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The Genius Decision
While there is no essentialist quality of genius, the postmodern artist can reach the extraordinary by way of an active-passive Genius Decision, which is engaged in an activity of failure in its desire to represent the nonrepresentable.
Yves Klein
The career of French artist Yves Klein lasted just eight years (from 1954 to 1962), but in that short span he took Europe by storm. Working in Paris at the height of geometric abstraction and Art Informel, in an intellectual climate dominated by Existentialism, Klein presaged many developments in the postwar avant garde: performance art, Minimalism and Conceptualism (one of his mottoes pronounced, "For color! Against the line and drawing!"). As this volume demonstrates, Klein wrote prolifically, often in the form of manifestos or more ironic texts written to accompany his proto-Conceptual installations. Though Klein is best known for a series of monochromes in his trademark shade, International Klein Blue, his first public showing was of the 1954 artist's book Yves: Peintures, which featured a series of monochromes created in response to cities where he had lived, as a play on the traditional art exhibition catalogue. The medium of the book is consequently an ideal place in which to encounter his art and thought. 110 illustrations
Per Kirkeby
Exhibition The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. 6.10.2012-6.1.2013 and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 26.3.-30.6.2013
Yves Klein by Himself
This is an intellectual biography of one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, Yves Klein. It intermixes biographical fact with texts written by artists who have been inspired by him.
Overcoming the Problems of Art
This is the first complete collection of the writings of the visonary French conceptual artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) to be published in English translation. Klein was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual. Inspired by his study of the Japanese Kata (the abstract movements in Judo), Rosicrucian cosmogony, alchemy, and the phenomenological and psychological philosophies that emerged during his lifetime (particularly the writings of Gaston Bachelard), he constructed his vision of a future art that would purify the soul and society from the ashes of painting.
First Philosophy, Or Ontology
The first English translation of Part 1 of the German eighteenth-century philosopher Christian Wolff's Ontology (1730) who is considered one of the seminal thinkers of the German Enlightenment. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Klaus Ottmann.
Wolfgang Laib
Wolfgang Laib's breathtaking and quietly beautiful artwork draws on the ritual life he leads in and with nature and its processes of becoming and forgetting. His works are composed of purely natural materials, collected and processed by the artist himself in the 70s, he created his first milk stone, and then moved on to sifting pollen into "color miracles" or piling it into "insurmountable mountains"; in the 80s, he began to incorporate rice into his pieces; and towards the end of the decade he began working in beeswax. This gorgeous retrospective of his work -- with texts by Klaus Ottman and Margit Rowell, and interview between the artist and Harold Szeeman -- offers us a key to fully appreciating his complex and transcendent body of work.
The Essential
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is generally considered the preeminent artist of the group of painters who reinvented American art and became known as the Abstract Expressionists. Yet despite his success he suffered from intense anxiety and depression, and eventually took his own life. 60 illustrations.
The Human Argument
The Human Argument is the first publication of Agnes Denes's collected writings. Denes-an early pioneer of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art-has investigated the physical and social sciences, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, art history, poetry and music and transformed her explorations into unique works of visual art. Her work involves ecological, cultural, and social issues, and are often monumental in scale. She is perhaps best known for Wheatfield - A Confrontation (1982), a two-acre wheat field she planted and harvested in downtown Manhattan, a work that addresses human values and misplaced priorities.
Thought Through My Eyes
In this volume, the acclaimed art critic and curator, and author of The Essential Mark Rothko and The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition, has gathered the bulk of his published essays on art: essays that combine the author's background as a philosopher with the vison and ideas of contemporary artists.
