Lalanne(s) /
"Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne have been perceived as one. Public and critics alike ascribe work to one sculptor or the other indiscriminately, yet their styles are very different. Claude's art, based on molds, casts, and electroplating techniques, is profoundly baroque in spirit; Fra...
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| Language: | French |
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Paris :
Flammarion,
©2008.
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| Summary: | "Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne have been perceived as one. Public and critics alike ascribe work to one sculptor or the other indiscriminately, yet their styles are very different. Claude's art, based on molds, casts, and electroplating techniques, is profoundly baroque in spirit; François-Xavier's is clean and pure. These antithetical approaches have yielded a paradoxical unity: the shared certainty that a work should avoid pretentiousness by being both functional as well as unexpected"--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 348 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm |
| ISBN: | 9782080113320 2080113321 9782080300713 2080300717 |