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Content:
Balthus was a master of conveying the ambivalence that is part of adolescence. The children in his paintings are usually withdrawn, self-absorbed and unsmiling, in rooms closed to the outside world, cats their sole playmates. This book reproduces scores of paintings by Balthus dating from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, a period that saw him create the celebrated series of portraits of Thérèse Blanchard. In Switzerland during World War II, Balthus replaced the austerity of his Paris studio with more colourful interiors in which different nymphets continue to daydream, read or nap. The book concludes with images that he created of his niece, Frédérique Tison, during the 1950s. Sabine Rewald recounts the artist's precocious childhood and youth, and shows how his focus on the ambiguities of adolescence relates to writers and poets who also explored that theme, among them Lewis Carroll, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Jean Cocteau.0Exhibition: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, USA (September 2013January 2014)
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Bibliogr.: S. 161-162
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0500093784
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780500093788
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Balthus London : Thames & Hudson, 2013 ISBN 0500093784
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780500093788
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Balthus 1908-2001
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Rewald, Sabine
Author information:
Balthus 1908-2001
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