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Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that
craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated
design episodes in the twentieth century. Craft was vital to the
development of Italian design, and it has been so far overlooked.
This book examines the multiple ways craft shaped Italian design
from 1945 to the 1980s in the context of bigger socio-economic,
cultural and political change; from post-war reconstruction to the
economic 'miracle' of the 1960s, to the rise of the countercultural
Radical Design movement and advent of postmodernism. It consists of
case studies on design areas including product, furniture, fashion,
glass and ceramics to bring to light previously unknown makers and
objects as well as re-examine design 'icons' such as Gio Ponti's
Superleggera chair and Ettore Sottsass's Memphisware. It also
offers a model for analysing design and craft's relationship in
other contexts, including today. -- .
Crusaders for art and design were men and women who were prepared
to give their energy, talents, and oftimes money, to encourage
young artists and designers to adventure in their chosen fields and
generally to raise the status of the 'fine' and 'applied' arts and
their creators. Many of these crusaders have largely been
forgotten, such as John Gloag, who was here, there, and everywhere
in support of the cause. Other Crusaders are remembered but for
other reasons, such as Pevsner, the surveyor of British
architectural heritage who for some years had been seen as the guru
of industrial design. Gordon Russell, celebrated as the Cotswold
furniture designer is altogether less known as a Director of the
Council of Industrial Design. Whilst in the 'fine' arts Anton
Zwemmer, whose Covent Garden shop is now a hairdressers, has
largely been erased from memory as when he had been the king bee of
a beehive frequented by artists and designers alike coming to find
out the latest cultural news from the Continent to be gleaned from
his magazines and books. Crusaders of Art and Design aims to
restore a number of reputations by recording their contributions to
the cause.
A celebration of Houston's Rothko Chapel on its fiftieth
anniversary, featuring work by contemporary artists responding to
its continuing impact Artists and the Rothko Chapel celebrates the
legacy of the Rothko Chapel in Houston and globally, highlighting
how it has inspired artists since its founding in 1971. The
catalogue reflects on the Chapel's past while looking toward its
future, featuring recent work by four contemporary artists-Sam
Gilliam, Sheila Hicks, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Byron Kim-as well as
illustrating the 1975 exhibition Marden, Novros, Rothko: Painting
in the Age of Actuality shown at Rice University. The volume
includes interviews with Brice Marden and David Novros, statements
from the artists about their work's relationship to the Chapel, and
testimonies by local figures reflecting on questions of
spirituality, identity, and equality. With new photography of the
installations and of the recently restored Chapel, this vividly
illustrated catalogue is a testament to the enduring impact of the
non-denominational space Mark Rothko created. Distributed for the
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University Exhibition Schedule:
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University (February 23-May 15,
2021)
This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the
arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the
twentieth century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady
progression from one 'ism' to another, Edward J. Sullivan adopts a
comparative approach, drawing his examples from North America, the
Caribbean, Central and South America. By considering the Americas
in this hemispheric sense he is able to tease out many stories of
art and focus on the ways in which artists from different regions
not only adapted and experimented with visual expression, but also
absorbed trans-national as well as international influences. He
shows how this rich diversity is most evident in the various forms
of abstract art that emerged throughout the Americas and which in
turn had an impact on art throughout the world.
The art of Edvard Munch is striking for the originality and
universality of its themes, which cross moments in place and time.
Yet he was very much an artist of the nineteenth century, and the
focus of this publication is to show how especially in his prints
and photographs Munch was enabled by technical advances developed
by his contemporaries to create an entirely new visual language.
Munch is probably best known for his desire to express emotions
surrounding love, illness and death. However, the authors in this
volume show that this preoccupation was not only based on
biographical events but reflects wider contemporary debates on
developments in medicine and science, including treatment of mental
illness, as well as a proliferation of technical expertise in the
production of prints. The arguments presented expand on subjects
touched upon in the critically acclaimed British Museum exhibition
Edvard Munch: love and angst (2019). Munch's remarkable prints were
fundamental to establishing his international career, but there
remains much to investigate in connection with the background to
his innovatory techniques, his relationship with contemporary
printmakers and his experiments with photography. The authors in
this volume go some way to address these themes and outline future
avenues of research.
Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so
acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard
Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong
effort to paint his 'soul's diary' - and began a perverse love
affair with self-destruction. This intimate and moving life of the
Norwegian artist explores his turbulent early years, his time as a
recluse, and his intense efforts to paint not what he saw, but what
he experienced.
A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by
Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for
the first time Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe
(1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture and
self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of
femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original
book is the first to consider the two artists together, examining
the powerful portraits they created during the vibrant and
tumultuous era bookended by the Stonewall riots and the AIDS
crisis. Several important bodies of work are featured, including
Warhol's Ladies and Gentlemen series of drag queen portraits and
his collaboration with Christopher Makos on Altered Image, in which
Warhol was photographed in makeup and wigs, and Mapplethorpe's
photographs of Patti Smith and of female body builder Lisa Lyon.
These are explored alongside numerous other paintings, photographs,
and films that demonstrate the artists' engagement with gender,
identity, beauty, performance, and sexuality, including their own
self-portraits and portraits of one another. Essays trace the
convergences and divergences of Warhol and Mapplethorpe's work, and
examine the historical context of the artists' projects as well as
their lasting impact on contemporary art and queer culture.
Firsthand accounts by the artists' collaborators and subjects
reveal details into the making and exhibition of some of the works
presented here. With an illustrated timeline highlighting key
moments in the artists' careers, and more than 90 color plates of
their arresting pictures, this book provides a fascinating study of
two of the most compelling figures in 20th-century art. Published
in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (10/17/15-1/24/16)
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In June 2012, Jasper Johns encountered a photograph of the painter
Lucian Freud reproduced in a Christie's auction catalogue. Inspired
not only by the photographic image, but also by the physical
qualities of the object itself, Johns took this motif through a
succession of cross-medium permutations. He also incorporated into
his art the text of a rubber stamp he had made several years ago,
to allow him to efficiently decline the myriad requests and
invitations that come his way: 'Regrets/Jasper Johns'. But the
stamp's text also calls to mind the more familiar connotations of
regret, such as loss, disappointment, and remorse, invoking an
enigmatic sense of melancholy. Published in conjunction with an
exhibition of this recent series of paintings, drawings and prints,
created over the last year and a half through an intricate
combination of techniques, this publication presents each of the
sixteen new works in full colour. An essay by Ann Temkin, Chief
Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Christophe Cherix, Chief
Curator of Drawings and Prints, MoMA, examine the importance of
process and experimentation, the cycle of dead ends and fresh
starts, and the incessant interplay of materials, meaning, and
representation so characteristic of Johns's career over the last
sixty years.
Outsider art is generally narrowly defined as simply the
spontaneous work of unschooled, obsessive people, often religious
fanatics, prisoners, and mental patients. But there are many
variations, one of the more unusual of which is the subject of
"Migraine Art. "Pharmaceutical executive Derek Robinson pioneered
the field in 1973 when he solicited graphic material for an ad
campaign promoting a new drug for migraine prevention. This
inspired public competitions in the 1980s encouraging artists,
amateur and professional, to illustrate the pain, the visual
disturbances, and the effects migraine had on their lives.
"Migraine Art "collects outstanding examples of such work, along
with descriptions of types of migraine visual phenomena. The book
features a comprehensive view of the migraine aura experience and
covers such topics as migraine signs, symptoms, triggers, and
treatments, as well as types of visual hallucinations and somatic
sensations and experiences. Each category of visual disturbance is
accompanied by related artwork. A discussion of the migraine visual
experiences of famous historical figures, such as Blaise Pascal and
Lewis Carroll, provides historical context. The book also includes
a history of our Migraine Art competitions and information about
the fascinating Migraine Art collection.
A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after
Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity
of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas
behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses structuralist
and poststructuralist thought as well as catastrophe, chaos, and
complexity theory to create paintings that please the eye while
provoking the mind. Taylor's clear accounts of thinkers ranging
from Plato, Kant, and Hegel to Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and de Man
will be an invaluable contribution to students and teachers of art.
An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great
work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress
Administration's Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis
(1892-1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New
York City housing project. Though the mural, Swing Landscape, was
never installed in its intended location, it survives as an
impressive testament to Davis's energetic, colorful brand of
abstraction and the progressive politics that animated it. This
study explores the painting, one of the greatest of
twentieth-century America and arguably Davis's most ambitious work.
This book challenges the prevailing tendency to separate Davis's
leftist activism from his art and contextualizes Swing Landscape
within 1930s abstract mural painting in New York, emphasizing the
politics of abstraction. The book also offers the first
comprehensive look at the Williamsburg mural commission, including
works by Willem de Kooning, Ilya Bolotowsky, and others. The result
is an indispensable resource on interwar modernism, mural painting,
and urban development.
This book brings together some of Nicholson's most eloquent essays
with extracts from previously unpublished letters between the
artist and Ede, and the words of their mutual friends, the poet
Kathleen Raine and collector Helen Sutherland. With an introduction
by Kettle's Yard curator Elizabeth Fisher exploring Nicholson's
relationship with Ede, the book is richly illustrated and includes
reproductions of all works in the collection, a biography and
bibliography.
A comprehensive biography of Hal Foster, in which author Brian M.
Kane examines the 70-year career of one of the greatest
illustrators of the 20th century. "Superman" was modelled after
Foster's drawings of Tarzan, Flash Gordon's Alex Raymond borrowed
compositions from "Prince Valiant", and many artists, including the
famous contemporary Western painter James Bama, count Foster among
their greatest influences. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1892 of
a seafaring family, Hal naturally took to the sea. At the age of
eight he paddled a 12-foot plank across Halifax Harbor to the
consternation of large Cunard liners. In his youth he was a
catalogue artist, a trapper, a professional boxer, a gold
prospector, and a hunter-guide in the uncharted forests of Canada.
In 1921 with a wife and two children to support he peddled his
one-speed bicycle 1000 miles across dirt and gravel roads from
Winnipeg to Chicago to attend the Art Institute and later find
permanent employment. The young illustrator's work appeared on the
covers of "Popular Mechanics" and in hundreds of magazines for
clients such as "Northwest Paper", "Jekle Margarine", "Southern
Pacific Railroad" and "Illinois Pacific Railroad". In 1929 Foster
illustrated the first newspaper adaptation of "Tarzan of the Apes"
by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The comic strip was the first of its kind
and it was Foster's sense of realism, composition, draftsmanship,
and understanding of fluid anatomy that would forever mark him as
"The Father of the Adventure Strip". The famous newspaper tycoon,
William Randolph Hearst, wanted Foster and made the artist an
unheard of offer. If Foster would leave Tarzan and come to work for
Hearst's King Features Syndicate he could do anything he wanted and
have complete ownership of the new series. The first episode of
"Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur" appeared on 13 February
1937. Foster's work has inspired generations of artists including
Jack Kirby, Lou Fine, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wayne Boring,
Joe Kubert, Russ Manning, Wally Wood, Dave Stevens, Carmine
Infantino, Charles Vess, William Stout, John Buscema, Mark Schultz
and the great Disney artist, Carl Barks. This volume features
quotes and sidebars from many of these artists.
This book is an exhibition catalogue and a long-waited monograph on
one of the most important contemporary artists working today.
Barcelos artistic journey is explored through the themes that have
marked his work over a period of more than twenty years, and these
include: Ateliers, Portraits, Still life, Crucifixions, Bullfights
and Sea Landscapes. His his subjects are first and foremost
intentionally autobiographical - Barcelo depicts himself as he
paints, alluding to the role of the demiurge incarnated as artist
or are inspired by daily life (still life, portraits, landscapes).
Experimenting using different artistic techniques enables Barcelo
to represent and present the reality of the world, captured in its
essentiality and truth, free from the superfluous and depicted
showing the constant flux of life and death. The book is divided
into two parts: 6 essays chapters that describe Miquel Barcelo
chronology in terms of his stylistic and technical development, and
the catalogue of about 60 works.
Draw, colour and create your own modern art in this creative
activity book. From Impressionism to Pop Art, and Cubism to
Surrealism, you can find out about many different art movements and
try out the techniques for yourself. The Modern Art Activity Book
is jam-packed with interesting information and beautiful, bold
illustrations, as well as a fun variety of colouring, drawing and
creative exercises. You can imitate an Impressionist, colour like a
Cubist and Action Paint like an Abstract Expressionist. With an
illustrated fold-out timeline showing the dates of the movements
and artists associated with them, you'll get to grips with the key
influences of modern art. From Monet to Warhol, this is a fun and
accessible introduction to modern art.
Ever since electricity became ubiquitous artists have been
fascinated by the manifold possibilities to create works with it.
The catalogue Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, which
accompanies the opening exhibition of Kunsthalle Praha, explores
how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the
present day, including cinematography, sound, kinetic and
mechanical sculptures, computer-based art and immersive
installations. A historical perspective emphasizes the fact that
electricity, with its various usages-from artificial light to
computing-has become a defining element of our societies.
Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art includes an essay by
Peter Weibel, the author of the exhibition concept, four thematic
chapters written by the co-curator Livia Nolasco-Rozsas as well as
descriptions and reproductions of key artworks by artists, such as
Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina Kubish, Zdenek
Pesanek, Anna Ridler, Nicolas Schoeffer, Jeffrey Shaw, Takis,
Steina, and Woody Vasulka.
A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and
social life from the 1830s to the present dayUlrich Lehmann brings
together methods and ideas from social sciences and material
production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's
post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range
of European languages and cultures, he offers insight into new
working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles.
Reinvigorates materialism as a critical approach to analysing
economics, society and media through the thematic focus on fashion
as the economically and culturally dominant sector within
post-industrial societiesCase studies include the male suit in
Alfred Hitchcock's film 'North by Northwest' (1959), the
revolutionary production methods in the work of Carol Christian
Poell and the innovative textile manufacture of Bonotto in Molvena,
north-east ItalyRedirects fashion theory toward materiality and
materialism from previous art-historical and social-anthropological
approachesExposes the need critically to engage with fashion
production, away from the exclusive reading of fashion through its
media representationExtends the discussion of fashion production
from aspects of labour conditions and sustainability to the
materialist critique of the fashion system
Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to
have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular
societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects
have lives of their own as we find ourselves interacting with
computers and other equipment. In On the Animation of the
Inorganic, Spyros Papapetros examines ideas about simulated
movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the
twentieth century--a period of great technical innovation whose
effects continue to reverberate today. Exploring key works of art
historians such as Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer, and Alois Riegl,
as well as architects and artists like Fernand Leger, Mies van der
Rohe, and Salvador Dali, Papapetros tracks the evolution of the
problem of animation from the fin de siecle through the twentieth
century. He argues that empathy--the ability to identify with
objects of the external world--was repressed by twentieth-century
modernist culture, but it returned, projected onto inorganic
objects such as machines, automobiles, and crystalline skyscrapers.
These modern artifacts, he demonstrates, vibrated with energy,
life, and desire of their own and had profound effects on people.
Subtle and insightful, this book will change how we view modernist
art, architecture, and their histories.
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Volume 10 examines how the innovative impulses that came from Italy
were creatively merged with indigenous traditions and how many
national variants of Futurism emerged from this fusion. Ten essays
investigate various aspects of Italian Futurism and its links to
Austria, Georgia, France, Hungary and Portugual and in fields such
as Typography, Olfaction, Photography. Section 2 examines seven
examples of caricatures and satires of Futurism in the contemporary
press, followed by Section 3, reporting on the Archiv der
Avantgarden (AdA) in Dresden. Section 4 communicates bibliographic
details of 120 book publications on Futurism in the period
2017-2020, including exhibition catalogues, conference proceedings
and editions.
Churchill is today remembered as a great leader, a war hero, a
literary heavyweight and a renowned wit. This incarnation of
Churchill is the latest in a long-evolving identity, which at
various times has sustained his power, enhanced his popularity and
enabled him to personify aspects of British national identity.
Indeed Churchill was more aware than most of the performative power
of his public life. He lived in an age of the illustrated
mass-produced newspaper, with its cartoons and 'Kodak-snappers'. He
was well-known for his readiness to appear in uniform for photo
opportunities during the Second World War and he not only wrote
about the art of political caricature, but collected cartoons of
himself, his allies and opponents. In this heavily-illustrated
book, Jonathan Black considers the changing image of Churchill in
visual art, from cartoons and paintings to photographs and
sculptures. He asks how and why his image developed right up to the
present day and examines the extent to which Churchill was
complicit in its production.
Naval aviation special markings and nose art is a field that has
been largely ignored, primarily due to the lack of coverage in
mainstream aviation history publications. Research into archives,
feedback from veterans, and personal photographs by the authors,
Jim Meehan and William Tate, have documented thousands of
previously unknown individual aircraft with these markings. Paint
Locker Magic: A History of Naval Aviation Special Markings and
Artwork covers markings on US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard
aircraft over the 100 year history of US naval aviation. This
fascinating and visually resplendent book includes illustrations of
special markings and nose art on early canvas-covered airplanes
through the World War 2 era when nose art flourished and on into
the jet age, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and up to the
present war on terror with aircraft marked to commemorate the 9-11
terrorist attacks. This coverage includes fighters and attack
aircraft of the carrier navy and the patrol aircraft, transports
blimps, research and test aircraft and helicopters. Markings
include personal nose art and pinups, shark mouth and similar
markings, cartoons depicting special missions, Christmas and
similar markings and tributes.
In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and
architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves
a forceful integration of political and cultural developments.
Comparing the situation in eight cities2;among them Vienna, Prague,
Budapest, Cracow, and Zagreb2;the author highlights contrasts,
rivalries, parallels, and interconnections across this colorful and
important region. The book deals with all the chief ethnic/national
categories of Austria-Hungary and embraces all the visual arts.
Focusing on their public display, appraisal, and consumption, Clegg
shows how the harmonious/antagonistic coexistence of institutions,
publications, and events gave rise to the dynamic art life of a
period that would end in a turning point for Central Europe. As
vividly revealed, this was a time and place marked by a
simultaneous fear and celebration of ethnic, linguistic, and
cultural diversity that has enormous international resonance a
century later.
How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In "David
Smith in Two Dimensions," Sarah Hamill broaches this question
through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American
sculptor David Smith (1906-1965). Smith was a modernist known for
radically shifting the terms of sculpture, a medium traditionally
defined by casting, modeling, and carving. He was the first to use
industrial welding as a sustained technique for large-scale
sculpture, influencing a generation of minimalists to come. What is
less known about Smith is his use of the camera to document his own
sculptures as well as everyday objects, spaces, and bodies. His
photographs of sculptures were published in countless exhibition
catalogs, journals, and newspapers, often as anonymous
illustrations. Far from being neutral images, these photographs
direct a pictorial encounter with spatial form and structure the
public display of his work.
"David Smith in Two Dimensions" looks at the sculptor's adoption of
unconventional backdrops, alternative vantage points, and unusual
lighting effects and exposures to show how he used photography to
dramatize and distance objects. This comprehensive and penetrating
account also introduces Smith's expansive archive of copy prints,
slides, and negatives, many of which are seen here for the first
time. Hamill proposes a new understanding of Smith's sculpture
through photography, exploring issues that are in turn vital to
discourses of modern sculpture, sculptural aesthetics, and postwar
art. In Smith's photography, we see an artist moving fluidly
between media to define what a sculptural object was and how it
would be encountered publicly.
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