Meret Oppenheim

     

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MERET OPPENHEIM: FOUNTAIN STORIES
HATJE CANTZ
U.S. $40.00 | CAN $40
ISBN: 9783775725903 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 10/31/2010 | In stock

MERET OPPENHEIM: FROM BREAKFAST IN FUR AND BACK AGAIN
KERBER
U.S. $35.00 | CAN $35
ISBN: 9783936646290 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 3/2/2004 | In stock

MERET OPPENHEIM: BEYOND THE TEACUP
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL, NEW YORK
U.S. $29.95 | CAN $29.95
ISBN: 9780916365462 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/2/1997 | In stock

      

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MERET OPPENHEIM: RETROSPECTIVE
HATJE CANTZ
U.S. $65.00 | CAN $65
ISBN: 9783775718837 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 4/1/2007 | Not available

MERET OPPENHEIM: BEYOND THE TEACUP
D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, INC.
U.S. $45.00 | CAN $45
ISBN: 9780916365455 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/2/1996 | Not available

MERET OPPENHEIM: THE BOOK OF IDEAS
GACHNANG & SPRINGER
U.S. $65.00 | CAN $65
ISBN: 9783906127514 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 9/2/1996 | Not available

Meret Oppenheim

Meret Oppenheim: Fountain Stories

Edited by Simon Baur, Martin A. Bühler. Text by Belinda Grace Gardner, Annemarie Monteil.
Published by Hatje Cantz

More than any other Surrealist, the Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) embraced, pursued and defined Surrealism's cult of the object, fashioning such classic works as the famous fur cup (at the age of 23!) and the trussed high-heels, infusing everyday domestic objects with a concise eroticism. Yet many facets of her innovative and wide-ranging practice remain unknown to this day, including her extraordinary fountain projects. From the late 1960s until her death, Oppenheim designed and produced models for a series of freewheeling aquatic sculptures. Only three of these have been realized: the "Meret Oppenheim Fountain" in Bern in her native Switzerland, the "Spiral (Nature's Course)" in Paris and the "Hermes Fountain" located in the garden of artist and onetime collaborator Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Italy. Fountain Stories is the first to gather all of Oppenheim's fountain projects, including her drawings and unrealized models, into a single definitive publication.

MERET OPPENHEIM: FOUNTAIN STORIES
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Meret Oppenheim: From Breakfast In Fur And Back Again

Edited by Thomas Levy. Essay by Belinda Grace Gardner. Interview by Daniel Spoerri.
Published by Kerber

One of the most unusual women of the twentieth century, Meret Oppenheim most famously created the legendary Le Déjeuner en Fourrure, her 1936 assemblage of a tea cup and a fur. But Oppenheim was not just a Surrealist mouthful--though she provided the movement with one of its most recognizable symbols. Like her counterparts Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton and Man Ray, she used found materials freely in her artworks, often to the point of creating a critical alienation of the viewer from an otherwise familiar object. Her greater oeuvre has often been subsumed by the dominance of the ubiquitous fur cup, a situation which this publication aims to remedy, presenting a career-spanning selection of witty drawings, paintings, objects, collages, poems and designs for “applied artworks”--fantastic clothes, jewelry and furniture. Shortly before her death, Oppenheim and editor Thomas Levy developed the idea of realizing some of her applied artworks; those that were made to appear here through photo documentation. Also included are scholarly essays, an exhibition list, a bibliography and a filmography.

MERET OPPENHEIM: FROM BREAKFAST IN FUR AND BACK AGAIN
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Meret Oppenheim: Beyond The Teacup

Artwork by Meret Oppenheim. Edited by Bice Curiger. Text by Jacqueline Burckhardt.
Published by Independent Curators International, New York

This landmark volume examines the life and work of the extraordinary Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim. Although she became famous at the age of 23 for her fur-covered teacup, she subsequently suffered years of critical neglect, and her subversive work has only recently begun to receive the acclaim it deserves. This beautiful catalogue covers the full range of her art, embracing sculpture, painting, drawing, collage, assemblage, photography, fashion and jewelry design, and a selection of Oppenheim's poems. Now available to the trade in a paperback edition.

MERET OPPENHEIM: BEYOND THE TEACUP
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