February New French and Italian Language books

• Ellsworth Kelly - Line Shape Colour / Ligne Forme Couleur
  
  Ellsworth Kelly - Line Shape Colour / Ligne Forme Couleur: NC139.K37 A4 2018
  Author(s): Eric de Chassey
  Arles : Actes sud [2018]
  
  A sumptuous showcase of the exquisite lithographic work of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) Today Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) is internationally renowned as one of the major artists of the 20th century and early 21st century. He is considered to have created a bridge between the great European modernists and the various American avant-gardes. After contributing to the liberation of France as a soldier in the Second World War, he returned to France to live from 1948 to 1954, and returned frequently thereafter throughout his life. Two years after his death, his connection to France has never been stronger. His partner the photographer Jack Shear has recently donated fifty-four of the artists' prints and his sole book to the French National Art History Institute library (INHA), contributing to its already vast collection of prints from the late 19th century onwards, from the great patron Jacques Doucet. The collection shows how throughout his career, Kelly experimented with the possibilities that printed images offer, from his first lithography produced in Paris in 1949 to his monumental works on paper in the 2000s. It reveals unknown aspects of the artist's work, especially a series of abstract colour lithographs and his linear representation of planets produced in Paris in the mid-1960s. There is also his series of variations from 1988 where he uses his own face or the faces of friends as a motif. This exceptional donation is here revealed for the first time along with a selection of Ellsworth Kelly's works - painting, drawings, collages and prints - which today are to be found in French collections, including a number of previously unexhibited restricted- access works from private collections.
  
  
• Carlo Zinelli
  
  Carlo Zinelli: ND623.Z477 A4 2019
  Author(s): Anic Zanzi
  Milan 5 continents éditions; 5 Continents [2019]
  
  - Carlo Zinelli is one of the leading figures in Art Brut - Contains previously unpublished archive material - Lavishly illustrated and published to accompany an exhibition at Art Brut Collection, Lausanne, 7 June - 2 December 2019 Carlo Zinelli, called Carlo (1916-1974), is one of the leading figures in Art Brut, along with Aloïse Corbaz and Adolf Wölfli. The book devoted to him by Collection de l'Art Brut, in Lausanne - the public institution that possesses the largest body of work by the Italian artist - gathers together a series of articles on Zinelli by experts in different disciplines. This makes it possible to give due weight to relatively neglected aspects of a rich and diverse opus, such as Carlo's writings, which mingle with his graphic compositions, well known for their characteristic accumulation of motifs, especially stylised human beings and animals, as well as vehicles. This bilingual book is lavishly illustrated throughout with reproductions of Zinelli's paintings and many photographs, several of which are by John Phillips, as well as previously unpublished archive material. Text in English and French. Published to accompany an exhibition at Art Brut Collection, Lausanne, 7 June - 2 December 2019.
  
  

Other new French and Italian Language books

• Versailles revival : 1867-1937 / : DC801.V57 V37 2019
• Le traite des examens : traduit de la Nouvelle histoire des T'ang (chap. XLIV, XLV) / Ouyang, Xiu, 1007-1072.: JQ1512.Z1 O815 1976
• Ton métier, le mien, le Québec : fragments de correspondance amoureuse et politique, 1962-1993 / Julien, Pauline author.: ML420.J94 A4 2019
• Géométries sud : du Mexique à la Terre de Feu / : N6502.5 .G48 2018
• Girodet face à Géricault : ou la bataille romantique du Salon de 1819. : N6847 .G576 2019
• Picasso, 1939-1945 : au cœur des ténèbres / : N6853.P5 A4 2019
• Léonard de Vinci / : N6923.L33 A4 2019
• Drapé : Degas, Christo, Michel-Ange, Rodin, Man Ray, Dürer... / : N8217.D73 D73 2019
• Dali : une histoire de la peinture / : ND813.D3 A4 2019
• Infinis d'Asie / Huynh, Jean-Baptiste, 1966- photographer.: TR647 .H9155 2019