Product Description

This is the third in a series of six volumes on the important contemporary Spanish artist Antoni Tapies. The series presents his entire oeuvre, including paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures.

The period covered by this third volume presents work in which social and political elements appear to have been accentuated. During the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Tapies' art acquired a more specifically political character of protest. Many of his works produced in the course of these years constitute criticism of autocratic and bureaucratic power.

The following are some of Tapies' major one-man exhibitions held during the period:

Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1969; Gallery Moos, Toronto, 1969; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1970; Galleria Il Collezionista, Rome, 1971; Galerie Maeght, Zurich, 1971; Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1972; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1973; Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1973; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, 1973; National Galerie, Berlin, 1974; Gallery Moos, Toronto, 1974; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1975; Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1975.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2765123 in Books
• Published on: 1992-05-15
• Released on: 1992-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 550 pages

From Library Journal
Little English-language writing exists on the accomplished Spanish abstractionist Antoni Tapies. Roland Penrose's readable and somewhat critical study, Tapies (Rizzoli, 1979), is out of print and Luis Permanyer's Tapies and the New Culture ( LJ 2/1/87) is narrow in scope and barely comprehensible. A new survey would therefore have been welcome. Instead, we have the first volume of a projected six-volume catalogue raisonne. A mercifully brief foreword is followed by Agusti's meticulous catalog of over 900 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, arranged by year. The 133 color plates look good; many of the over 800 black-and-white illustrations are murky. The sponsor, the Barcelona Tapies Foundation, expects to publish a volume per year. At this price, however, only the most comprehensive collections will contemplate ordering.
- Margot Karp, Pratt Inst. Lib., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Anna Agusti, art historian and specialist in the work of Tapies, was responsible for both the catalog as a whole and the cataloging criteria; the chronology and bibliography are by Miquel Tapies, B.A. in the History of Art and Director of the Tapies Foundation; finally, the foreword was written by Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Director of Exhibitions at the Foundation.

Customer Reviews

Exhaustive and well-presented
This is comprehensive and an excellent representation of this artist's powerful work. The only reason I've knocked it from 5 stars is that these volumes are painfully expensive.