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Ralph Bürgin
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When Humour Becomes Painful
Edited by Heike Munder and Felicity Lunn. Essays by Slavoj Zizek and Simon Critchley.
The Image of Christ in Modern Art
The Image of Christ in Modern Art explores the challenges presented by the radical and rapid changes of artistic style in the 20th century to artists who wished to relate to traditional Christian imagery. In the 1930s David Jones said that he and his contemporaries were acutely conscious of ’the break’, by which he meant the fragmentation and loss of a once widely shared Christian narrative and set of images. In this highly illustrated book, Richard Harries looks at some of the artists associated with the birth of modernism such as Epstein and Rouault as well as those with a highly distinctive understanding of religion such as Chagall and Stanley Spencer. He discusses the revival of conf...
Rachel Lumsden
British artist, Rachel Lumsden (b. 1968) makes paintings that are at least as big as the artist herself, ensuring both her own physical relationship with the work and a direct engagement of the viewer. They communicate a strong sense of how they were created, of an artist sensitive to the character of her material and how it operates.Lumsden's paintings are too open-ended and ambiguous to be clearly read as narratives; instead they depict charged atmospheric environments, bristling with energy. Her compositions are inspired by a variety of visual sources, from newspaper photos, art historical images and dream pictures to circuit diagrams and advertising material.This publication includes work from the 10 years and is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist's work to date.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Rachel Lumsden at Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France (19 March - 14 May 2017), the ArtCentre Pasquart Biel, Switzerland (2 June - 3 September 2017), and at Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland (November 2018 - February 2019).English, German and French text.
Susanne Kühn
Text by Felicity Lunn, Tom Morton. Interview by Cydney Payton.
Anna Barriball
The British artist Anna Barriball makes drawings, sculptures and videos that reveal hidden meanings in the everyday and overlooked. For her drawings of architectural elements, such as doors, windows and walls, she transfers the textured surface into an impression of the object on paper. This time-consuming process results in relief-like images that retain the three-dimensionality of the original material. This relationship between the object and the flat surface also characterises the sculptures she formed by wrapping ink drawings around her own body. A recent development is Barriball's introduction of luminous colour, developing from the fluorescent glows added to the edges of drawings to the flooding of videos with coloured tints. This indication of atmosphere or mood continues her subtle transformation of the textures of the domestic environment into a dense language of their inner life. The book shows works from 2006 until today.
Michael Andrews
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New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism
New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism: Bridging History brings together highly-renowned international art historians in a scholarly work that offers the first full-length reassessment in English of the importance of the Br?cke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. It challenges, interrogates and updates existing orthodoxies in the field of Br?cke studies by deploying new research combined with innovative interpretative approaches. This is an exciting volume of essays with an interlinking tripartite structure that charts the significance of this pioneering German avant-garde group in relation to various critical themes, namely, 'cultural and ...
The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 9, World Christianities C.1914-c.2000
A comprehensive history of Christianity in the century when it truly became a global religion.
In Search of Nella Larsen
Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere's most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered and hailed by many as the best black novelist of her generation. In his search for Nella Larsen, the "mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance," George Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding this central figure of modern literary studies, as well as the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as it was l...
