Balthus : cats and girls
Rewald, Sabine2013
Book
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 The children in his paintings are usually withdrawn, self-absorbed and unsmiling, in rooms closed to the outside world, cats their sole playmates.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 Therese 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, Frederique 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.
Main title:
Balthus : cats and girls / Sabine Rewald.
Work:
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
Collation:
166 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition on view at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 25, 2013 to January 12, 2014).Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN:
9780500093788
Dewey class:
759.4
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
117190
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Art and Culture | ARTS 759.4 BALT | Available |