{"product_id":"2026200014624-secondhand-bertrand-lavier","title":"« Bertrand Lavier »","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew artists have so deliberately blurred the boundary between the readymade and the painted object as Bertrand Lavier, the French conceptual provocateur whose practice dismantles our assumptions about authorship, originality, and artistic value. This exhibition catalogue, produced to accompany his landmark 1985 retrospective at the ARC — Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, presents a rigorous survey of Lavier's iconic strategies: the application of gestural, impasto paint onto household appliances and industrial objects, the superimposition of one object upon another, and his pointed interrogation of what it means to call something art.\n\nLavier's work sits at the precise intersection of Duchamp's conceptual legacy and the painterly traditions of Abstract Expressionism, and this volume chronicles that tension with scholarly precision and visual immediacy. The catalogue illustrates how Lavier transforms the mundane — a refrigerator, a safe, a neon sign — into objects that simultaneously celebrate and mock the conventions of fine art. A critical document of the French neo-conceptual movement of the 1980s, it argues that the most potent artistic gestures are often the simplest, leaving the reader to wonder: where exactly does the object end and the artwork begin?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269336572123,"sku":"2026200014624-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/cb466a34-67ba-4c4a-9c76-b0b7d7dee416.png?v=1788998365","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014624-secondhand-bertrand-lavier","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}