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In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers
explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically
transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Set
against a contemporary South African society that is
chronologically `post' apartheid, but one that continues to grapple
with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism,
Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the complexity of
this moment within the rich potential of a performative art form
that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions.
The collection probes live art's intersection with crisis and
socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and
belonging, embodied trauma and loss, questions of archive, memory
and the troubling of colonial systems of knowing,
an interrogation
of narratives of the past and visions for the future.These diverse
essays, analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South
African artists and accompanied by a striking visual record of more
than 50 photographs, represent the first major critical study of
contemporary live art in South Africa; a study that is as timeous
as it is imperative.
Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and
lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.
Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment
answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe
Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing
at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A
committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication
Board had declared the two Warhols in his collection to be fake. He
wanted to know why and thought Dorment could help. This call would
mark the beginning of an extraordinary story that would play out
over the next ten years and would involve a cast of characters
straight out of fiction. From rock icons and film stars; art
dealers and art forgers; to a murdered Russian oligarch and a
lawyer for the mob; from courtrooms to auction houses: all took
part in a bitter struggle to prove the authenticity of a series of
paintings by the most famous American artist of the twentieth
century. Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, part
courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of
the dark connection between money, power and art.
At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were
coming into force, the artist David Hockney was at his house,
studio and garden in Normandy. From there, he witnessed the arrival
of spring, and recorded the blossoming of the surrounding landscape
on his iPad, a medium he has been using for over a decade. Working
outdoors was an antidote to the anxiety of the moment for Hockney
– 'We need art, and I do think it can relieve stress,' he says.
This uplifting publication – produced to accompany a major
exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts – includes 116 of his new
iPad paintings and shows to full effect Hockney's singular skill in
capturing the exuberance of nature.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A burst of springtime joy' Daily
Telegraph 'A springboard for ideas about art, space, time and
light' The Times 'Lavishly illustrated' Guardian David Hockney
reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural
Normandy On turning eighty, David Hockney sought out rustic
tranquility for the first time: a place to watch the sunset and the
change of the seasons; a place to keep the madness of the world at
bay. So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little
difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy
farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to
paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced
isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.
Spring Cannot be Cancelled is an uplifting manifesto that affirms
art's capacity to divert and inspire. It is based on a wealth of
new conversations and correspondence between Hockney and the art
critic Martin Gayford, his long-time friend and collaborator. Their
exchanges are illustrated by a selection of Hockney's new,
unpublished Normandy iPad drawings and paintings alongside works by
van Gogh, Monet, Bruegel, and others. We see how Hockney is
propelled ever forward by his infectious enthusiasms and sense of
wonder. A lifelong contrarian, he has been in the public eye for
sixty years yet remains entirely unconcerned by the view of critics
or even history. He is utterly absorbed by his four acres of
northern France and by the themes that have fascinated him for
decades: light, colour, space, perception, water, trees. He has
much to teach us, not only about how to see... but about how to
live.
Featuring four films by the young Irish filmmaker Kevin Gaffney,
Unseen By My Open Eyes is the first publication on the artist's
work, exploring the psychological landscapes that the artist
devises to explore the construction, projection and manipulation of
identity. Within the book, Gaffney's films are presented through a
series of richly illustrated sections, providing an excellent
insight into the artist's methodologies. The book explores subjects
ranging from: daily life in Iran; selfhood and military
conscription in Taiwan; geographic, political and emotional
separations in South Korea, with characters imagining what the moon
looks like from North Korea; and food consumption in a
self-sustaining militarised Ireland of the near future where
climate change has benefited agricultural production.The book
features English scripts of the five films, with an annex compiling
the scripts in Korean, Chinese, Persian and Gaeilge (Irish
Gaelic).Gaffney's works are contextualised through an accompanying
essay by Irish critic Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith.Gaffney was the
first Irish recipient of a Sky Academy Arts Scholarship in 2015,
and was an UNESCO-Aschberg laureate artist in residence at the
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art's Changdong
Residency in South Korea in 2014. His work features in the Irish
Museum of Modern Art's collection, and solo exhibitions have been
held at the Linenhall Arts Centre (Ireland), Millennium Court Arts
Centre (Northern Ireland) and CAI02 Contemporary Art Institute
(Japan).
For the first time, talented French illustrator and character
designer Sibylline Meynet not only shares her beautiful artwork in
this beautifully crafted book, but also presents specially
commissioned tutorials, step-by-step techniques, and the story of
her journey as a professional artist. Reverie: The Art of Sibylline
Meynet is a must-have for aspiring artists and illustrators in need
of career inspiration and a creative re-boot. Sibylline launched
herself as a freelance illustrator straight out of high school in
her native France, and now works as a comic artist, character
designer, and illustrator for magazines and books. Her artwork
features in abundance the girls and animals she loves to draw,
characters who exude charm and whimsy as well as great narrative
strength and depth. Behind her artwork is a career in film and
print, on projects from Scoob! (Warner Bros.) and Garfield (BOOM!
Studios), to Cursed and Orange is the New Black (Netflix). In this
book, Sibylline shares her experiences working in the industry,
juggling work commitments with exhibiting, collaborations, and
personal projects. For artists seeking new creative exercises,
career inspiration, advice, and a chance to peruse the gallery of a
talented and unique professional artist, this exciting new book is
essential.
At the start of the March 2020 lockdown, Ian Beck would walk his
greyhound Gracie through the early morning streets of Isleworth in
west London, revelling in the light and the silence that the
restrictions had brought. The familiar became charged with new
meaning, inspiring Ian to paint the scenes around him for their own
sake, something that he hadn't done since his student days in the
sixties. Suburban streets, trees, fences, shrubs and overgrown
alleyways - all are transformed in the quiet intensity of Ian's
lockdown paintings. He painted interiors too: the moon shining
through a bedroom window, objects on mantelpieces, the eeriness of
back gardens at dusk. As the year progressed, the crisp light of
spring gave way to the haze of summer and the gloom of autumn fogs.
The Light in Suburbia collects sixty of Ian's paintings from this
period: a remarkable record of his year spent trying to capture the
beauty of the unprepossessing everyday.
The first monograph on New York-based contemporary artist Richard
Phillips, best known for his large-scale paintings that are
'ultra-cool' in execution and very hot in effect. Richard
Phillips's hyper realistic oil paintings embody themes as broad as
power, politics, celebrity, fashion, ideology, beauty, and sex, and
pose questions about the status of painting today: Does the medium
remain valid, or has it become a historical pastime? Pornography,
propaganda, advertising, entertainment, fashion-Phillips
incorporates material from a range of sources to confront what is
at the core of contemporary image making, from the power of
celebrity branding to complicity between viewer and viewed. The
book's exploitative design strategy celebrates the commercial and
fashion alliances of the artist's practice, while revealing the
complex politics behind the imagery the artist chooses to paint.
The definitive art book for the remastered Spyro Reignited Trilogy,
for fans young and old. In 2018 Toys for Bob Studios thrilled fans
world wide by releasing Spyro Reignited Trilogy, a faithful
remaster encompassing all three titles from the beloved Spyro
trilogy introduced in 1998. The Art of Spyro is a meticulously
crafted compendium filled with in-depth behind-the-scenes content,
insightful quotes from top illustrators in the industry, anecdotes
from the game developers, and a dazzling assortment of incredible
concept art, some of which has never been seen by the public. It is
a must-have for art lovers, games, fans... and the fun-loving
adventurer in all of us.
From Russia to Poland and Romania, and from the Czech Republic to
Yugoslavia and East Germany, Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe is
an ambitious attempt to chart the changing realities of the eastern
half of Europe as seen through the eyes of artists, critics,
photographers and curators. If the Iron Curtain and the antagonisms
of the Cold War era had often kept the richness and diversity of
Eastern European art hidden from the rest of the world, the
contemporary era has been a witness to its unparalleled creative
explosion and fruitful dialogue with the global art scene. The work
featured in this book explores the correlations between shifts in
the political, cultural, economic and geographical realities of
Eastern Europe and the region's contemporary art. The artists in
this book revisit the region's past to envision a better future,
reaching challenging conclusions and producing some of the most
powerful and inspiring art being produced today. The book features
essays from respected writers in the field and profiles the most
influential artists producing work in and from the region today,
including Marina Abramovic, Christo, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Zofia
Kulik, Komar and Melamid, IRWIN, Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, Alexander
Brodsky, Ewa Partum, NSK, Group OHO, Stano Filko, Laibach,
KwieKulik, Post Ars, Weekend Art, Zbigniew Libera, Marjetica Potrc,
and Mladen Stilinovic. The following countries are covered in this
anthology: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Czech Republic, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic,
Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe is the
third title in the ARTWORLD series following Contemporary Art in
the Middle East and Contemporary Art in Latin America.
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