Jacques Villon (1875-1963) à la lumière du fonds d'Espic de Ginestet (3 Volumes)
Toulouse: Universite de Toulouse, 2005. Softcover. Doctoral thesis. 3 volumes, identically bound with acetate covers and black cloth spines. 1157 pages across the 3 volumes. Volume I: 428 pp. with no illustrations (the main thesis). Volume II: pp. 429 - 1019; documents, appendices, bw photos. Volume III: The works of Villon, listed and pictured. All VG. Item #160172
The works studied constitute the period from 1947 to 1963. It retains 943 letters from Villon to Espic and attached documents: biographical, historiographic, theoretical. The letters and documents are reproduced in the 2nd volume. These sources contribute to a better understanding of the production of the artist as a whole. The first part deals with the correspondence, the guiding thread. Analysis, description and methodological propositions are stated and lead to a reflection on the relations between the epistolary and the "writings of artists". Next comes a monographic study. The great stylistic passages of the graphic and painted work are studied. The role of Villon in cubism, the "Golden Section" is reconsidered. The transition to abstraction and the return to figuration around 1935 are evaluated. After 1945, Villon's representative abstraction embodies the reassuring values of a traditional French painting, supported by the art market and the institutions of the Fourth Republic.
OCLC: 492634044
Price: $400.00