Jean Lurçat

Jean Lurçat

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Monograph

Structure type:: Monograph

Title:: Jean Lurçat

Subtitle:: Tapestries; 17.7. au 16.8.1970

Author:: Laurent, Pierre; Guillemin, Henri

Publication year:: 1969

Publisher:: [s.n.]

Place of publication:: [s.l.]

Measurements:: [30] p.

Description:: Art moderne et contemporain

The one thing I want to remember after having seen the wonderful collection of tapestries, exhibited here, is the leading idea that — as it seems to me — has driven their brilliant maker. Behind the artist, true to his vocation, appears the man of progress, the initiator eager for new conquests, craving to adapt the old techniques to the requirements of today. Jean Lurgat was the fitst to recognize the promising future of tapestry, that we witness now, because he gave it back its essential roles: to meet the present wants of people, to take back its place in the middle of society, to combine the primary qualities of efficiency and greatness and to create in modern life fitting surroundings of o so much warmth! This exhibition is a brilliant and well-deserved homage to Lurgat's lifelong role of renovator, a role that he played with imparalleled brightness, and in which he untiringly kept up his efforts to propagate, always and everywhere, the knowledge about the techniques that, with his help, had come to rehabilitation and modernization. ER et And now, by the generosity and understanding of the Rothmans Foundation, everybody can see how much we all owe to Lurcat for his years of stubborn struggle, a fight that ended in the present, triumphant flowering of the art of tapestry in most countries. Let us hope that such an active patronage may find followers, in order to stimulate the flourishing of modern artistic research. SC AQ Pierre Laurent General Manager in charge of the cultural, scientific and technical Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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