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This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and
importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing
the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its
richness and diversity. Featuring profiles of individual artists,
compelling interviews, and beautiful full-color photography, this
book tells the story of the state's evolution through the lens of
its art world and some of its most compelling figures. Liza Roberts
introduces readers to painters, photographers, sculptors, and other
artists who live and work in North Carolina and who contribute to
its growing reputation in the visual arts. Roberts also provides
fascinating historical context, such as the influence of Black
Mountain College, the birth and growth of Penland School of Crafts,
and short histories of North Carolina's art museums, including
Charlotte's Mint Museum, Raleigh's North Carolina Museum of Art,
Winston-Salem's Reynolda House, and those flourishing at
universities. Artists featured include Stephen Hayes, Mel Chin,
Cristina Cordova, Beverly McIver, and Scott Avett. The result is
the most comprehensive, informative, and visually rich story of
contemporary art in North Carolina.
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The World Atlas of Tattoo
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Anna Felicity Friedman; Contributions by Lars Krutak, Matt Lodder, Nick Schonberger, Sebastien Galliot; Foreword by …
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A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of
styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo from ancient
times to today Tattoo art and practice has seen radical changes in
the 21st century, as its popularity has exploded. An expanding
number of tattoo artists have been mining the past for lost
traditions and innovating with new technology. An enormous
diversity of styles, genres, and techniques has emerged, ranging
from geometric blackwork to vibrant, painterly styles, and from
hand-tattooed works to machine-produced designs. With over 700
stunning color illustrations, this volume considers historical and
contemporary tattoo practices in Europe, the Americas, the Middle
East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, and the
Pacific Islands. Each section, dedicated to a specific geographic
region, features fascinating text by tattoo experts that explores
the history and traditions native to that area as well as current
styles and trends. The World Atlas of Tattoo also tracks the
movement of styles from their indigenous settings to diasporic
communities, where they have often been transformed into creative,
multicultural, hybrid designs. The work of 100 notable artists from
around the globe is showcased in this definitive reference on a
widespread and intriguing art practice.
Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential
artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates
Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human
hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national
subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by
the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge
in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that
stand in for bodily fluids. These works have been variously
deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more
recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments,
combined in overtly sexual ways. McCarthy's work echoes that of
European artists such as Joseph Beuys or the Viennese Aktionistes,
but gives 'action art' a postmodern twist. This new revised and
expanded edition includes contributions by luminaries such as
Kristine Stiles, Ralph Rugoff, Massimiliano Gioni and Robert Storr.
Discover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect
ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the
Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This
collection spans the breadth of Ando's entire career, including
such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and
the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico. Each project is
profiled through photographs and architectural drawings that
explore Ando's unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light,
space, and natural forms. Featuring designs from award-winning
private homes, churches, museums, and apartment complexes to
cultural spaces throughout Japan, South Korea, France, Italy,
Germany, Mexico, and the USA, this compact edition brings you up
close and personal with a Modernist master. 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.
After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern
English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and
synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and
Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these
artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed
possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the
record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art
punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and
took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding
electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the
fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how
England's state-funded education policy brought together art
students from different social classes to create a fertile ground
for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with
band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the
groups who wanted to dismantle both art world and music industry
hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their
stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional
music scene of lasting international significance.
Nina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to
the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated
text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she
argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse
societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a
responsibility to 'decentre' their institutions, removing from
their collections, exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply
embedded Euro-centric cultural focus with roots in the history of
colonialism. In this, she argues, they can learn from the example
both of anthropological museums (such as the
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne), which are engaged in
debates about the colonial histories of their collections, about
trauma and repair, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La
Colonie, Paris, ANO, Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Accra or
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin), which have the flexibility, based on
informal infrastructures, to initiate different kinds of
conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration
with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global
South. Â For the first time, this book identifies the
influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can
exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of
decentring.
Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history,
architecture, and design, often playing with time and space.
Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality--such as Hilma af
Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee--she considers abstraction
and physiological experience in her installations. The Berlin-based
artist's practice includes hand-painted ceramics, carved wooden
sculptures, tiled mirrored works, drawings, and site-specific
wallpaper with images mined from her vast archive. Claudia Wieser:
Generations highlights her first solo exhibition in the United
States held at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Smart
Museum of Art. Alongside images of her work, this publication
features essays by curators Rachel Adams and Jennifer Carty and
three interviews conducted by Maggie Taft, Igor Siddiqui, and
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.
The first-ever monograph on Reynaud-Dewar, one of today’s most celebrated multimedia artists
French artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar creates environments and situations in which she uses her own body to examine the dual experience of vulnerability and empowerment that results from acts of exposing oneself to the world. Evolving through a range of media such as performance, video, installation, sound, and literature, her work considers the fluid border between public and private space, challenging conventions related to the body, sexuality, power relations, and institutional spaces. This is the first book to document her remarkable career.
Simon English: my big self decoy justin beiber brings together a
significant new body of painted drawings by the artist that format
themselves around the double page spread, with both image and text
on the page to invite and resist quiet contemplation. These
exquisitely delicate and brutal drawings tussle with one another
for space, pulling the viewer into the energetic and colourful
vortex of the artist's psyche. Diaries jostle with devotions,
desires and disputes-a confabulation of friction and fiction in a
place where fetish and fact collide. Simon English draws across the
blank page with the instincts of one entering cyberspace. His
surfing history is left only too clear on the surface of the page,
or buried beneath heavy black deletions and overpainting. His are
the 'old' gremlins, the monsters within that say one is too much
and more is never enough. In 2004, Bill Arning wrote that "for
picture addicts like myself, English is the equivalent of a crack
dealer". ,br> The work within the book is brought together with
written contributions from Laurence Scott, who will contribute a
text emanating from English's imaginary drawing database, and Sally
O'Reilly, who will construct a voice for the work somewhere between
art, theory, fiction and fantasy.
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Tongue
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Anne-Marie van Sprang
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Dress up your drawings any way you like using this complete
all-in-one style guide! Have you ever struggled to get the drape of
a dress or the look of a jacket just right? Maybe you've mastered
the human form but your drawings lack a sense of fashion? Or
perhaps you're a budding fashionista who loves decking your
characters out in elegant, outrageous or cutting-edge outfits? No
matter how you wish to clothe your creations, in traditional togs
or casual fashions, How to Create Manga: Drawing Clothing and
Accessories is the perfect tutorial for you! Fashion meets form in
this essential style guide to dressing up your drawings. Drape your
manga creations in the wardrobe of your dreams, while learning
techniques and tips used by professional illustrators to
realistically draw clothing and accessories of all types--from
blouses and T-shirts to button downs, sweaters, coats, pants,
skirts and shorts. And what about the accessories? Boots, belts,
shoes and sandals are all included as well, along with detailed
coverage of satchels, purses and backpacks. How to Create Manga:
Drawing Clothing and Accessories is the fashion bible used by manga
artists in Japan. It presents more than 900 drawings by twelve
accomplished illustrators, covering a broad range of fashions.
Detailed, in-depth instructionals show you how to render not just
the garments themselves, but the folds, creases and wrinkles that
give them a sense of realism and movement. Other books in the
series include How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial Expressions, How
to Create Manga: Drawing the Human Body and How to Create Manga:
Drawing Action Scenes and Characters.
Isaac Cordal ...is a sculpture artist from London. His sculptures
take the form of little people sculpted from concrete in 'real'
situations. Cordal manages to capture a lot of emotion in his
vignettes, in spite of their lack of detail or colour. He is
sympathetic toward his little people and we empathise with their
situations, their leisure time, their waiting for buses and their
more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family
funerals. His sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of
buildings and bus shelters - in many unusual and unlikely places in
the capital. This book is the first time his images have been shown
in together in one book dedicated to his work, many images never
seen before. Cordal's concrete sculptures are like little magical
gifts to the public that only a few lucky people will see and love
but so many more will have missed. Left to their own devices
throughout London, what really makes these pieces magical is their
placement. They bring new meaning to little corners of the urban
environment. They express something vulnerable but deeply engaging.
Iranna GR was born in 1970, and has painted professionally for 10
years. His studentship took place amid great upheaval in the Indian
class system and a fierce debate about Indian art. The State ceased
to control the economy thus opening the country up to private
business. Although this was generally positive it also had the
effect of generating religious and traditionalist friction. Between
1999 and 2000 Iranna acted as artist-in-residence at Wimbledon
School of Art, London. His art is thought to be a stylistic
challenge to post-modernism, using instead the representative,
idealistic and modernist language of contemporary Indian painting.
He has won several awards, held a series of one-man shows and
participated in exhibitions in Amsterdam and Chicago. This is a
meditation on the life and work of the artist. Ranjit Hoskote
emphasises the spirituality of the artist's work and the importance
of his Guru. Frequently, Iranna depicts a solitary figure in an
unreal landscape, and this has been interpreted by the author as a
self-portrait of one who feels estranged from his context. "The
Dancer on the Horse" refers to a self-portrait by this name. The
dancer must maintain both his own logical plan and take into
account the movement of the horse which is unpredictable. This
balancing act is a metaphor for the artist's obligation to find the
appropriate relationship between the inner and outer realities and
the private space of the studio and the public space of the
gallery. For Ranjit Hoskote, Iranna is immensely successful in
achieving this equilibrium.
Create interesting and expressive manga characters by learning the
techniques of professional artists. This volume builds on the
proven three-step technique presented in the companion volume,
Drawing Basic Characters. 1. Trace a simple outline of the
character 2. Add clothing, facial expressions and other details
using the easy-to-follow tips 3. Use color and pen to create the
finished character Experienced manga artists Junka Morozumi and
Tomomi Mizuna are your guides to the dazzling world of lifelike and
expressive manga characters who literally leap off the page.
Through expert tips and richly-illustrated, step-by-step tutorials,
they help you to build your skills and confidence at the same time.
Their focus is on creating a dynamic body pose and face for each
character and illustration. First you are shown how to sketch a
well-proportioned outline, then how to fill in supporting
details--powerful dramatic expressions, clothing and actions. Bold
examples portray an array of body types and faces, each capturing a
different mood or action sequence. Whether your character has just
won a major victory and is leaping into the air in triumph, or you
want to draw the subtlety of a forlorn expression, this book will
allow you to capture it. No matter what story you're telling,
Drawing Dynamic Manga Characters shows you how the pros do it.
How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent
each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines?
With tenderness, aggression or respect? Madam & Eve explores
the female gaze as it focuses on other women. The authors - an
artist and a curator - investigate the work of over 200 artists,
ranging from the well-established to the lesser known. A historical
introduction sets up the artistic and cultural context for the rest
of the book, which focuses on art since the 1970s and covers the
universal themes of the body, life, death, stories, and icons. The
result is an amazing parade of artworks: eye-catching, poignant,
powerful, political, idiosyncratic, playful, awkward, passionate,
sexy, and positive. It is also an eloquent examination of the
impact that the feminist movement has had on contemporary art.
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Igshaan Adams
- Desire Lines
(Paperback)
Hendrik Folkerts; Contributions by Lynne Cooke, Isaac Facio, Josh Ginsburg, Imam Muhsin Hendricks, …
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A timely exploration of the allusive, sculptural fiber work of an
important contemporary South African artist The book presents an
early career survey of the work of Cape Town-based artist Igshaan
Adams (b. 1982), showcasing his multimedia practice since 2009. In
addition to exploring recurring motifs in his work-Arabic
calligraphy, the rose, the (self-)portrait, Sufi symbols, and
pathways literal and metaphorical-the publication highlights some
of Adams's material concerns, including his sculptural applications
of weaving, his embrace of recycled materials related to black
South African domesticity and interiority, and his use of the
gallery wall and floor in installations. Hendrik Folkerts surveys
the artist's recent work, addressing its engagement with presence,
absence, and the trace.. Adams himself offers a visual essay
enabling readers to see details they would be imperceptible in a
gallery setting. In shorter essays and poetic texts, the other
authors focus on the South African historical and political
context, specific artworks, and particular creative strategies,
materialities, and narratives. Distributed for the Art Institute of
Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (April
2-August 1, 2022)
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Yin Xiuzhen
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Hou Hanru, Hung Wu, Stephanie Rosenthal
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A leading female sculptor and figure in Chinese contemporary art,
Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early
1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in
Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts Department in
1989. Best known for her works that incorporate second-hand
objects, Yin uses her artwork to explore modern issues of
globalization and homogenization. By utilizing recycled materials
such as sculptural documents of memory, she seeks to personalize
objects and allude to the lives of specific individuals, which are
often neglected in the drive toward excessive urbanization, rapid
modern development and the growing global economy. The artist
explains, "In a rapidly changing China, 'memory' seems to vanish
more quickly than everything else. That's why preserving memory has
become an alternative way of life."
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