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Bauhaus
(Hardcover)
Magdalena Droste; Edited by Peter Goessel
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R368
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In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world
wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face
of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school
developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and
technology to be applied across painting, sculpture, design,
architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and
installation. As much an intense personal community as a publicly
minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius
(1883-1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky,
Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stoelzl, Marianne Brandt and
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three
successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school
fostered charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and
students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but
united in their idealism and their interest in a "total" work of
art across different practices and media. This book celebrates the
adventurous innovation of the Bauhaus movement, both as a
trailblazer in the development of modernism, and as a paradigm of
art education, where an all-encompassing freedom of creative
expression and cutting-edge ideas led to functional and beautiful
creations. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series
has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever
published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series
features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the
major works in chronological order information about the clients,
architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and
resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating
the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately
120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work
with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to
take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories
of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been
accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical
discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of
sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with
sculpture, both formally and intellectually. Laura Gray examines
what this means for the old hierarchies between art and craft, the
identity of the potter, and the character of a discipline tied to a
specific material but wanting to participate in critical
discussions that extend far beyond clay.
This is an examination of the paintings, books, poetry and
theoretical work of Russian avant-garde artist, Olga Rozanova. The
text assesses Rozanova's life and work, aiming to recreate the
spirit of the counterculture milieu that contributed to the
transformation of 20th-century art.
Address book companion to the exciting and luxurious Flame Tree
Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine
art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then
foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the
back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a solid magnetic
side flap. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling
gift. This example features Bodleian Libraries: A Readers' Delight.
The Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and
is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It holds
over 13 million printed items and this handsome trio of spines are
just three examples of the beautiful objects in the Library's
collection. With colourful illustrations and charming tales, these
story anthologies showcase the sports and hobbies young people
could enjoy during the 1930s.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and
lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and
use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was
almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into
color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by
some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these
gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a
revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the
age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first
volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough
historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to
his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years
in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare
images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau,
with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis
Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law
Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs
achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist
abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of
artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale,
these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and
innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as
cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with
accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate
their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an
unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books
by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new
editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact,
friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to
impeccable production.
Brings together a cohesive and coherent account of the dramaturgy
of sound in three key contemporary performance genres. Written for
contemporary performance scholars and upper level students, using
case studies and clear genre delineations. Moves existing
scholarship in this area forward by drawing on a wealth of
supplementary material tied to its research funding, including a
full dataset, interview footage and a podcast.
* This collection builds a broad basis for a possible and necessary
paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance
historiography. * Would be recommended reading in for any
undergraduate or master's level students studying theatre history,
drama and dance. * The closest competitors do not explore the term
'entangled histories'. Therefore this collection breaks new ground
by looking at this concept as a new paradigm in the field.
1. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from
across the world who have raised pertinent issues regarding the
role of stand-up comedy in contemporary times especially with
increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that
allows for easy access to this art form. 2. It looks at the
theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour,
aesthetics and politics of stand up comedy, as well as case studies
of various forms of stand up comedy such as Finnish, Persian,
Indonesian, Indian, etc. 3. It will be of interest to departments
of media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital
sociology/anthropology, and English literature across the US and
UK. IT will also appeal to proplr interested in performance and
performance studies as it looks at the genre of stand-up comedy in
the global context with chapters on Finnish, Australian, Persian
and Indian stand-up comedy, to name a few.
Breaks down a dramaturgy's key roles and competencies, mapping out
the profession for both current and future dramaturgs. The Basics
format ensures a clear, accessible and jargon-free explanation of
every aspect of the craft, making this the ideal introduction.
Dramaturgy itself is one of the main theatrical skills, distinct
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Kirchner
(Hardcover)
Norbert Wolf
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R477
R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is regarded as one of the key
figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he
sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged,
intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas through Die
Brucke art movement and the MUIM-Institut school of modernist
painting, both of which he cofounded. Kirchner's work reconciled
past and present through an Expressionist prism, reflecting the
latest avant-garde ideas in art, while exploring traditional
academic approaches and subjects. His works tackled social, moral,
and emotional questions with a fierce intensity. Distorted
perspectives, rough lines, and unusual colors were mainstays of his
practice, as well as a recurring interest in capturing the human
form, whether in frenetic city vistas such as Berlin Street Scene
(1913) or in his famously decadent studio. In this introductory
book, we explore the stretch of Kirchner's career through Germany
and Switzerland, including his founding of Die Brucke, and his
inclusion in the Nazis' infamous "degenerate art" exhibition in
1937. Along the way, we'll encounter vivid landscapes, stark nudes,
intense urban settings, and, above all, a persistent emphasis on
the emotional experience of painter and viewer. About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological
summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her
cultural and historical importance a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
This lavishly illustrated volume showcases lettering and
typographic work from some of the world's most exciting, innovative
and talented designers. As well as featuring full-page examples of
their best work, Lettering: Tips for Creation is divided into two
parts; in the first half each artist has selected examples of their
work and discussed their influences and early career, while in the
second half each of them provides a new piece of work, talking us
through the creative and production process, step by step, from the
initial idea and sketch, explaining how the dimensions were worked
out and the letters combined to ultimately form a harmonious
message.
From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that
works at the intersection of literature and art history, the
written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse
multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate
Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, Zitkala-Sa, Nella Larsen,
and Helena Maria Viramontes), From Subjection to Survival
establishes a genealogy of how women writers claim the power and
possibility of visual art to make sense of their experiences. These
writers write about women and feature female protagonists who
engage with art as painters, writers, muses, or icons in the texts
themselves. The texts are written visually to expose the
fundamental substantiation of gender in art and the unavoidable
aestheticization of women in daily life. As every text in this book
makes clear, women can claim substantial power through art. Yet,
aestheticization is not always positive. As a consequence of such
negative possibilities, the artistic self-referentiality of all of
the texts in From Subjection to Survival exposes a negotiated
course between subjectivity and objectness which women experience
when engaging with art. From Subjection to Survival studies this
negotiated course to lay bare the difficult path of women's
artistic and aesthetic experience, but ultimately to claim the
power and the possibility of the visual arts for women.
Art, war, carnival or cult — masks have two sides: They conceal
and hide, and at the same time create new personalities, strange
and captivating at once. So, too, do masks reveal world views of
time and place: cult masks from Africa, mediaeval knight helmets,
fantasy masks of famous film heroes like Darth Vader, or gas masks
and VR glasses as modern functional objects. In this new photo
book, Russian photographer Olga Michi traces our millennia-old
fascination with masks. Her expressive pictures place the masks
centre-stage, creating a new, surrealistic aesthetic. With
fascinating texts on each mask’s cultural-historical
significance, this high-quality photo book delights, informs, and
ignites the imagination. Text in English, French, German, and
Russian.
The complete, definitive and never-before-published catalogue of
Hipgnosis, Vinyl * Album * Cover * Art finally does justice to the
work of the most important design collective in music history,
which, according to Roddy Bogawa, director of the documentary Taken
by Storm (2011), 'designed half your record collection'. Founded in
1967 by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey 'Po' Powell and Peter
Christopherson, Hipgnosis gained legendary status in graphic
design, transforming the look of album art forever and winning five
Grammy nominations for package design. Their revolutionary cover
art moved away from the conventional group shots favoured by record
companies of the day, resulting in the ground-breaking, often
surreal designs which define the albums of many of the biggest
names in the history of popular music: 10cc, AC/DC, Black Sabbath,
Peter Gabriel, The Police, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Paul
McCartney, Robert Plant, Syd Barrett, Throbbing Gristle, T. Rex,
Wings, Yes and XTC, to name but a few. Arranged chronologically,
Vinyl * Album * Cover * Art features stunning reproductions of
every single Hipgnosis cover - 372 in total - coupled with detailed
information by Po and Storm Thorgerson on the artworks and the
compelling stories behind their creation. Additional contributions
by Peter Gabriel, Marcus Bradbury, and Pentagram's Harry Pearce
provide engrossing insights into the way these incredible artworks
came into being; place the covers in context; and reflect on their
enduring impact on album design. A highly accessible stand-alone
volume, Vinyl * Album * Cover * Art will also make the perfect pop
partner to the groundbreaking Hipgnosis | Portraits (2014) with its
rare revelations and behind-the-scenes photography.
A seminal text on what live performance is, what it means, and how
it can be theorised. Its second edition is required reading on many
theatre and performance studies courses. Uniquely controversial on
a subject which continues to be topical. Thoroughly updated to take
into account changes in media, scholarship and digital
technologies.
For many the smoke and mirrors which surround Banksy are as
fascinating as the artwork of the 21st century's most important
living artist. Banksy Myths Volume 2 takes the same approach as Vol
1. We collect the stories, the reader can judge for themselves.
Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its
complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the
cognitive processes involved in the reception of dance performance.
Scholars of dance and music analyse the ways in which a musical
score changes its prescriptive status when it becomes part of a
choreographic project, the encounter between sound and motion on
stage, and the intersection of listening and seeing. As well as
being of interest to musicologists and choreologists considering
issues such as notation, multimedia and the analysis of
performance, this volume will appeal to scholars interested in
applied research in the fields of cognition and neuroscience. The
line-up of authors comprises representative figures of today's
choreomusicology, dance historians, scholars of twentieth-century
composition and specialists in cognitive science and performance
studies. Among the topics covered are multimedia and the analysis
of performance; the notational practice of choreographers and the
parallel attempts of composers to find a graphic representation for
musical gestures; and the experience of dance as a paradigm for a
multimodal perception, which is investigated in terms of how the
association of sound and movement triggers emotions and specific
forms of cognition.
WOW - a collaboration between Liss Llewellyn and the Laing Art
Gallery - showcases 38 British women artists working on paper
between 1905 and 1975, a transformative period for women in the
arts. The featured artists approached the medium in vari ous ways,
using traditional as well as innovative techniques to transform
paper into beautiful and complex works of art. The exhibition
celebrates the diversity of these approaches and highlights the
ways in which paper provided artists with a rich arena for artistic
innovation. Paper's adaptability allows for a multitude of
techniques. Using paper in its traditional role as a support for
drawings and prints, or creating collage and sculpture, the fea
tured artists responded to the medium's inherent qualities -
malleable, smooth and sensuous - to test ideas, express feelings or
create a finished work. It is often in the more formative moments
that the works in this exhibition most resonate; through these
studies we bear witness to the seed of an idea in germination, as
in Clare Leigh ton's iconic Southern Harvest, or Evelyn Dunbar's
celebrated works for the War Artist's Advisory Committee. Selecting
hand-made, mould-made or machine-made papers in various weights,
tex tures and tints - depending on their intentions - artists
worked with a variety of media from pencil, ink and pastel, to
watercolour, tempera and oil, sometimes incorporating extraneous
elements such as gold leaf and metallic forms. Working on
monumental sheets, such as Winifred Knights' cartoon for St
Martin's Altarpiece or tiny pages such as Edith Granger-Taylor's
Small Grey Abstract, women's choices were nevertheless some times
dictated by circumstance: the propensity of Frances Richards and
Tirzah Gar wood - by no means isolated cases - to work on paper on
a small scale was in part a result of not having access to a
studio. From portraits, landscapes, botanical studies and genre
scenes, many of the works in WOW highlight the artist's skill and
dexterity in drawing on paper, which was at the core of artistic
training and practice. Some artists have used the traditional
techniques of etching, screen printing and woodblock to create a
diverse range of images. Others highlight the ethereal properties
of paper through precise cuts, resulting in elaborate collages
combining shapes, patterns and designs, or compact and manipulate
paper to create inventive and surprising sculptures. Featuring both
famous and lesser-known talents, WOW celebrates the many ways in
which women artists expressed themselves through works on, and with
paper and highlights their unique contribution to the graphic arts
in 20th century Britain.
* The book demonstrates how a vernacular British performance form
emerged as a hybrid of forms from Afro-American and minstrel, as
well as French mime and Italian commedia dell'arte roots. * Theatre
history is an essential part of theatre and drama courses across
the UK and would be recommended reading. * There is no comparable
book which makes critical analysis of British pierrot troupes and
concert parties in existence - the only ones that do exist on the
specific topic are written as reminiscence and anecdote.
This book brings together history and theory in art and media to
examine the effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning
in culture, and reflects on the implications of delegating parts of
the creative process to AI. In order to understand the complexity
of authorship and originality in relation to creativity in
contemporary times, Navas combines historical and theoretical
premises from different areas of research in the arts, humanities,
and social sciences to provide a rich historical and theoretical
context that critically reflects on and questions the implications
of artificial intelligence and machine learning as an integral part
of creative production. As part of this, the book considers how
much of postproduction and remix aesthetics in art and media
preceded the current rise of metacreativity in relation to
artificial intelligence and machine learning, and explores
contemporary questions on aesthetics. The book also provides a
thorough evaluation of the creative application of systematic
approaches to art and media production, and how this in effect
percolates across disciplines including art, design, communication,
as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences. An
essential read for students and scholars interested in
understanding the increasing role of AI and machine learning in
contemporary art and media, and their wider role in creative
production across culture and society.
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