{"product_id":"flix-fnon-the-anarchist-and-the-avantgarde-9781633451018","title":"Flix Fnon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of French impresario  dandy and anarchist Flix Fnons extraordinary influence on early modernism A New York Times critics pick  Best Art Books 2020  It would not be a commonplace portrait at all  but a carefully composed picture  with very carefully arranged colors and lines. A rhythmic and angular pose. A decorative Flix  entering with his hat or a flower in his hand. With these words  in 1890  Paul Signac described to Flix Fnon the extraordinary portrait he was dedicating to him. In it  Signac paid homage to Fnons distinctive appearance  his generous but enigmatic personality and his innovative approach to modernism.  Signacs portrait spotlights a figure who often chose to remain behind the scenes. But Fnons impactas a writer  dealer  publisher  curator  collector and anarchistwas tremendous. Fnon helped define the movement known as neoimpressionism  a term he himself coined in the 1880s; he helped launch the careers of Seurat  Signac  Bonnard  Matisse and Modigliani; he was the first editor of the work of Rimbaud and Lautramont; and he was active in anarchist circles  notoriously so in 1894  following the bombing of a restaurant popular among politicians and financiers  for which he was arrested and acquitted.  Flix Fnon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde accompanies the first exhibition tracing Fnons extraordinary  unsung impact on the development of early modernism  a major international event. The publication traces Fnons career through a selection of major works that Fnon admired  championed and collected  alongside contemporary letters  documents and photographs  and offers a long-overdue celebration of this singular  catalytic figure in art history.  In the late 19th and early 20th centuries  in an age of revolutionary change  French polymath Flix Fnon (18611944) was at the center of Paris literary  artistic and anarchist circles. His Novels in Three Lines was translated by Luc Sante and published in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666410102837,"sku":"ByrdShop_1633451011","price":55.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781633451018.jpg?v=1782431179","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/flix-fnon-the-anarchist-and-the-avantgarde-9781633451018","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}