Book Transatlantique Simon H

A publisher devoted equally to historic avant-gardists and contemporary creation, Les Presses du Réel publishes leading figures such as Éric Alliez, Anni Albers, Nicolas Bourriaud, On Kawara, Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, and Aby Warburg. It also distributes numerous independent presses committed to the arts, culture, and critical theory.

In this book, Molly Warnock brings together seven American artists Julie Ault, Sarah Crowner, Odili Donald Odita, Eileen Quinlan, David Reed, Pieter Schoolwerth, and James Siena to write on the work of Simon Hantaï.
A key figure of abstraction in the second half of the 20th century, Hantaï engaged with surrealism, gestural painting, and writing before developing his emblematic pliage (folding) technique.