{"product_id":"pierre-molinier-monograph","title":"Monograph","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\"\u003eThe method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003ePierre Molinier is an unknown of worldwide renown. Every book and every exhibition on the body, gender confusion or sexual excess seems to feature at least one work by this artist whose “genius” was acclaimed by André Breton in a memorable text published in 1956.\u003cbr\u003eBut the bulk of his work has remained inaccessible. A number of pictures have never been shown and a corpus of only 160 prints has been published. The ensemble revealed by the artist's archives is much more extensive. It includes numerous proofs made to prepare his photomontages and working prints given to friends, but also notebooks and personal letters. Here, precise links emerge between his paintings, photographs and scandalous life. The myth carefully constructed by the artist begins to crumble before the reality of the work.\u003cbr\u003eAn inveterate seducer, thoroughgoing fetishist, unrepentant transvestite and inadvertent bisexual, to the very last Molinier remained haunted by two obsessions: pleasure, meaning immediate access to \u003cem\u003ela petite mort\u003c\/em\u003e, and “leaving a trace in the infinity of time.” This book charts the aesthetic incarnation of his passions. Its 819 photographs, most of them never published before, reveal the method, shed light on the procedures and give details of the origin and alchemy of his latent or composed images. Finally, an exhaustive chronology offers a new biography of Molinier, based on his letters: for it is in the intimacy of these writings that the shaman's heart beats closest to the truth.\u003cbr\u003eJean-Luc Mercié\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn 1900 in Agen (France), Pierre Molinier, surrealistic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e painter and photographer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a precursor to body art\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, died in 1976 after having thought out radical and pornographic\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eartwork.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a career shared between the university (fifteen years) and publishing (twenty) Jean-Luc Mercié has written widely on painting and photography. This monograph is his fourth book about Pierre Molinier, the master from Bordeaux. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"kamelmennour","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":32954804732009,"sku":"","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0088\/1855\/7033\/products\/32_-_Pierre_molinier_-_eshop.jpg?v=1575987176","url":"https:\/\/shop.mennour.com\/products\/pierre-molinier-monograph","provider":"Mennour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}