Sam Francis & Yves Michaud in Dialogue: Painting, Poetry Philosophy

Book signing on Friday October 23th

Sam Francis and Yves Michaud in Dialogue: Painting, Poetry, and Philosophy, a bilingual compendium of landmark interviews and seminal essays, illuminates the spirited transcontinental exchange between acclaimed postwar American artist of gestural abstraction Sam Francis and renowned French philosopher and art critic Yves Michaud. Offering an intimate and in-depth view of Sam Francis’s life and career, these historical documents are revisited and contextualized through a selection of contemporary reflections, including a recent interview with Yves Michaud, a foreword by Sam Francis Foundation director Debra Burchett-Lere, and an introduction by Paris-based art historian and scholar Susan L. Power, editor of this volume.