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Botero

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Meet Fernando Botero, the world-renowned elder statesman of Colombian art, famed for his voluptuous figurative style. His corpulent creations have captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces around the world. From his early animal caricatures to late large-scale bronze sculptures, this essential introduction takes in all the critical insight, irony, and curvaceous flesh that round out “Boterismo.”
Hardcover8.3 x 10.2 in.1.26 lb96 pages
Botero

Botero

20

Bouncing Bodies

Fernando Botero’s fulsome and frolicking forms

Fernando Botero (1932–2023) was an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian’s “Boterismo” technique captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces worldwide with a unique, fleshy, overblown approach to the human body. Through these corpulent creations, Botero became one of the most recognized artists from Latin America, his artworks displayed in prominent places around the globe, including Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

This TASCHEN Basic Art edition offers an essential introduction to this leading artist of figures in contemporary art. Tracing Botero’s oeuvre from his earliest caricatures of animals through to late large-scale bronze sculptures, the book examines the artist’s diverse array of influences, from Paolo Uccello to Abstract Expressionism, and celebrates the wit, irony, insight, and critical acumen that round out his compositions, however absurd the proportions.
The author

Mariana Hanstein, a native of Chile, studied art history in Munich, Bonn, and Venice. She is an art historian who has published works about Peter Paul Rubens and 18th-century Venetian painting and was an art critic and editor of the art market section of the German newspaper Die Welt for almost ten years. Hanstein lives and works in Cologne.

Botero
Hardcover21 x 26 cm0.57 kg96 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-4881-6

Edition: French

ISBN 978-3-8365-4882-3

Edition: English

ISBN 978-3-8365-6465-6

Edition: Spanish
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Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
• a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
• a concise biography
• approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

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