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Artists' Handbook: George Wittenborn's Guestbook, with 21st Century Additions Initiated by Ronny Van de Velde

Door Henri Focillion

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#375165-KB44
Titel	Artists' Handbook: George Wittenborn's Guestbook, with 21st Century Additions Initiated by Ronny Van de Velde
Auteur	Focillion, Henri
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Amsterdam : Ludion
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	9055447196
ISBN13	9789055447190
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered black faux leather, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, numerous (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, unpaged, 4to.
Samenvatting	George Wittenborn (1905-1974), legendary émigré bookseller, publisher, dealer and friend to artists ranging from Léger, Arp, Ernst, Picasso and Braque to Calder, Beuys, Warhol, Johns, Ono, Richter, Baldessari and Nauman, kept a guestbook over the many decades of his passionate career in connoisseurship. On March 16, 1944, the Mexican painter and writer Miguel Covarrubias drew a hand in Wittenborn's guestbook in lieu of his signature--and with that a tradition was born. This monumental volume, designed with cut-out alphabetical letter tabs like an old fashioned encyclopedia, contains renderings of hands by roughly 300 of the twentieth century's finest and most challenging artists. Essays include Henri Focillon's 1939 In Praise of Hands and Jan Ceuleers' engaging narrati... (Lees verder)ve biography. Ceuleers writes, Wittenborn's guestbook is a book of friends, a book of handshakes that stands for 'greeting, good-bye, friendship, solidarity, unity and agreement, and the doubling of power achieved through partnership.'
Pagina's	624
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 35,00

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