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Heat storage systems
Trained as a set designer, German artist Kerstin Drechsel (born 1966) extends her large-format paintings into installations, by augmenting them with sculptures and furniture-like modules that suggest narratives of private lives and gender roles in the home. This volume offers the first overview of her work.
Neue Deutsche Malerei
One of the most important artistic movements in recent years is chronicled and showcased in this dynamic work.Born in Germany in the years following the collapse of the Communist regime, the New Leipzig School started when a group of classmates at the Leipzig Academy rediscovered figurative art. Their paintings reflected the melancholy that pervaded East Germany as it struggled with capitalism, high unemployment and depopulation. Fifteen year later, paintings by the Leipzig school and its related movement, Dresden Pop, are conquering the international art market. The authors take on this important trend one painter at a time. They examine each artist's oeuvre on its own merit and consider various factors behind the movements--the onset of the digital age, social disillusionment and individual protest. Breathtaking reproductions allow readers to form their own ideas about what constitutes and drives new German painting, and understand its significance around the world.
Nicht-Landschaften
In ihren Portraits von Industrielandschaften setzten Wolfgang Hilbig und Wolfgang Mattheuer auf ein ganz ähnliches Verfahren: eine Verkehrung romantischer Modi der Natur- und Landschaftsdarstellung. In den Werken des Schriftstellers Wolfgang Hilbig und des Malers Wolfgang Mattheuer bildet die Landschaft rund um Leipzig eine wichtige Konstante. Die seinerzeit vor allem durch die DDR-Braunkohleindustrie und ihren Raubbau zunehmend geschändete Gegend galt als eine der dreckigsten in ganz Europa. Ein dort zu Tage tretendes, zerrüttetes Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis war auch Sinnbild eines gescheiterten Staates und seines Systems. Von daher war eine künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit ihr vor einem doppelten Hintergrund problematisch. Zum einen weil die Ausmaße der Zerstörung historisch unvergleichlich waren, zum anderen weil die ästhetische Kategorie der Landschaft zu DDR-Zeiten per se als eine politische verstanden werden musste. Hilbig und Mattheuer versuchten dem zu begegnen, indem sie in der Adaption und Revision der vor allem durch die Romantiker entwickelten Verfahren der Landschaftsdarstellung einen Zugang suchten, der beiden Problematiken Rechnung trug.
Baldur von Schirach
Though three of his four grandparents were from America and the first language he learned at home was English, Baldur von Schirach became one of the Third Reich’s most influential individuals. He joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925 at the age of eighteen and three years later became a member of its National Leadership. He also married Henriette, the daughter of Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Von Schirach continued to rise through the ranks of the Nazi Party, reaching the rank of SA-Gruppenführer. It was as the leader of the Hitler Youth organization, however, for which von Schirach is best remembered, becoming Reichsführer of the Hitler Youth on 16 June 1932, and...
Family, Friends and Foes
Jigsaw puzzles' notorious complexity and mega-multiple, amorphously-shaped pieces provide an appropriate metaphor for the navigating and maneuvering necessary throughout all aspects of human dynamics. Involvement comprises not only efforts by an individual personally trying to fit together a life of relationships with Family, Friends & Foes within complex categories and different levels, but the efforts by groups of individuals within those categories, progressively, by those groups within a larger society and/or societies, and then, across so many so-called boundaries: geographic, ethnic, linguistic, artistic and more. Such is the starting point for this particular collection of essays, whi...
Decoding Dylan
Taking readers behind Bob Dylan's familiar image as the enigmatic rebel of the 1960s, this book reveals a different view--that of a careful craftsman and student of the art of songwriting. Drawing on revelations from Dylan's memoir Chronicles and a variety of other sources, the author arrives at a radically new interpretation of his body of work, which revolutionized American music and won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan's songs are viewed as collages, ingeniously combining themes and images from American popular culture and European high culture.
Bauhaus 1919-1933
The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers in an extraordinary conversation about modern art. Bauhaus 1919-1933, published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition at MoMA, is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject by MoMA since 1938 and offers a new generational perspective on the 20th century's most influential experiment in artistic education. It brings together works in a broad range of mediums, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and costume design, and painting and sculpture - many of which have rarely if ever been seen outside of Germany. Featuring about 400 colour plates and a rich range of documentary images, this publication includes two overarching images by the exhibition's curators, Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, concise interpretive essays on key objects by over twenty leading scholars, and an illustrated, narrative chronology.
A Picasso Portfolio
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso: Themes and Variations" held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Mar. 24-Sept. 6, 2010.
Symbol und Wirklichkeit
Ernst Ludwig Kirchners Spätwerk blieb bis anhin in Verbindung mit jenem Edvard Munchs weitgehend unerforscht. Eine vertiefte Analyse des Verhältnisses von Kirchners Werkgruppe Bilder aus der Phantasie zu Munchs Lebensfries zeigt interessanterweise ähnliche Konturen dieser beiden Arbeiten. Dies obwohl Kirchner vehement jegliche Kenntnis von Munchs Schaffen zu negieren versuchte. Systematisch wird die Bedeutung, die Munchs Werk für Kirchner hatte, aufgrund der Briefkorrespondenz der «Brücke» mit Munch, den Munch-Ausstellungen, Kirchners Äusserungen über Munch in Briefen, seinen Skizzenbüchern und dem «Davoser Tagebuch» in der Zeitspanne von 1902 bis 1912 aufgezeigt. Die Arbeit rekonstruiert ausserdem die bisher nur ansatzweise erforschte Werkgruppe Bilder aus der Phantasie und stellt ihren herausragenden Platz als offenes Konzept und als kohärente Einheit innerhalb von Kirchners Werk heraus.
Pablo Picasso
As early as the ancient Greeks, goddesses served as Muses for artistic creation. In essence, a creatively charged energy inspired the artist, leaving a unique and recognizable mark on the artwork. Picassos relationships with the women in his life was deeply formative, and he often represented them as Muses. He was particularly unabashed in the declaration of his feelings to one of them, Marie-Therese Walter, his youthful mistress of 1927. But at that point Picasso was still married to Olga Khokhlova, thus forced to practice the utmost discretion. His marriage to Olga made him increasingly frustrated with her imposed bourgeois expectations. As a release from this marital burden, Marie-Therese...
