
Theme and Variations
The Multiple Sorceries of Flix Buhot
Anne Leonard(Editor)
University of Chicago,David & Alfred Smart Museum,US (Publisher)
Published on 16. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-0-935573-59-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the late nineteenth century, French printmaker Felix Buhot effected a kind of sorcery on his etching plates, making each impression into a unique work of art simply by varying the inking technique and the inks and papers used. With his evocative, atmospheric scenes of stormy piers and urban streetscapes, he dissolved classic distinctions between figure and ground in ways that challenge the limits of the etching medium. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, Theme and Variations: The Multiple Sorceries of Felix Buhot features an introduction from curator Anne Leonard and interpretive texts on each set of prints in the exhibition by University of Chicago students. Joining examples from the Hearn Family Trust and Charles Hack with works in the Smart Museum's collection, it offers a glimpse of Buhot's extraordinary, evolving artistic process over multiple states and variations of the same print.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago, IL
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 15 mm
Width: 24 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-935573-59-6 (9780935573596)
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