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Francis Picabia

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Picabia Inside Out

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By Philip Pearlstein. Foreword by Robert Storr.

Meditations on Picabia across seven decades, from the acclaimed American realist painter

Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 296 pgs / 44 color / 63 bw. | 11/14/2023 | In stock
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Francis Picabia: Litterature

SMALL PRESS
Edited by Stephanie LaCava. Translated by Lauren Elkin.

Clth, 9 x 11.75 in. / 64 pgs / 1 color / 25 bw. | 1/23/2018 | Out of stock
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Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Edited with text by Anne Umland, Cathérine Hug. Text by George Baker, Carole Boulbès, Masha Chlenova, Michèle C. Cone, Briony Fer, Gordon Hughes, David Joselit, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Bernard Marcadé, Arnauld Pierre, Juri Steiner, Adrian Sudhalter, Aurélie Verdier.

By rejecting consistency, Picabia powerfully asserted the artist's freedom to change

Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 368 pgs / 500 color. | 7/26/2016 | In stock
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Transparence: Calder Picabia

HATJE CANTZ
Text by George Baker, Arnauld Pierre.

Hbk, 10.25 x 13.5 in. / 126 pgs / 78 color. | 2/23/2016 | In stock
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Francis Picabia

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger. Text by Zdenek Felix, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Rainer Metzger, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Stephanie Damianitsch.

Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 200 color. | 10/31/2012 | Not available
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Francis Picabia: Late Works 1933-1953

HATJE CANTZ
Artwork by Francis Picabia. Edited by Zdenek Felix. Contributions by Roberto Orth.

Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color / 30 bw | 5/2/1998 | Not available
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Picabia Inside OutPicabia Inside Out

Published by HENI Publishing.
By Philip Pearlstein. Foreword by Robert Storr.

In the 1950s, American painter Philip Pearlstein (1924–2022) completed his MA thesis, “The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908–1930.” When his research coincided with Picabia’s death in 1953, Pearlstein briefly became the authority on Picabia and his influence, writing three subsequent essays: “The Symbolic Language of Francis Picabia” for Arts magazine (1956); “Hello & Goodbye, Francis Picabia” for Art News (1970); and “When the Dada Daddies Got Real, or How I Turned Picabia Inside Out” for Brooklyn Rail (2017). Pearlstein’s articles present a fascinating comparison between Picabia, Duchamp and Pearlstein himself.
Picabia Inside Out brings together Pearlstein’s articles in full, including a facsimile of the 1955 MA thesis presented as a historical document showing all the nuances of his typewriter. A foreword by Robert Storr highlights Pearlstein's importance as a precursor to what became known as postmodernism.
Philip Pearlstein (born 1924) is an American painter best known for his modernist realist nudes. Pearlstein has written many articles for major art journals, and his contribution to contemporary art is acknowledged by his many awards and honors.



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Francis Picabia: LitteratureFrancis Picabia: Litterature

Published by Small Press.
Edited by Stephanie LaCava. Translated by Lauren Elkin.

Limited to 500 copies, Litterature pairs excerpts from Francis Picabia’s (1879–1953) novel Caravanserail with nine drawings and seventeen studies he created for the cover of André Breton’s Litterature journal between 1922 and 1924. This beautifully produced linen-bound book—whose front cover features circular die-cuts derived from one of Picabia’s dice drawings—offers a celebration of subversive play and fluid forms.



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Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change DirectionFrancis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Anne Umland, Cathérine Hug. Text by George Baker, Carole Boulbès, Masha Chlenova, Michèle C. Cone, Briony Fer, Gordon Hughes, David Joselit, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Bernard Marcadé, Arnauld Pierre, Juri Steiner, Adrian Sudhalter, Aurélie Verdier.

Irreverent and audacious, restless and brilliant, Francis Picabia achieved fame as a leader of the Dada group only to break publicly with the movement in 1921. Moving between Paris, the French Riviera, Switzerland, and New York, he led a dashing life, painting, writing, yachting, gambling, racing fast cars, and organizing lavish parties. Like no other artist before him, Picabia created a body of work that defies consistency and categorization, from Impressionist landscapes to abstraction, from Dada to stylized nudes, and from performance and film to poetry and publishing. A primary constant in his career was his vigorous unpredictability.

Illustrated with nearly 500 reproductions, this sweeping survey of Picabia's eclectic career embraces the challenge of his work, asking how we can make sense of its wildly shifting mediums and styles. In her opening essay, curator Anne Umland writes that with Picabia, familiar oppositions "between high art and kitsch, progression and regression, modernism and its opposite, and success and failure are undone."

In 15 superb essays, additional authors—including distinguished professors George Baker, Briony Fer, and David Joselit and renowned Picabia scholars Carole Boulbès and Arnauld Pierre—delve into the radically various mediums, styles, and contexts of Picabia's work, discussing his Dada period, his abstractions, his mechanical paintings, his appropriations of source imagery, his multifaceted relationship with print (both in his paintings and as a publisher and contributor to vanguard journals), his forays into screenwriting and theater, and his complex politics. Marcel Duchamp, of course, but also Nietzsche and Gertrude Stein make repeat appearances along the way.

Turning to Picabia's contemporary legacy, Cathérine Hug maps the history of his critical reception and interviews contemporary curators and artists, including Peter Fischli, Albert Oehlen, and David Salle. A lively 30-page chronology illustrated with archival photographs and ephemera gives readers a year-by-year account of the artist's colorful life and of his interactions with fellow artists and critics, friends, and lovers.

Together these essays suggest that the unruly genius of Picabia offers us a powerfully relevant and provocative alternative to the familiar narrative of modernism.

Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction accompanies the major 2016 exhibition on the artist, jointly organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Kunsthaus Zürich.

Francis Picabia was born in 1879 in Paris, the only child of a Cuban-born Spanish father and a French mother. His first success came as a painter in an Impressionist manner. He went on to become one of the principle figures of the Dada movement in New York and Paris. In 1925 Picabia moved to the south of France, where he lived and worked through World War II. Following the war, Picabia returned to Paris, where he died in 1953.



Anne Umland is the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Cathérine Hug is Curator, 20th Century Art at the Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.

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Transparence: Calder PicabiaTransparence: Calder Picabia

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by George Baker, Arnauld Pierre.

Transparence: Calder Picabia is the first publication to explore the important aspect of transparency in the oeuvres of the two artists. Alexander Calder (1898–1976) and Francis Picabia (1879–1953) are both regarded as great innovators of 20th-century modernism. The volume creates a dialogue between selected works from the late 1920s to the post–World War II period. It casts light on the ensuing dialogue between Calder’s radically new creations—for instance, his works made of wire, the first to use transparency as a means of expression in sculpture—and Picabia’s abstracting contour pictures, his "transparencies" and paintings that make reference to these. Arnauld Pierre and George Baker, renowned experts on the work of both artists, examine the significance and impact of these correspondences in accompanying essays, while the works themselves are gorgeously reproduced in full bleeds.

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Hardcover, 10.25 x 13.5 in. / 126 pgs / 78 color.

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Francis PicabiaFrancis Picabia

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Hans-Peter Wipplinger. Text by Zdenek Felix, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Rainer Metzger, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Stephanie Damianitsch.

As irascible as Tzara and as elusive as Duchamp, Francis Picabia (1879–1953) was both the prototypical Dadaist and the most mercurial artist of his generation. This volume, published for the first Austrian retrospective on Picabia, traces the artist through his many phases: from restless apprentice painter oscillating between Fauvism and Cubism to mischievous Dadaist, editor of 391 magazine and best friend to Duchamp; from antagonist of André Breton to ally of Gertude Stein; from advocate of a new machine aesthetics to subversive photorealist painting garish nudes derived from French glamour magazines. Picabia’s bizarre, reckless contradictions and wild contrarianism are amply represented in this substantial, tri-lingual publication, which includes 200 color plates, an extensive and illustrated biography and a complete bibliography, providing the most comprehensive overview of his career currently in print.

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Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 200 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 147   

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Francis Picabia: Late Works 1933-1953Francis Picabia: Late Works 1933-1953

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Artwork by Francis Picabia. Edited by Zdenek Felix. Contributions by Roberto Orth.

This lavish title focuses for the first time on Picabia's late work consisting mainly of nudes, which is a break from the Dadaist work for which history has lauded him.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color / 30 bw

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