Jean Tinguely by Heidi E. Violand-Hobi
4to. pp. 178. illustrated. hardcover. dw. Munich: Prestel, [1997].
New in publisher's shrink wrap.
ISBN-10: 3791314300 / ISBN-13: 9783791314303
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This important monograph on Jean Tinguely, arranged chronologically, includes a wealth of biographical information. It begins by focusing on his formative years in Basel, emphazing such factors as family and religion. His philosophical, cultural, and art historical sources are evaluated.
The book continues with a look at the artist's media, including found and ready-made objects, and the significance he accorded them. Tinguely's interest in the spirit of the grotesque-carnivalesque is shown to be a formal, aesthetic, and conceptional paradigm in his work.
Finally the artist's methods of exhibition are examined throughout, enabling the reader to understand exactly how Tinguely wished his work to be seen