Softcover
Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
ISBN: 978-3039422401
Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 344
Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) – one of the most important painters of the 20th century – created an extensive range of paintings, drawings and films over the course of her life. For a long time, the greatest attention was paid to the “body feeling painting” she developed, which is based on phenomenological and epistemological explanatory models. However, little is known about the fact that the Austrian artist also wrote hundreds of pages of notebooks and loose sheets of paper throughout her life and not only designed clothes and costumes, but also sewed and wore them herself. What has hardly been researched so far is that she taught and took photographs (or posed for photography), carried out cognitive experiments with the writer and language theorist Oswald Wiener and then painted watercolor drawings in grid form.
Claire Hoffmann explores all of these side paths in Maria Lassnig’s work in this book. In this way, she opens up a holistic view of a great artist who stands out as a versatile, agile person, who combined her experiences with the most diverse media and strategies and who was able to make diverse media and influences in the most diverse tones fruitful for herself.
Claire Hoffmann explores all of these side paths in Maria Lassnig’s work in this book. In this way, she opens up a holistic view of a great artist who stands out as a versatile, agile person, who combined her experiences with the most diverse media and strategies and who was able to make diverse media and influences in the most diverse tones fruitful for herself.
