F駘ix F駭駮n: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781633451018)

The story of French impresario, dandy and anarchist F駘ix F駭駮n's extraordinary influence on early modernism

A New York Times critics' pick Best Art Books 2020

"It would not be a commonplace portrait at all, but a carefully composed picture, with very carefully arranged colors and lines. A rhythmic and angular pose. A decorative F駘ix, entering with his hat or a flower in his hand." With these words, in 1890, Paul Signac described to F駘ix F駭駮n the extraordinary portrait he was dedicating to him. In it, Signac paid homage to F駭駮n's distinctive appearance, his generous but enigmatic personality and his innovative approach to modernism.

Signac's portrait spotlights a figure who often chose to remain behind the scenes. But F駭駮n's impact--as a writer, dealer, publisher, curator, collector and anarchist--was tremendous. F駭駮n helped define the movement known as neoimpressionism, a term he himself coined in the 1880s; he helped launch the careers of Seurat, Signac, Bonnard, Matisse and Modigliani; he was the first editor of the work of Rimbaud and Lautr饌mont; and he was active in anarchist circles, notoriously so in 1894, following the bombing of a restaurant popular among politicians and financiers, for which he was arrested and acquitted.

F駘ix F駭駮n: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde accompanies the first exhibition tracing F駭駮n's extraordinary, unsung impact on the development of early modernism, a major international event. The publication traces F駭駮n's career through a selection of major works that F駭駮n admired, championed and collected, alongside contemporary letters, documents and photographs, and offers a long-overdue celebration of this singular, catalytic figure in art history.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in an age of revolutionary change, French polymath F駘ix F駭駮n (1861-1944) was at the center of Paris' literary, artistic and anarchist circles. His Novels in Three Lines was translated by Luc Sante and published in 2007.

Author: Felix Feneon
ISBN-10: 1633451011
ISBN-13: 9781633451018
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2020
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.90lbs
Size: 10.70h x 9.30w x 1.10d