
Double Rhythm
Writings About Painting
Jean Helion(Author)
Deborah Rosenthal(Editor)
Arcade Publishing
Published on 23. October 2014
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-61145-908-1 (ISBN)
Description
Jean Helion, the French painter who died at eighty-three in 1987, brought together in his copious and essential writing on art the theoretical authority of the intellectual and the fundamental insights of the craftsman in his studio. His writing extended throughout the five decades or more of his career.
Soon after the young painter's arrival in Paris from the provinces, he began a literary-art magazine; he wrote polemical articles as a leading avant-garde abstractionist; he wrote about the great tradition of figure painting while still painting abstractions; and he wrote journals, notes on studio practice, pieces about the role of the artist in society, and much more. His prolificacy is made more extraordinary because he wrote in two languages?having lived in the United States for some years, he wrote many of his articles in English for an American and British audience.
This volume collects, for the first time, the diverse writings by Helion that appeared in print originally in English, including ?The Abstract Artist in Society," ?Poussin, Seurat, and Double Rhythm," ?Objects for a Painter," and many more. Double Rhythm is sure to become essential reading for art historians and painters.
Soon after the young painter's arrival in Paris from the provinces, he began a literary-art magazine; he wrote polemical articles as a leading avant-garde abstractionist; he wrote about the great tradition of figure painting while still painting abstractions; and he wrote journals, notes on studio practice, pieces about the role of the artist in society, and much more. His prolificacy is made more extraordinary because he wrote in two languages?having lived in the United States for some years, he wrote many of his articles in English for an American and British audience.
This volume collects, for the first time, the diverse writings by Helion that appeared in print originally in English, including ?The Abstract Artist in Society," ?Poussin, Seurat, and Double Rhythm," ?Objects for a Painter," and many more. Double Rhythm is sure to become essential reading for art historians and painters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Skyhorse Publishing
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
733 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61145-908-1 (9781611459081)
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Persons
Jean Helion was a noted French modernist painter and author. He was a member of the Free French Forces during World War II. His work later influenced Roy Lichtenstein, Nell Blaine, and Leland Bell. He died in 1987.
Deborah M. Rosenthal, consulting editor for the Artists & Art series, is a New York painter and writer. She is a professor of art in the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Rider University.
Deborah M. Rosenthal, consulting editor for the Artists & Art series, is a New York painter and writer. She is a professor of art in the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Rider University.