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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.
For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite:
despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and
again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that
resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative
transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has
actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as
positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing
personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while
rejecting cliches and pieties and these essays stretch across the
country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu
deserves another look.
Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was one of the most significant Japanese
American artists working on the West Coast in the last century.
Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in
1903 and embarked on a seven-decade career that saw the enactment
of anti-immigration laws and the mass incarceration of Japanese
Americans during World War II. But Obata emerged as a leading
figure in the Northern California artistic communities, serving not
only as an influential art professor at UC Berkeley for nearly
twenty years, but also as a founding director of art schools in the
internment camps. With a prodigious and expansive oeuvre, Obata's
seemingly effortless mastery of, and productive engagement with,
diverse techniques, styles, and traditions defy the dichotomous
categorizations of American/European and Japanese/Asian art. His
faith in the power of art, his devotion to preserving the myriad
grandeur of what he called "Great Nature," and his compelling
personal story as an immigrant and an American are all as relevant
to our contemporary moment as ever. This catalogue is the first
book surveying Chiura Obata's rich and varied body of work that
include over 100 beautiful images, many of which have never been
published. It also showcases a selection of Obata's writings and a
rare 1965 interview with the artist. The scholarly essays by ShiPu
Wang and the other contributors illuminate the intense and
productive cross-cultural negotiations that Obata's life and work
exemplify, in the context of both American modernism and the early
twentieth-century U.S. racio-ethnic relations-a still-understudied
area in American art historical scholarship. Published in
association with the Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC Santa
Barbara. Exhibition dates: Art, Design and Architecture Museum, UC
Santa Barbara: January 13-April 29, 2018 Utah Museum of Fine Arts,
Salt Lake City: May 25-September 2, 2018 Okayama Prefectural Museum
of Art, Okayama, Japan: January 18-March 10, 2019 Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento: June 23-September 29, 2019
Art + Science Now is a groundbreaking overview of the art being
made at the cutting edge of scientific research. The first
illustrated book in its field, it shows how some of the world's
most dynamic art is being produced not in museums, galleries and
studios but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural,
philosophical and social questions connected with scientific and
technological advances. Featuring the work of around 250 artists
from the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the USA, Japan and
elsewhere, it presents a broad range of projects, from body art to
bioengineering of plants and insects, from music, dance and
computer-controlled video performances to large-scale visual and
sound installations. This comprehensive guide to contemporary art
inspired or driven by scientific innovation points to intriguing
new directions for the visual arts and traces a key strand in
21st-century aesthetics.
Can an artist claim that an object is a work of art if it has been
made for him or her by someone else? If so, who is the `author' of
such a work? And just what is the difference between a work of art
and a work of craft? New in paperback, the first book to highlight
and explore the way artists collaborate with artisans and
craftspeople to realise their work. The Art of Not Making tackles
explores the concepts of authorship, artistic originality, skill,
craftsmanship and the creative act, and highlighting the vital role
that skills from craft and industrial production play in creating
some of today's most innovative and highly sought-after works of
art. The book analyses hundreds of artworks by the most important
international artists, including Chris Burden, Louise Bourgeois,
Matthew Barney, Grayson Perry, Mona Hatoum, Ai Weiwei, Daniel
Buren, Carsten Hoeller, Mark Wallinger, Kiki Smith, Fred Wilson,
Pae White, Tony Cragg, Roni Horn, Liam Gillick, Sherrie Levine, Ugo
Rondionone, Subodh Gupta, Kara Walker and Maurizio Cattelan.
`Enjoyable ... Petry clearly knows his stuff'- Art Quarterly
`Timely...Petry has identified a significant art world trend' - The
Art Newspaper `Glorious' - Harper's Bazaar `A handsome
volume...provides pause for thought, and should be commended for
drawing attention to the ideas of collaboration' - Ceramic Review
`Refreshingly fun to read and look at' - State of Art `The
arguments presented in this glossy erudite art book are bold,
intriguing ... beautiful' - GT (Gay Times)
This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive
new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of
the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media
artists, who create, and tactically deploy, digital interfaces in
their work in order to question the socio-cultural stakes of a
technology that shapes and reshapes relationships between humans
and non-humans. In this way, it shows how use of the digital
interface provides us with a critical framework for understanding
our relationship with technology.
Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach
to representational practices within contemporary art and
anthropology. Traditionally, the anthropology of art has tended to
focus on the interpretation of tribal artifacts but has not
considered the impact such art could have on its own ways of making
and presenting work. The potential for the contemporary art scene
to suggest innovative representational practices has been similarly
ignored. This book challenges the reluctance that exists within
anthropology to pursue alternative strategies of research, creation
and exhibition, and argues that contemporary artists and
anthropologists have much to learn from each others' practices. The
contributors to this pioneering book consider the work of artists
such as Susan Hiller, Francesco Clemente and Rimer Cardillo, and in
exploring topics such as the possibility of shared representational
values, aesthetics and modernity, and tattooing, they suggest
productive new directions for practices in both fields.
Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can
represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories,
or to withdraw into adult spaces of intimacy; they can be sites for
developing rituals, family relationships, and acting out cultural
expectations. Like the personal, social, and cultural elements out
of which they are constructed, homes can be not only comforting,
but threatening too. The home is a rich theme running through
post-war western art, and it continues to engage contemporary
artists today - yet it has been the subject of relatively little
critical writing. Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the
Everyday is the first single-authored, up-to-date book on the
subject. Imogen Racz provides a theme-led discussion about how the
physical experience of the dwelling space and the psychological
complexities of the domestic are manifested in art, focusing mainly
on sculpture, installation and object-based practice; discussing
the work and ideas of artists as diverse as Louise Bourgeois,
Gordon Matta-Clark, George Segal and Cornelia Parker within their
artistic and cultural contexts.
One of the most wide-ranging and ambitious creative minds of his
generation, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has produced a
dizzying spectrum of work around the world. Best known for his
large-scale public works in a wide range of settings, from museums
to gardens, his constant inventiveness and publicly oriented
projects across the globe have entranced huge numbers of people.
Focusing on a single artwork situated across a large site in his
native country, the project's title refers to the glaciers that
formed the landscape around sites in Denmark, as can still be seen
in the country's topography and geology. Five mirrors, ranging from
a perfect circle to elongated ellipses, reflect the changing sky
above and the contemplator's own gaze as if in the surfaces of
glacial pools. This book offers a unique and highly detailed
insight, captured over the course of four seasons, of a singular
landscape. Working with geologists, landscape architects and other
specialists, Eliasson has created a unique space seen by few. This
publication documents and enhances the work itself through
photographs, essays and collaborators who render the poetic power
of the project in images and words. Exquisitely produced and
packaged in a limited quantity, this very special volume is a gift
to collectors, bibliophiles and all those seeking new perspectives
on one of the world's leading artists.
Dark Horse Books and Nintendo team up to bring you "The Legend of
Zelda: Hyrule Historia", containing an unparalleled collection of
historical information on "The Legend of Zelda" franchise. This
handsome hardcover contains never-before-seen concept art, the full
history of Hyrule, the official chronology of the games, and much
more! Starting with an insightful introduction by the legendary
producer and video-game designer of Donkey Kong, Mario, and The
Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, this book is crammed full of
information about the storied history of Link's adventures from the
creators themselves! As a bonus, "The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule
Historia" includes an exclusive comic by the foremost creator of
"The Legend of Zelda" manga - Akira Himekawa!
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The Singing Bones
(Hardcover)
Shaun Tan; Contributions by Neil Gaiman
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Shaun Tan fans get to see his extraordinary talent applied to
sculpture in this award-winning, lavishly presented collection of
art based on fairy tales told by the Brothers Grimm. Artist Shaun
Tan is world renowned for his singular vision and storytelling
abilities. This art book showcases his sculptural talent, applied
here to fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Tan captures the
essence of these tales as he brings traitorous brothers, lonely
princesses, cunning foxes, honourable peasants and ruthless witches
to life in surprising - and illuminating - ways. Introduced by
author Neil Gaiman and fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes, The Singing
Bones is a feast for the eyes, a profound, powerful celebration of
the world's most beloved stories.
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