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Wicked!
A blood stained shower curtain, a lighter that shows an airplane about to collide with the Twin Towers, plush slippers shaped like penises: the world of commodities today is marked by stylistic diversity, irony, and trash – there are no limits on so-called bad taste. This book attempts to get to the bottom of the current fascination with the disgusting, the grotesque, and the provocative. Products from the most disparate realms are juxtaposed on facing pages. The result is confrontations that are sometimes surprising, with a fascination all their own. Introductory essays by prominent authors shed additional light on wide-ranging aspects of design, morality, and irony. It is not just tasteless items that are placed under the microscope; politically incorrect ones have their place in this volume as well.
Bound by Creativity
While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is in fact deeply social. From those trying to land their first solo show to those with dozens of museum exhibitions, artists are influenced by others' evaluations. In Bound by Creativity, sociologist Hannah Wohl draws on more than one hundred interviews and two years of ethnographic research in the New York contemporary art market, developing a sociological perspective on creativity through the analytic lens of judgment. Wohl takes readers into artists' studios and shares firsthand how they decide which works to leave unfinished, destroy, put into storage, or exhibit. ...
Canadian Art
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May I Come In?
New York magazine’s interiors editor shares some of her most memorable house profiles in this stunning and inspiring visual tour. For May I Come In?, design editor extraordinaire Wendy Goodman visits seventy homes that express their owners’ spirit and passions. In this pantheon, imagination and originality hold sway: Artists and eccentrics are the equals of aristocrats and the mandarins of design. Alba Clemente’s closet is a Renaissance theater; Amy Sedaris built a playroom (but not for children); Andrew Solomon houses his guests in an igloo; Richard Avedon’s private walls were bulletin boards; Kathy Ruttenberg’s house is an animal kingdom; Jay Maisel called a former bank with seve...
Slip Stream
Slip Stream is an account of a time when Paula Greem was buffeted in the slipstream of an illness. How can life go on as usual? she asks - and finds answers in poetry and music, crosswords and cherries, lists and family love. Green tells a personal story of breast cancer, from an initial mammogram to biopsy, operations, radiotherapy treatment and recovery. Making up a fluid, intensely felt narrative, the poems are untitled and mostly short, charting time passing and seasons turning by procedures done, books read, appointments made, food cooked and dreams dreamed. Slip Stream is both a moving but uplifting book about a experience with cancer and a writer's thoughtful exploration of how life may (or may not) be expressed in words.
Spain
"Art-SITES Spain" is a thoroughly researched, clearly written guide to Spain's art and architecture, from Madrid and Barcelona to lesser known areas with thriving art scenes. It will be an asset to both traveling art historians and casual tourists.
Unha historia da arte galega
Desde as mámoas e os petróglifos até as tendencias estéticas das últimas décadas, o obxecto deste libro é realizar un achegamento á imaxe artística galega, un anaco da tradición cultural europea producida nun país que posúe unha singularidade histórica marcada. Na arte galega foron proxectándose ao longo da historia as grandes correntes artísticas da Europa Occidental, con variábeis ritmos de incorporación e en sintonía con diferentes procesos históricos, e neles maniféstanse as peculiaridades, as diferenzas locais, as descontinuidades e os achados laterais a respecto dos períodos unificados da historia da arte. Alén diso, desde o século XIX, asistiremos ao intento de ...
A identidade fascinada
Unha xeración multitudinaria chega a Santiago de Compostela na década de 1980: a primeira xeración que respira liberdade. A cidade multiplícase, compartindo a estreita veciñanza dos barrios -orballo, cal, bronce, sol, forxa e perpiaño- coa millarenga e as luces de neón. Un recendo a novo e a comezo, a fotocopia, a noite e a bar de estudante, enche as súas rúas. É a década álxida, chea de frescura e de vivencias, da que xorden eses momentos e sensacións que se han esboroar -mais nunca esquecer- co atentado contra a discoteca Clangor. A identidade facinada á unha novela híbrida, ensaio novelado ou crónica ensaística dunha época irrepetible, que é tamén memoria dos lugares, das persoas, personaxes e significados dun tempo incomparable: o da Compostela universitaria e sublime dos anos oitenta.
Art in America
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