by Pierrette Bloch (Artist), Julie Enckell Julliard (Editor), Pamela Lee (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
Swiss artist Pierrette Bloch (born 1928) has been active in the field of postwar abstraction and contemporary drawing since the 1950s. A student of Henri Goetz and Andr Lhote, Bloch developed a corpus of paintings, collages, drawings and three-dimensional works whose guiding principles are economy of means and materials (horsehair, sailing ropes, paper, ink); the use of primary forms (dots, curls, lines); the use of seriality and variation; and a writing-like style of inscription. For this first complete monograph on Bloch's practice from the 1950s to the 1980s, the book's editor, Mus e Jenisch curator Julie Enckell Julliard, has invited contributions from an international panel of art critics, including Catherine de Zegher, Pamela M. Lee, Philippe Piguet and H l ne Trespeuch. Their essays address all facets of the artist's work, from examinations of her drawing practice to a reflection on her position within modernist abstraction. A biographical essay concludes the book.