This photograph is part of a body of works by singular and major figures, known and unknown, constituted to introduce students to the artists who were at the foundation of the art of the twentieth century. Taking a historical perspective, this collection positions gender issues, identified by the gender studies of the 1990s, as already present in artistic photographic practices, particularly very early ones, which were transgressive and ambiguous.

Autoportrait debout, La Fleur du paradis ou La Fille magique, 1957 Photomontage (la tête et les fesses placées sur le même plan) Tirage argentique d’époque sur papier brillant avec virage, 10,5 x 7 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris, Ph 25049

Originally from Romania, from the early 1930s Gherasim Luca (1913–1994) formed close links within the French art world, notably among the Surrealists; he settled permanently in France in 1953. Described by Gilles Deleuze as the “greatest poet in the French language,” Luca cultivated “hero-limit” work, to use the title of one of his pieces (“héros-limite,” 1953), where the deconstruction of language is based on the rejection of political, identity, and ethical categories, and reliance—twenty-five years before Deleuze and Félix Guattari—on anti-Oedipal notions.

Cubomania entitled “Madone du Bourgmestre Meyer (d’après Holbein) ”, 1983 Collage of photos on board, mounted on a wood panel, 34,5 x 26 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris

Victor Hugo was a prolific and talented draftsman who left some four thousand drawings, most of which are held by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Maison Victor Hugo in Paris. This graphic production was important to the writer: “I am very happy and proud of what you think of the things I call my pen drawings,” he wrote to Charles Baudelaire in 1860. Among his repertoire, landscapes hold a significant place, whether they be of sites Hugo visited during his travels, drawn in situ or from memory, or imaginary landscapes.

Le Château de Corbus, 1860 Brown wash and Indian ink, red and white gouache, 23 x 15 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris, EBA  11198

Jean-Jacques Lebel, artist, publisher, author of happenings, exhibition curator and producer of radio programs, has written manifestos, chronicles and texts on Dada, Fluxus and sound poetry as well as the American counter culture and the European avant-garde. These writings have been gathered together in this book and are accompanied by unpublished photographs. In 2020, the Musée de Nantes is dedicating a major exhibition to him.

 

Textes by Anaël Pigeat

This colouring book is made from twenty-four paintings by Nina Childress, teacher at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Her practice took shape in the early 1980s within the group the Frères Ripoulin, as part of the Libres Figurations exhibition. She has developed patterns combining abstraction and figurative art.

Texts by Philippe Artières, Éric de Chassey, Anne-Marie Garcia, Pascale Le Thorel, Élodie Antoine

Preface by Jean de Loisy. Text by Mélanie Bouteloup and presentations by Manon Burg, Charlotte Cosson and Emmanuelle Luciani, Anaïd Demir, Juliette Hage, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Makis Malafekas, Camille Paulhan, Elisa Rigoulet and Anne-Lou Vicente.

Catalogue presenting the works of 2019 Beaux-Arts de Paris graduates (including those with distinctions). Each of them is given a double colour page which presents their work accompanied by a text written by an art critic.

Texts by Gabriel Batalla, Emmanuelle Brugerolles, Carel van Tuyll.

Texts by Andrea Carlino, Jean Clair, Philippe Comar, Martial Guédron, Alain Jaubert, Morwena Joly, Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, Catherine Mathon, Emmanuel Schwartz.

Texts by Patrick Mauriès, Corinne Le Bitouzé and Anne-Marie Garcia.

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