{"product_id":"wolfgang-paalen-wolfgang-paalen-9783960985877","title":"Wolfgang Paalen: Surrealist in Paris and Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBound in a gorgeous cloth cover, this is the first overview in 20 years on Wolfgang Paalen, international ambassador for surrealism, abstract expressionist precursor and creator of the \"fumage\" technique\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe extraordinary German Austrian Mexican painter, sculptor and theorist Wolfgang Paalen (1905-59) moved too fast for art history, which is only now beginning to catch up with his many accomplishments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA member of the Abstraction-Cr ation group in the mid-1930s, he joined the surrealist movement in 1935. He went into exile in Mexico in 1939 (at the invitation of Frida Kahlo), where he promoted the surrealist cause and edited the influential art magazine \u003ci\u003eDYN\u003c\/i\u003e; after the war he moved to San Francisco, forming the Dynaton Group with Gordon Onslow Ford and Lee Mullican. Paalen's pictures and texts were an inspiration for abstract expressionists such as Pollock, Newman and Rothko, no doubt due to his pioneering \"fumage\" technique, which deployed candle smoke to create abstract patterns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis beautiful catalogue spans all of the artist's periods, also illuminating his work on British Columbian and Mexican art, as well as his writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wolfgang Paalen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3960985878\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783960985877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walther Konig Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Wolfgang Paalen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988916044031,"sku":"9783960985877","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c1d26cc-904e-43ef-9fed-f64a03c78305.jpg?v=1683297032","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wolfgang-paalen-wolfgang-paalen-9783960985877","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}