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Takis

Title
Takis / edited by Guy Brett and Michael Wellen.
Publication
London : Published by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2019.

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  • Takis, 1925-
  • Brett, Guy
  • Wellen, Michael
Description
127 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Summary
One of the most playful, innovative and eccentric artists of Postwar Europe, Takis (b.1925, Athens) was a catalysing figure in the artistic and literary circles of Paris, London and New York from the 1950s onward. Pioneering a variety of sculpture, painting and musical structures, Takis made works that harness invisible natural forces. Perhaps best known are his innovative 'telemagnetic' works, begun in the late 1950s using everyday metallic objects that float in space through the use of magnets. These investigations and his fierce individualism won him the admiration of Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs and caused polemics with his artistic contemporaries Yves Klein, Giacometti and Jean Tinguely. This publication will be the first English-language introduction to a key figure of Europe's post-war avant-garde and cultural underground. Through a combination of new essays and a key selection of primary sources, this publication will foreground the artist's influence in contemporary art since the 1960s - and it's accessible and thematic approach will expand the audience for this book far beyond the specialist.00Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK (03.07.-27.10.2019).
Subject
  • Takis, 1925-2019 > Exhibitions
  • Takis, 1925-2019
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Takis", Tate Modern, London 3 July - 27 October 2019, MACBA, Barcelona, 21 November 2019 - 19 April 2020, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 20 May - 25 October 2020.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Magnetism and metal -- A magnet and a scrap of metal / Guy Brett -- Light and darkness -- Any one star / Michael Wellen -- Sound and silence -- Sound in the void / Melissa Warak -- A conversation with Takis / Maiten Bouisset
ISBN
  • 1849766312
  • 9781849766319
OCLC
  • on1082970985
  • SCSB-9565364
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library