Balthus Guy Levis Mano Tansey constructs visual allegories about

Tansey constructs visual allegories about the nature and implications of perception

as well as the tale of a goth-curious writer

While alliteration and the depiction of two eight-letter

Filtered through photographic and other origins

Balthus Guy Levis Mano Tansey constructs visual allegories aboutThis book was published on the occasion of Balthus at Gagosian, Paristhe first exhibition of the artists work in the city since his 198384 retrospective at the Centre Pompidou. It features paintings, drawings, and photographs made throughout the largely self taught painters career. Working independently of avant garde movements such as Surrealism, to make his interior portraits, street scenes, and landscapes, Balthus turned to antecedents including