בידספיריט | Georges Mathieu by Dominique Quignon-Fleure.

Georges Mathieu by Dominique Quignon-Fleure. Crown, New York, 1977 - hardcover with DJ 96 pp good condition Insolent yet beautiful, Georges Mathieu's work is at once revolutionary and classical. Since the 1950s it has achieved a worldwide reputation. Exemplary of our modernity, it brings together a large public and the most demanding spokesmen of the avant-garde. Following Georges Mathieu's pathway step by step, the author outlines a veritable phenomenology of the act of painting that alone, he contends, can clarify the inescapable mystery of the artist's work. He describes, rather than analyzes, the artist's adventure - his relations with matter, space, time-judging that the rising sensitivity depends, above all, on the quality of the aesthetic experience of each painting. In the eyes of the author, Georges Mathieu's itinerary constitutes a spiritual odyssey of great breadth, decisive for our time — a quest in which the notions of game, of gesture, of festival, and of risk produce the fullness of his accomplishments. He compares them with the discovery of perspective by the first painters of the Renaissance in the radical questioning of the relations of man and cosmos, a new definition of the sacred; a reaffirmation of man's enigma. The implications of such a revolution are considerable. Far from isolated, it has, so we may learn, profound affinities with the itinerary, for instance, of a Béjart, of a Stockhausen, of a Grotowski, or of a Michaux. The present study strives to distinguish the lines of force of this modernity, the possible founding of what Georges Mathieu terms a New Renaissance. Dominique Quignon-Fleuret was born in 1943.