John Coplans: Un corps--Suivi d'une anthologie de textes de John Coplans
John Coplans: Un corps--Suivi d'une anthologie de textes de John Coplans
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John Coplans: Un corps--Suivi d'une anthologie de textes de John Coplans
(A Body: Following an Anthology of Texts by John Coplans)
W035581 | $37.50
Exhibition Catalog
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 2021. Published by Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.
240 pp. Minimally illustrated (no col.). 21 x 14 cm. In French. Paperbound.
ISBN 9782912132970
The artistic activity of John Coplans (1920-2003) is part of an existence made up of radical ruptures and profound continuities. After a childhood shared between London and South Africa, he enlisted at the age of seventeen in the British Army and fought until the end of the Second World War. In the 1950s, he studied art in Paris and then in London, where he then practiced abstract painting. At the age of forty, John Coplans left for the United States, where he became an art critic, curator of exhibitions, director of museums. Co-founder in 1962 of the famous magazine Artforum, he played an essential role in the artistic debate of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980, at the age of sixty, he began a photographic work in which his own body became the only material, and which he continued until his death. Jean-François Chevrier, who was the interlocutor and friend of John Coplans (they met in 1984) proposes an "artistic biography" in which art is at the foundation of a mode of existence and a relationship to the world. This essay, both scholarly and non-academic, is accompanied by a notebook of about fifty reproductions, works and documents by Coplans but also by other artists on whom his work was nourished. It is followed by a selection of texts by the artist, written between 1965 and 1991, which give a representative overview of his critical activity and shed light on his own artistic practice. A bibliography and a chronology complete this unparalleled panorama of John Coplans' activity.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain -- Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- (Auto)biography ; Photography --
Artist(s): Coplans, John
(A Body: Following an Anthology of Texts by John Coplans)
W035581 | $37.50
Exhibition Catalog
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 2021. Published by Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.
240 pp. Minimally illustrated (no col.). 21 x 14 cm. In French. Paperbound.
ISBN 9782912132970
The artistic activity of John Coplans (1920-2003) is part of an existence made up of radical ruptures and profound continuities. After a childhood shared between London and South Africa, he enlisted at the age of seventeen in the British Army and fought until the end of the Second World War. In the 1950s, he studied art in Paris and then in London, where he then practiced abstract painting. At the age of forty, John Coplans left for the United States, where he became an art critic, curator of exhibitions, director of museums. Co-founder in 1962 of the famous magazine Artforum, he played an essential role in the artistic debate of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980, at the age of sixty, he began a photographic work in which his own body became the only material, and which he continued until his death. Jean-François Chevrier, who was the interlocutor and friend of John Coplans (they met in 1984) proposes an "artistic biography" in which art is at the foundation of a mode of existence and a relationship to the world. This essay, both scholarly and non-academic, is accompanied by a notebook of about fifty reproductions, works and documents by Coplans but also by other artists on whom his work was nourished. It is followed by a selection of texts by the artist, written between 1965 and 1991, which give a representative overview of his critical activity and shed light on his own artistic practice. A bibliography and a chronology complete this unparalleled panorama of John Coplans' activity.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain -- Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- (Auto)biography ; Photography --
Artist(s): Coplans, John