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Gary Kuehn
Gary Kuehn became known in the sixties for his sculptures, which evolve in the field of tension between Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Since then Kuehn has developed an extensive oeuvre between these two intriguing poles. Careful craftsmanship and a sense of material presence distinguish his works, which always have a metaphorical and a psychological dimension as well. For several years now, Kuehn-who has been known to an international audience since his participation in documenta 6 in 1976-has been working on a comprehensive documentation of his body of work. This publication presents some of his best works, selected by Kuehn himself, systematically and chronologically categorized according to individual groups. An essay by Dorothea Zwirner and an interview with the artist by Donna De Salvo shed light on Kuehn's artistic development.
Franz West
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Rodney Graham
Canadian artist Rodney Graham strolls in his works through the landscape of Modernism. On his meandering itinerary through photography, literature, music, art, film, psychology, and linguistics, we encounter Richard Wagner, Stéphane Mallarmé, Edgar Allen Poe, Sigmund Freud, and Donald Judd – not to mention the prevalent myths of cinema and popular music. The contradictions engendered thereby – between conceptual gravity and humorous play, reverential homage and scenarized self-presentation, cultural ready mades and a sense of connectedness to nature – betray the profile of a contemporary melancholic. Now for the first time, Dorothea Zwirner's introduction to Rodney Graham's complete works – including a representative selection of works with artist's commentary – offers a broad monographic overview.
Chunqing Huang
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Thea Sternheim - Chronistin der Moderne
Die erste Biographie von Thea Sternheim, einer unkonventionellen und herausragenden Frau des Kunst- und Kulturlebens des 20. Jahrhunderts - literarisch erzählt. Thea Sternheim stand meist im Schatten ihres Ehemanns, des umjubelten und skandalumwitterten Dramatikers Carl Sternheim. Dabei hat sie aktiv am Aufbruch der Moderne teilgenommen: als Mitarbeiterin, Muse und Mäzenin, als Sammlerin avantgardistischer Kunst von van Gogh bis Picasso, als intellektuelle Freundin zahlreicher Künstler, als Amateurfotografin berühmter Zeitgenossen, aber vor allem als hellwache Chronistin ihrer Epoche. Im Spiegel ihres Jahrhundert-Tagebuchs entfaltet sich nicht nur ein eigenständiges und unkonventionelle...
L'Art Français et Francophone depuis 1980 / Contemporary French and Francophone Art
Ce volume présente vingt-trois essais consacrés à l'art français et francophone des vingt-cinq dernières années et propose des analyses critiques d'une cinquantaine d'artistes majeurs qui travaillent sur des modes richement variés. The volume offers 23 new critical essays on contemporary French and francophone art, dealing with some fifty major artists working in a wide range of mediums.
The Utopian Globalists
An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years. Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revolutionary social transformation Provides a strong historical narrative that adds structure and clarity Features a cogent and innovative critique of contemporary art and institutions Covers 100 years of art from Vladimir Tatlin’s constructivist ‘Monument to the Third International’, to Picasso’s late 1940s commitment to Communism, to the Unilever Series sponsored Large Artworks installed at London’s Tate Modern since 2000. Includes the only substantial account in print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 Montreal ‘Bed-in’ Offers an accessible description and interpretation of Debord’s ‘society of the spectacle’ theory
The Absence of Work
A provocative investigation of Marcel Broodthaers's work as a reflection on the uses and abuses of language.
Art, Technology and Nature
Are art and technology coming into a closer relationship with nature? Through a selection of innovative readings by international scholars, this book argues that since 1900 we have experienced a renewed negotiation of the convergent triangle of art, technology and nature, analysing its shifting constellations in post-medieval times. Through this negotiation, art becomes truly complementary to technology in understanding nature’s agencies and may gain an important role in adjusting technology’s present utilitarian hegemony.
