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André Kertész : postcards from Paris

Title
André Kertész : postcards from Paris / edited by Elizabeth Siegel ; with essays by Sarah Kennel, Sylvie Penichon, and Elizabeth Siegel.
Publication
  • Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2021]
  • New Haven : Yale University Press
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Kertész, André.
  • Siegel, Elizabeth, 1969-
  • Kennel, Sarah
  • Pénichon, Sylvie
  • Art Institute of Chicago, host institution.
  • High Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
239 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 27 cm
Summary
This elegant book unites all of the known carte postale prints by the photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), including portraits, views of Paris, careful studio scenes, and exquisitely simple still lifes. Essays shed new light on the artist's most acclaimed images; themes of materiality, exile, and communication; his illustrious and bohemian social circle; and the changing identity of art photography. Playful yet refined, the book's design reflects the spirit of 1920s Paris while underscoring the modernity of the catalogue's more than 250 illustrated works. Kertesz made his rigorously composed prints on inexpensive but lush postcard stock, sharing them with friends and sending them back to family in Hungary. The works reveal the artist learning his craft as he encountered an international group of modernists-including Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, and Joseph Csaky-in the interwar metropolis. Prized by collectors as well as by Kertesz himself, the cartes postales influenced his compositions and the intimate scale of his picture making for decades. Exhibition: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (02.10.2021-17.01.2022) / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (18.02-29.50.2022).
Alternative Title
Postcards from Paris
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exhibitions (note)
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago October 2, 2021- January 17, 2022 and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta February 18-May 29, 2022.
Contents
Foreword / James Rondeau -- André Kertész's carte postale period: Paris, 1925-28 / Elizabeth Siegel -- "The grotesque dancer from Pest": Magda Förstner and the making of Satiric Dancer / Sarah Kennel -- "It was a beautiful paper": notes on Guilleminot cartes postales / Sylvie Pénichon.
Call Number
JQF 21-1628
ISBN
  • 9780300260038
  • 0300260032
LCCN
2021937148
OCLC
1268139016
Title
André Kertész : postcards from Paris / edited by Elizabeth Siegel ; with essays by Sarah Kennel, Sylvie Penichon, and Elizabeth Siegel.
Publisher
Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2021]
Distributor
New Haven : Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2021
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exhibitions
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago October 2, 2021- January 17, 2022 and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta February 18-May 29, 2022.
Added Author
Container of (work): Kertész, André. Works. Selections.
Siegel, Elizabeth, 1969- editor.
Kennel, Sarah, contributor.
Pénichon, Sylvie, contributor.
Art Institute of Chicago, host institution.
High Museum of Art, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 21-1628
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