The Colour Journal – The Blue Issue
Lancement / Signature
23 février 2023
18h - 20h
Book Launch / Signing
Februrary 23, 2023
6 - 8 PM
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The Colour Journal est une luxueuse publication qui explore la couleur dans l'art et la photographie. Elle a été conçue comme une collection de six volumes, chacun consacré à une seule couleur : bleu, rouge, jaune, vert, blanc et noir. Le premier volume, The Blue Issue, rassemble une vingtaine de contributions d'historiens de l'art, écrivains, anthropologues, philosophes, critiques, artistes et photographes internationaux, qui partent de la couleur bleue.
Il ne s'agit pas d'une autre publication sur la signification de la couleur. Celle-ci n'a pas été abordée de manière littérale, mais plutôt comme un point de départ, un prétexte pour raconter de plus grandes histoires, un moyen de révéler l'histoire dans l'histoire : nous connaissons tous les Nus bleus de Matisse, mais qui peut en dire autant de Biskra, l'oasis algérienne oubliée qui l'a inspiré ? On connaît peut-être aussi le pigment outremer qu'Yves Klein a breveté, mais qui a entendu parler d'Edouard Adam, un quincaillier de Montparnasse qui a découvert sa formule ?
The Colour Journal entend lutter contre la dictature de l'immédiateté, donner de la profondeur aux jolies images des magazines de mode et des fils Instagram, plonger dans des moments familiers de l'histoire de l'art et découvrir ce qui s'y cache, fouiller dans les bibliothèques des musées et révéler des trésors inédits.
Pour donner vie à cette entreprise, nous avons voyagé de l'Idaho au Guangxi, de l'antiquité à nos jours, pour vous proposer un dialogue entre archives oubliées et photographie contemporaine : suivez un chasseur de denim dans l'Ouest américain, visitez l'une des dernières minorités culturelles de Chine, jetez un coup d'œil à la collection privée de polaroïds d'Helmut Newton et plongez dans les piscines chlorées de David Hockney.
Œuvres de Giotto, Sassoferrato, Yves Klein, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brancusi, Helena Almeida, Anna Atkins, William Henry Fox Talbot, Tim Barber, Elin O'Hara Slavik, David McDermott & Peter McGough, Henry Peter Bosse, Arthur Wesley Dow, Frederick K. Coulson, William H. Cades, Jean-Eugène Durand, Paul Burty Haviland, Kenro Izu, Lourdes de Castro, Henri Matisse, Jean Geiser, Auguste Maure, Felix Moulin, John Beasley, Lehnert & Landrock, Hélène Adant, Jacques Majorelle, David Hockney, Julius Shulman, Mel Roberts, Bob Mizer, George Tate, Ed Ruscha, John Divola, Grant Mudford, Reenie Barrow, Jonh Schott, Henry Wessel, Rene Burri, Raymond Depardon, Bruce Davidon, Robert Adams, Mark Swope, Joe Deal, Lewis Baltz, Frank Gohlke, Lee Friedlander, Bernard Plossu, William Claxton, Charles Brittin, Marvin Silver, Seymour Rosen, Ed Ruscha, Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, John Vachon, David Abrahams, Jeff Boudreau, Charles Fréger, Alexandre Guirkinger, Robbie Lawrence, Rafard & Roussel, Daniel Shea.
Edité par Benjamin Grillon
Textes de Michel Pastoureau, Benjamin Grillon, David Campany, Tim Ingold, Bertrand Raison, Rosanna Mclaughlin, Liam Hess, Robin Muir, Alexandra Genova, Philonema Epps
Publié par Alep Publishing
2023
Édition anglaise
24 x 32 cm (broché, sous bandeau)
436 pages (ill.)
ISBN : 978-1-8382377-0-7
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The Colour Journal is a lavish publication that explores colour in art and photography. It has been conceived as a collection of six volumes, each devoted to a single colour: blue, red, yellow, green, white and black. The Blue Issue contains, over more than 400 pages, about twenty contributions by international art historians, writers, anthropologists, philosophers, critics, artists and photographers that start from the colour blue.
The Colour Journal is not simply another publication about the meaning of colour. Colours have not been approached in a literal way but as a starting point, a pretext to tell bigger stories, a means of revealing the story within the story: we all know Henri Matisse's Blue Nudes, but who can say the same about Biskra, the forgotten Algerian oasis that inspired him? We may also know about the ultramarine pigment that Yves Klein patented, but who has heard of Edouard Adam, a merchant in Montparnasse who discovered its formula?
The Colour Journal intends to fight against the dictatorship of immediacy, to give depth to the pretty images of fashion magazines and Instagram feeds, to delve into familiar moments of art history and discover what lies beneath, to dig into museum libraries and reveal unseen treasures.
To bring this enterprise to life, we travelled from Idaho to Guangxi, from antiquity to the present day, to bring you a dialogue between forgotten archives and contemporary photography: follow a denim hunter in the American West, visit one of China's last cultural minorities, peek into Helmut Newton's private collection of Polaroids and dive into David Hockney's chlorinated swimming pools.
Works by Giotto, Sassoferrato, Yves Klein, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brancusi, Helena Almeida, Anna Atkins, William Henry Fox Talbot, Tim Barber, Elin O'Hara Slavik, David McDermott & Peter McGough, Henry Peter Bosse, Arthur Wesley Dow, Frederick K. Coulson, William H. Cades, Jean-Eugène Durand, Paul Burty Haviland, Kenro Izu, Lourdes de Castro, Henri Matisse, Jean Geiser, Auguste Maure, Felix Moulin, John Beasley, Lehnert & Landrock, Hélène Adant, Jacques Majorelle, David Hockney, Julius Shulman, Mel Roberts, Bob Mizer, George Tate, Ed Ruscha, John Divola, Grant Mudford, Reenie Barrow, Jonh Schott, Henry Wessel, Rene Burri, Raymond Depardon, Bruce Davidon, Robert Adams, Mark Swope, Joe Deal, Lewis Baltz, Frank Gohlke, Lee Friedlander, Bernard Plossu, William Claxton, Charles Brittin, Marvin Silver, Seymour Rosen, Ed Ruscha, Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, John Vachon, David Abrahams, Jeff Boudreau, Charles Fréger, Alexandre Guirkinger, Robbie Lawrence, Rafard & Roussel, Daniel Shea.
Edited by Benjamin Grillon
Texts by Michel Pastoureau, Benjamin Grillon, David Campany, Tim Ingold, Bertrand Raison, Rosanna Mclaughlin, Liam Hess, Robin Muir, Alexandra Genova, Philonema Epps
Published by Alep Publishing
2023
English edition
24 x 32 cm (softcover)
436 pages (ill.)
ISBN : 978-1-8382377-0-7
© Alep Publishing
Please note that colors may slightly differ between the screen and the actual product.
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