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Kunstmuseum Basel
* An excellent highlights tour of Kunstmuseum Basel - rich with observations and insights by the museum's director, Josef Helfenstein * Featuring masterpieces from artists including Hans Holbein the Younger, Rembrandt, Impressionist artists, Klee and Picasso * Recent contemporary art acquisitions by William Kentridge and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye are also discussed * While serving as an invaluable souvenir for visitors, the book is also published for the international market, bringing treasures of the Kunstmuseum Basel to a wider audience The Kunstmuseum Basel is the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland - and is also listed as a heritage site of national significance...
Experiments with Truth
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, organized by the Menil Collection, Houston; curated by Josef Helfenstein. The Menil Collection, October 2, 2014-February 1, 2015; International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, April 14, 2015-January 3, 2016"--Page [351].
Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England
Tattoos and graffiti immediately bring to mind contemporary urban life and its inhabitants. But in fact, both practices date back much further than is generally thought—even by scholars. Drawing on a previously unavailable archive, Juliet Fleming reveals the unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England. In Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England, Fleming argues that our modern assumptions of what constitutes written expression have limited our access to and understanding of early modern history and writing. Fleming combines detailed historical scholarship with intellectual daring in a work that describes how writing practices have not been limited to the...
Deep Blues
Bill Traylor, born into slavery in 1854, began to draw at the age of 82 in 1939 when he moved from the plantation where he was born to Montgomery, Alabama. He has become an almost mythical figure in the history of American folk art.
Matisse, Derain and Friends
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of artists around Henri Matisse and André Derain were carrying out revolutionary colour experiments. The art critic Louis Vauxcelles gave them their name in 1905: the "Fauves". Translated into English, this means something like "beasts" or "wild animals". This catalogue is being published for the first survey exhibition on the Fauves staged in Switzerland for decades. It presents the expressive painting style and unusual colour combinations employed by Matisse, Derain and their companions in the years 1904 to 1908, situating them in the aesthetic and socio-political debates of that time. The male connotation of the term Fauves already suggests t...
Sacred and Profane
A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is one of the world’s greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Written and created in collaboration with the Piano Foundation in Genoa, this richly illustrated volume covers the early work as well as the most recent designs, making a complete survey of his career to date. Starting with his beginnings with the Pompidou Centre in the 1970s (in collaboration with Richard Rogers) the story continues up to construction of one of his latest works, a spectacular new bridge in Genoa in 20...
Jasper Johns - The Artist as Collector
Discover Jasper Johns as a passionate collector of drawings. Jasper Johns ranks among the major American artists of the twentieth century. His accomplishments as a collector, however, have been little known until now. Jasper Johns--The Artist as Collector is a beautifully produced volume that features a selection of more than one hundred drawings, inviting you to dive into the richness and depth of a truly unique collection. From Paul Cézanne to Pablo Picasso to Willem de Kooning, the collection of Jasper Johns offers surprising juxtapositions. The drawings' consistently high quality is the result of his keen eye as a connoisseur, and many of the works are a testament to his friendships with other artists. In this catalog, works by nearly fifty artists enter into an inspiring exchange that will fascinate experts and art lovers alike.
The Figurative Pollock
This beautiful book focuses on the distinctive and expressive power of Jackson Pollock's figurative paintings, drawings, and prints; a rarely studied aspect of his artistic career. Jackson Pollock's name has become synonymous with the abstract drip paintings that he famously created on the floor of his studio. Before these paintings, from the 1930s to the late 1940s, Pollock created figurative works, studying at one time under the painter Thomas Hart Benton and with the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Pollock took up figuration again after his famous drip paintings. This book starts with the early decades and also treats Pollock's re-adopti...
