Jean Prouvé designed "The Tropical House" in 1949 as a prototype for inexpensive, easily assembled housing to transport to France's African colonies. Fabricated in the designer's French workshops, the components for the house were completed in 1951 and flown disassembled to Africa. The house was erected in the town of Brazzaville, Congo, where it remained for nearly 50 years. Jean Prouvé: Tropical House is an in-depth look at the early French modernist's applied theories of prefabricated architecture. Copiously illustrated, this book studies the development of Prouvé's demountable buildings and houses and includes never-before-seen archival materials from the extensive collections of the Centre Pompidou and the designer's estate. The final chapter traces architectural historian Robert Rubin's voyage of discovery as he restored and prepared an exhibition of this iconic experiment in prefabricated housing, along with an appendix of press articles from the period to position the work in its contemporary context.

Jean Prouvé: The Tropical House

Arts & Photography

Rubin, Robert

Cinqualbre olivier

Architecture

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Kurt Schwitters

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Picasso Sculptor

Marcel Duchamp : Catalogue raisonné (CATALOGUES DU M.N.A.M)

DUCHAMP, Marcel, Alfred Pacquement, Didier Ottinger, and Francois Le Penven

La révolution surréaliste (CATALOGUES DU M.N.A.M)

Merly, Isabelle

Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompi

Jonas Mekas Presente Flux Friends (COLLECTION 15X21)

COLLECTIF

Max Beckmann (CATALOGUES DU M.N.A.M)

Beckmann, Max

Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Centre Pompidou : Une traversée en peinture des trois grands musées parisiens (CATALOGUES DU M.N.A.M)

Goetz, Adrien

THE BIG PICTURE PAINTING IN PARIS - GDE GALERIE DES PEINTURES (ANGLAISE): MUSEE DU LOUVRE, MUSEE D'ORSAY, CENTRE POMPIDOU

History & Criticism

<p>Born in Hungary in 1922, Simon Hantaï moved to Paris at the age of 26, and fell in with André Breton’s postwar Surrealist circle, where he was quickly acclaimed by Breton himself. But it was not until the early 1960s that Hantaï developed the “pliage” or “folding method” that has made him an influential figure on both sides of the Atlantic. Hantaï began applying paint to folded canvasses, which--once the canvasses were unfolded and stretched--resulted in irregular patterns of bold color punctuated by strips of unprimed ground. Throughout the rest of his career, Hantaï devoted himself to developing new techniques that slowed down or automated the painterly gesture--a concept that stemmed in part from the early influences of Surrealist automatism, Pollock’s Abstract Expressionism and Matisse’s cut-outs. Hantaï was featured in the Wexner’s seminal <i>As Painting</i> exhibition of 2001, and his work is housed in major collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This elegant and comprehensive volume is published for the Centre Pompidou’s acclaimed Hantaï retrospective, held five years after his death in 2008, and constitutes the first major publication in English on his work.</p>

Simon Hantaï

Individual Artists

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