GRENIER CATHERINE

(P/B) JEAN MICHEL OTHONIEL
The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair - cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as we...
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(H/B) ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
Alberto Giacometti is more than a major twentieth-century artist - he is also one of the century's most intriguing characters. This biography, the result of new research, takes us into the private life of an artist haunted by his oeuvre, driven relentlessly by an uncompromising and demanding nature. Following a childhood spent in his father's studio in Switzerland, and then his student days in Paris studying under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, the young artist split from his early mentors, looking instead to cubism, then surrealism. He e...
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(H/B) CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
Born in Paris in 1944, Christian Boltanski knew at the age of thirteen that he would become an artist. Today he is a key figure in contemporary art in France and around the world, the creator of a seminal oeuvre that is compelling and accessible to a wide audience. Dealing with themes such as childhood, identity, death, memory, and time, and employing immediately recognizable visual references and everyday materials -such as photographs, archives, and clothing- he contextualizes the intersection of personal and collective memory, particul...
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(H/B) ANNETTE MESSAGER (2080106198)

(P/B) PARIS MODERNE 1840-1940
Perhaps no hundred-year period and place in art history has the appeal, allure and romance of Paris between 1840 and 1940. Modern Paris: 1840-1940 presents the breathtaking scope of this rich period with a generous selection of paintings, sculptures, films, photographs and garments that showcase the extraordinary creativity in Paris from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. This volume, in more than 200 images, traces the development of artistic modernity and its repercussions on Parisian and world society over the course of a cen...
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