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Dubuffet Drawings 1935-1962 <\/strong>– Hardcover by Dervaux, Isabelle; Holben Ellis, Margaret; Potts, Alex; Butler, Cornelia, mint copy, exhibition catalog, MINT condition, as issued in decorative hardcovers, 2016<\/p>\n

An important study of drawings by one of the most important French artists of the twentieth century<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dubuffet (1901\u20131985) achieved international recognition in the late 1940s for his paintings inspired by children\u2019s drawings, the art of psychiatric patients, and graffiti. Drawing played a major role in the development of his art as he explored on paper new subjects and techniques, experimenting with nontraditional tools and modes of application. Despite his essential role in the postwar avant-garde and his continuous influence on the art of the following decades, Dubuffet has received less attention than other artists of his generation.<\/p>\n

Dubuffet\u2019s Drawings, 1935\u20131962<\/strong> will be the first major museum exhibition devoted to works on paper by one of the most important French artists of the twentieth century. Featuring more than one hundred drawings representing Dubuffet\u2019s development during his most innovative decades\u2013\u2013the 1940s and 1950s\u2013\u2013the exhibition will include rarely seen works and major loans from public and private collections in the United States and France. 150 illustrations in color and black-and-white. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe survey devotes an entire section to beards; it is appropriately titled \u201cTextures and Beards.\u201d The works here go a long way to revealing the true source of Dubuffet\u2019s power, in what in psychoanalysis is called the \u201creturn of the repressed.\u201d So much of what Dubuffet accomplishes takes place in the most intellectually denigrated sensory register of touch. Barbe des col\u00e8res (Wrathful Beard) (1959) is a bold assemblage of bits of torn paper creating an image of a bald man whose gigantic beard dominates the composition. The beard here is an instance of socially unacceptable aggression. They are scratchy and uncivilized, hence the meaning of the word rebarbative: unattractive or objectionable. Yet, the energy and humor in this image, as well as other beard-related pieces in the show, suggests that it is precisely in those most objectionable and overlooked parts of ourselves\u2014and others\u2014that we should look for what it means to be truly alive, and not just a slave to convention. Such was the case for Dubuffet.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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