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jean arp poupees
he may have gone by two names but jean hans arp was an artist of magnificent consistency articulating the same feeling for sensuous and spacious clarity across collage relief sculpture painting and poetry . poupees reveals another more unlikely dimension to which these qualities were eminently suited that of doll making . produced in the 1950s and 1960s arps poupees were cut from pieces of paper and then stored unaffixed to any support in boxes and folders . charming and evocative they evoke his early dada philosophy of leaving materials to their willful ephemerality . the poupees tend to be single symmetrical biomorphic figures cut from a range of paper and card types ; as collected here in book form they gain much by virtue of both repetition and variation by the lovely effect of paper image reproduced on paper and by their en face interspersal with a selection of poems by arp and photographs of the artist at work with his scissors .
hardcover steidl publishing 2009 isbn13 9783865218070 isbn10 3865218075
abridged n isbn 13 9783865218070 number in series 1 number of pages 119 publisher innovative logistics llc release date 62135769600000