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Anonymous, known as ZORRO (active 1940 - 1970)
Self-portrait, c.1940, matte aristotype, 12 x 9 cm, Ph 25052

 

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Pierre MOLINIER (Agen, 1900 - Bordeaux, 1976)
Self-portrait, 1957, original silver print on glossy paper, 10.5 x 7 cm, Ph 25056

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Anton PRINNER (Budapest, 1902 - Paris, 1983)
La Femme tondue, Paris, A.P.R., 1946, artist's book, [58] p., 8 original engravings, 8° 26242

 

Born in Budapest in 1902, Anton Prinner studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1920 to 1924. He left Hungary at the age of 25 and arrived in Paris in late 1927 or early 1928.

This photograph is part of a body of works by singular and major figures, known and unknown, constituted to introduce students to the artists who were at the foundation of the art of the twentieth century. Taking a historical perspective, this collection positions gender issues, identified by the gender studies of the 1990s, as already present in artistic photographic practices, particularly very early ones, which were transgressive and ambiguous.

These photographs are part of a body of works by singular and major figures, known and unknown, constituted to introduce students to the artists who were at the foundation of the art of the twentieth century. Taking a historical perspective, this collection positions gender issues, identified by the gender studies of the 1990s, as already present in artistic photographic practices, particularly very early ones, which were transgressive and ambiguous.

Originally from Romania, from the early 1930s Gherasim Luca (1913–1994) formed close links within the French art world, notably among the Surrealists; he settled permanently in France in 1953. Described by Gilles Deleuze as the “greatest poet in the French language,” Luca cultivated “hero-limit” work, to use the title of one of his pieces (“héros-limite,” 1953), where the deconstruction of language is based on the rejection of political, identity, and ethical categories, and reliance—twenty-five years before Deleuze and Félix Guattari—on anti-Oedipal notions.

Victor Hugo was a prolific and talented draftsman who left some four thousand drawings, most of which are held by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Maison Victor Hugo in Paris. This graphic production was important to the writer: “I am very happy and proud of what you think of the things I call my pen drawings,” he wrote to Charles Baudelaire in 1860. Among his repertoire, landscapes hold a significant place, whether they be of sites Hugo visited during his travels, drawn in situ or from memory, or imaginary landscapes.

This photograph is part of a body of works by singular and major figures, known and unknown, constituted to introduce students to the artists who were at the foundation of the art of the twentieth century.

Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the studio of Ingres, Célestin Nanteuil is the Romantic engraver par excellence. Inspired by the literature of the Romantic period—Hugo, Dumas, and Gautier—he placed his creative independence and his ornamentalist flair at the service of writers, painters, and journals, with all of his work being illustrations or interpretations.

These photographs are part of a body of works by singular and major figures, known and unknown, constituted to introduce students to the artists who were at the foundation of the art of the twentieth century. Taking a historical perspective, this collection positions gender issues, identified by the gender studies of the 1990s, as already present in artistic photographic practices, particularly very early ones, which were transgressive and ambiguous.

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