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Collage by Women presents 50 international women artists working in
the field of collage today through a rigorous selection of their
works. Curated by the Spanish collage artist Rebeka Elizegi, the
book gives space to voices from all backgrounds, origins, and
artistic expressions, and shows the wide variety of perspectives
that are shaping the panorama of collage today, bringing to light a
parallel effervescence of female artistic initiatives around the
world. From emerging names to more well-known and established ones,
the artists featured here are pushing back the boundaries of art.
Collage by Women wants to call attention to the experiences and
creative processes of artists that should be on our radar through
an impressive selection of manual and digital techniques, topics
and aesthetic choices, accompanied by texts that provide indepth
approaches to the inspiration, influences and work trajectory of
each artist. Born from the belief that women's voices are of the
utmost relevance in all cultural and social fields, the book will
surely contribute to a healthier, more comprehensive, more
inclusive nderstanding of our reality.
Delicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most
celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the
two, fascinating juxtapositions develop. The layers of a Neapolitan
cake echo the shadows cast across a street in the late afternoon.
The pastel hues of iced sponge cakes match California's
candy-colored houses. Curators, critics, and artists guide the
reader through the book via insightful bite-size essays. This
gorgeous hardcover offers fans and newcomers a refreshing and
accessible way to enjoy the oeuvre of this iconic American painter.
Complete with multicolored page edges evoking the layers of one of
Thiebaud's mouthwatering cakes, it's a treat for art lovers,
city-dwellers, and gourmets alike.
Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters,
Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history,
chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists
working under the British occupation. Using Western-style academic
art as a starting point, these artists championed cultural
progress, re-appropriating Egyptian visual culture from European
orientalists to found a neo-Pharaonic School of Realism. Modern Art
in Egypt charts the years from Muhammad Ali's educational reforms
to the mass influx of foreigners during the nineteenth-century.
With a focus on the al-Nahda thought movement, this book provides
an overview of the key policy-makers, reformists and feminists who
founded the first School of Fine Arts in Egypt, as well as cultural
salons, museums and arts collectives. By combining political and
aesthetic histories, Fatenn Mostafa breaks the prevailing
understanding that has preferred to see non-Western art as
derivatives of Western art movements. Modern Art in Egypt
re-establishes Egypt's presence within the global Modernist canon.
In 1954, following her death, Frida Kahlo's possessions were locked
away in the Casa Azul in Mexico City, her lifelong home. Half a
century later, her collection of clothing, jewellery, cosmetics and
other personal items was rediscovered. Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self
Up offers a fresh perspective on the life story of this
extraordinary artist, whose charisma and entirely individual way of
dressing made her one of the most photographed women of her time.
Specially-commissioned photographs show her distinctive Mexican
outfits alongside her self-portraits, an unprecedented pairing that
is enriched by iconic images taken in her lifetime.
Science and art are both manifestations of beauty and creativity.
Both are related to nature and are products of evolution.
Understanding natural phenomena and the appreciation of beauty has
conferred an evolutionary advantage to the human species. As
mankind has evolved intellectually and socially and as science has
progressed, artistic creations by humans have tended towards
increasing harmony with nature and they have become more abstract -
like mathematics, which is the abstraction of all sciences. The
authors of this unusual work postulate some critical ideas on
science, art and aesthetics, and establish that we need both, a
scientific temper and the temper of art. Evidence to support these
theses is drawn from mathematics, physics, studies in molecular
biology, and also from music, fine art and design. Readers are
taken through lucid prose with the help of illustrations of natural
phenomenon such as spiral galaxies, spider web, the Fibonacci
series and fractals in lightning, and of products of human
creativity such as paintings of masters like Picasso, Husain and
Escher, musical pieces, textile fragments and Ajanta caves
frescoes.
Richard Wilson was born in London in 1953. Descended on one side
from a line of builders and on the other of artists, his work often
comes closer to engineering or even architecture than it does to
traditional sculpture. Typically he transforms the viewer's
environment into something unsettling and strange by the
interventions he makes, whether in the internal space of a gallery,
the structure of a building or in one of the ships with which he
has a particular affinity. Perhaps his best-known work is 20:50,
currently on show at, and probably the most popular exhibit in, the
Saatchi Gallery in London. For 20:50, Wilson flooded a gallery
space with oil, which has a highly reflective surface. Into the oil
is built a kind of narrow pier or promenade down which one person
at a time can walk, the oil perilously close to their body. So
reflective is the oil that the room induces a strong sense of
disorientation. Further along the River Thames, next to the
Millennium Dome, is another Wilson piece that provides an
unexpected sight. The skeletal ship A Slice of Reality, its sides
removed and with the tides moving freely through it, is both a
startling sculptural object in its own right and a comment on the
vanished shipping industry that was once a mainstay of the river
community. In Los Angeles, Wilson was inspired by one of the most
ubiquitous symbols of Californian life, the swimming pool,
suspending a fibreglass pool shell from a sixty foot-long pipe in
MOCA's subterranean gallery (Deep End). In addition to and often in
conjunction with these large-scale projects, Wilson makes films and
sculpture, takes photographs and stages performance events and has
been a formative influence on a generation of British artists. This
lavishly illustrated career survey includes a new interview with
Wilson and examines six key works in depth.
The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as
quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself
displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very
positive reception among Surrealists, particularly across the
period 1959-69. In the face of Rauschenberg’s avowals of his own
‘literalism’ and insistence on his art as ‘facts,’ this
book gathers generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical,
allusive, associative and connotative dimensions of the artist's
oeuvre as identified by Surrealists, and thus extrapolates new
readings from Rauschenberg's key works on that basis. By viewing
Rauschenberg’s art against the expansion of the cultural
influence of the United States in Europe in the period after the
Second World War and the increasingly politicized activities of the
Surrealists in the era of the Algerian War of Independence
(1954-62), Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism shows how poetic
inference of the artist’s work was turned towards political
interpretation. By analysing Rauschenberg’s art in the context of
Surrealism, and drawing from it new interpretations and
perspectives, this volume simultaneously situates the Surrealist
movement in 1960s American art criticism and history.
Drawing Masterclass explores the act of vision of the world's great
artists, describing how the images were created to allow you to
weave some of this magic into your own drawings. The book is
organized into seven chapters covering important genres: nudes,
figures, landscapes, still life and studies, heads, fantasy and
abstraction. Each chapter selects a cross section of artists and
examines their practice in detail, using key drawings. Each artist
is described through one of 100 selected masterpieces, plus a
biographical profile and a practical look at the way the drawing
was made: the materials and technique, as well as an examination of
the ideas and inspiration behind its making and how the artist's
life might reflect their concerns. Light and shade, rhythm, form,
space, contour and composition are all covered in detail. The book
covers a broad historical and geographic sweep, and includes many
of the most celebrated male and female artists.
Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation
to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a
traditional design historical approach which emphasizes schools and
movements, this volume addresses time as a continuum and considers
the importance of temporality for design practice and history.
Contributors address how designers, design historians and design
thinkers might respond to the global challenges of time, the
rhythms of work, and the increasing speed of life and communication
between different communities. They consider how the past informs
the present and the future in terms of design, the importance of
time-based design practices such as rapid prototyping and slow
design, time in relation to memory and forgetting, and artefacts
such as the archive for which time is key, and they also ponder the
design of time itself. Showcasing the work of 15 design scholars
from a range of international contexts, this book provides an
essential text for thinking about changing attitudes to the
temporal.
Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist
in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she
spent her entire life in Georgia. The career of the prize-winning
artist was crowned in 2000 with the opening of her own museum in
the capital, to which she bequeathed over one thousand works from
her unconventional oeuvre. Although she was socialised in the
Soviet Union, until her death in 2007 Natela Iankoshvili never
painted according to the dictates of Socialist Realism. Her highly
individual works exhibit a brushwork that vaguely recalls the art
of Niko Pirosmani, Paul Gauguin or El Greco, and radiate such
colour force that their brilliance is often compared with that of
jewels. This impression is also created by the strong contrast with
the mostly black background of her paintings, which are all
representational.
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Feast
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Stephanie Smith
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The companion to a one-of-a-kind exhibition at the University of
Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, "Feast: Radical Hospitality in
Contemporary Art" explores the role of the meal in contemporary
art. "Feast" offers the first survey of the artist-orchestrated
meal: since the 1930s, the act of sharing food and drink has been
used to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with
the culture of the moment. Both exhibition catalogue and reader,
this richly illustrated book offers an interdisciplinary
exploration of the art of the meal and its relationship to
questions about hospitality, politics, and culture. From the
Italian Futurists' banquets in the 1930s, to 1960s and '70s
conceptual and performative work, to the global prevalence of
socially engaged practice today, "Feast" considers a diverse group
of artists who have taken on practices of sharing food with
friends, families, and strangers. After an essay by curator
Stephanie Smith, the book includes new interviews with over twenty
contributing artists and reprinted excerpts of classic texts. It
also features a selection of contextual essays contributed by an
international group of critics, writers, curators, and scholars.
Few creative alliances flourished as productively as that of the
artist Georgia O'Keeffe and the photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Author Peter-Cornell Richter examines the lives of these artists to
reveal the roads they took together and independently. Alternating
biographical chapters interweave their stories. More than fifty
exquisite reproductions of their paintingsand photographs
illustrate how the two artists inspired and influenced each other,
producing masterpieces of lasting relevance.
This sophisticated artist's book, with custom-cut cover and
partially exposed binding, documents John Bock's 2006 action,
"Maltreated Frigate"--the height as well as the culmination of this
rising German artist's performative work. Here, Bock's vision comes
to life in a multitude of color illustrations composed and collaged
by the artist. The libretto, printed in its entirety, explodes in
linguistic fireworks and tumbles down the printed page, solid in
its earthiness and ready to be constructed into a jumble of bizarre
and whimsical neologisms--vivid testimony to the artist's zest for
expression. "Maltreated Frigate" was performed as a spectacle in 10
scenes, a collision course of rock opera, Theater of the Absurd,
animated sculpture and puppet show. This raucous volume invites the
reader to accompany the artist and his protagonists along their
tour-de-force, stream-of-consciousness action. It is a violent ride
on a machine from hell, steered by an idiosyncratic inner logic.
Simon Packard didn't always want to do his artist report on Pablo Picasso, but after his twin brother Stephen does a report on Monet-Simon's favorite artist-Simon chooses Picasso by default! Throughout, there are reproductions of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces as well as Simon's own drawings, and wonderful nuggets of info that will appeal to kids.
Juxtaposing short stories, poetry, painting, and photographs,
Troubling Borders showcases the creative work of women of
Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry. This
thematically arranged collection interrupts borders of
categorization and gender, in what preface author Shirley Geok-Lin
Lim describes as a "leap over the barbed fences that have kept
these women apart in these, our United States of America." The
sixty-two contributors have been shaped by colonization, wars,
globalization, and militarization. For some of these women on the
margins of the margin, crafting and showing their work is a bold
act in itself. Their provocative and accessible creations tell
unique stories, provide sharp contrasts to familiar
stereotypes-Southeast Asian women as exotic sex symbols, dragon
ladies, prostitutes, or "bar girls"-and serve as entry points for
broader discussions about questions of history, memory, and
identity.
This fascinating publication showcases the Saint Louis Art
Museum’s collection of Japanese military prints and related
materials—one of the largest collections of such works in the
world. The 1,400 objects in the collection are mostly color
woodblock prints, but the holdings also include paintings,
lithographs, photographs, stereographs, books, magazines, maps,
game boards, textiles, ceramics, toys, sketchbooks, and
commemorative materials. This extraordinary body of visual works
chronicles Japan’s rise as a modern nation from the beginning of
the Meiji Restoration in 1868 through the aftermath of Pearl Harbor
in 1942, with a focus on the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars.
Conflicts of Interest will bring to light an important aspect of
Japan’s visual culture and the narratives it circulated for its
citizens, allies, and enemies on the world stage.
Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism
in The Art Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this
book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to
follow format. Learn about Art in this overview guide to the
subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts
wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Art Book brings a
fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics
and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will
broaden your understanding of Art, with: - More than 80 of the
world's most remarkable artworks - Packed with facts, charts,
timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual
approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics
throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people
at any level of understanding The Art Book is a captivating
introduction to painting, drawing, printing, sculpture, conceptual
art, and performance art - from ancient history to the modern day -
aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students
wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you'll discover more than
80 of the world's most groundbreaking artworks by history's most
influential painters, sculptors and artists, through exciting text
and bold graphics. Your Art Questions, Simply Explained This fresh
new guide examines the ideas that inspired masterpieces by Van
Gogh, Rembrandt, Klimt, Matisse, Picasso, and dozens more! If you
thought it was difficult to learn about the defining movements, The
Art Book presents key information in a clear layout. Find out about
subject matters, techniques, and materials, and learn about the
talented artists behind the great works, through superb mind maps
and step-by-step summaries. The Big Ideas Series With millions of
copies sold worldwide, The Art Book is part of the award-winning
Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along
with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged
gender stereotypes with her powerful photographs, photomontages and
writings: work that appears contemporary, or even ahead of our
time, when viewed with twenty-first-century eyes. Cahun wrote
poetry and prose for major French literary magazines, worked in
avant-garde theatre, and was both comrade and critical outsider of
the Surrealists. Her artful resistance tactics mocked and disrupted
the Nazi occupiers of Jersey during the Second World War, putting
her in mortal danger. Cahun worked collaboratively with Marcel
Moore, her stepsister, lover and life partner, to create some of
the most compelling photographs and photomontages of the period
between the wars. This is the first work in English to tell the
full story of Claude Cahun's art and life.It both recounts her life
and analyses her complex writings and images, making them available
to a wide audience. Shaw's account embeds Cahun's work in the
exciting milieu of Paris between the wars and follows it into the
dangerous territory of the Nazi-occupied Isle of Jersey. Using
letters and diaries, Shaw brings Cahun's ideas and feelings to life
and contributes to our understanding of photography, Surrealism and
the histories of women artists and queer culture. This book
includes a full range of illustrations by Cahun and other renowned
photographers, as well as writings never before translated into
English. Shaw's book will appeal to art and photography lovers and
scholars alike.
Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to
power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime
provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini's
government constructed thousands of new buildings across the
Italian Peninsula and islands and in colonial territories. From
hospitals, post offices and stadia to housing, summer camps,
Fascist Party Headquarters, ceremonial spaces, roads, railways and
bridges, the physical traces of the regime have a presence in
nearly every Italian town. The Routledge Companion to Italian
Fascist Architecture investigates what has become of the
architectural and urban projects of Italian fascism, how sites have
been transformed or adapted and what constitutes the meaning of
these buildings and cities today. The essays include a rich array
of new arguments by both senior and early career scholars from
Italy and beyond. They examine the reception of fascist
architecture through studies of destruction and adaptation, debates
over reuse, artistic interventions and even routine daily
practices, which may slowly alter collective understandings of such
places. Paolo Portoghesi sheds light on the subject from his
internal perspective, while Harald Bodenschatz situates Italy among
period totalitarian authorities and their symbols across Europe.
Section editors frame, synthesize and moderate essays that explore
fascism's afterlife; how the physical legacy of the regime has been
altered and preserved and what it means now. This critical history
of interpretations of fascist-era architecture and urban projects
broadens our understanding of the relationships among politics,
identity, memory and place. This companion will be of interest to
students and scholars in a range of fields, including Italian
history, architectural history, cultural studies, visual sociology,
political science and art history.
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