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It’s the ultimate art tome for the iconic Devil May Cry
franchise! Collected are materials from the first four classic
Devil May Cry games and the Devil May Cry anime series. Inside
you’ll find character artwork, weapon designs, creatures,
locations, and more. Also included are over 20-pages of exclusive
interviews with the developers and artists behind the long-running
series, as well as plenty of creator commentary!
Each technical information page contains: address, a location map,
an artistic photograph and an explanatory text written by an
expert. In addition to a short list of specifications, a QR code
refers to qualified institutional websites where more information
can be found. At the foot of each page, there is a reference to the
maps in the final pages, organized by area and marked with routes
adapted to the proximity of each work. Four blank pages follow for
writing, drawing or pasting in memories of your visit, to turn the
guide into a personalized object and a souvenir at the end of your
trip.
A comprehensive overview of renowned Belgian artist Berlinde De
Bruyckere's work since 2014, inspired by the figure of the angel
Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere has long been a leading light
in the international contemporary art world whose sculptures,
installations and drawings endeavor to find the meaning of
humanity, physicality, suffering and vitality. Conceived in the
loneliness and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book
explores De Bruyckere's recent, never-before-seen work inspired by
the figure of the angel as portrayed in myths, stories, literature
and art history. According to De Bruyckere, an angel-with its warm,
dark wings-provides protection, a refuge from fear. The angel
guards against a lonely existence and, even more importantly,
against a lonely death. It symbolizes the fragile line De Bruyckere
treads between artistic poeticism and engagement with current
affairs. This volume will serve as an essential resource on an
artist whose works constitute a provocative and influential
addition to the contemporary art canon. Distributed for
Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Bonnefantenmuseum Maastrich, The
Netherlands (March 29-September 26, 2021)
The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an
'architectural Big Bang', such was the intensity of energy and
ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by
architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains
just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom,
Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse,
the avant-garde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency.
It was divergent geographically - reaching from Europe to North
America and Japan - and in its political, formal and cultural
preoccupations. It was unified, though, as a critical and
experimental force, critiquing contemporary society against the
backdrop of extreme social and political upheaval: the Paris riots
of May 1968, the anti-Vietnam war movement in America and the
looming ecological crisis. Re-imagining the Avant-garde outlines
how in contemporary architectural practice, avant-garde projects
retain their power as historical precedents, as barometers of a
particular design ethos, as critiques of society and instigators of
new formal techniques. Given the far-reaching impact of the
subsequent digital revolution, which has since reshaped every
aspect of practice, the issue asks why this historical period
continues to retain its undeniable grip on current architecture.
Contributors: Pablo Bronstein and Sam Jacob, Sarah Deyong,
Stylianos Giamarelos, Damjan Jovanovic, Andrew Kovacs, Perry
Kulper, Igor Marjanovic, William Menking, Michael Sorkin, Neil
Spiller and Mimi Zeiger. Featured architects: Archizoom, Andrea
Branzi, Jimenez Lai, Luis Miguel (Koldo) Lus Arana (Klaus),
NEMESTUDIO, Superstudio and UrbanLab.
Artist Robert Gratiot refers to his work as ""painterly
photo-realism,"" and he readily reveals his complete commitment to
this reference by rendering his subjects with photographic
accuracy. His mastery of painterly methods and of various drawing
techniques highlights his astounding eye-to-hand coordination.
Gratiot precisely conveys a particular scene through meticulously
produced details, each down to the smallest and expertly handled.
But it is more than that-he regards each small section of a
painting as an abstraction, and then assembles these tiny
abstractions to build the realistic whole. His paintings are
obviously the product of the considerable efforts of a very gifted
and extremely meticulous painter. ""The genuine revelation is how
deeply personal and individual these pieces are for Robert Gratiot.
This is a surprise, particularly considering the impersonal nature
of his subjects. However, each is deeply felt and carries hidden
moods and veiled stories, which until he shared them, were known
only to Gratiot.""-Michael Paglia
In 2018 the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the
Royal Academy of Arts will host major exhibitions of the work of
Tacita Dean. Each will provide a different encounter with her art.
This book brings together new and existing works from all three
exhibitions - LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE - with texts offering
a unique insight into Dean's work by leading writers including
Alexandra Harris, Alan Hollinghurst and Ali Smith. Published at a
particularly prolific period for Dean, this book provides a new and
authoritative view of a hugely influential artist who has been at
the forefront of British art for over twenty years. The volume is
published with three different covers.
The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art
scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art. They
exploded art-world conventions with brazen disdain. Dismissed as
trivial gimmickry and praised for its witty energy, their art made
a mark both on the art scene and on public consciousness that
continues to reverberate today. Now, almost three decades after
they emerged, Artrage! tells the story of the YBAs with the benefit
of perspective, chronicling the group's rise to prominence from the
landmark show `Freeze' curated by Damien Hirst, through the heyday
of the 1990s and the notorious `Sensation' exhibition, to the
Momart fire of 2004 that seemed to symbolize the group's fading
from centre stage. The book ends with an update on the artists'
careers and fortunes in the last decade. Drawing on interviews with
all the key BritArt players and extensive archival research,
Elizabeth Fullerton examines the individual characters, their
relationships to one another, crucial events and seminal artworks,
considering, too, the political, economic and artistic context of
those years. Plentiful quotations bring out the distinctive
personalities and provide fresh insights into the people and the
period. Among the artists discussed are Damien Hirst, Rachel
Whiteread, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Lucas and
Gary Hume.
While German painting of the postwar period essentially concerned
itself with coming to terms with the past and presenting it in
gestures ranging from the heroic to the ironic, Daniel Richter
focuses on positioning himself in the present. Time and again he
devises new ways of being "modern" in a medium that has long been
labeled old-fashioned and anachronistic. His pictures constantly
challenge the spectator by their painterly and contextually
excessive demands, but they do not lecture on moral issues. In five
chapters featuring more than 200 examples of his works, the author
Eva Meyer-Hermann traces the chronological development of Richter's
artistic output for the first time. The turns from abstraction to
figuration and back again that until now have been described as
abrupt, prove on closer examination to be a logical consequence and
a sign of conscious artistic action.
Artist Kent Monkman's all-encompassing project, Shame and
Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, takes viewers on a journey
through Canada's history, starting in the present and going back to
before Canadian confederation. Throughout the book there are
clever, albeit controversial, commentaries told by Monkman's
genderfluid, time-travelling, supernatural alter-ego Miss Chief
Eagle Testickle. Her narratives take viewers through the history of
New France and the fur trade, the nineteenth-century dispossession
of First Nations lands through Canadian colonial policies, the
horrors of the residential school system, and modern First Nations
experiences in urban environments. Shame and Prejudice challenges
predominant narratives of Canadian history and honours the
resilience of First Nations peoples. This book accompanies
Monkman's largest solo exhibition to date, which is currently
travelling across Canada at venues including the Art Museum at the
University of Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum
in Calgary, and the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. The
exhibition includes the artist's own paintings, drawings, and
sculptural works, which form a dialogue with historical artefacts
and artworks borrowed from museums and private collections across
Canada. The book is trilingual with all text in English, French and
Cree.
Following her 2010 publication dedicated to roses, Cologne-based
artist Sabine Moritz here turns her attention to lilies, which she
first began depicting in the mid 1990s. Working on paper to produce
fifty-nine charcoal, pastel and oil pastel drawings, similiarly she
often approaches works as studies or exercises in observation and
representation. During the development of this publication, which
was originally conceived as a collection of Moritz s drawings of
lilies, the artist had the idea to introduce another ongoing body
of work drawings of objects alongside the lilies. These objects are
primarily statues, statuettes and figurines hand-made works of art
from different periods in history, such as a classical torso, an
African figurine, and a Buddhist head. Moritz s drawings of objects
reflect a range of ideas and registers, moods and sentiments.
Including the objects alongside the lilies opens up questions of
time, life, death, belief, truth, human psychology and the very
process o
Explore the graphic work of Hundertwasser with this lavishly
produced introduction to the artist. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
was a painter. He created original graphic works--lithographs,
silkscreens, mixed media, etchings, and aquatint as well as
Japanese woodcuts. This bibliophilic gem is a Hundertwasser
original, the first book designed and laid out by the artist
himself. Bound in black linen, foil-embossed, and printed in six
colors, this book features illustrations of all 71 of
Hundertwasser's graphic works created between 1951 and 1976. Each
work is given a full-page and is accompanied by a Hundertwasser
poem or quote printed in silver on a black page. The book also
contains an introduction and critical texts that make it
indispensable for fans of Hundertwasser and lovers of beauty.
Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones,
American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and
prolific draftsman since he began his career in the 1940s as an
illustrator and cartoonist. This book of about ninety drawings -
compiled with the full cooperation of the artist to accompany a
major new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum - explores
the wide range of Thiebaud's production on paper, including early
sketches, luminous pastels and watercolours, and charcoal drawings
made in connection with his teaching. In subjects ranging from deli
counters and isolated figures to dramatic views of San Francisco's
plunging streets, Thiebaud's drawings endow the most banal,
everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia. Fully
illustrated and beautifully designed, with illuminating texts,
including an extensive interview with the artist, Wayne Thiebaud:
Draftsman is the first major publication devoted to his lifelong
engagement with drawing.
Artist Mari Ichimasu's backpacking cats started out as creatures of
her imagination. Sometimes she would turn a human friend into one
of the cats, and as her artwork increased in popularity, her fans
requested that she paint their cat next. Initially, the characters
came from her imagination and gradually developed into
collaborations with other living souls.) Mari would illustrate each
character in clothing and accessories appropriate to their
personality. Viola, for example, wears binoculars ready to watch
the whales. Maka is barefoot with a guitar and a bottle of beer
peeking out of her pack. Jake dons snowshoes, a thick sweater, and
a scarf as he heads to snow country. These adorable illustrations
are accompanied with a simple sweet poem that hopefully tells of
each cat's journey. Meet all 45 travel cats in this debut
collection.
This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked
appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and
practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in
innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of
such entities, the book adopts the term 'mixed form' for them.
Focusing on key phenomena in the last half millennium such as the
cabinet of curiosities, the broadside ballad and the chapbook as
early forms of image-text, the scrapbook, assemblage, and, in
digital times, so-called 'mixed reality,' the book argues that
while the quality of inconsistency is traditionally dismissed, its
expression nevertheless plays a vital role in social life.
Crucially, Mixed Forms of Visual Culture relates its phenomena to
the emergence of the division of labour under capitalism and
addresses the shifting relationships between art and life, when
singularity and uniformity are variously valued and dismissed in
the two arenas, and at different points in history. Two of the
book's chapters take the form of visual essays, with one comprising
an anthology of found scrapbook pages and the other offering an
analysis of artists' scrapbooks. The book is richly illustrated
throughout.
Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and
visual artist. This is the first book to present a full account of
Adnan's fascinating life and work, using the drama of her
biography, the complexity of her identity, and the cosmopolitan
nature of her experience to illuminate the many layers and
dimensions of her paintings and their progress over several crucial
decades. Adnan came relatively late to painting - her first images
were created in the late-1950s in response to the Californian
landscape. Her vocabulary of lines, shapes and colours changed
little over time, and yet there are huge variations in mood,
texture, composition and material. Similarly, there is a balance
between understanding her paintings as pure abstractions, emulating
the shape of thought, and seeing them for the actual landscapes of
the many places Adnan loved, embraced and responded to. Tackling
the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen
Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the
full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
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