Graffiti / Brassaï.

Main entry:

Brassaï, 1899-1984.

Title & Author:

Graffiti / Brassaï.

Publication:

Paris : Flammarion ; London : Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Description:

153 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Series:

Beaux livres

Notes:
The wall as proposition -- The language of the wall -- The birth of mankind -- Masks and faces -- Animals -- Love -- Death -- Magic -- Primitive images -- Picasso talking about graffiti -- From cave wall to factory wall -- Parisian graffiti -- Preface to the catalog of my exhibition of graffiti in London -- Graffiti on trial -- Poem on graffiti -- My notebooks.

Summary:

"Brassai's interest in graffiti began in the early 1930s. He published photographs of carvings found on the walls of the French capital, accompanied by a commentary, in a 1934 edition of the Surrealist review Minotaure, the first of numerous studies that he would complete in his lifetime. Graffiti seized the photographer's imagination: he would seek out interesting inscriptions in the working-class districts of the city; he would spend long hours in front of images waiting for the right light to take his photograph; and he would return to a specific piece of graffiti years after he first found them to record the effects of time. But these often violently carved lines, holes and figures also captured him intellectually, leading him to explore the meaning and impulses behind this raw art form, tracing its origins from the cave paintings of Altamira to the lava-preserved etchings of Pompeii, from the French Revolutionary "scribbler," Restif de la Bretonne, to the walls of modern-day Paris." "The current publication reproduces a comprehensive selection of Brassai's photographs of graffiti along with facsimile pages from Brassai's graffiti sketch-books, extracts from his conversations with Picasso on the subject, and several essays by Brassai published here in English for the first time. An essential volume in the artist's corpus of works, Graffiti demonstrates the extraordinary prescience and freedom of thought that was to render this "amateur" photographer one of the key figures of twentieth-century art."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

2080107135
9782080107138

Subject:

Graffiti France Paris.
Graffiti France Paris Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.
Graffiti France Paris Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Graffiti
France Paris

Form/genre:

Writings.
Illustrated works
Photography, Artistic.

Added entries:

Collection "Beaux livres."

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222263
Call No.: TR140.B823 B72 2002
Status: Available

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