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Antoni Tàpies : [catalog of an exhibition] / edited and designed by Hugh Shaw.

By: Tàpies, Antoni, 1923-2012.
Contributor(s): Shaw, Hugh | Glynn Vivian Art Gallery | Hayward Gallery.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Arts Council of Great Britain, 1974Description: 24 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0728700107; 9780728700109.Subject(s): Tàpies, Antoni, 1923-2012 | Art, Spanish -- 20th century | Artists -- SpainDDC classification: 759.6 TÀP
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With a distinguished career stretching back to the 1940s, Barcelona-born surrealist painter Antoni Tapies is one Spain's most renowned artists, considered a peer of Dali, Miro and even Picasso. This beautifully produced retrospective catalog gathers work from his entire career, and a top-flight group of curators and critics contribute texts which re-interpret his importance in contemporary terms. Included in the collections of the world's most influential museums (such as MoMA NY, the Reina Sophia and Dia:Beacon). He layers the texture of his paintings with sand, cement and marble dust, and incorporates found objects such as clothes or items of everyday use. The artist himself assisted with this life-spanning exhibition; this oversized volume is April 2012, English & German an essential reference for one of the masters of 20th-century painting.

Catalog of an exhibition held: London, Hayward Gallery, 27 June-1 September 1974 and Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 5-26 October.

Bibliography: p. 18.