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French historian, Serge Guilbaut, explores the aesthetic quarrels
between Paris and New York of the 40s and 50s, analysing the art
that became cultural and commercial icons, with works by Picasso,
de Kooning, Dubuffet, Gorky, Kandinsky, Matisse, Newman, Pollock,
Rothko, as well as forgotten artists like Barbeau, Bearden and
Capogrossi. He also studies the reasons why the popular icons of
one culture were not recognised by the other at that time. Faced
with the imposing presence of the victorious movement of abstract
expressionism, the French art scene, seemed incapable of projecting
a single voice or direction for the future, as Paris had done in
the past.To study the history of French and American art after the
Second World War is a considerable challenge because the consensus
among investigators has been shaped by the success of American art.
The French art of that period has been regarded as irrelevant
although it displayed the same debates about realism, geometrical
abstraction and forms of abstract expressionism. The specific
aspect of the French scene was the extreme politicisation of
artistic expression at a time of strong tensions arising from the
divisions of the Cold War.
This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan
Library & Museum of the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(1720–1778). It is the most important study of Piranesi’s
drawings to appear in more than a generation. In a letter written
near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi explained to
his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he
could find no patrons there willing to support “the sublimity of
my ideas.” He resided instead in Rome, where he became
internationally famous working as a printmaker, designer,
architect, archaeologist, theorist, dealer, and polemicist. While
Piranesi’s lasting fame is based above all on his etchings, he
was also an intense, accomplished, and versatile draftsman, and
much of his work was first developed in vigorous drawings. The
Morgan Library& Museum holds what is arguably the largest and
most important collection of these works, more than 100 drawings
that include early architectural caprices, studies for prints,
measured design drawings, sketches for a range of decorative
objects, a variety of figural drawings, and views of Rome and
Pompeii. These works form the core of the book, which will be
published on the occasion of the Morgan’s Spring 2023 exhibition
of Piranesi drawings. More than merely an exhibition catalogue or a
study of the Morgan’s Piranesi holdings, however, this
publication is a monograph that offers a complete survey of
Piranesi’s work as a draftsman. It includes discussion of
Piranesi’s drawings in public and private collections worldwide,
with particular attention paid to the large surviving groups of
drawings in New York, Berlin, Hamburg, and London; it also puts the
large newly discovered cache of Piranesi material in Karlsruhe in
context. The most comprehensive study of Piranesi’s drawings to
appear in more than a generation, the book includes more than 200
illustrations, and while focused on the drawings it offers insights
on Piranesi’s print publications, his church of Santa Maria del
Priorato, and his work as a designer and dealer. In sum, the
present work offers a new account of Piranesi’s life and work,
based on the evidence of his drawings.
Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism calls upon craft,
during an era of political disruption, as a creative force to voice
dissent, express hope, critique the curtailment of civil rights,
and to restore dignity to the human experience. The essays and
artwork featured in this exhibition catalogue are framed within the
context of American democracy and disclose how we, as individuals
and as a culture, "craft democracy" and ultimately question what
democracy means today. This is the catalogue of an exhibition held
at Harold Hacker Hall, Central Library of Rochester [New York]
& Monroe County: August-October, 2019. Juilee Decker is
associate professor of museum studies at Rochester Institute of
Technology. Her publications include the 3rd edition of Museums in
Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
(2017) and the four-volume series Innovative Approaches for Museums
(2015). Hinda Mandell is associate professor in the School of
Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology and is a
co-editor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the
2016 U.S. Presidential Election (University of Rochester Press,
2018). She is editor of Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest
from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats (forthcoming with
Rowman & Littlefield).
The Hard Gelatin. Hidden Stories from the 80s exhibition arose out
of a will to overcome the hegemonic narrative and focus on the
unofficial stories of the Spanish Transition. Great achievements
were reached in that search for consensus, but the political steps
towards democracy, and the modernity and euphoria they brought with
them, were parts of a gelatinous facade. The structure was to be
more complex and much harder, with a society which seemed unable to
face up to its contradictions and dark side. Three writers neatly
sum up the spirit of the project with texts which analyse the
period: Teresa Grandas, the exhibition's curator, film-maker Pere
Portabella and essayist Servando Rocha.
This survey exhibition captures the arc and continued ascent of
contemporary artist Beverly McIver. This exhibition catalog
accompanies a survey exhibition of contemporary artist and painter
Beverly McIver. Curated by Kim Boganey, this exhibition represents
the diversity of McIver's thematic approach to painting over her
career. From early self-portraits in clown makeup to more recent
works featuring her father, dolls, Beverly's experiences during
COVID-19 and portraits of others, Full Circle illuminates the arc
of Beverly McIver's artistic career while also touching on her
personal journey. McIver's self-portraits explore expressions of
individuality, stereotypes, and ways of masking identity; portraits
of family provide glimpses into intimate moments, in good times as
well as in illness and death. The show includes McIver's portraits
of other artists and notable figures, recent work resulting from a
year in Rome with American Academy's Rome Prize, and new work in
which McIver explores the juxtaposition of color, patterns, and the
human figure. Full Circle also features works that reflect on
McIver's collaborations with other artists, as well as her impact
on the next generation of artists. The complementary exhibition, In
Good Company, includes artists who have mentored McIver, such as
Faith Ringgold and Richard Mayhew, as well as those who have
studied under her. This catalog includes a conversation with
Beverly McIver by exhibition curator Kim Boganey, as well as two
essays: one by leading Black feminist writer Michele Wallace,
daughter of Beverly's graduate school mentor Faith Ringgold, and
another by distinguished scholar of African American art history
Richard Powell. Published in association with the Scottsdale Museum
of Contemporary Art Exhibition dates: Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art February 12-September 4, 2022 Southeastern Center
for Contemporary Art December 8, 2022-March 26, 2023 The Gibbes
Museum April 28-August 4, 2023
This first major retrospective of Amalia Mesa-Bains unearths her
significant contributions to Chicanx/Latinx art and feminism. Best
known for her pioneering altar installations, Amalia Mesa-Bains is
one of the most innovative feminist and Latinx artists of her
generation. In her forty-year career as an artist, activist,
educator, and scholar, she has explored the experiences, spiritual
practices, and histories of Mexican American women and addressed
the colonial erasure and recovery of Mexican, African American, and
Indigenous Californians. Appropriately called an "archaeological"
practice, Mesa-Bains's art creates sacred spaces imbued with
cultural memory, leading viewers on a magical journey of discovery
through what might otherwise be lost to existing canons of history.
Amalia Mesa-Bains: The Archaeology of Memory is the exhibition
catalog accompanying the first major retrospective of her work,
bringing her installations from the 1970s to the present together
for the first time. Featuring an essay by the artist and an
interview with her, the book also brings together top-tier scholars
who explore the ecofeminism, migrant histories, spirituality, and
politics of erasure that ground her interdisciplinary practice. As
a whole, the book cements Mesa-Bains's place as a trailblazing
artist within the history of art. Published in association with the
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Exhibition dates:
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. February 4-July 23,
2023
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic is the official book of the exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and the brilliant curators of the British Library. It promises to take readers on a fascinating journey through the subjects studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - from Alchemy and Potions classes through to Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures.
Each chapter showcases a treasure trove of artefacts from the British Library and other collections around the world, beside exclusive manuscripts, sketches and illustrations from the Harry Potter archive. There's also a specially commissioned essay for each subject area by an expert, writer or cultural commentator, inspired by the contents of the exhibition - absorbing, insightful and unexpected contributions from Steve Backshall, the Reverend Richard Coles, Owen Davies, Julia Eccleshare, Roger Highfield, Steve Kloves, Lucy Mangan, Anna Pavord and Tim Peake, who offer a personal perspective on their magical theme. Readers will be able to pore over ancient spell books, amazing illuminated scrolls that reveal the secret of the Elixir of Life, vials of dragon's blood, mandrake roots, painted centaurs and a genuine witch's broomstick, in a book that shows J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their cultural and historical forebears.
This is the ultimate gift for Harry Potter fans, curious minds, big imaginations, bibliophiles and readers around the world who missed out on the chance to see the exhibition in person.
In recent years, music videos, celebrity dance contests and TikTok
challenges have shaped the way we experience choreography and dance
culture. During the Covid-19 pandemic when live performance events
were cancelled, people confined to their homes turned to making and
viewing short dance videos: created on mobile phones and designed
to be easily replicable and shared on social media platforms. Dance
has long had a relationship to film and the screen, from early
films of Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance (c. 1890s) which
highlighted the mediums ability to capture movement and light, to
the multi-screen presentations of the choreography of Merce
Cunningham transposed into video by Charles Atlas. Visual artists
today are inventively reformatting dance and choreographed movement
for not only film and the screen but also specifically for the
gallery setting, with its repeatable presentation and spatialised
viewing conditions. Between Poetics and Politics will feature 10-12
short films by contemporary artists and choreographers that explore
the intersection of dance, movement and moving image. These moving
image works focus on performing bodies, and unfold as both as
individual works but also as collective storytelling, exploring
timely topics, ranging from gender politics and desire to bodily
memory, resistance and personal healing, to indigeneity and
collective identities. The works will be contextualised by three
new essays.
This atmospheric calendar features 12 wood engravings from the
collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. With artworks from
Paul Nash, Thomas Edmund Chadwick, William Nicholson and others,
these intricate engravings are beautifully reproduced. Informative
text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and
next month's views. Printed on FSC-certified paper.
A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that
explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in
nineteenth-century China Photography's development as a new form of
art and technology coincided with profound changes in the way China
engaged with the world in the nineteenth century. The medium
evolved in response to war, trade, travel, and a desire for
knowledge about an unfamiliar place. Power and Perspective provides
a rich account of the exchanges among photographers, artists,
patrons, and subjects in the treaty port cities that connected
China and the West. Drawing primarily from the Peabody Essex
Museum's historic and largely unpublished collection of
photographs, this generously illustrated volume examines the
confrontations and collaborations that shaped the adoption and
practice of photography in China. Offering an original reassessment
of the colonial legacy of the medium, Power and Perspective
addresses photography's representations of racial hierarchy and its
entanglement with histories of European imperialism in
nineteenth-century China. Distributed for the Peabody Essex Museum
Exhibition Schedule: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (September 24,
2022-April 2, 2023)
Drawn to Paper: Degas to Rego is a publication showcasing works on
paper by some of the leading figures of European modernism. The
selection is built around a group of works from a private
collection and have not been seen in public since they were
acquired in the 1970s and early '80s. At the heart of the
collection is a group of works made by leading artists on the
mid-twentieth-century Paris art scene, including the American
Alexander Calder and Spaniards Picasso, Dali and Miro, as well as
the French artists Raoul Dufy and Fernand Leger. The publication is
fully-illustrated with a prefatory essay and catalogue entries.
"I draw first, and then I paint like Jean-Michel. I think the
paintings we make together are better when we don't know who has
done what" - Andy Warhol. Between 1984 and 1985, Jean-Michel
Basquiat (1960-1988) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) created around 160
paintings together in tandem, a quatre mains, including some of the
most remarkable works produced during their respective careers.
Keith Haring (1958-1990), who witnessed their friendship and
collaboration production, would go on to speak of a "conversation
occurring through painting, instead of words," and of two minds
merging to create a "third distinctive and unique mind."
Accompanying an exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, this book
illustrates more than 100 paintings jointly signed by the two
artists.
The Japanese artist Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) was celebrated for
his exciting impromptu performances at calligraphy and painting
parties. Dynamic, playful and provocative, Kyosai delighted his
audience with spontaneous and speedy paintings of demons,
skeletons, deities and Buddhist saints. These were often satirical,
reflecting a time of political and cultural change in Japan. Among
his most charming and inventive works are his brilliant depictions
of animals, which humorously play the roles of protagonists of
modern life. Kyosai's important place in Japanese art is here
explored in depth by Sadamura Koto, a leading authority on the
artist, in this catalogue of the exceptionally rich holdings of the
Israel Goldman Collection.
In Animation Sketchbooks, fifty of the leading contemporary talents
working in independent animation offer a glimpse into their private
sketchbooks. During the conceptual stages of their projects, these
groundbreaking and award-winning artists employ a variety of
mediums to exercise their creativity, including pencil, paint,
collage, puppetry, and photography. Each artist shares a selection
of their craft along with personal insights into their influences
and the artistic processes behind their unique sketches, character
studies, storyboards, and doodles. The range of visions and
techniques on display provide endless inspiration and allow a rare
insight into the scope of the animator's art.
Throughout history, fans have had numerous roles: personal items to
cool the user, tools for religious and ceremonial events, symbols
of royal power and authority or important fashion accessories. As
practical, symbolic and decorative objects, they are the meeting
point of multiple arts. This book focuses on European fans made in
the French Rococo style in the 18th century and the Rococo Revival
style that emerged in the 19th century. Sixty-six superb examples,
selected from the Eurus Collection in South Korea, offer a glimpse
into the lives of European royalty and aristocracy, including their
aesthetic preferences, ideals and views on nature, and demonstrate
the intermingling of cultures in the newly emerging painting and
craft styles which resulted from trade between Europe and the East.
This beautifully illustrated book explores the fans' thematic and
stylistic aspects as well as their assembly and production and
invites the reader to discover their untold stories.
Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Inspiring
Walt Disney explores the influences of the art and architecture of
France on Walt Disney and his studio artists, highlighting in
particular the Disney classics of hand-drawn animation, Cinderella
(1950) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Pairing preparatory
material from these films - including concept art for talking
furniture and fairy-tale castles - with masterpieces from the
eighteenth century reveals hidden sources of inspiration and allows
us to appreciate the extraordinary talents behind Disney animated
films and French decorative arts. Just as the dynamic, twisting
movements of the Rococo sought to breathe life into what was
essentially inanimate - silver, porcelain, furniture - so too did
Disney animators seek to create the illusion of movement, action
and emotion. Illustrated with innovative works by artists such as
Mary Blair, Hans Bacher and Peter J. Hall, and the animated and
anthropomorphic furniture, Sevres porcelain and gilt bronze of
rococo designers, the catalogue explores the shared creative roots
of these two seemingly disparate artistic realms and looks to
revitalise the feelings of excitement, awe and marvel, which both
eighteenth-century craftsmen and Disney animators sought to spark
in their audiences.
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