curator Claire Le Restif and garden historian Marco Martella
his book-length autobiographical essay
The publication features selections from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days
curators and art historians to rethink their role in society
artists are engaged in investigation
Alexandre Kojeve: Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty Silver Bromide print curator Claire Le Restif andDavid Zwirner Books, 2022, softcover, 80 pages, 10. 8 x17. 7 cm A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andr Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky, endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojve suggests that in creating (rather than