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Article: Pierre Klossowski at Zabriskie. (New York).
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- Art in America
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- April 1, 2003
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Pierre Klossowski's large-scale pencil drawings come out of a visual tradition predating the advent of modern media, when the image carried a world of symbolism, allusions and narrative information. The six drawings in this exhibition depict his literary characters in enigmatic erotic situations that dramatically extend the subject of his writings and refer back to his life. Le grand renfermement II (The Great Gathering II), 1988, a large page of sketches, gives us his intellectual and artistic influences: the black-and-white rendering of Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin and Child with Saint Anne juxtaposed with small portraits of his friends (Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, ...
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Article: Traversees de Pierre Klossowski.(Review)
The Modern Language Review;
January 1, 2001 ;
700+ words
...Traversees de Pierre Klossowski. Ed. by LAURENT JENNY and ANDREAS ... selected papers from the international Klossowski colloquia in Vienna (1995, around ... pieces in the opening section examine Klossowski's formative intellectual relationships ...
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