A Personal Memoir: Fragments for an Autobiography integrates the memoirs of Antoni Tàpies, beginning in pre–civil war Barcelona and extending to Francoist Madrid, existentialist Paris, and New York in the 1950s, with historical images from diverse sources, including the family and the artist's archives. Tàpies's reflections on his interactions with such prominent cultural figures as Picasso, Miró, and Duchamp, on his approach to modernity and the avant-garde, and on the historical events of his lifetime—from his birth in 1923 to the 1970s—provide insights into the inner sources and development of his art. Highlighting the close ties between his writings and his visual work, this volume includes a generous selection of both color and black-and-white images that trace the unfolding of Tàpies's artistic language from the 1940s to the present.
Complete Writings, Volume II, Collected Essays, will be published in 2011.

A Personal Memoir: Fragments for an Autobiography

Arts & Photography

Tàpies, Antoni

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

In this insightful collection, one of Spain’s most influential artists, Antoni Tàpies, reflects on art, life, and politics. A companion to A Personal Memoir (2010), this volume includes essays published in Catalan in six separate books between 1970 and 1999 (The Practice of Art, Art against Aesthetic, Reality as Art, For a Modern and Progressive Art, The Value of Art, Art and Its Places) together with previously uncollected articles, lectures, and other texts. In these essays Tàpies reflects on the social role of art and the artist, discusses the influences on his art, and describes his political and artistic views.

Antoni Tàpies, Complete Writings, Volume II: Collected Essays

Antoni Tapies: [catalog of an exhibition held] London, Hayward Gallery, 27 June-1 September 1974, Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 5-26 October

Arts Council of Great Britain

Tàpies (Modern artists)

H.N. Abrams

The Spanish artist Antoni Tapies first received worldwide recognition in the 1950s for his "matter" paintings: relief-like works composed of dry pigments, sand, marble-dust and paint, which he scraped, incised and pierced. His early paintings have been likened to walls, their graffiti-like scrawls denoting the only means of free expression available under the Franco regime. The artist's later works express less tangible symbols and themes. This volume is the catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in collaboration with the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. It presents the essentials of Tapies's art - an original use of texture and materials, coupled with an expression of intense intellectual, political and artistic feeling. The book provides an overview of the artist's life and career, and also includes original translations from the Catalan of four of the artist's principal writings on art.

Tapies: January 27-April 23, 1995

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Ashton, Dore

Individual Artists

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Antoni Tapies

Painting

Hassell Street Press

In the nearly seven decades of his career, Tàpies created a prolific and singular body of work that redefined painting and influenced future generations of artists. Following the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Tàpies sought to develop a new kind of painting. In the 1950s he began making his first matter paintings using materials such as marble dust and resin. These paintings positioned Tàpies as a leading figure in Europe's avant-garde and signaled the beginning of a lifelong investigation of materials and forms that made him one of the most influential post-war artists. 88 p, ills colour &amp; bw, 23 x 25 cm, pb, English

Antoni Tapies: 1923 - 2012

Dore Ashton

Barbara Rose

Pace

Antoni Tapies, Spain's greatest living artist, is a leading exponent of "matter" painting, a style characterized by encrusted layers of paint that create an effect of solid relief. His best-known works resemble sections of weathered wall, textured with the traces of time and human endeavor. This highly concrete, starkly immediate art reflects the artist's profound humanitarian concerns and continues the tradition of realism and solemn mysticism that has been characteristic of Spanish art through the centuries. Featuring high-quality reproductions of major works from all phases of the artist's career, this book traces the development of Tapies's art from the drawings of the 1940's, when he was forced by a potentially fatal disease to spend a long period in sanatoria, to the first "wall" paintings of the mid-1950's, from the assemblages of the 1970's to the fire-clay sculptures of recent years. A number of his latest paintings are discussed and illustrated. The author shows how the artist's intensely personal imagery is intimately related to his intellectual and political experiences. Throughout his career Tapies has been an advocate of freedom for his native Catalonia and, during the Franco dictatorship, was an outspoken champion of human liberty. Such concerns have caused the artist to avoid pure abstraction, whether by virtue of references to the visible world in his works or by the sheer force of their material presence. Tapies has drawn inspiration from a wide variety of sources: the art of Joan Miro and Paul Klee, of Surrealism and Far Eastern calligraphy have played as formative a role as have the music of Richard Wagner and the philosophy of Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Far East. He has absorbed these influences to fashion an art of confession, of manifestos and appeals, homages and protests. This overview of an oeuvre marked by the greatest personal and artistic integrity is completed by biographical notes and an extensive bibliography.

Tapies

FRANZKE, Andreas

Gabriel, John William

Prestel Pub

Artwork by Antoni Tapies. Text by Jean Fremon.

Tàpies: The complete works

Rizzoli

Foreword by Jacques Dupin. Compiled by Anna Agusti.

Tapies: Complete Works Volume IV: 1976-1981

Dupin, Jacques

Ediciones Polígrafa

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