Impasse Ronsin

2016
Softcover 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9968134-4-0
Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.5 inches
In 1916, Constantin Brancusi moved into one of a cluster of ramshackle buildings at the end of a cul-de-sac known as Impasse Ronsin, in Paris; and remained there, steadily expanding his living and working quarters, until his death in 1957.  In the period from the late forties through the mid-sixties, a host of other artists lived and worked here, including William N. Copley, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, and Jean Tinguely.  New interviews, historical documents, and excerpts from the writing of Rivers, Saint-Phalle, and others about their time here – as well as scores of revealing photos, spanning nearly a century of Paris history – are compiled in this monograph, revealing an amazingly vital and long-lived artistic milieu that has hitherto been mostly overlooked in art history.  Also documented in plate and installation photography is the gallery's 2016 historical-survey exhibition, for which this book was prepared as an accompaniment.
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