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Picasso
Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has expanded to reach the entire western world? Is modern civilization so different that it gives an artist a new attitude and causes him to redefine his role for the public, the market, and, therefore, to invent entirely new artistic practices? Picasso is considered here in view of this last, and most probable, hypothesis. He is a product of his situation and time, in the broadest sense of the term. Refusing to confine himself to h...
Sterling Ruby: Paris
This stunning book encompasses more than twenty works detailing Sterling Ruby’s simultaneous exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery’s two Paris locations in 2015. Depicted here, Ruby’s YARD paintings test the formal limits of the medium, using rollers and brooms to spread a multicolored palette of acrylic paints over unprimed canvases, while fabric, cardboard, and other materials are attached to the edges of each painting, like mysterious satellites at the borders of indeterminate topographies. Meanwhile, huge fragments of reclaimed American submarine combine with engine parts and steel pipes to convey the raw potential of sculpture. Featuring more than 40 color plates, including detail images that highlight the various aspects of each piece, this book presents stunning installation photo- graphs of both of the artist’s recent Paris shows and an insightful new essay by critic Philippe Dagen. Colorful double-page spreads of the artist’s two studios depict the creative process for the aforementioned paintings and sculptures.
Barthélémy Toguo
Barthélémy Toguo is a multiple disciplinary artist whose work addresses migration, colonialism, race, exile and displacement.Born in 1967 in Cameroon, he lives and works between Bandjoun and Paris. After studying at the fine arts academy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Toguo made his way to the fine arts academy in Grenoble, then the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Freely encompassing drawing, sculpture, video, installation and performance, his creations draw inspiration from his experience, travels and encounters. Watercolour has a central place in his work.Toguo plays with the spaces where different materials overlap. He created pathways between Western and African traditions and observes the lan...
Artistes et ateliers
Cet ouvrage reprend la plupart des entretiens que Philippe Dagen a menés avec des artistes d'aujourd'hui pour Le Monde. Comme explique l'auteur, être critique d'art du principal quotidien français lui a permis de rencontrer plus aisément de nombreux artistes en France, aux Etats- Unis, en Allemagne, en Grande-Bretagne ou en Espagne. Philippe Dagen les a choisis " hors de toute considération d'actualité immédiate ", mais en cherchant à aller voir dans toutes les générations et toutes les directions. C'est donc sa curiosité d'historien et de critique qui donne le ton de cet itinéraire au fil duquel apparaissent plus de soixante interlocuteurs. Certains ont disparu depuis lors, comm...
Can You Find Happiness
A Best of... survey of the most sought after French nude and portrait photographer, Bettina Rheims, who makes the female body the central focus of her work. Featuring highly praised and fiercely disputed series such as "Chambre close" (women posing for an imaginary voyeur); KIM (a documentary on a transsexual); I.N.R.I. (a sequence on the life of Christ); women in modern Shanghai, and, most recently, "Heroines".
Contemporary French and francophone art
Présente vingt-trois essais consacrés à l'art français et francophone depuis 1980, en proposant une analyse critique d'une cinquantaine d'artistes aussi divers que des écrivains, photographes, peintres.
Nazanin Pouyandeh
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The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt
Rembrandt's life and art had an almost mythic resonance in nineteenth-century France with artists, critics, and collectors alike using his artistic persona both as a benchmark and as justification for their own goals. This first in-depth study of the traditional critical reception of Rembrandt reveals the preoccupation with his perceived "authenticity," "naturalism," and "naiveté," demonstrating how the artist became an ancestral figure, a talisman with whom others aligned themselves to increase the value of their own work. And in a concluding chapter, the author looks at the playRembrandt, staged in Paris in 1898, whose production and advertising are a testament to the enduring power of the artist's myth.
How to Read Paintings 2
This companion volume to How to Read Paintings explores the context within which artists from the Middle Ages to the present day have worked. Major works of art are analysed from the point of view of their creators, providing valuable insights into the working methods, techniques and secrets of such influential painters and sculptors as Botticelli, Rodin and Picasso.
Blacno
The trip through 'Blanco' or Blindness starts in 2003 and ends in 2007, reporting on the blind conditions in Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Thailand, China, Laos, Vietnam, Bulgaria, and Lithuania.
