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Fenster zur Welt, Fenster im BildFormulated in 1434 by Leon Battista Alberti, the notion that a painting is like an open window influenced generations of painters. At the start of the twentieth century, the window, reduced to its framework, was employed as a motif and a symbol in order to test the function of painting as a means of reproduction. To the degree that the window is empty, its painted depiction denies us a perspective of the world. With Fresh Widow, the replica of a French window whose panes are covered in black leather, Marcel Duchamp postulated a farewell from illusionist painting in 1920. At the same time, it marked a new beginning. This publication reflects on the development of window painting in art through essays and monographic texts on artists such as Robert Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Ellsworth Kelly, Eva Hesse, Gerhard Richter, Günther Förg, and others. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3292-5)§Exhibition schedule: K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, March 31 August 12, 2012

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Fresh Widow
• Subtitle: The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp. Foreword by Marion Ackermann. Ed: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
• Author: ACKERMANN
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9783775732932
• ID: 01728457
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Weight: 1240 g
• Dimensions: 257 × 194 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. April 2012

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