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Of 'truths Impossible to Put in Words'
This volume of essays relate Max Beckmann's work to the tangible circumstances of its production and reception. The essays contextualise aspects of Beckmann's early, middle, and late career by way of detailed reference to contemporary music, film, philosophy, theatre, history, sports and exile.
Art of Illusion
To survey art history as a whole was a pressing task for a generation of German scholars around the mid-nineteenth century. Their projections of a historicist chain of artworks ranged from textual narratives without illustrations, to separate picture compendia as well as images of a more allegorical kind. Other means with which to picture art history as part of a virtually all-encompassing cultural history were the museums of art erected in Germany at the time, in Berlin and Munich especially. This book deals with practices of representing art history in various media. This includes post-Hegelian texts and engravings of art history from the 1840s onwards, by Franz Kugler, Julius Schnorr and ...
Boston Modern
A fresh, incisive study of the expressionist approach to modern art in Boston.
Dan Flavin
Light, considered the purest embodiment of the divine, is the basis of all art to one degree or another, so why not make art out of light? Dan Flavin (1933-96), an innovative and prolific American sculptor who can be considered an abstract, minimalist, and installation artist, chose as his medium commercial fluorescent tubes, and with these everyday lights created works of radiant and evocative beauty. Flavin had many major shows and created a number of permanent public installations; now his work is being celebrated in a magnificent retrospective exhibition that will travel across the country. This handsomely produced volume by Govan, director of the Dia Art Foundation, and Bell, who worked with Flavin, presents exquisite photographs of Flavin's seminal light compositions and expert biographical and critical assessments. Citing Byzantine icons, William Ockham, and Barnett Newman as influences, Flavin created ravishingly beautiful colors and profoundly nuanced constructions with seemingly banal industrial materials, transforming ordinary spaces into places of wonder. For a definitive catalog see Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996
Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke is a highly exemplary Postmodernist and perhaps one the most indicative of a truly European avant-garde culture. This book presents a number of critiques which shed light on Polke’s otherwise bewildering display of stylistic references, apparent changes of allegiance and often unorthodox techniques of production.
Niki de Saint-Phalle - Kunst als Lebensprinzip?
Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: In dieser Arbeit soll gezeigt werden, wie in der Literatur Kunst und Leben im Falle Niki de Saint Phalles zu einem festen Grundsatz zusammengebracht werden und worauf ihre sprichwörtliche Sonderstellung basiert. Weiterhin wird betrachtet, auf welcher Grundlage etwa eine Behauptung zustande kommt, wie z.B. Niki de Saint Phalle sei insofern einzigartig, als ihr Leben in der Kunst so ganz natürlich aufgegangen ist - wie die Lotusblüte im Wasser eines Sees. Es soll die Motivation zur Verwendung der Worte "Kunst als Lebensprinzip" im Fall dieser Künstlerin erhellt werden; außerdem soll gezeigt werden, als welches Mittel die Kunst dieser Künstlerin dient, und w...
Modern Art at the Pinakothek Der Moderne Munich
"Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy gives an appraisal of the key aspects of this period of art history, drawing on the wealth of examples the Pinakothek der Moderne has to offer. The introduction to each section discusses the successive stylistic developments and trends, followed by an explanation of the technique, history and significance of each selected work of art."--BOOK JACKET.
Under the Spell of Orpheus
This comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the clichés to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography. The three parts of the book explore the ways in which artists have identified with different aspects of the often paradoxical Orpheus myth. The first deals with artists such as Paul Klee, Carl Milles, and Barbara Hepworth. In the second, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, and Isamu Noguchi are discussed. Artists examined in the final part include Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Ethel Schwabacher, and Cy Twombly. The author documents her argument with more than sixty illustrations.
Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke's thirty-five-year career, during which he has produced a vast range of work in all mediums, has earned him a reputation as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Born in 1941, he began his creative output around 1963 in Dusseldorf during a time of enormous social, cultural, and artistic changes in Germany and elsewhere. Few of his works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and subversive approach than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches produced during the 1960s and early 1970s. Embedded in these images are incisive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, the postwar political scene in Germany, and classic artistic conventions.
