{"id":7466,"date":"2011-07-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/prodotto\/cecile-reims-2\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:28:32","slug":"cecile-reims-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/p\/cecile-reims-2\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9cile Reims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cInterpreting a work enables me to escape from my field, where I feel cramped. Paradoxically, what may seem a constriction actually opens up an area of freedom for me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>C\u00e9cile Reims, 2004<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9cile Reims (1927) has been drawing the world that surrounds her since her childhood in Lithuania, and subsequently in Paris, Jerusalem, and Barcelona. As a Jew, she had to go into hiding during World War II, and found herself at death\u2019s door when she contracted tubercu- losis. Recovering from the disease, she felt she had to give meaning to her life as a survivor and she experienced a \u201cconversion to art\u201d as one is converted to a religion. Her encounter with the engraver Joseph Hecht in 1945 introduced her to the burin, an unforgiving tool which became her medium of choice. In her early years as an artist, she produced the mysterious <em>Visages d\u2019Espagne, M\u00e9tamophoses <\/em>and <em>Bestiaire de la mort <\/em>series. But in order to support her work as an artist and to help Fred Deux (1924), whom she married in 1952, she suddenly gave a new twist to her career by turning to the interpretation of others\u2019 work and engraving the drawings made by other artists. C\u00e9cile Reims filled this role with good humour and immense talent, as well as secretly collaborating with numerous artists working in the surreal- ist mode, such as Hans Bellmer, from 1966 to 1975, Salvador Dal\u00ed, from 1969 to 1988, Fred Deux, from 1970 to 2008, and Leonor Fini, from 1972 to 1995.<br \/>\nIn 2004, the Bibioth\u00e8que Nationale de France held an important retrospective devoted to C\u00e9cile Reims, suddenly putting into the limelight a figure who had long been kept in the shad- ows. At that point it became essential to produce a catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of her engravings. This lavishly illustrated book has been compiled following scientific criteria and includes all of C\u00e9cile Reims\u2019s over 1,400 engravings, placing them in the context of the work of the leading artists of the twentieth century and bringing into focus this fascinating period in the history of engraving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Laz <\/strong>is an art historian specializing in modern French engravings and a curator in the Cabinet cantonal des estampes of the Mus\u00e9e Jenisch,Vevey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInterpreting a work enables me to escape from my field, where I feel cramped. Paradoxically, what may seem a constriction actually opens up an area of freedom for me.\u201d C\u00e9cile Reims, 2004 C\u00e9cile Reims (1927) has been drawing the world that surrounds her since her childhood in Lithuania, and subsequently in Paris, Jerusalem, and Barcelona.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7443,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[62],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7466","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-graphic-arts","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}