Antoni Tàpies
Tàpies · A biography of commitment
Presentation
Tàpies · A biography of commitment is part of the series of major monographs that Enciclopèdia Art has dedicated to key figures in contemporary Catalan art such as Picasso, Dalí, Brossa, and Miró.
Published jointly by Enciclopèdia Art and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the work reviews the trajectory of one of the most important Catalan artists of the 20th century and a global reference in Informalism.
Limited and numbered edition, Tàpies. Biography of a Commitment comprises a large-format book, where selected works can be admired in detail, and a study book written by leading international experts and profusely illustrated with photographs and documents, many of them previously unpublished.
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“With this publication, it is possible to look back, for the first time, at Tàpies’ work, unfolded over almost seven decades, to try and consider, precisely, its contemporaneity, which means its relevance to a time that is already our own.”
Work composed of two books: one large-format and one study book
This limited and numbered edition comprises a large-format book, where selected works can be admired in detail, and a study book written by leading international experts and profusely illustrated with photographs and documents, many of them previously unpublished.
Authors
- Xavier Antich (President of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies)
- Carles Guerra (Director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies)
- Flavia Company
- Manuel Guerrero
- M. Dolores Jiménez-Blanco
- Albert Mercadé
- Xavier Montanyà
- Javier Pérez Segura
- John C. Welchman
- Fundació Antoni Tàpies Team
Features
- Format: 29.5 x 40.5 cm
- Pages: 368
- Illustrations: 213
- Printing: 4+4 inks.
- Paper: Symbol Tatami White 170 gsm
- Binding: Hardcover, Geltex-covered and printed, flat spine
Study Book Features
- Format: 20.5 x 28.5 cm
- Pages: 288
- Printing: 4+4 inks.
- Paper: Symbol Tatami White 150 gsm
- Binding: Hardcover, cloth-bound and stamped, flat spine
Slipcase Features
- Covered with Canvas fabric and stamped in 2 colors.
- Interior: two compartments to house the two volumes, each with a book-extracting ribbon.
- Closes with magnets.
Lithograph ‘Personal Memory’ (1988)
Some copies ofAntoni Tàpies. Biografia d’un compromís are accompanied by Antoni Tàpies’ lithograph Personal Memory (1988), an original lithograph in two inks (black and red), on 270 g BFK Rives white paper, 74 x 54 cm, published by Erker-Presse St. Gallen, and printed at the workshops of Erker-Presse St. Gallen, which is listed with number 1211 in the catalogue raisonné Tàpies. Obra gràfica / Graphic Work, 1987-1994 .
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