{"product_id":"josef-halas-9782370742100","title":"Jòsef Halas","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first monograph in English on a major Polish painter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJózef Halas\u003c\/em\u003e (1927-2015) is one of the major Polish painters of his generation. Active in Wroclaw from 1949 until his death, first as a student and then as an artist and teacher, he left a unique body of work that, like many of those built largely during the Cold War, remained long unrecognized in Western Europe and North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mountain series, which occupied most of his activity during the 1960s, marks both a strong connection with nature and a distance from the landscape painting tradition. The following series, Oppositions, Partitions, Verticals, Obliques, Levels and Interiors, constitute the pinnacle of his production and testify to a poetics of contradiction which is embodied in multiple and successful ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pocket Gouaches, begun in the late 1970s, reveal an artist who has always remained open to experimentation. For a decade, the history of art has fortunately opened its field of investigation, modernity has become plural and its actors have become more numerous. There is no doubt that \u003cem\u003eJózef Halas\u003c\/em\u003e must now be counted as one of the important players in this global history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis monograph, with texts by Michel Gauthier, curator at the Centre Pompidou, Magdalena Howorus-Czajka, professor at the University of Gdansk, and Marjolaine Lévy, art critic, aims to contribute to the knowledge of Halas's work beyond Poland and by placing it in an international context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463362330860,"sku":"9782370742100","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9782370742100-j-sef-halas.jpg?v=1775031986","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/josef-halas-9782370742100","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}