Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Kertész, André.
2. Siegel, Elizabeth, 1969-
3. Kennel, Sarah
4. Pénichon, Sylvie
5. Art Institute of Chicago, host institution
6. High Museum of Art, host institution

Description

1. 239 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 27 cm

Summary

1. This elegant book unites all of the known carte postale prints by the photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), including portraits, views of Paris, careful studio scenes, and exquisitely simple still lifes. Essays shed new light on the artist's most acclaimed images; themes of materiality, exile, and communication; his illustrious and bohemian social circle; and the changing identity of art photography. Playful yet refined, the book's design reflects the spirit of 1920s Paris while underscoring the modernity of the catalogue's more than 250 illustrated works. Kertesz made his rigorously composed prints on inexpensive but lush postcard stock, sharing them with friends and sending them back to family in Hungary. The works reveal the artist learning his craft as he encountered an international group of modernists-including Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, and Joseph Csaky-in the interwar metropolis. Prized by collectors as well as by Kertesz himself, the cartes postales influenced his compositions and the intimate scale of his picture making for decades. Exhibition: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (02.10.2021-17.01.2022) / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (18.02-29.50.2022).

Alternative title

1. Postcards from Paris

Subject

1. Kertész, André > Exhibitions
2. Kertész, André
3. Postcards as art material > France > Paris
4. Postcards as art material
5. Paris (France) > Pictorial works
6. France > Paris

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. Pictorial works.

Contents

1. Foreword / James Rondeau -- André Kertész's carte postale period: Paris, 1925-28 / Elizabeth Siegel -- "The grotesque dancer from Pest": Magda Förstner and the making of Satiric Dancer / Sarah Kennel -- "It was a beautiful paper": notes on Guilleminot cartes postales / Sylvie Pénichon.

Call number

1. JQF 21-1628

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago October 2, 2021- January 17, 2022 and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta February 18-May 29, 2022.

Title

1. André Kertész : postcards from Paris / edited by Elizabeth Siegel ; with essays by Sarah Kennel, Sylvie Penichon, and Elizabeth Siegel.

Publisher

1. Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2021]

Distributor

1. New Haven : Yale University Press

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. still image
2. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exhibitions

1. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago October 2, 2021- January 17, 2022 and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta February 18-May 29, 2022.

Added author

1. Container of (work): Kertész, André. Works. Selections.
2. Siegel, Elizabeth, 1969- editor.
3. Kennel, Sarah, contributor.
4. Pénichon, Sylvie, contributor.
5. Art Institute of Chicago, host institution.
6. High Museum of Art, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2021937148

ISBN

1. 9780300260038 hardcover
2. 0300260032 hardcover

Research call number

1. JQF 21-1628