{"id":2322,"date":"2010-06-06T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:33:37","slug":"featured-jean-tinguely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-jean-tinguely\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: JEAN TINGUELY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely<\/span> began experimenting with movement in space, and in 1944 he began equipping machine-like sculptures with electric motors and making them spin around at high speed. He moved to Paris in 1951, where he participated in Robert Rauschenberg&#8217;s international happenings and associated with the casual artist group &#8216;Nouveaux R\u00e9alistes&#8217;, exhibiting works in their exhibitions. He had his first one-man exhibition three years later, in 1954, at the Galerie Arnaux. Tinguely&#8217;s fantasy machines with pre-programmed elements of chance, the so-called &#8216;M\u00e9tamatics&#8217;, are quite spectacular. His welded iron constructions represent ironic attacks on the purpose of the era of technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Paperback published on the occasion of the opening of the 1987 art exhibition held by the Palazzo Grassi, Venice . Foldout from the exhibition in pocket affixed to inside of rear wrapper. Profusely illustrated, with many plates in full color. Some very minor wear to slip case, otherwise fine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory <\/strong>#23756<br \/>\n<span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>A Magic Stronger Than Death<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"book-author\">Pontus, Hulten and Tinguley, Jean<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-publisher\">Bompiani, Milano<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-pubdate\">1987<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-binding\">Paperback<\/span>, in publishers slip case<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-bookcondition\">Very Good<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> <span id=\"biblio-edition\">First Edition<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely began experimenting with movement in space, and in 1944 he began equipping machine-like sculptures with electric motors and making them spin around at high speed. He moved to Paris in 1951, where he participated in Robert Rauschenberg&#8217;s international happenings and associated with the casual artist group &#8216;Nouveaux R\u00e9alistes&#8217;, exhibiting works in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15111,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}