{"title":"Wolfgang Paalen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"form-and-sense-book-wolfgang-paalen-9781611457827","title":"Form and Sense","description":"Wolfgang Paalen was a central figure in internationalist surrealist circles in the late 1930s. Artist and intellectual, he was a European whose fascination with archaic cultures led him finally to Mexico, where he founded the influential magazine DYN in 1941. In the bold texts from DYN that make up Form and Sense, we encounter a unique artistic mind and an oracular voice.  Paalen’s book is an intellectual delight with essays on cubism, surrealism, the universality of forms in architecture, and the relationships that exist between art and science. He weaves together the new ideas and archaic inspirations in twentieth-century painting and sculpture. His nuanced and original considerations of some key figures—Mondrian, Kandinsky, Picasso—marked Paalen in turn as a significant thinker in the world of modern art.  This painter’s book, illustrated with carefully chosen examples of the art he examines, makes us not only understand but also experience the rich interplay between idea and image that informs the art of our own time. A new introduction by the scholar Martica Sawin examines Paalen’s career, particularly his influential writing on surrealism and abstraction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50480106635537,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50480107159825,"sku":"GOR013796608","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1611457823.jpg?v=1750926890"},{"product_id":"wolfgang-paalen-book-wolfgang-paalen-9783960985877","title":"Wolfgang Paalen","description":"The artist and intellectual Wolfgang Paalen was an important trendsetter in art around the middle of the 20th century.His pictures and texts provided both support and inspiration for young representatives of American abstract expressionist painting such as Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.Paalen, born in Vienna, moved to Paris in 1929, where he affiliated with the Surrealists.His original contribution to Surrealism were his so-called 'Fumage pictures'. In these he painted hallucinatory motifs using candle smoke, some of which he continued associatively with oil paint, others he left in their own right.Paalen went into exile in Mexico in 1939 on the invitation of Frida Kahlo. From 1942 to 1944 he edited the influential art magazine DYN.The catalogue is dedicated to all of the artist's creative periods. His long-standing interest in collecting and researching the indigenous art of British Columbia and Mexico as well as his literary work are also illuminated in more detail.Accompanies the exhibition 'Wolfgang Paalen (1905-1959): An Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico', 4 Oct 2019 - 19 Jan 2020, Belvedere, Vienna.Co-published with Belvedere.English edition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51065084739857,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51065087230225,"sku":"NIN9783960985877","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3960985878.jpg?v=1750838730"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-wolfgang-paalen.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}