Michel Leiris
Michel Leiris was born April 20 1901 BirthParis, France.
Died Sept 30 1990 deathSaint-Hilaire, France.
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
Categories: Surrealism Writing
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He grew up in comfortable Parisian bourgeois surroundings. The earnest student of chemistry was soon seduced by the exciting world of cafes and cabarets, and particularly by the heady stimulus of Dadaism and Surrealism. Introduced to surrealist circles by his lifelong friend Andre Masson, Leiris by the late 1920’s had become one of the earliest defectors from the movement…
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Michel Leiris books documents of contemporary art
100 Contemporary Artists ...works by pioneering artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marlene Dumas, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Christopher Wool alongside outstanding artists of a younger generation like Glenn Brown, Natalie Djurberg, Tom Friedman, Mark Grotjahn, or Terence Koh.
Parkett Special edition: Artists' Editions for Parkett: 200 Art Works 25 Years.
Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture.
Casa 5 Tavira, Portugal. artist and art © the-artists.org 1998 - 2010
Artist in Residence Portugal, Open for artists from around the world.