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In 1986, the Soviet government created a statute enabling citizens
to form associations and clubs for the first time since the 1920s.
This-and the 1988 law on cooperatives which permitted private
enterprise-gave rise to the first official organizations created by
unofficial artists, as well as the beginning of a vibrant gallery
scene. Run by artists, curators, and cultural entrepreneurs, these
spaces unleashed the creative energy that now characterizes early
post-Soviet Russia. Access Moscow examines the key role which the
first independent galleries played in the emergence of Moscow's art
scene in the 1990s. Through historical texts from leading
practitioners of the period-some of which are translated into
English for the first time-and essays by Valentin Diaconov, Kate
Fowle, Andrei Kovalev, and Elena Selina, this book provides a
first-hand account of an art community in formation. A chronology
of art and political events shows the development of art life in
Moscow over the course of the decade. Access Moscow is the second
in a new series of books by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art on
research and materials in Garage Archive Collection.
Accompanying an exhibition at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden, this publication presents the glass swallow works Perched,
created by the artist Feleksan Onar. While drawing on sources from
her personal history as well as collective memory, Feleksan Onar's
works in glass deal with notions of identity, constructed
narratives, historical relations and impacts of politics on
society. In her recent project Perched, her story-telling in glass
reflects on the Syrian refugee situation. Triggered by witnessing
the helpless refugees strolling around the streets of Istanbul,
after being forced to leave their homelands, Perched has been
exhibited in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, the New Jersey Visual
Arts Center and the Victoria& Albert Museum, London. The work
was interpreted as "a visceral expression of the fact that in spite
of differences of religion, culture, and individual histories, what
we all want most is to be in the place we call home," by the art
critic Lisa Morrow. A reading of Louis de Bernieres' novel Birds
Without Wings was an inspiration for Onar to create the series.
Glass works, inspired by a book, create its own history over time
and turn into a book again. This book marks the most comprehensive
publication on Perched to date. The result here is a complementary
structure addressing the aesthetic and political concepts inherent
in Feleksan Onar's art. Contiguity and fragility are the core of
this project and provides the form for this book. Newly
commissioned essays initiate sections that engage particular
aspects of Onar's work. Renowned author Louis de Bernieres
contributes a short story; Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber, Mariam
Rosser-Owen and Stefanie Bach propose a reading of Perched through
the exhibitions in the Pergamon Museum, the Victoria& Albert
Museum and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; and Nadania
Idriss questions how is art supposed to foster a culture of peace
and muses on being perched. Producing glass art, to use Onar's own
words, "not only expresses my past and present, but also my
anxieties and expectations for future. Through glass, I speak,
breathe and live." This is the story of birds standing together in
different places with their various colors and holding a vital
crisis in their silence, breath and life.
This title presents an annotated index and general orientation of
Islamic art collections in museums, libraries, other institutions
and on private hands. It includes a short description of each
collection, its main characteristics, documentation, publications
and exhibitions.
This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors
displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes. This
leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display
by analysing the difference between objects serving as decorative
or collectible items, while tracing collecting and display trends
of the twentieth century. Minna Toerma examines four Scandinavian
collections as case studies: Kustaa Hiekka, Sophus Black, Osvald
Siren and Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen, all of whom had
professional backgrounds (a jeweler, two businessmen and a scholar)
and for whom collecting became a passion and an educational
endeavour. This book will be of interest to scholars in art
history, museum studies, Chinese studies and design history.
First volume in the new series The Science of Art, edited by the
Scientific Research Laboratories of the Vatican Museums and
dedicated to the research carried out on works of art in the Pope's
Museums which accompanies every research intervention. Available in
Italian and English, the volume presents the results of an
important diagnostic campaign performed on the Deposition by
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, conserved in the Vatican Picture
Gallery. The research is based on innovative multi-spectral
techniques which enabled the analysis of the work from the surface
through to its deepest structure: induced ultraviolet fluorescence,
false-colour infrared, infrared reflectography, radiography and
X-ray fluorescence for the study of pigments. The results are
illustrated in an organic and rigorous fashion, but with a
practical language accessible also to non-experts. Of particular
interest are some of the details of the painting, invisible to the
naked eye, that emerged as a result of the research: iconographic
elements such as the entrance to the tomb, Christ's hair, the fig
plant; corrections to colour and volumes; and gaps and reworkings.
The illustrations consist of numerous photographic recompositions,
visible light and infrared images, microphotographs, diagrams and
graphics.
The grid often hides in plain sight, from notepads and spreadsheets
to halftone photographic reproductions. It dominates the
organisation, perception, and representation of the modern world,
especially in print. Deeply embedded in a Western worldview, the
grid visualises control, mastery, and order. As an invisible
framing device, it has become so pervasive that we habitually
ignore it. Yet when artists call our attention to the grid, its
layered meanings come fully into view. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing
in Print surveys photographs, prints, artist's books, and printed
sculptures from the dynamic permanent collection of the Frances
Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. From 19th-century
scientific and portrait photography to avant-garde and conceptual
photography; from mid- 20th-century Minimalist, Pop Art, and Op Art
printmaking to experimental bookmaking and photography in the 21st
century, this richly illustrated volume explores how artists have
embraced, rejected, and reclaimed the grid. By altering and
challenging perception, they offer new ways of seeing the world.
With contributions by Jared Bark, Jessica D. Brier, Lukas Felzmann,
Stephen Frailey, John P. Murphy, Werner Pfeiffer, Alison Rossiter,
Stephanie Syjuco, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, Massimo Tarrida.
This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to a
fascinating group of drawings by the Anglo-Swiss Henry Fuseli
(1741-1825), one of eighteenth-century Europe's most idiosyncratic,
original and controversial artists. Best known for his notoriously
provocative painting The Nightmare, Fuseli energetically cultivated
a reputation for eccentricity, with vividly stylised images of
supernatural creatures, muscle-bound heroes, and damsels in
distress. While these convinced some viewers of the greatness of
his genius, others dismissed him as a charlatan, or as completely
mad. Fuseli's contemporaries might have thought him even crazier
had they been aware that in private he harboured an obsessive
preoccupation with the figure of the modern woman, which he pursued
almost exclusively in his drawings. Where one might have expected
idealised bodies with the grace and proportions of classical
statues, here instead we encounter figures whose anatomies have
been shaped by stiff bodices, waistbands, puff ed sleeves, and
pointed shoes, and whose heads are crowned by coiffures of the most
bizarre and complicated sort. Often based on the artist's wife
Sophia Rawlins, the women who populate Fuseli's graphic work tend
to adopt brazenly aggressive attitudes, either fixing their gaze
directly on the viewer or ignoring our presence altogether. Usually
they appear on their own, in isolation on the page; sometimes they
are grouped together to form disturbing narratives, erotic
fantasies that may be mysterious, vaguely menacing, or overtly
transgressive, but where women always play a dominant role. Among
the many intriguing questions raised by these works is the extent
to which his wife Sophia was actively involved in fashioning her
appearance for her own pleasure, as well as for the benefit of her
husband. By bringing together more than fi fty of these studies
(roughly a third of the known total), The Courtauld Gallery will
give audiences an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the
finest Romantic-period draughtsmen at his most innovative and
exciting. Visitors to the show and readers of the lavishly
illustrated catalogue will further be invited to consider how
Fuseli's drawings of women, as products of the turbulent aftermath
of the American and French Revolutions, speak to concerns about
gender and sexuality that have never been more relevant than they
are today. The exhibition showcases drawings brought together from
international collections, including the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the
Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, and from other European and
North American institutions.
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Rodakis
(Poster)
Olaf Nicolai; Edited by Markus Dressen
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The Walters Art Museum is among America's most distinctive museums,
forging connections between people and art from cultures around the
world and spanning seven millennia. The museum features a stunning
array of objects, from richly illuminated Qur'ans and images of the
Buddha, to captivating narrative paintings and artfully crafted
ceramics and metalworks. Official publication in March 2023
celebrates the reopening of the Museum's Arts of Asia and Islam
collections in the renovated and reinstalled 4th floor of the
Centre Street Building. Arts Across Asia and Islam will be the
first volume in a series of titles which break away from the
traditional academic approach. It is built around themes that
transcend period, form, locale and medium, and forms part of the
Museum's wider initiative to focus resources on developing new ways
of interpreting its collections.
This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of
exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings from the Peck
Collection in the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Featuring many previously unpublished and
rarely exhibited works, the catalogue brings together examples by
some of the best-known artists of the era such as Rembrandt,
Jacques de Gheyn II, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Frans van Mieris.
The collection was donated to the museum in 2017 by the late Drs.
Sheldon and Leena Peck. The transformative gift is comprised of
over 130 largely seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch and
Flemish drawings, establishing the Ackland as one of a handful of
university art museums in the United States where northern European
drawings can be studied in depth. Drawn to Life presents around 70
works from this exceptional and diverse group of drawings amassed
by the Pecks over four decades. Featuring new research and fresh
insights into seventeenth-century drawing practice, the catalogue
and accompanying exhibition celebrates the creativity and technical
skills of Dutch artists who explored the beauty of the natural
world and the multifaceted aspects of humanity. The catalogue
features a broad selection of scenes of everyday life, landscapes,
biblical and historical scenes, portraits, and preparatory studies,
forming a dynamic and representative group of Dutch drawings made
by some of the most outstanding artists of the period, including
Abraham Bloemaert, Jacob van Ruisdael, Esaias van de Velde,
Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Pieter Molijn, Aelbert Cuyp, Adriaen van
Ostade, Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes, Jan Lievens, Gerard ter
Borch, Adriaen van de Velde, Nicolaes Berchem, and Cornelis Dusart.
Key sheets of remarkable quality by lesserknown artists such as
Guillam Dubois, Herman Naiwincx, Willem Romeyn, and Jacob van der
Ulft, also comprise a core strength of the collection, and serve as
a testament to the visual acuity of the Pecks as collectors. At the
heart of the Peck Collection are several sheets by Rembrandt,
including the sublime Noli me Tangere; a beautifully rendered late
landscape, Canal and Boats with a Distant View of Amsterdam; and
the superbly charming Studies of Women and Children, which was the
last of Rembrandt's seventeen known drawings with an inscription in
his own hand to reach a public collection. Meticulously researched
and written by Robert Fucci, Ph.D., Drawn to Life introduces both
scholars and drawings enthusiasts to the depth and beauty of the
Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum.
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Helene Schjerfbeck
(Hardcover)
Anna-Maria Von Bonsdorff, Rebecca Bray, Desiree de Chair, Jeremy Lewison
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Though little known outside her native country, Helene Schjerfbeck
(1862-1946) is one of Finland's best-loved artists. Her career,
which stretched from the late 1870s to the end of the Second World
War, encompassed both Impressionism and Modernism. This book
records an exhibition that marks the first time her works have been
seen in the UK since she exhibited in London herself in 1890. It
presents the full range of her exceptional paintings and drawings,
with 70 works in all genres, including portrait, landscape and
still-life. Schjerfbeck's technique, her social and cultural
context and her legacy are all examined in depth by the authors.
The book also explores the role of the masquerade in Schjerfbeck's
work, and the impact of old-master paintings on her practice.
Georg Baselitz's collected writings brings together more than 30
texts by, and interviews with, the artist - spanning the period
1961 to the present - including conversations with Michael Auping,
Henry Geldzahler and Donald Kuspit. Known for his rebellious
approach to Abstract Expressionism, Baselitz here discusses the
impression his paintings convey, the act of painting, his biography
and much more. The texts shift between these personal pieces - some
of which have never before been published in English - to
interviews conducted by a variety of respected critics and art
historians. These conversations present a different voice as
Baselitz responds to careful and critical questions about his work.
This book documents a collection of approximately 90 Paracas
textiles. The collection consists of cloaks, ponchos, tunics, as
well as some smaller fragments such as ribbons. Originally housed
at the Ethnographic Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, the objects were
returned to Peru during 2019 and 2020. Paracas textiles tell the
story of the people living in Peru more than 2000 years ago and how
they saw and viewed the world. In cultures without a written
language imagery is very important. Textile pictures were created
from the depths of the human senses, from thoughts and dreams. The
makers of the Paracas textiles depict fantastic stories from their
time and culture about creation, death and thoughts about life.
Kerstin Paradis Gustafsson has studied, inventoried and analysed
the Paracas textiles for decades, and cracked codes about how they
were made. She also has pioneering theories about what they want to
say and how the unbroken thread symbolises life. In this text,
Kerstin documents and explains the secret behind these fantastic
2000-year-old textiles.
Diamonds tell stories that are captivating and timeless. On the one
hand, they are just stones, pieces of pure carbon with optical
properties that make them glitter and sparkle like stars. On the
other, they are mystical entities hypnotically drawing the viewer
into a time machine as it were, wherein a cinematic montage of
their journey unfolds. Diamonds Across Time presents a sweeping
overview of diamonds across time and space, featuring ten essays by
world-renowned scholars in love the stone. Here, these authors
present new discoveries; explore extraordinary collections;
investigate histories, science, and trade; the nature of diamonds;
legendary gems, jewellery collections, and great designers. Above
all, they tell the human stories that underpin the adoration of
diamonds. Diamonds Across Time is a richly illustrated publication
with high-quality images of gems and jewels, archival documents,
rare drawings, and fabulous photographs. The volume places diamonds
in the context of the time in which they were discovered, and on
the political, social, and cultural stage on which their histories
were etched. In a rapidly changing world, diamonds are eternal.
They were created by nature and grew in the womb of the earth. They
tell stories, and they record history. With this book, diamonds
will finally have their own storytellers. The book was compiled and
edited by the World Diamond Museum's chief curator and
world-renowned jewellery expert Dr. Usha R Balakrishnan. She and
nine other distinguished authors wrote ten monographs written in
the order in appearance: Introduction; The Nizam Diamond: Bala
Koh-i-Noor, in the Sacred Trust of the Nizam of Hyderabad - Usha R.
Balakrishnan; Diamonds of the French Crown Jewels: Between East and
West - Francois Farges; A Concise History of Diamonds from Borneo -
Derek J. Content; Indian Diamonds and the Portuguese Duriing the
Rise of the Mughal Empire - Hugo Miguel Crespo; Two Large Diamonds
from India - Jack Ogden The Romanov Diamonds: History of Splendour
- Stefano Papi; The Londonderry Jewels, 1819-1959 - Diana
Scarisbrick; Dress to Impress in Southeast Asia - Rene Brus;
Powerful Women, Important Diamonds - Ruth Peltason; One in Ten
Thousand: The Unique World of Coloured Diamonds - John M. King.
This beautiful publication presents a collection of exquisite
ancient bronzes from the Wadsworth Atheneum that were collected by
John Pierpont Morgan. It accompanies a special exhibition of the
bronzes at Bowdoin College. This fully illustrated catalogue
presents highlights of the ancient bronzes that were collected by
J. Pierpont Morgan and are currently in the collection of the
Wadsworth Atheneum. Purchased between 1904 and 1916, the bronzes
were given to the museum by Morgan’s son in 1917. Morgan was a
passionate collector and spent years of his life acquiring
exquisite works of art. He had a discerning eye and discriminating
taste, and his driving motivation was to find works of quality and
beauty. His Greek and Roman bronzes include a range of figure and
vessel types: males and females, gods and mortals, humans and
animals and hybrid mythological creatures, free-standing
statuettes, and furniture embellishments. This is the first
exhibition and publication to consider the bronzes as a group.
Morgan chose each work of art for its exquisite craftsmanship, its
quality of composition and execution, and its preservation. These
objects represent the very best of ancient Mediterranean bronze
sculpture, with carefully rendered clothing, hair, and fur, and
adorned with inlays of silver and other luxury materials.
Showcasing different types of objects and figures that were made in
bronze in the ancient world, this exhibition and book demonstrate
the high level of quality that these works of art could achieve.
The bronzes are important not only for their provenance and place
in America’s ‘Gilded Age’, but also as highly significant
individual works of art that represent the best of ancient
bronzeworking. New high-resolution photography of each work of art
will allow readers to appreciate their intricate details of
craftsmanship, including copper and silver inlay. This focused
publication will also present current research on these exceptional
objects to help readers better understand how they were made and
what they represented in an ancient context.
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Body in Pieces
(English, German, Paperback)
Julia Hoener, KAI 10 / Arthena Foundation; Text written by Amaleena Damle, Julia Hoener, Eva Scharrer; Artworks by …
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