Research Catalog

Fernand Léger : contrasts of forms / Matthew Affron ; with an essay by Maria Gough.

Title: Fernand Léger : contrasts of forms / Matthew Affron ; with an essay by Maria Gough.
Author: Affron, Matthew, 1963-
Publication: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Art Museum ; [University Park, Pa.] : Distributed by The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007.

Filter by

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Request in advance		Off-site

Additional Authors

Description

48 p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

Between 1912 and 1914, Fernand Léger executed a large cycle of works known as the Contrasts of Forms. The series embraces the genres of landscape, still life, and figure, but at its core are numerous arresting compositions that sweep aside observation to focus on formal principles. The common denominator is a complex vocabulary of mingled cones, cylinders, cubes, and planes, vigorously outlined and scrubbed with color (in the paintings) or with black ink and white gouache (in the works on paper). The Contrasts of Forms are essential to two great chapters in the history of modern art in the years before the First World War: first, the development of cubism, and second, the emergence of abstract art.
Curated by Léger scholar Matthew Affron and organized by the University of Virginia Art Museum, this tightly focused exhibition unites two landmark paintings with eleven works on paper from major museums and private collections. Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms was presented at the University of Virginia Art Museum from January 19 to March 18, 2007, and will be at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, from April 14 to June 10, 2007.The full-color catalogue features two essays. Affron examines the logic of the Contrasts of Forms and the importance of this cycle in shaping the character of Léger’s art. Maria Gough (Stanford University) focuses on the drawings and on Léger’s notion of abstraction.

Subject

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Note

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Fernand Leger: Contrast of forms" at the University of Virginia Art Museum, January 19-March 18, 2007 and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, April 14-June 10, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

Processing Action (note)

ISBN

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library