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Is This Tomorrow?
  • Language: en

Is This Tomorrow?

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

For a major new presentation in 2019, Whitechapel Gallery is taking as a model its groundbreaking 1956 exhibition 'This is Tomorrow', an event which is indelibly linked to the institution's history. Organised and developed by architect, writer and sculptor Theo Crosby, 'This is Tomorrow' featured 37 artists, architects, designers and writers who worked together in 12 small groups. In the catalogue, Lawrence Alloway introduced the exhibition as "devoted to the possibilities of collaboration", the results of which "appear to be setting up a programme for the future." 'Is This Tomorrow?' will also feature 12 groups of contemporary architects, artists and other cultural practitioners to highligh...

Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02-27
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This timely publication, accompanying a brand new survey exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, presents key works by some of the most exciting practitioners in current figurative painting.0After a long period dominated by abstraction and conceptual approaches, painting saw a revival of figuration in the 1990s by artists whose work updated portraiture and history painting but remained rooted in the conventions of realism. However a new generation, coming to prominence in the new millennium, are distinguished by a radically different approach to the figure, in which bodies are fragmented, morphed, merged and remade but never completely cohesive.0'Radical Figures' highlights the renewed interest i...

Magnificent Obsessions
  • Language: en

Magnificent Obsessions

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Prestel

Exploring more than a dozen personal collections of contemporary artists, this unique and revealing book probes the aesthetic and psychological dimensions of collecting and shows how objects can influence and reflect their owners' work. A lead essay examines the reasons why artists collect, attempting to understand the relationship between the objects artists amass and the works they make, and contributions by or on each of the artists reflect on the personal significance of collecting habits.

Taking Aim!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Taking Aim!

  • Categories: Art

Taking Aim The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies of the contemporary art world. It demystifies often daunting and opaque practices through first-hand testimonials, interviews, and commentary from leading artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, critics, art consultants, arts administrators, art fair directors, auction house experts, and other art world luminaries. Published in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Artist in the Marketpl...

British Art Show 8
  • Language: en

British Art Show 8

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Exhibition catalogue. Curators Anna Colin & Lydia Yee have chosen 42 contemporary artists for this years touring exhibition. The exhibition will tour Leeds Art Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, as well as the John Hansard Gallery (University of Southampton) and the Southampton City Art Gallery between October 2015 and January 2017.

Theaster Gates: a Clay Sermon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Theaster Gates: a Clay Sermon

  • Categories: ART

This publication accompanies a major new exhibition of Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates (b. 1973), focussing on his clay-based work, collaborative projects and large scale sculptures and installations since 2005. Gates' interdisciplinary practice draws on his training in both urban planning and pottery, resulting in work which aims to instigate the creation of cultural communities and the recirculation of art-world capital, all the time considering the notion of Black space and ideology.0Fully illustrated with examples of pottery, sculptures, installations, films and archive materials, the book also documents a new film by Gates and features essays from leading craft historians and writers. This in-depth exploration of Gates' work is timely and relevant now in a world where a new generation are raising questions through making, identity and activism.00Exhibition: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (29.09.2021-09.01.2022).

Mary Heilmann
  • Language: en

Mary Heilmann

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 8 June--21 August 2016"--Copyright page.

Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora

  • Categories: Art

Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo nègs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrière, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dréd (a.k.a. Mildréd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora.

Urban Mythologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Urban Mythologies

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Street Art, Street Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Street Art, Street Life

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue, and source of inspiration for contemporary artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present. This unique volume includes street photography; documentation of performance, events, and artworks presented in the street; works using material from the street; and examples of street culture. Through works by almost thirty world-renowned artists, Street Art, Street Life explores a range of themes related to the street: as arena for political and cultural expression, violence and crime, gender roles in an urban context, advertising and commerce, and as counterpoint to museums and other traditional art venues. Street Art, Street Life is published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, organized by international curator Lydia Yee.