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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
Rich silks embellished with needlwork were used to create
expensive, high-quality garments, affordable only for the wealth.
Their very exclusivity has meant that few items have lasted through
the centuries. Several rare and beautiful pieces do however survive
in Glasgow Muesuem's collections. This text reveals the intricate
details of exquisite embroidery.
This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums
from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence
both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an
outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community
members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary
art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with
absence productively. Drawing on social art history, museology,
postcolonial theory, and memory studies, Margaret Tali analyzes the
collections of four modern and contemporary art museums across
Europe: the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Ludwig Museum of
Contemporary Art in Budapest, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, and
the Kumu Museum in Tallinn.
Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of
the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the Nazi cultural
policy denounced thousands of works as "degenerate" and forcibly
removed from German museums. The Third Reich's Ministry of
Propaganda correctly assumed that a portion of such works would
find buyers abroad, in this way certain artworks deemed
"internationally exploitable" reached the art market via various
channels. Georg Schmidt (1896-1966), the museum's director at the
time, managed in 1939 to acquire the Painting Animal Destinies by
Franz Marc (1880-1916) and twenty avant-garde masterpieces all at
once. In the catalogue, renowned experts trace the events based on
the seizures in German museums and explain the historical contexts.
The actors of the institutions and the art market are presented,
and the Nazi regime's act of cultural violence is revealed, which
resulted in an artificial fragmentation of Modernism into art that
was "exploitable" on the one hand, and art that had been destroyed
or forgotten on the other. Contributions on the auction of the
Galerie Fischer in Lucerne, on Georg Schmidt's approach, and on the
classification of the acquisitions in the context of Basel's
collection history bring specific Swiss aspects into focus.
Keith Haring (1958 -1990) is widely recognised for his colourful
paintings, drawings, sculptures and murals. Haring exploded onto
the early 1980s New York art scene with his vivid graffiti-inspired
drawings, many of which found exposure in the public realm, such as
the Times Square billboard broadcast of his famous Radiant Child in
1982. Haring's instantly recognisable `cartoon-like' imagery not
only drew on the iconography of contemporary pop and club culture
but also looked back to the patterns and rhythms of Islamic and
Japanese art, and primitive wall-paintings,. Furthermore his work
also reflected a profound commitment to social justice and
activism, and raised numerous issues that remain relevant today,
including the AIDS crisis, the Cold War and fear of nuclear attack,
racism, the excesses of capitalism and environmental degradation.
Featuring around fifty works supported by rarely seen photography,
film and archival documents from the Keith Haring Foundation, this
accessible book will not only introduce Haring to a new audience
but also throw fresh light on an artist whose work remains
symptomatic of the subcultural and creative energy of 1980s New
York. Three short texts exploring various aspects of Haring's
practice will be interspersed with illustrations of his works and a
rolling time-line featuring key social and political events of the
1980s (from the election of Reagan in 1980 and the explosion of hip
hop from underground movement to global phenomenon to the fall of
the Berlin Wall in 1989) and Haring's responses to them. The
publication also aims to include select and unpublished
reminiscences from those who collaborated and interacted with
Haring, including performers such as Madonna and Grace Jones and
artists Jenny Holzer and Yoko Ono.
An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played
in Rembrandt's evolution as an artist Around the age of 25,
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to
Amsterdam, which was the commercial capital of northern Europe at
that time. Considered a bold step for a fledgling artist, this
change demonstrates that Rembrandt wanted to benefit financially
from Amsterdam's robust art market. He soon married the cousin of a
successful art dealer, and came into frequent contact with wealthy
and sophisticated patrons who eagerly commissioned him to paint
their portraits. The artist's style quickly evolved from the small,
meticulous panels of his Leiden period to the broadly brushed,
dramatically lit, and realistically rendered canvases for which he
is renowned. Rembrandt in Amsterdam explores this pivotal
transition in the artist's career and reveals how the stimulating
and affluent environment of Amsterdam inspired him to reach his
full potential. Lavishly illustrated, this volume offers a
fascinating look into Amsterdam's unparalleled creative community
and its role in Rembrandt's development of a wide-ranging brand
that comprised landscapes, genre scenes, history paintings,
portraits, and printmaking. Distributed for the National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa (May 14-September 6, 2021) Stadel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
(Fall 2021)
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Landscape
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Katrin Bucher Trantow, Reinhard Braun, Dirck Mollmann, Katia Huemer, Peter Pakesch
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Magnum China
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Colin Pantall, Zheng Ziyu; Text written by Jonathan Fenby
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Many of Magnum's most renowned photographers - beginning with
Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson on assignment in the 1930s -
have been captivated by China. They've returned time and again,
their fascination growing in line with China's burgeoning
accessibility and international influence. - both an outstanding
photobook and a fascinating social history - illustrates the
agency's evolving relationship with this increasingly influential
nation to give a visually rich, informed photographic account of
the country, its people and the changes witnessed over the last
nine decades. Chronologically organized to present key periods in
the development of the modern state and its associated territories,
Magnum China presents in-depth portfolios by individual
photographers, accompanied by introductory commentaries on the
featured projects and group selections illustrating the diversity
of Magnum's interaction with the region. Supplemented with
introductory essays by Jonathan Fenby, historical timelines, lists
of photographers' travels and a fold-out map of China, Magnum China
offers detailed and perceptive socio-political, geographical and
historical context to complement the outstanding photography of
some of the world's finest photographers.
Published to accompany the first substantial exhibition on the
tradition of Spanish drawings to take place in London, this
catalogue captures the importance of this rapidly developing field
of study. It represents highlights from the Courtauld Gallery's
collection of Spanish drawings, one of the most important in
Britain. Comprising some 120 works, the collection ranges from the
16th to the 20th centuries and features examples by many of Spain's
greatest artists, including Ribera, Murillo, Goya and Picasso. Also
of great interest are drawings of striking quality by lesser known
artists whose work is only now coming to be understood.
German photographer Hildegard Theodora Monssen (b.1948) creates
sensual flower portraits that are both expressive and mysterious.
She captures her motifs with natural light in extreme close-ups and
reveals the personality of wilting flowers in all their
vulnerability. Her images make visible the beauty of transience and
temporality. Her balanced works of art function as a reflective
memento mori. --Rick Vercauteren, Director of the Museum van
Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo, NL from 2005 - 2019.
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Sutapa Biswas: Lumen
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Amy Tobin; Text written by Anna Arabindan Kesson, Sutapa Biswas, Alina Khakoo, Courtney J. Martin, …
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Lumen, a survey of the four-decade career of British-Indian artist
Sutapa Biswas, accompanies two solo exhibitions of the artist's
work held in 2021-22. Biswas emigrated from India to the UK with
her family in the 1960s. Taking the long histories of colonialism
together with personal memories, Biswas's art meditates on
questions of migration, identity and belonging. Her practice has
consistently interrogated Western tradition and discourse, pushing
past absences, exclusions and limited representations to make
evident the entwined histories of culture and politics. This
publication details Biswas's career from its origins in the Black
Arts Movement in the 1980s to her important photographic
installations of the 1990s and her subsequent major moving-image
works, including her newly commissioned film Lumen. The first
substantial publication on the artist in over 17 years, it features
two new conversations with the artist and two commissioned essays.
It also includes a republication of Griselda Pollock's important
text on Biswas's work, along with a postface reflecting on their
relationship in the decades since the essay's original publication.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Sutapa Biswas: Lumen
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (26 June 2021-22
March 2022) and Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge (16 October
2021-30 January 2022).
Hogarth's pictures are among the most iconic of the eighteenth
century - his cacophonous crowds, bustling streets, polite or
not-sopolite companies, and all too revealing tales of human folly,
vividly bring the world around him to life. Their fame and
popularity rests, above all, on their widespread circulation as
prints, not only in England but around the globe, from the artist's
lifetime to today. Having first trained as an engraver, this
remained an important aspect of his art and success. It is in print
that he is often at his most creative and original, capturing, in
his own words, 'the perpetual fluctuations in the manners of the
times'. Taking its cue from the portfolio collections Hogarth
himself curated, this book gathers together a selection of his best
loved and most inventive prints.
Idealistic visions of the Soviet capital that were never realised.
Published at the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Imagine
Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution portrays Moscow as it
was envisioned by a bold generation of architects in the 1920s and
early 1930s. Through evocative imagery and a wealth of rarely seen
material, this book provides a window into an idealistic fantasy of
the Soviet capital that was never realised and has since been
largely forgotten. Focusing on six unbuilt architectural landmarks,
Imagine Moscow explores how these projects reflected changes in
everyday life and society following the revolution, during one of
the most fascinating periods of the twentieth century. Large-scale
architectural plans, models and drawings are placed alongside
propaganda posters, textiles and porcelain, contextualising the
transformation of a city reborn as the new capital of the USSR and
the international centre of socialism.
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Picasso
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Pablo Picasso; Introduction by Jose Maria Faerna
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From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles
of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings to
mythical beasts in Dungeons & Dragons and from Medieval Times
to the Renaissance Faire to Disneyland, the Middle Ages have
inspired artists, playwrights, filmmakers, gamers, and writers for
centuries. Indeed, no other historical era has captured the
imaginations of so many creators. This volume aims to uncover the
many reasons why the Middle Ages have proven so flexible-and
applicable-to a variety of modern moments from the eighteenth
through the twenty-first century. These "medieval" worlds are often
the perfect ground for exploring contemporary cultural concerns and
anxieties, saying much more about the time and place in which they
were created than they do about the actual conditions of the
medieval period. With 140 color illustrations, from sources ranging
from thirteenth-century illuminated manuscripts to contemporary
films and video games, and a preface by Game of Thrones costume
designer Michele Clapton, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages will
surprise and delight both enthusiasts and scholars. This title is
published to accompany an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum at
the Getty Center from June 21-September 11, 2022.
This catalogue documents an exhibition at the Baur Foundation that
brings together work by the French painter Pierre Soulages (b.1919)
and the Japanese master bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV (b.
1973). Soulages, still working at 102 years old, has painted almost
exclusively in black since 1979 and is known as the "master of
luminous blacks". Tanabe Chikuunsai IV is a renowned bamboo artist,
known for his twisting organic sculptures and room-sized
installations made from tiger or black bamboo. The aim of this
exhibition is to explore how their work resonates, despite
different approaches, in the dark and light effects of their
materials. Text in French and English. Published to accompany an
exhibition at the Baur Foundation in Switzerland, a museum of Far
Eastern Art, from November 2021-March 2022.
Artists' Corner in St Paul's Cathedral is the final resting place
for some of the greatest artists working in the United Kingdom,
including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of the
19th century are shoulder to shoulder with artists from America and
Continental Europe who made Britain their home and helped to shape
national taste. Artists' Corner reflects a golden age of artistic
production, when the visual arts were central to British cultural
pride and identity, when the funerals of the cultural figures were
occasions of national mourning, and their achievements were marked
with monuments and enduring plaques. All of the painters and
sculptors memorialised in Artists' Corner are brought together in
this guide, with references to some of their master works which
chart a trajectory from history painting to the arrival of
impressionism and abstraction in the 20th century.
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Houghton Library-the primary repository for Harvard University's
rare books, manuscripts, and much more-celebrates its 75th
anniversary in 2017. Houghton's holdings span nearly the entire
history of the written word, from papyrus to the laptop. This
anniversary volume presents a snapshot of the unique items that
fill the library's shelves. From miniature books composed by a
teenage Charlotte Bronte to a massive medieval manuscript hymnbook;
from the plays of Shakespeare to costume designs for Star Trek; and
from the discoveries of Copernicus to the laptops of twenty-first
century writers, the selections celebrate great achievements in
many and diverse fields of human endeavor. For the first time,
readers will be able to tour the Houghton Library collection-which
draws thousands of visitors from around the world each year-from
home, with full-color illustrations.
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