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Permission to Laugh
Permission to Laugh explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six of them—Martin Kippenberger, Isa Genzken, Rosemarie Trockel, Albert Oehlen, Georg Herold, and Werner Büttner—who came of age in the mid-1970s in the art scenes of West Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. Williams argues that each employed a distinctive brand of humor that responded to the period of political apathy that followed a decade of intense political ferment in West Germany. Situating these artists between the politically motivated art of 196...
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art
In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations at the dawn of the twentieth century, their relationship with ‘the spiritual’ – broadly defined – was inextricably linked to their roles as pioneers of modernism. This diverse collection of ess...
Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925
This book explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstractions early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstractions first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinskys ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrians work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark 0.10 exhibition in 1915.0Exhibition: MoMA, New York, USA (23.12.2012-15.4.2013).
Abstraction & Economy
Opposing a regime of accumulation and abstraction This anthology explores the tension between abstraction and economics from the perspectives of art, art theory, art history, as well as law, sociology, philosophy, and economics. It poses questions about the current challenges of a global capitalist economy with claims to expansive growth in relation to aesthetics, technology, and democracy. The relationship between abstraction and economics is discussed in a series of theoretical and artistic contributions. The main focus is on the role of art in mediating between the concrete and the abstract, on formalist approaches to art theory, and on the social and economic cues that help us trace the ...
Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
In Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, David S. Herrstrom synthesizes and interprets the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from medieval to modern times. The true subject of the book is making sense of the individual’s relationship with light, rather than the investigation of light’s essential nature, while telling the story of light “seducing” individuals from the Middle Ages to our modern times. Consequently, it is not concerned with the “progress” of scientific inquiries into the physical properties and behavior of light (optical science), but rather with subjective reactions as reflected in art, architecture, and literature. Instead of its evolution, this book celebrates the complexity of our relation to light’s character. No individual experience of light being “truer” than any other.
From surface to space
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 2009, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden focuses on the work of Kazimir Malevich in the context of his time, and thus on the epoch immediately after its inauguration. This large state exhibition on the Russi
In between
The acrylic glass objects and installations of Berlin artist Michael Laube (born 1955) recede from full presence, as though still en route to the world. Acting prismatically upon the viewer, the breaks and reflections in Laube's glass constructions transform the spaces in which they are set into multidimensional occasions, almost confounding the distinction between object and reflection. This is the first monograph on Laube.
Der Anzug im Porträt
Das Buch beleuchtet die Facetten des ultimativen, von modischen Torheiten – scheinbar – verschonten Kleidungsensembles aus Rock, Weste, Hemd, Hose und Halsbinder. Der Anzug ist Zeuge von Revolutionen, Aufständen und Kriegen, überdauert als Symbol für Geschäftstüchtigkeit, Ehrbarkeit, Konformität und Reaktion die Jahrhunderte und begleitet und bekleidet gleichzeitig die Emanzipation der Frau. Anhand signifikanter Selbstporträts vom Ende des 18. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert werden in diesem Buch die bewegte Geschichte des Anzugs und seine enge Verknüpfung mit sozialpolitischen Entwicklungen nachgezeichnet. Die Betrachtung von fotografischen, grafischen und malerischen Werken gibt Aufschluss über die mannigfaltigen Bedeutungen des Anzugs und die Positionierung seiner Träger*innen: Er ist auf der Haut getragene politische Meinung, öffentlich zur Schau gestellte wirtschaftliche Situation und zugleich Austragungsort künstlerischer Überzeugung.
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