{"product_id":"kholeif-omar-huguette-caland-9781915609724","title":"Huguette Caland","description":"An enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrating a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.\n\u003cp\u003e\"The madness that spun me into Huguette Caland's art the first time around felt as if falling off a rollercoaster headfirst into a mountain of frosting. Surrendering to the sumptuous curve of pink hues, they gradually began to tessellate forming an orbit, a tender crossing of blue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLebanese-born artist, Huguette Caland (1931-2019) was a path-breaking figure in late modernism. The only daughter of the first Lebanese president, Bechara El Khoury, she produced a singular body of art that spanned media and continents. Working for more than five decades, her art is recognized for its embodied aesthetic and its unique sensuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this searching critical biography, author and curator, Omar Kholeif, disentangles the seeming madness, velocity, and the interiority of Caland's life. ​​​​ Both an epistolary memoir and a biography, Kholeif interleaves the affective experience of encountering the artist over a period of 18 years, as readers are summoned on a journey through clouds of bristling color. Here, Caland's fields of light are set to lyric prose and poetry, fashioning a scene for looking at and experiencing the erotics of art anew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53769913598294,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/kholeif-omar-huguette-caland-9781915609724","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}