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An engaging investigation of contemporary Brazilian artist Lygia
Pape's early body of woodblock prints, which profoundly influenced
the trajectory of her oeuvre One of Brazil's best-known
contemporary artists, Lygia Pape (1927-2004) was a founding member
of the Neo-Concrete movement in the late 1950s along with artists
such as Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. Pape explored new visual
languages in painting, performance, printmaking, and sculpture, and
her work-much of it based in geometry- invited viewers to
participate in the existential, sensorial, and psychological
experience of her art. Presenting the first in-depth treatment of
the experimental woodblock prints Pape made between 1952 and 1960,
this volume examines the foundational role these works played in
the rest of Pape's career, foreshadowing her philosophy of
"magnetized space." Composed of overlapping geometric and linear
elements that at times suggest atomic particles or slides of
microscopic specimens, Pape's prints display an extraordinary depth
accentuated by her use of incredibly thin, translucent Japanese
papers. The artist applied the title Tecelares to these works
decades after their creation. Loosely translated as "weavings," the
term captures Pape's uniquely handmade approach to printmaking as
well as her interest in indigenous Brazilian culture. Lavishly
illustrated, this study is filled with revealing insights into how
the artist's printmaking aesthetic, materials, and process embody
her core ideas about art. Distributed for the Art Institute of
Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (February
11-June 5, 2023)
A study of two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the
same building in Brussels city-centre Full House explores two
exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building
in Brussels and featured over 300 contemporary art works from the
renowned collection of Frederic de Goldschmidt. The first show, Not
Really Really, was organized in 2016 in a building that had only
been vacated a few months before by a mental health clinic. The
works were mostly sculptures made with everyday objects and played
with the ambiguity of what the last occupants could have left and
what the artists purposefully created. The building then underwent
a long renovation, with photos included illustrating this process.
The second show, Inaspettatamente (Unexpectedly), then engaged with
themes such as order and disorder, time, classification, the
artist's process or his/her position in world conflicts using the
prism of the famous Arte Povera artist Alighiero Boetti. Curatorial
texts and images of the works both in context and in studio allow
the reader to discover and appreciate both exhibitions. Distributed
for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Cloud Seven , Quai du
commerce 7 (November 11, 2021-January 30, 2022)
Formgiving. An Architectural Future History, the new book by BIG
(Bjarke Ingels Group), is a visionary attempt to look at the
horizon of time. The Danish word for "design" is "formgivning,"
which literally means to give form to that which has not yet taken
shape. In other words, to give form to the future. Using our power
to give form, rather than allowing the future to take shape, is
more important now than ever, as humankind's impact on the planet
continues to increase and pose ever greater challenges to all life
forms. Architecture plays a special role by proposing spaces for
our lives that are fragments of the future in the making. William
Gibson's words embody architecture's role perfectly: "The future is
already here-it's just not evenly distributed." With Formgiving,
BIG presents the third part of its TASCHEN trilogy, which began
with Yes is More, one of the most successful architectural books of
its generation, and continued with Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of
Architectural Adaptation. The book is presented in a timeline,
stretching from the Big Bang into the most distant future. Projects
are structured around six strands of evolution-"Making," "Sensing,"
"Sustaining," "Thinking," "Healing," and "Moving"-the
multimedia-based, interdisciplinary concepts encompassing the
building industry. Culture, climate, and landscape, as well as all
the energies derived from the elements-the thermal mass of the
ocean, the dynamics of currents, the energy and warmth of the sun,
the power of the wind-are incorporated into these projects.
Throughout more than 700 pages, Bjarke Ingels presents his personal
selection of projects, including the 12,000-square-meter LEGO House
in Denmark, the human-made ecosystems floating on oceans, the
redesign of a World War II bunker into a contemplative museum, and
the ski slope-infused power plant celebrating Copenhagen's
commitment to carbon neutrality. Through architecture and design,
BIG gives shape to a sustainable and simultaneously colorful world.
Bjarke Ingels: "To feel that we have license to imagine a future
different from today, all we have to do is look back ten years, a
hundred years, a thousand years, to realize how radically different
things were then than they are today. The same will be true if we
can look ahead with the same clarity of vision. As we tackle the
complexities of everyday life, these six evolutionary trajectories
allow us to place a firm gaze on the horizon of time to prevent us
from being derailed by the random distractions of today. Since we
know from our past that our future is bound to be different from
our present, rather than waiting for it to take shape on its own,
we have the power to give it form." Formgiving is also a companion
volume to the exhibition of the same name, which was conceived at
the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen and will travel to
other venues worldwide. More than 65 projects document BIG's global
work through the eyes of their users, from the drawing board to
global construction sites and finished projects. Throughout the
book are insights into developments that reach five, ten, or fifty
years into the future, and evidence of BIG's intransigence to reach
beyond the ordinary, and beyond worlds, to contribute to the future
with each project. Each step not only reveals a world that
resembles our dreams but also already tries to realize these dreams
pragmatically. We have the power to create the world of tomorrow!
The book features: previously unpublished essays by Bjarke Ingels,
award-winning photography by Laurian Ghinitoiu, Iwan Baan, and
Rasmus Hjortshoj, among others, planetary proposals for habitats on
the Moon and research centers on Mars, 20 LEGO master-builder
models of BIG's work, a glimpse of Masterplanet-BIG's ongoing work
on a collective, crowdsourced masterplan guide for sustaining our
planet.
For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley has worked in a range of
media to build complex, resonant sculptures that communicate the
primacy of form and express the emotional language of shape. Bruce
Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective is an elegant survey of his
illustrious career: from early experiments in scrap iron during the
1960s; aluminum works of the 1970s; cast acrylic sculptures of the
1970s and 80s; and stone, stainless steel and bronze works of the
1990s to the present day. The catalogue also features Beasley's
latest venture into two-dimensional media. This richly illustrated
book includes Beasley's reflections on his career. In a
conversation, Beasley and Lawrence Weschler discuss art and
activism. Essays discussing his processes and appraising his impact
are written by curator Tom Moran and Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue,
Director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation and Professor of Art
History at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.
All of the artwork in this collection -- Skulls, Catrinas and
Culture of the Dead share a common theme: a lust for life and
reverence of death -- all explored in engaging paintings, drawings,
photography and sculpture. This book represents a veritable
compendium of skulls and Catrinas with impressive artistic scope,
and a valuable source of inspiration for contemporary tattoo
artwork. Skulls and Catrinas are the most significant attributes of
Mexico's traditional celebration of The Day of the Dead, El Dia de
los Muertos. Such pleasures are brilliantly displayed in the
artwork featured, in full vibrant colour, on the pages of this
book. In this massive hardcover, Edgar Hoill has assembled renowned
tattooists from around the world, who uniquely interpret the icons
of this sacred day. The Calaveras, literally, "skulls" are artfully
manifested in various forms among the artwork. Images of Catrina,
the covert queen of the dead, within this book demonstrate how the
artists view death as something to be laughed at and not feared.
Also populating these pages are beautiful women with skeletal
features transposed over their faces, bringing to mind the joy and
suffering of love. Tattoo artists represented in this book: Jacky
Rudy, Horiyoshi III, Italia Ruotolo, Chuey Quintanar, Colin Dale,
Christin Hock Dolorosa, Dimitri, Paco Arias, Fredi Tut, Greg D.,
Rask Opticon, Derek Noble, Benjamin Estrada, Pablo Xno, Miguel
Morales, Shige, Martin Martinez Castro, Roy Palma, Frank Chavez,
Jesse Hernandez, Richie, Chamaco, Manson, Elvia Guadian, Paul
Barrientos, Phillip Spearman, Ricardo Mendez, Abraham Ortega, AR
Ink Bombers, El Chocky, Rob Struven, Diego Garcia, Gabriel Frias,
Tony Boyd, Dr. Lakra, Steve Soto, Robert Atkinson, Mike, Roxi,
Osiris, Stef De Bad, Dermafilia familia, Dan Chase, Indio Reyes,
Chia, Krazy K, Tatu Baby, Khan, Javier Pina, Colin Dale, David
Dettleoff, Jonathan Fernandez, Edgar Alvarez, Rich Martinez, Elvia
Guadian, Paco Arias, Chuy Ortega, Electroshock, Pablo Ash, Kiki
Platas, Liber Riot, El Chanok, Genziana, Jason Wheeler, Claire
Octopus, Chamaco, Tony Mancia, Joe Romero, Ben Corn, Rojo, Paola
Maria, Brian Everett, Vampiro, Juan Metal, El Chocky, Manuel
Lorenzana, Paul Nguyen, Gator, Steph D., Rob Hill, Grim, El Buster,
Manuel Valenzuela, Tracey, Tuich, Juan Arreguin, Kasuyoshi, Fide,
Simone Pfaff, Justin Hendrick, Henri B., Yushi Takei, Homero Reyes,
Jorge Issac Trujeque Gutierrez, Peque, Horikazu, Ricardo Mendez,
Eric San, Federico Ruiz, Nervio, Colin Dale, Pedro Alvarez, Heidi
Scheck, Mouse Lopez, Hector, Dermafilia familia, El Will, Nelson
Acido Garcia, Morof, Tuer, Italia Ruotolo, Roxi Tattoo, Alex
'Kofuu' Reinke Horikitsune, Ina Trece, Sodapop, Karrona, Catalyst
Butcher, Mike Sirot, Tofino Tattoo, Gajin Fujita, Steve Martin,
Chino De Tepito, Will Contreras, Chuy Espinoza, El Whyner, Antonio
Mejia, Listo Tj, Shane Tyner, Defer, Christina Ramos, Robert
Cervantes, Shane Modica, Miguel Morales, Charlie Machete, Pedro
Alvarez, El Sukre, Ching, Ocelotzin, Tony Chakal Serrano, Dawn
Silva, JJ., Rudy Chee, Lorena Vuyovich, Carlos Macias, Chino De
Tepito, Nelson Acido Garcia, Pedro Alvarez, Naualli Russo, Tatu
Baby, Andres Juarez, Javier Hurtado, Tony Salgado, Horitaka, Aaron
Hernandez, Melissa Reyes.
This superbly illustrated volume brings together the work of some
the world's best manga illustrators, showcasing their exceptional
talent across a diverse range of manga styles - such as Chibi,
Kodomo, Shojo, Seinen, and more. The work of each artist is
accompanied by a brief biography in which they reveal their
inspirations, the challenges they face when creating work, and the
processes and materials they use.
Featuring 150 iconic artworks, The National Gallery Masters of Art
Puzzle Book is a visually spectacular puzzle challenge perfect for
any art-enthusiast. This must-buy gift book contains 100 puzzles
reproducing and inspired by the world's most famous paintings,
making it a truly one-of-a-kind decorative delight. From pictorial
puzzles such as Fake or Fortune, Jigsaw and Scrambled Image, to
cryptic puzzles like Odd One Out or The Missing Link, through logic
puzzles, riddles and even a series of progressively more difficult
art knowledge quizzes, there is something for everyone, from the
puzzle master to the art aficionado. Featured paintings include
Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W.
Turner, The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, The Hay Wain by
John Constable, The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci,
Bathers at La Grenouillere by Claude Monet and many, many more.
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This richly illustrated publication explores the lasting influence
of Gainsborough's Blue Boy on British art and culture Marking the
return of Gainsborough's Blue Boy to the UK exactly 100 years since
it left for the United States, this richly illustrated publication
will explore the lasting influence of this iconic painting on
British art and culture. During the nineteenth century, the
painting's fame grew and full-length portraits by Gainsborough and
his contemporaries became much sought after by wealthy American
collectors. The sale of The Blue Boy to the American railroad
magnate and collector Henry E. Huntington in 1921 was
unsurprisingly viewed as a national tragedy-emblematic of a shift
in economic and cultural power. However, its afterlife, as a
permanent ambassador for British art, has undoubtedly fed into
ideas of Britain and Britishness-its history, society, culture and
character-that still resonate today. Including a select group of
paintings that demonstrate the profound influence of Sir Anthony
van Dyck and the old master tradition on Gainsborough's practice
and identity, Gainsborough's Blue Boy will examine this masterpiece
within the context of the National Gallery's collection. Published
by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London January 25-May
15, 2022
The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in
Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this day. He is
internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in
numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and
film, as well as his acclaimed theatrical and operatic productions.
As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge's art is shaped by
apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era,
and in science, literature and history, while always maintaining
space for contradiction and uncertainty. In a brilliant exposition
of Kentridge's output, Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor of
English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, undertakes a
series of enquiries, of walks around the artist and his practice,
through the various layers and linkages, crossings and connections
of his art. As he proceeds, he considers Kentridge's themes,
explores them and proceeds by association to others. Along the way,
overlaps, thought-collages, allusions and assemblages come together
to create a connective, dimensional way of thinking inspired by
Kentridge's own habits of creation.
Female View puts the focus on women fashion photography. Although
this medium has been shaped by female photographers for decades, a
large number of publications or exhibitions have focused primarily
on the male gaze of the female body. Numerous female fashion
photographers worked for influential magazines such as Harper's
Bazaar or Vogue, thus shaping the style of their time. Using
exemplary positions, this book traces the transformation of the
photographic image from the 1930s to the present day: from the
fashion magazine to the showroom and the coffee table book to
videos and digital self-staging in social media today. On display
will be works by: Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Petra F.
Collins, Corinne Day, Cass Bird, Madame d'Ora, Charlotte March, Ute
Mahler, Sarah Moon, Amber Pinkerton, Regina Relang, Alice Springs
(June Newton), Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, and Yva.
The natural world as seen through the eyes of British artists
including Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, and John Piper Since its
publication in 1789, Gilbert White's Natural History and
Antiquities of Selborne has inspired generations of artists,
writers and naturalists. From Thomas Bewick to Eric Ravilious and
Clare Leighton, many artists' depictions of animals, birds and
wildlife have illustrated White's celebrated book, together
providing a microcosm of natural history illustration from the
eighteenth century until today. In Drawn to Nature, Simon Martin
has gathered joyful and beautiful images of the extraordinary array
of wildlife described by White, providing an insight into the
continuing appeal and relevance of the Natural History. This
fascinating account takes us from some of the earliest published
depictions of birds and animals, to pioneering nature photography,
the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s and 30s, and responses
to White's message about the natural world by contemporary
illustrators such as Angie Lewin and Emily Sutton. The book also
includes an introduction to the life of Gilbert White by Sir David
Attenborough, an essay by Virginia Woolf, poems by modern and
contemporary poets, and a jacket design by Mark Hearld. Distributed
for Pallant House Gallery
Based on a 'national collection of the national instrument' now
assembled in National Museums Scotland, this book offers an account
of the musicology of the bagpipe in its European context, including
the remarkable influence of the Baroque on Scotland's musical
traditions. The record is meagre for the evolution of the bagpipe
in Scotland and perceptions of the 'national instrument' have
depended on a stereotype Great Highland Bagpipe assumed to have a
continuous history from a distant past. The evidence, as far as it
goes, suggests that Scotland adopted a 'great pipe' from the
European bagpipe tradition and made it, through the strength of the
Gaelic language and its music, very much its own. This edition does
not have the accompanying CD-ROM of the first edition but is
otherwise unaltered.
The Wilton House sculptures constituted one of the largest and most
celebrated collections of ancient art in Europe. Originally
comprising some 340 works, the collection was formed around the
late 1710s and 1720s by Thomas Herbert, the eccentric 8th Earl of
Pembroke, who stubbornly 're-baptized' his busts and statues with
names of his own choosing. His sources included the famous
collection of Cardinal Mazarin, assembled in Paris in the 1640s and
1650s, and recent discoveries on the Via Appia outside Rome. Earl
Thomas regarded the sculptures as ancient - some of them among the
oldest works of art in existence - but in fact much of the
collection is modern and represents the neglected talents of
sixteenth-and seventeenth-century artists, restorers and copyists
who were inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture. About half of the
original collection remains intact today, adorning the Gothic
Cloisters that were built for it two centuries ago. After a long
decline, accelerated by the impact of the Second World War, the
sculptures have been rehabilitated in recent years. They include
masterpieces of Roman and early modern art, which cast fresh light
on Graeco-Roman antiquity, the classical tradition, and the history
of collecting. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs,
this catalogue offers the first comprehensive publication of the
8th Earl's collection, including an inventory of works dispersed
from Wilton. It re-presents his personal vision of the collection
recorded in contemporary manuscripts. At the same time, it
dismantles some of the myths about it which originated with the
earl himself, and provides an authoritative archaeological and
art-historical analysis of the artefacts.
This photo series captures moments of periphery in Croatian Istria
with 26 bus stops. Documentary and conceptual, the photographic
cartography approaches the different perceptions of the places. Ed
Ruscha's methodology, and in particular his photographic series
Twentysix Gasoline Stations, serve as a method and inspiration to
examine the stops and their identity in the urban fabric. With this
photographic concept as well as the texts, the observations are
presented analytically and at the same time unfold a greater poetic
meaning. How does it feel to live in the environs of urban reality?
The book transmits the fascination for simple building methods,
locations as well as the aesthetics of decay.
Lund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on
contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a
jobbing printers in Bradford. But Bradford, at the turn of the
century, was no provincial backwater, but a city at the centre of
the world's wool industry and Percy Lund Humphries was not merely a
jobbing printer serving the local industry, but a progressive firm
with ambitions well beyond the boundaries of Yorkshire. In its time
it was to publish The Penrose Annual, an essential read for those
interested in printing and the graphic arts and Typographica, the
most avant garde journal on typography; it mounted extraordinary
exhibitions in its grand London office in Bedford Square it carried
type for languages across the world, crucial for the governments
need for language textbooks for those serving overseas in WWII; and
much more. A Pioneering Printer, Lund Humphries of Bradford tells
its remarkable story.
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