(2 reviews)Author: Sabine Rewald
ISBN : 0300197012
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Balthus’s lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908-2001) mingles intuition into his young sitters’ psyches with overt erotic desire and forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful depictions of childhood and adolescence ever committed to canvas. Often included in these scenes are enigmatic cats, possible stand-ins for the artist himself.
Balthus: Cats and Girls is the first book devoted to this subject, focusing on the early decades of the artist’s career from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the artist’s life and work, as well as on interviews with Balthus and the models themselves, Sabine Rewald explores the origins and permutations of Balthus’s obsessions with adolescents and felines. She addresses the crucial influence of such key figures as poet Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother’s lover, who acted as Balthus’s surrogate father, but also includes the previously unknown voices of the girl models: their recollections and comments provide a unique perspective on some of the best known and most controversial paintings of the 20th century.
- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0300197012
- ISBN-13: 978-0300197013
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 10 inches
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This is the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition of Balthus paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 2013 to January 2014. The exhibition itself was called "Balthus: Cats and Girls--Paintings and Provocations." Sabine Rewald, the Gelman Curator for Modern Art at the museum and the foremost authority on Balthus, curated the exhibition and is the sole author of the catalogue. She explains that the subtitle was added as an afterthought "in acknowledgment that [Balthus's] paintings of adolescents might offend some viewers" (vii). In light of the remarks posted here on October 26 ("Disgusted"), that seems not to have been a superfluous concern. However, Ian Buruma has objected to the subtitle on the grounds that "there is no evidence that Balthus painted adolescent girls, let alone cats, as provocations" ("The New York Review of Books," November 7, 2013, p. 84). That is not strictly true, as the aged painter acknowledged in retrospect. Perhaps we shall simply have to leave it with Justice Stewart's conclusion that we know provocation when we see it and agree that everyone has a right to be offended by provocation--but no one has a right to ban it in order to protect his own sensibilities.
In any case, this is the second Balthus exhibition catalogue that Dr. Rewald has written for the MMA (and in fact her third book on the artist). The first exhibition, in 1984, was broader in scope and included more of Balthus's landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes.
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