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In Search of 0,10: The Last Futuristic Exhibition of Painting

Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: «This exhibition celebrates that groundbreaking moment in the history of modern art when Kazimir Malevich debuted his new nonobjective paintings — including the «Black Square» — under the banner of Suprematism and Vladimir Tatlin introduced his revolutionary counter-relief sculptures. Malevich and Tatlin were bitter rivals and diametrically opposed in their creative thinking, so when the…

Contraband

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This publication reissues a much sought-after photobook. Taryn Simon is an American artist whose works combine photography, text and graphic design. Her practice involves extensive research, in projects guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification. For Contraband, 1,075 photographs were taken at both the US Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the US…

Cuba in Revolution

Скачать книгу (размер 2 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 511) Аннотация: From the earliest days of the Cuban Revolution, the Revolutionary High Command was intensely aware of the power of the photographic image to advance the ideals of the Revolution, at home and abroad. If portraying the human side of its leaders was an important part of the Revolution's visual ideology, so too was its conception and depiction of the Cuban populace: as early as 1959, the High Command…

The Albertina: Birth of a World-Class Collection

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Albertina in Vienna houses one of the world's most famous collections of art. This extensive, sumptuously illustrated volume presents the museum's masterpieces acquired from the founders of the collection, Albert, Duke of Saxe-Teschen, and his consort, the Grand Duchess Marie Christine. The history of the couple's mercurial, fateful lives begins in the Baroque era at the court of Maria…

Herschdorfer Nathalie: Yann Mingard: Repaires

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Trained as a horticulturalist, Swiss photographer Yann Mingard (born 1973) offers a wonderfully intimate view of nature with his close-up views of undisturbed forest underbrush. Mingard takes all his photographs at dusk with a long exposure, revealing fragments of withered grass and dark earth.

Kicken Annette: Frantia'ek Drtikol

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) reinvented the genre of nude photography for the early twentieth century. Drtikol opened his Prague studio in 1907, and his nudes from this early period convey the dreamy eroticism of Art Nouveau and the foreboding accents of Prague Symbolism that he was to return to throughout his somewhat brief career (Drtikol abandoned photography for painting…

Basel Kunstmuseum: Renoir: Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie: The Early Years

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: «Alongside Monet, Bazille and Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir laid the foundations of Impressionism in 1860s Paris. But acclaim for his painting was slow in coming, primarily because of the tribulations of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, which put a hiatus on so much artistic activity during the 1860s-70s. As a result, the first two decades of Renoir's career are sometimes ignored,…

Documenta 13: Catalog III/3, The Guidebook

Скачать книгу (размер 2 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 536) Аннотация: The Guidebook is entirely devoted to the artists participating in Documenta 13. Each one is introduced in an illustrated essay written by one of the Documenta's agents, in close collaboration with the artists-who also contribute illustrations, which are as diverse as the projects themselves. These essays are individual visual statements, ranging from drawings to notes. Narrative introductions to…

Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: One of India's most influential contemporary artists, Nalini Malani (born 1946) creates paintings, wall drawings, theatrical works, video and shadow plays. Inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes are challenged from a contemporary urban, internationalist point of view. This catalogue accompanies her show at Documenta 13.

Luyken Gunda: The Samurai and Beautiful Women: The Japanese Color Woodcut Masters Kuniyoshi and Kunisada

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: In the early 1960s, what was then the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf received a large gift of Japanese woodcuts (Ukiyo-e), a gift to which the donor would generously add until 1988. This catalogue presents 220 pieces from this collection, by the enormously prolific illustrators Kunisada (1786-1865) and Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), masters of the Utagawa School. The prints of these artists transport the…

Honnef Klaus: Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Pop Art

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Like his fellow Pop painters Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos (born 1935) derives the motifs for his work from mass media and advertising. In bold and immediately recognizable canvases, he unites consumer goods with idealized pin-up girls modeled after magazine images dating from the 1950s and 1960s. Ramos immortalizes these models' lascivious poses by entwining them with the featured…

Als Hilton: Elizabeth Peyton Ghost: Works on Paper

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Famed for her painted portraits, Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) has also created a wide range of prints over the past two decades, including monotypes, lithographs, woodcuts and etchings. Experimenting with different techniques, she uses a variety of diverse paper stocks and handmade papers as well as various colored and monochromatic inks. In comparison to the diminutiveness of her paintings, the…

Erwin Wurm: Wear Me Out

Скачать книгу (размер 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 148) Аннотация: A master of deadpan sculpture and the absurd gesture, the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm (born 1954) is tireless and brilliant in his constant reinvention of sculptural convention. With each new work Wurm seems to think sculpture completely afresh, and always with materials readily to hand, such as cars, houses, or bodies: his One-Minute Sculptures (which marked his international debut) consisted of…

Brinkmann Vinzenz: Jeff Koons: The Painter and the Sculptor

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: «Jeff Koons (born 1955) is probably the most famous artist of the 1980s, and certainly one of the most notorious and controversial. In the summer of 2012, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt are collaborating on a bold and unprecedented simultaneous overview of Koons' sculptural and painterly oeuvre. The Liebieghaus show, titled «Jeff Koons: The Sculptor»,…

Ars Viva 2011/12 Sprache / Language: Erik Bünger, Philipp Goldbach, Juergen Staack

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: The spoken and the written word have long since found their way into the visual arts: as epigrams, marginal notes, quotes, collaged text fragments, or part of a performance, a video, or a sound installation. In particular since the advent of Conceptual Art, language has even been regarded as the actual and independent material and medium of the visual arts. Association of Arts and Culture of the…

Wien Albertina: Bosch — Bruegel — Rubens — Rembrandt: Masterworks from the Albertina Collection

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Incomparable masterpieces of Netherlandish drawing from the collection of Viennas Albertina. The entire artistic spectrum is opened up page by page: landscapes, seascapes, topographical views, portraits, rural genre scenes, and still lifes. The Albertina owns one of the worlds most important collections of Netherlandish drawings dating from the period 1430 to 1650.

Maffioli Monica: Japanese Dream (English/German)

Скачать книгу (размер 667 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 132) Аннотация: Well-traveled photographer and war correspondent Felice Beato (1832 1909) reached the Japanese port city of Yokohama in July 1863 and spent more than twenty years there. He captured unique portraits of geishas in splendid kimonos, samurai, sumo wrestlers, and scenes of everyday life or classic Japanese landscapes. Beato s photographs deeply influenced the style of the Yokohama School, not so his…

Beyeler Fondation: Jeff Koons

Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: The inimitable works of art by Jeff Koons (*1955 in York, Pennsylvania), one of the most famous artists in the world today, have been causing uproars since the eighties. This publication is an in-depth examination of three major groups of works: The New (1980 87), Banality (1988), and Celebration (ongoing since 1994), each one of which represents a spectacular and consequential phase in Koons s…

Neo Rauch: The Graphic Work, 1993-2012

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: One of today’s best-known contemporary artists, New Leipzig School painter Neo Rauch (born 1960) blends the realistic figuration of Social Realism with Surrealism: brightly colored figures parade through upended environments, and multiple historical periods overlap in a single work. Most recognized for his paintings and drawings, Rauch has also created an impressive output of printed works over…

Hoffmann Felix: Ron Galella: Paparazzo Extraordinaire

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Ron Galella (1931 in the Bronx) moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties, where he trained as a photojournalist. In his free time he took pictures of the stars arriving at film premieres, selling them to the National Enquirer and Fotoplay. His photos are snapshots rather than portraits spontaneous, not staged, and extraordinarily authentic. Whether Jacqueline Kennedy, Marlon Brando, Greta…