Title & Author:

Fernand Léger : painting in space / edited and curated by Katia Baudin.

Publication:

Cologne : Museum Ludwig ; Munich : Hirmer, [2016]
©2016

Description:

311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Exhibition catalog.
"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Fernand Léger: Painting in Space held at the Museum Ludwig: April 9 - July 3, 2016"--Page 310.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-293).
The wall, the architect, the painter : introductory remarks on Fernand Léger: Painting in Space / Katia Baudin -- From the flatness of painting to the frontality of theater and film / Giovanni Lista -- Graphics : a fundamental source of inspiration / Roxana Jubert -- Between the easel and the mural : on the social ambitions of painting in space / Anna Vallye -- Léger : le Corbusier / Jan de Heer -- Charlotte Perriand and Fernand Léger : complicity and engagement / Jacques Barsac -- Fernand Léger and the 1937 World's Fair in Paris / Kathrin Michel -- The triumph of forces : Fernand Léger and the Popular Front / Sarah Wilson -- Therapeutic polychromy and architecture : the collaboration between Fernand Léger and Paul Nelson / Donato Severo -- Fernand Léger and Wallace K. Harrison : an American dream come true / Katia Baudin -- From mural to canvas / Petra Mandt -- Free objects amidst rhythm and tension : light in Fernand Léger's colorful sacred space in Audincourt / Friedhelm Mennekes -- 1954, a heterotopia in Biot : Fernand Léger and Groupe Espace / Diana Gay.

Summary:

From the early 1920s until his death in 1955, the French painter and trained architectural draughtsman Fernand Léger was fascinated by the interrelationships between painting and space. His experimental projects for houses, apartments, churches, ships, public buildings, and world fairs, which he developed together with key figures of modern architecture, including Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Wallace K. Harrison and many others, testify to his many attempts to extend painting beyond the boundaries of the easel and to integrate it into the social space. Lavish illustrations, contributions by international authors, and original texts by Léger shed new light on one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

ISBN:

9783777425948 (paperback)
377742594X (paperback)

Subject:

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 Exhibitions.
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection.
Mural painting and decoration 20th century Exhibitions.
Painting 20th century Exhibitions.
Peinture et décoration murales 20e siècle Expositions.
Peinture 20e siècle Expositions.
Mural painting and decoration Exhibitions 20th century.
Mural painting and decoration
Painting

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Baudin-Reneau, Katia, editor, curator.
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955. Works. Selections.
Museum Ludwig, host institution.

Painting in space

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292991
Call No.: BIB 237581
Status: Available