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The Place of the Viewer
In The Place of the Viewer, Kerr Houston offers a richly detailed chronological overview of art historians’ evolving attempts to account for the physical position of the viewer in discussing works of art.
Spaces of Connoisseurship
Spaces of Connoisseurship explores the ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade, via a comparison of family art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons (“Agnew’s) and London’s National Gallery.
Basquiat
Der amerikanische Maler und Zeichner Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) gehört zu den schillernsten Persönlichkeiten der Kunstgeschichte, seine Freundschaft mit Andy Warhol, Keith Haring und Madonna sind legendär. Die retrospektiv angelegte Publikation zeichnet die einzigartige künstlerische Entwicklung und kunsthistorische Bedeutung des bereits mit 27 Jahren auf tragische Weise verstorbenen Künstlerstars nach. Seine Werke sind von eben jener Intensität und Energie geprägt, die auch sein kurzes Leben bestimmte. In nur acht Jahren gelang es Basquiat nicht nur vergleichbar Egon Schiele ein umfassendes Œuvre zu schaffen, sondern auch neben der konzeptuellen Kunst und der Minimal Art neue figurative und expressive Elemente zu etablieren. Als 21-jähriger wurde er zum bislang jüngsten documenta-Teilnehmer und entscheidenden Vorläufer der Jungen Wilden, aber auch der Kunst der 1990er-Jahre. (Deutsche Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-2592-7) Ausstellung: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel 09.05.–05.09.2010
Mimmo Rotella
Presenting a selection of the décollages (torn posters) and retro d'affiches (untouched poster versos) of Nouveau Réaliste pioneer Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) from the late '50s and early '60s, this book situates these works in the artistic climate that helped foster them.
Masterpieces
The Kunstmuseum Bern owns one of the most important art collections in Switzerland. Since the foundation of the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Bern in 1809 and the opening of the first museum building in 1879 the collection has grown continuously and has attained world renown. Over 170 masterpieces of the collection are assembled in a single publication for the first time and made accessible to a broad public through new art-historical analyses and numerous colour illustrations. The Kunstmuseum Bern houses prestigious works of Swiss and international art from the late thirteenth century until the present day. The collection contains over 3,000 paintings and sculptures and 48,000 works on paper and videos, including, for example, masterpieces by Duccio di Buoninsegna, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Ferdinand Hodler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso and Felix Vallotton. The works assembled in this volume are presented with full-page illustrations and are re-examined by some 70 international authors. A historical survey describing the development of the museum and its collection opens and introduces the publication.
Without Restraint: Works of Mexican Artists from the Daros Latin America Collection
Künstlerinnen in Mexiko präsentieren ihre Lebenswelt in dezidiert weiblicher Sicht und antworten auf internationale künstlerische Strömungen mit ganz eigenen Ansätzen: Arbeiten von Teresa Serrano (*1936), Ximena Cuevas (*1963), Betsabeé Romero (*1963), Teresa Margolles (*1963), Claudia Fernández (*1965), Melanie Smith (*1965) und Maruch Sántiz Gómez (*1975) bilden den Kern dieser Publikation. Die Fotografien, Videos, Objekte und Installationen aus dem Bestand der Daros Latinamerica Collection in Zürich werfen einen subversiven Blick auf die nationale Identität Mexikos. Die Arbeiten stellen herrschende Machthierarchien und die ihnen zugeordneten traditionellen Funktionen sowie die sozialen Räume von Frauen innerhalb der mexikanischen Gesellschaft in Frage. Dabei erfährt die scheinbare Banalität alltäglicher Dinge und Aktionen - sowohl im häuslichen-privaten als auch im urban-öffentlichen Bereich - eine neue, tiefere Bedeutung und teils ironische Brechung. Ausstellung/Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bern 3.6.-23.10.2016
Le fiabe di Vale
Le fiabe di Valentina Locatelli sono davvero speciali, adatte a un pubblico di giovanissimi e non. Un’ottima lettura per immergersi nella fantasia e per riscoprire i più nobili valori dell’amicizia, della lealtà, della solidarietà e anche del tempo che impieghiamo, così da sfruttarlo meglio. L’autrice ci conduce in un bellissimo viaggio dalle molteplici tappe che spazia dallo stagno ai prati, dal Polo Nord al deserto, dall’Australia alla gola di Samaria. Come nelle fiabe più significative, anche qui gli animali umanizzati riescono a trasmettere emozioni e insegnare con i loro comportamenti, con le loro piccole-grandi storie. Leggendo quest’opera conoscerete due simpaticissime ...
Beyond Baroque
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Verrocchio
A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacher Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his spectacular sculptures and paintings to his work in goldsmithing, architecture, and engineering. His expressive, confident drawings provide a key point of contact between sculpture and painting. He led a vibrant workshop where he taught young artists who later became some of the greatest painters of the period, including Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Lorenzo di Credi, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. This beautifully illustrated book presents a comprehensive survey of Verrocchio's art, spanning his entire career and featuring some fifty sculptures, paintings, and drawings, in addition to works he created with his students. Through incisive scholarly essays, in-depth catalog entries, and breathtaking illustrations, this volume draws on the latest research in art history to show why Verrocchio was one of the most innovative and influential of all Florentine artists. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Skin Crafts
Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability of human skin and - in so doing - are demanding visceral responses from viewers. Drawing on a range of theories including affect theory, material feminism, skin studies, phenomenology and global art history, the book illuminates the various ways in which artists are harnessing the affective power of craft materials to address and cope with violence. Artists from Mexico, Africa, China, the Netherlands and Indigenous artists based in the unceded territory known as Canada are examined in relation to one another to illuminate the connections and differences across their bodies of work. Skin Crafts interrogates ongoing material violence towards women and marginalized others, and demonstrates the power of contemporary art to force viewers and scholars into facing their ethical responsibilities as human beings.
