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Guy de Cointet

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Guy de Cointet
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Frederic Paul
By (author) Guy de Cointet
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 240
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Painting and paintings
ISBN/Barcode 9782080201904
ClassificationsDewey:709.04
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Editions Flammarion
Imprint Flammarion
Publication Date 4 August 2014
Publication Country France

Description

Guy de Cointet's experimental art used a combination of cryptography, typography, and tropes in visual installation pieces and performance art, books, and films. Covering his work from his early career spent in California working under Larry Bell to his early installation pieces, including canvases and books, to his fully integrated performance pieces performed across America and France, this is a comprehensive monograph on the full spectrum of the talented artist's work. Frederic Paul's examination covers everything from the artist's cryptographic newspaper ACRCIT to his theatrical works combining several languages, poetry, and song such as Going to the Market, performed in the Louvre's auditorium. Frederic Paul not only presents Guy de Cointet's major works in a comprehensive manner, he offers analysis on the extent and importance of Cointet's influence on art of the twentieth century and beyond. This is a truly indispensable work for those wishing to further their knowledge and understanding of one of the greatest typographical, linguistic, and cryptographic artists and dramatists of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Frederic Paul was former director of F.R.A.C. Limousin and the Domaine de Kerguehennec. Guy de Cointet (1934-1983) was an influential twentieth-century artist and dramatist.