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One of the most playful, innovative and eccentric artists of post-war 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.
One of the most playful, innovative and eccentric artists of post-war 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, Alberto Giacometti and Jean Tinguely. 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.
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, Alberto Giacometti and Jean Tinguely. 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.
Extent: 128 pp
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2019-09-09
Size: 25.1 x 19.6 cm
ISBN: 9781849766319
About the Author
Guy Brett is one of the UK's foremost art writers and curators of kinetic art. Michael Wellen is Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London Melissa Warak is a curatorial fellow at the Menil Collection, Houston, and a leading expert on Takis in the United States.
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