, Louis XV.
This book plunges us into the world of ’80s and ’90s. These have witnessed unprecedented experiments in the world of design and architecture.
This book with its rich and unpublished documentation, is composed of drawings, execution plans, and period photographs of more than three hundred chess sets created by artists, designers, architects, and craftspeople, and offers a new perspective on the evolution of art during the 20th century.
Why this series of sculptures around small people? Because I wanted to represent the shock of the gaze that confronts the difference. This insistent, curious, sometimes judgmental gaze that arouses curiosity in the person watching. > Book preview
The Musée de Montmartre gives voice to a forgotten woman, Fernande Olivier, but one who bore intimate witness to an epoch: that of bohemian Montmartre and the birth of modern art. > Book preview
L'Atlas is a Parisian artist born in 1978. Fascinated by handwriting from an early age, he moves to different Arabic countries in the 1990s to study calligraphy.
A new perspective on Basquiat’s artistic and musical career. Music holds a prominent place in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painterly practice in the form of sign, symbol and sound.
Vassil Ivanoff lies at the origins of the revival of modern ceramics, and especially of stoneware, which reached its peak in the 1970s.
Since the mid-1990s, the French artist Jérôme Boutterin has been constructing an impressive work, mainly abstract, remarkable for the dynamism of its interplay of lines, its multiple perspectives and its chromatic exuberance.
Louvre Abu Dhabi, in partnership with the Musée d'Orsay, invites to think again about Impressionism with one of the most significant Impressionist exhibitions ever to be held outside France.
Through insightful texts and striking art from the Alain Bordier Collection, this book provides an exceptional panorama of Tibetan art, history, and religious thought. > Book preview
After his death in 1958 and despite a few exhibitions, the painter Hans Reichel remained unknown to the general public. However, this German, born in Bavaria in 1892 and who came to settle in Paris after the First World War, will have a very unique career.
Longtime collaborators of Pierre Cardin, Jean-Pascal Hesse and Pierre Pelegry share their intimate knowledge of the fashion designer’s early career in Paris. > Book preview
Alberto Giacometti is more than a major twentieth-century artist - he is also one of the century's most intriguing characters. This biography, the result of new research, takes us into the private life of an artist haunted by his oeuvre, driven relentlessly by an uncompromising and demanding nature.
«Legacy» places old works, not previously exhibited and new productions of Sophie Ristelhueber side by side in dialogue with a series of pieces by Alberto Giacometti.
Chosen for the Lebanese pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, Ayman Baalbaki is an artist born in Beirut in 1975. The last 10 years have been compiled through this unpublished work. Text in English, French and Arabic.
Published in a bilingual version, the catalogue Nanda Vigo, the inner space brings together archive images, articles and interviews with design specialists and art historians Victoire Brun, Bérengère Bussioz, Justine Despretz, Marco Meneguzzo, Alessandro Padoan, Constance Rubini, Marion Vignal and Rebecca Welkens.
This exhibition tells the often turbulent story of the quest for colour on porcelain in China and France.
Edited by Chiara Spangaro, the catalogue raisonné presents for the first time the totality of the products designed and realized by Rossi, from the first pieces of furniture produced in 1960 to 1997.