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Michael Williams - Make Plans God Applauds
In 2020 and 2021, Michael Williams created six large-scale paintings for the Lokremise in St. Gallen, which will be presented there for the first time. In Los Angeles, where he has lived with his family since 2019, the situation was the same as around the world. During the lockdown, his children mostly stayed at home for almost a year. There were no openings and no trips; instead, it was time to retreat to the studio.During this period he created historical paintings in an almost classical style. The Collage Paintings are the result of computer-generated overlays and combinations that were applied to a canvas as paper printouts and then reworked with paint. They are collages like those that have been made since the liberating days of Dada, when photographic images from newspapers and magazines first made their way into art. (Website vom Kunstmuseum St. Gallen)
The Art of Evolution
A timely and stimulating collection of essays about the impact of Darwin's ideas on visual culture
Jörg Immendorff
Accompanying the artist's first major exhibition in the United States, I Wanted to Become an Artist examines Jörg Immendorff's anarchic approach to the Conceptual art practices of the 60s and 70s. Playfully and politically, he adds to Germany's ongoing efforts to come to terms with its role in modern history.
Rita Ackermann: Hidden
New and early paintings exploring erasure and destruction New York-based painter Rita Ackermann's (born 1968) Hidden focuses on a selection of recent paintings, which are placed in relation to the artist's early works from the 1990s, encompassing nearly 50 paintings and drawings developed over the past 30 years in New York. In 2022 Ackermann began a new series of paintings titled War Drawings, in which oil, grease pencil and acrylic were heavily worked on rough linen canvas. In these works, figures become lost and lines are scraped away to reveal fragmented compositions. The War Drawings are presented alongside early drawings and paintings that depict adolescent female figures in clonelike multiples who engage in various self-destructive and hazardous activities.
German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776-1945
This book traces the importance of the United States for German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to 1945, focusing on American westward expansion and racial politics. Jens-Uwe Guettel argues that from the late eighteenth century onward, ideas of colonial expansion played a very important role in liberal, enlightened and progressive circles in Germany, which, in turn, looked across the Atlantic to the liberal-democratic United States for inspiration and concrete examples. Yet following a pre-1914 peak of liberal political influence on the administration and governance of Germany's colonies, the expansionist ideas embraced by Germany's far-right after the country's defeat in the First World War had little or no connection with the German Empire's liberal imperialist tradition - for example, Nazi plans for the settlement of conquered Eastern European territories were not directly linked to pre-1914 transatlantic exchanges concerning race and expansionism.
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes
The first academic book-length study devoted to Karl May festivals, a specific type of Wild-West-themed festivals that take place in Germany every summer, Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes introduces readers to a performance world that is popular at home yet virtually unknown elsewhere. Named for Karl May (1842-1912), arguably the most famous German writer of adventure fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these thirteen or so festivals dramatize the exploits of May's most famous Wild West heroes, the Mescalero Apache Winnetou and his blood-brother, the German frontiersman Old Shatterhand, in entertaining theatre plays that use horses, other animals, stunts, and special effects on ...
Darwin
"The exhibition is the first to focus on the implications of Darwinism for the fine arts. All of the artists featured in the exhibition shared an interest in the natural sciences and either read texts by Darwin or by those who reacted to him. With approximately 150 paintings, drawings, and lithographs as well as rare documentary material, the exhibition showcases artists such as Martin Johnson Heade, František Kupka, Odilon Redon, George Frederic Watts, Arnold Böcklin, Gabriel von Max, Alfred Kubin, and Max Ernst, and thus spans the period from 1859 to the mid twentieth century."--Schirn Kunsthalle website (viewed July 26, 2009).
"Landscape Imagery, Politics, and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968?989 "
Landscape Imagery, Politics and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989 explores the communicative relationship between German landscape painting and the viewing public that developed in the wake of the student revolutions of the late 1960s. The book demonstrates that, contrary to some historical thinking, more similarities than differences characterized the sociopolitical concerns of East and West Germans during the late Cold War Era, and that it was these shared issues that were reflected in the revival of the Romantic painting genre. Catherine Wilkins focuses on recovering the agency of the individual artist and in revising historiography with sensitivity to narration 'from below.' Inter...
Joseph Beuys
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