Evelyne Axell From Pop Art to Paradise/Le Pop Art Jusqu'au Pradis

This monograph offers the opportunity to re-discover the work of one of the very few women artists involved in the Pop Art movement. Among the most innovative work of the second half of the 20th century, Evelyne Axell's oeuvre is firmly rooted in the 1960's. Initiated to painting by Magritte, the Belgian-born free spirit used the violent imagery and colors of advertising and experimented with discarded materials such as plastic or Formica to shape a style unmistakingly her own. Unafraid to give her work a thrusting eroticism that spoke unambiguously of the right to pleasure and choice, she challenged the status of women in art as mere objects of desire. She died tragically in a car accident in 1972 at the age of thirty-seven. Recent major exhibitions at London's Mayor Gallery and Paris' International Art Fair paid tribute to her deeply original talent.Axell, Evelyne is the author of 'Evelyne Axell From Pop Art to Paradise/Le Pop Art Jusqu'au Pradis', published 2006 under ISBN 9782850567797 and ISBN 2850567795.