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Circling Europe: A Travel Diary of Notes, Musings and Poems
A fascinating exploration and insight into the fringes of Europe. This book proudly celebrates the richness and cultural history of these countries, taking us through Moslem Spain, Byzantine Turkey and Viking Norway, for example, yet it also offers an intriguing insight into the travails and high points of travelling itself. Peppered with slightly eccentric anecdotes and poems, the book wakes up the people and places of Europe's fringes and gives them a gentle shake.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.
The Great Monster Dada Show
Dada is an avantgarde art movement in the early 20th century, a rebel and a liberating way of thinking. This major exhibition presents the historical works of the Dada movement with a contemporary side program pinpointing how the avant-garde ideas are of relevance today. The exhibition presents more than 200 works by 43 artists, among others Jean (Hans) Arp, Theo van Doesburg, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven, Hannah Höch, Marcel Janco, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, together with contemporary artists such as Siri Hjorth, Pernille Mercury Lindstad, Marthe Ramm Fortun, Are Mokkelbost, Marcela Lucatelli and Harold Offeh. The exhibition presents collage, sculpture, painting, drawing, photo, film, sound, puppetry and periodicals, and is curated by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in collaboration with the Sparebankstiftelsen DnB. Cabaret-The Great Monster Dada Show with support from Fritt Ord and Goethe-Institut.--http://hok.no.
The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context
The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, Western and Southern Europe, North and Latin America, and South Africa, in the first half of the twentieth century. Comprising a series of essays by an international group of scholars in the fields of art history and literary and cultural studies, the volume addresses the intellectual discussions and artistic developments arising in the context of the expressionist movement in the various art centers and cultural regions. The authors also examine the implications of expressionism in artistic practice and its influence on modern and contemporary cultural production. Essential for an in-depth understanding and discussion of expressionism, this volume opens up new perspectives on developments in the visual arts of this period and challenges the traditional narratives that have predominantly focused on artistic styles and national movements.
Nachkriegsgefüge: Europa und die Kunst in den späten 1940er und den 1950er Jahren
Wie lässt sich die Kunstgeschichte Europas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erzählen, ohne in die Muster des Kalten Krieges zu verfallen und die Exklusionen, die mit der Privilegierung einzelner Gruppen diese Geschichte höchst selektiv rekonstruieren, weiter fortzuschreiben? Ausgehend von der Überlegung, dass das in Europa entstandene System von Kunst auf ganz eigene Weise an der Gestaltung von Gesellschaften teilhat, wird in dem Buch das Modell eines offenen, auf Ergänzungen hin angelegten Gefüges entworfen. Mit Konzentration auf soziale Konstellationen und Prozesse wird den kunsteigenen Potenzialen nachgegangen und dabei zugleich für einen neuen Umgang mit Europa im Rahmen einer globalen Kunstgeschichte plädiert. Die späten 1940er und 1950er Jahre erweisen sich auf diese Weise als eine Zeit, die beim Blick auf Materialkonzepte und Technologieverständnis die spezifischen Differenzen zu den Jahrzehnten zuvor deutlich werden lässt und die im Umgang mit Massenkultur, Öffentlichkeiten und der Vergangenheit eine latente Basis für nachfolgende Entwicklungen bilden konnte.
Jorn + Munch
Jorn + Munch is the first publication to examine the enduring impact Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had on Asger Jorn (1914-1973). In Munch's later works, Danish artist Jorn discovered an artist with a direct, spontaneous, and raw form of expression. Already influenced by surrealism's unprompted painting style, Jorn was naturally drawn to Munch's similarly unbridled compositions. In particular, Jorn was interested in Munch's use of intense colors and his gestural application of paint in the later works. From the middle of the 1940s, and for many years after that, Munch is shown to be a challenging and important reference point for Jorn's own body of work. Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Munch Museum, Oslo (10/15/16-01/15/17) Jorn Museum, Silkeborg, Denmark (02/11/17-05/28/17)
Mapplethorpe + Munch
A fascinating look at how Mapplethorpe and Munch, although separated by many years, shared certain affinities in their lives and artwork This revelatory catalogue delves into the many affinities shared between two widely renowned and discussed artists, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944), whose intensely studied work has, until now, never been considered in relation to one another. Mapplethorpe + Munch brings to light how these two monumental figures curiously relate on an existential level, in how they deal with questions concerning sexuality, and in their way of utilizing self-portraiture as a means to explore issues of personal identity. Featuring essays that examine the thematic impulses behind the accompanying exhibition, this publication establishes a previously unexplored association between two equally contentious art figures, while working to impart alternative perspectives and new insight into their respective outputs. Although distinct in their legacies, Mapplethorpe and Munch remain remarkably intertwined. Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Munch Museum, Oslo (02/06/16-05/29/16)
Modernism for the Masses
A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract painting Artists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner created ambitious works for the Williamsburg Housing Project, Floyd Bennett Field Airport, and the 1939 World’s Fair. Modernism for the Masses examines the public murals (realized and unrealized) of these and other abstract painters and the aesthetic controversy, political influence, and ideological warfare that surrounded them. Jody Patterson transforms standard narratives of modernism by reasserting the significance of the 1930s and explores the reasons for the omission of the mural’s history from chronicles of American art. Beautifully illustrated with the artists’ murals and little-known archival photographs, this book recovers the radical idea that modernist art was a vital part of everyday life.
Picasso
Il catalogo riproduce interamente la Suite 347, di proprietà di Bancaja di Valencia. Tutte le incisioni, appunto 347, realizzate da Picasso tra marzo e ottobre del 1968, rappresentano il "diario di bordo" di un uomo che "senza curarsi delle proprie ansie o di quelle profonde inquietudini che spesso cercava, portandole a galla, di esorcizzare," si apriva "alla percezione del mondo esterno, quel mondo che a un uomo di quasi 87 anni appariva folle, grottesco. Aveva visto ben altro!" La Suite è composta da quattro grandi nuclei tematici: La Celestina, ovvero le stampe selezionate da Picasso per un'edizione della Celestina di Fernando de Rojas, pubblicata dall'atelier Crommelynck nel 1971; Pi...
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