被熟知为Les Lalanne，该书对这对夫妻艺术家的艺术、职业生涯和反响，在精美插图中，进行了精简的批判性分析。

François-Xavier (1927–2008) 和 Claude (1925–2019) Lalanne 是一对夫妻艺术家，他们创新且常常让人惊艳的作品自 1960 年代以来就被广受赞誉并收藏。这本书展示了一组精心挑选的雕塑，并集中在了艺术家的共同关注点上：以自然形式的转变来达到新的目的。例如François-Xavier立于酒吧门口的巨型蚱蜢雕塑，以及Claude用镀锌金属树枝制成的长凳和藤蔓，使它既是一片森林，又可以让人坐。书里批判性的分析探索了这两位艺术家的整个职业生涯；考虑了他们作品的反响以及分类的复杂问题；并让人们重新评估，在艺术博物馆的背景下，他们的艺术所占据的位置；同时鼓励读者要考虑到自然与艺术之间的关系，以及他们自己与这两者的接触。

A beautifully illustrated, concise critical analysis of the art, careers, and reception of the husband-wife team of artists known as Les Lalanne.

François-Xavier (1927–2008) and Claude (1925–2019) Lalanne were a husband-

wife team of artists who created inventive and often surprising works that have been widely admired and collected since the 1960s. This book presents a carefully selected group of sculptures that focus on a shared preoccupation of the artists: the transformation of natural forms to serve new purposes, such as François-Xavier’s giant grasshopper sculpture that opens into a bar and Claude’s bench made of galvanized metal branches and vines such that it remains as much a forest as a place to sit. Critical analysis explores the full breadth of the artists’ careers; considers the complex issues of reception and categorization of their work; and prompts a reevaluation of the place their art occupies in the context of art museums, all while encouraging readers to consider relationships among nature, art, and their own encounters with both.