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AAnnttoonnii TTààppiieess iinn pprriinntt DDeebboorraahh WWyyee Author Wye, Deborah Date 1991 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams ISBN 0870706020, 0870706039, 0810961024 Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/366 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art Antoni Tapies in Print Antoni Tapies in Print Deborah Wye Antoni Tapies, born in Spain in 1923, is today one of the world's most respected living artists. In a career that spans five decades, Tapies has created paintings, sculpture, assemblages — and over a thousand prints and illustrated books that expand on his work in other medi ums. He has molded traditional printmaking techniques to fit his own expressive needs, often incorporating such processes as emboss ing, collage, flocking, cutting, and tearing to enrich the tactility of his surfaces. In this book 75 printed works, ranging from the late 1940s to the present time, are reproduced, selected to illuminate the consistencies of Tapies's themes and the densities of meaning in his abstract language. Deborah Wye's essay incorporates conver sations with the artist in his Barcelona studio. "Art, for Tapies, is not a decorative object, it is a phil osophical system or language," she writes. His artistic mission is the expression of a dynamic interplay between the worldly and the spiritual, and the provision of a vehicle of meaning and transcendence. Ms. Wye's inter pretation of the prints explores the intricate fusing of formal strategy and iconographic themes through which the artist represents a continued on back flap ky'r '(cid:149) : i i . ;' |s3S^/" *(cid:149) - '%> ' (cid:149)(cid:149)' (cid:149)' ' " ' ' > . ,: I ,'"- I. ' * v . * : (cid:149) ' ' ' ... ' ,'T .? v*£« '-(cid:149) ... .(cid:149).. ... . Kt§ J®$r£f-i (cid:149)(cid:149),. . v.» .... , - ' ' Vi. ' X t't Antoni Tapies in Print I Deborah Wye The Museum of Modern Art, New Tork Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York -t - - (cid:149)* ^ #M V ,r< gg$ "V Arc MotfA 1L7-I 1 Published on the occasion oe the exhibition "Antoni TApies in Print," organized by Deborah Wye, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 6 - August 9, 1992. The exhibition circulated to the following institutions: Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City The Art Museum June 13-August 25, 1991 Florida International University, Miami September 11-October 17, 1992 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California September 22-November 24, 1991 The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit December 11, 1992-February 10, 1993 The Meadows Museum Southern Mf:thodist University, Dallas Museo de Arte Contemporaneo January 16-March 1, 1992 Caracas, Venezuela February-May 1993 The exhibition and accompanying catalog were made possible by generous grants from the Generalitat de Catalunya (autonomous government of Catalonia) and the Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona. Additional support was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Produced by the Department oe Publications Copyright © 1991 by The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York Osa Brown, Director of Publications All rights reserved Library of Congrf:ss Edited by Susan Weiley Catalog Card Number 91-61541 Design and typography by Michael Hentges paper isbn 0-87070-603-9 (MoMA) Design assistant: Belinda Phillpot CLOTH ISBN 0-87070-602-0 (MoMA) Production by Tim McDonough CLOTH ISBN 0-8109-6102-4 (Abrams) Color separations by Reprocolor Llovet, Barcelona Printed and bound by Ediciones Poligrafa, SA, Distributed in the United States and Canada Barcelona. by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, A Times Mirror Company Published by Distributed outside the United States and Canada The Museum of Modern Art by Thames and FIudson Ltd., London 11 West 53 Street New York, New York 10019 Printed in Spain. D.L.: B. 37.347- 1991 Original art for covers, endpapers, and text by antoni tApif:s, 1991 I »f. Muiaum cA Modern Art Utx&y WM1 * Contents Acknowledgments / 6 The Language of Antoni Tapies: Surface and Symbol in Prints and Illustrated Books / 8 Tapies, Spain, and the International Art World / 9 Tapies and Printmaking / 15 Publishers and Printers / 17 Prints SURFACE AND S H A P E / 22 WRITING / 24 CATALONIA / 29 HUMAN PRESENCE/ 34 EVERYDAY OBJECTS / 38 Illustrated Books / 41 Tapies's Mission / 49 Notes to the Text / 52 Plates / 55 List of Plates / 116 Chronology /121 Bibliography / 125 Photo Credits /127 Trustees / 128
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