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Article: Pierre Klossowski/Hans Bellmer: Whitechapel Art Gallery.(drawings and sculpture exhibition)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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While presented as separate exhibitions, these timely surveys of two of the most interesting artists in the orbit of Surrealism (though Pierre Klossowski, unlike Hans Bellmer, was never an official member of the group) complemented each other perfectly. Although the work of both artists is unmistakably specific to the century into which they were born and (differing in this regard from that of Klossowski's brother, Balthus) absolutely without nostalgia for the art of the old masters, Bellmer and Klossowski were unconcerned with any notion of pictorial modernism.
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This is not so much because of their work's representational basis as ...
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Article: Pierre Klossowski Dies; French Artist, Writer
The Washington Post;
August 13, 2001 ;
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...Pierre Klossowski, 96, the French artist and writer ... cause of death was not reported. Mr. Klossowski, often associated with the surrealists ... Catherine Tasca, referring to the elder Klossowski, said, "A man of immense culture ...
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