{"product_id":"annette-messager-mes-enluminures-two","title":"ANNETTE MESSAGER \/ Mes Enluminures, two","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnnette Messager\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMes Enluminures, two  \u003c\/em\u003e1988\u003cbr\u003eB\u003cspan data-v-7eb1e0c8=\"\"\u003eound printed paperback, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-v-7eb1e0c8=\"\"\u003e21 x 14cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eFirst edition. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eno. 155\/320\u003cbr\u003eArt \u0026amp; Art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very Good, shows minimal signs of wear\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"details_section ds_three with-result\" data-v-7eb1e0c8=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ds_financials show-bid-controls\" data-v-7eb1e0c8=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex-1 w-1\/2 result-wrapper\" data-v-7984c7a0=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with the first retrospective in the United States of the work of French artist Annette Messager (b. 1943), one of the most provocative and important contemporary artists working in Europe. Alternating between a quiet conceptualism and a raucous expressionism, the work in the exhibition included books that inquire into the nature of women’s roles, photographs transformed by paint into fairytale monsters, ensembles comprising hundreds of photographs of body parts, and multimedia installations that explore the multiple meanings of objects and images placed in new contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMultiple sources inform Messager’s work, including Symbolism and Surrealism, how-to books, magazine and newspaper articles, advertisements, astrology, religious art,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eart brut\u003c\/em\u003e, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. The influence of Surrealist photography, with its fragmentation of the human body and voyeuristic aspect, is evident in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Vows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1988–91), where numerous photographs of body parts hang from strings, overlapping and partially obscuring one another. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Trophies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1986–88), Messager calls upon the less-regarded arts of tattooing, palmistry, children’s books, and medieval manuscripts to create the symbols and marks that she draws over photographs of body parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-v-7eb1e0c8=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"specification spec\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"specification\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ANNETTE MESSAGER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45065312370969,"sku":"","price":750.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/5024\/2841\/files\/368_1_artists_books_ephemera_from_an_important_private_collection_march_2023_annette_messager_mes_enluminures_two__rago_auction.jpg?v=1682397226","url":"https:\/\/landslidebooksandobjects.com\/products\/annette-messager-mes-enluminures-two","provider":"Landslide","version":"1.0","type":"link"}