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Shunk - Kender Art in the eye of the camera (1957-1983) | Catalog Exhibition
Shunk - Kender Art in the eye of the camera (1957-1983) | Catalog Exhibition

Shunk - Kender Art in the eye of the camera (1957-1983) | Catalog Exhibition

9782365112147 €49

Summary

In co-edition with Publisher Xavier Barral

Description

With this exhibition, the Centre Pompidou presents the first retrospective devoted to the photographers Harry Shunk (1924-2006) and János Kender (1937-2009). Through a selection stemming from more than ten thousand prints from the period, housed in the Kandinsky library and acquired in 2008 thanks to a donation by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, discover a priceless eye-witness account of post-war art.

Harry Shunk and János Kender chronicled the incredible boiling of the art scene of Parisian and New York avant-gardes from the 1950s to the 1980s. First book devoted to this exceptional photographic collection, through more than 800 photographs, several illustrated essays of archival documents, he tells the exceptional story of this body of more than 200,000 vintage prints, contact sheets and negatives.

This pair of photographers rubbed shoulders with avant-garde Paris and New York artists including John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Dan Graham, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé, Andy Warhol ...

Their photographs testify to the emergence of new creative gestures, daily workshops, the world of galleries, performances and vernissages that will make dates and pioneering exhibitions. At the same time major documents on the international avant-gardes, they testify to the spirit of an era in full artistic effervescence, these images also put in place particular photographic devices. They capture faces, creative gestures, life in the studio, evenings between artists and collectors in frameworks and approaches that make them photographic works in their own right.

This book is supported by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

Characteristics

Hardcover, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
484 pages, 840 B & W photographs

Two versions: French and English

Texts:
Jack Cowart, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Glenn R. Phillips, Getty Research Institute
and the Pompidou Center: Didier Schulmann, Florian Ebner
Chloé Goualc'h and Stéphanie Rivoire
Julie Jones, Marcella Lista

EAN
9782365112147
Number of pages
484 pages
Number of illustrations
840 photographies
Dimensions
19,5 x 25,5 cm
Publisher
Éditions Xavier Barral
Categories
Books, Exhibition catalogues