Victor Brauner - 2020 French art book (light wear)

Victor Brauner - Je suis le reve, je suis l'inspiration, a French art book / ISBN 9782759604777 / 311-page hardcover, 9.5 x 12.9 inches, published in 2020 by Paris Musees / out-of-print book, light wear from handling (bumps to the boards, otherwise like new)

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Born in 1903 in Romania, Victor Brauner was an active member of the first wave of Romanian avant-garde artists whose concerns anticipated those of Western European Surrealism by 20 years. As such, his paintings are distinguished by their wealth of occult notations and an eclectic use of diverse religious symbolism. Brauner's work attests to a unique integration of his Eastern European roots into more flamboyant Western modernism. Despite his many years living in Paris he retained his Romanian identity as evidenced in his choice of titles, his palette, and primarily his choice of imagery, reverting over and over again to his childhood memories and anxieties, to the Balkan landscape, and to the magic and spiritual symbols of his upbringing.