Double rhythm : writings about painting /

This book collects, for the first time, texts by Hélion published originally in English in magazines both well-known and obscure, including Partisan Review, Burlington Magazine, and Art and Literature. In these incisive and beautifully lucid essays, notes, and interviews from almost five decades, on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hélion, Jean, 1904-1987
Other Authors: Rosenthal, Deborah (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Arcade Publishing, [2014]
Series:Artists & art.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Deborah Rosenthal
  • The evolution of abstract art as shown in the gallery of living art
  • From reduction to growth
  • Seurat as predecessor
  • Poussin, Seurat and double rhythm
  • Avowals and comments
  • The abstract artist in society : interview with Jean Hélion
  • Ten Frenchmen on a prison farm
  • Escape through Germany
  • Colors and walls
  • How war has made me paint
  • The making of a picture
  • Untitled text included in "Eleven Europeans in America"
  • Notes from a letter to the author
  • Text
  • Figure
  • Objects for a painter
  • Art concert 1930
  • New York City.