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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Modernist design & Bauhaus
Vincent van Gogh becomes only 37 years old. Only the last 10 years
of his life he is engaged in painting. Restlessly and exhausting he
travels through the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and France.
Together with his colleagues Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin
he is regarded today as one of the most important artists of the
expressionism movement. This comic guide, written and drawn by
Willi Bloss, catches the main marks of the master's life and refers
optically to the unerring style that van Gogh used for his sketches
Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations
hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work
of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada,
the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and
the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But
what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it
last? Is Modernism over now? Chris Rodriguez and Chris Garratt's
brilliant graphic guide is a brilliant exploration of the last
century's most thrilling artistic work - and what it's really all
about.
In this, the first collection of prose by "one of the U.S.'s most
controversial performance artists" (P-Form Magazine), Frank Moore
explores his deep and uncompromising vision of human liberation and
art as a "battle against fragmentation." In the essays, writings
and rants of Frankly Speaking, roughly covering the period from the
late 1970s until his death in 2013, Moore reveals his plan for the
complete political and social transformation of American society
(see Platform for Frank's Presidential Candidacy 2008), stirs up
the "art world," urging fellow artists to truly live their calling
and not accept censorship (see Art is Not Toothpaste or The Combine
Plot), pulls the reader deeply into the heart of magic,
responsibility, shamanism, play, and expanded sexuality (see
Inter-Penetration or Dance of No Dancers), and much much more.
Frank Moore's essays have been praised by political activists,
authors, artists and cultural icons like Bill Mandel, John
Sinclair, Penny Arcade, Annie Sprinkle and many others for their
comprehensive and revolutionary world-view. The reader gets to join
Frank's joyful and fearless digging into the core issues of human
experience to get to something deeper: intimacy, tribal community,
freedom. Frankly Speaking also gives us a peek into the history of
these pieces, which have been widely published all over the world,
from the smallest of underground zines to the most established
mainstream art journals. But Frank always focused on the small,
personal, intimate level, and always fought to stay "underground."
As he writes in Mainstream Avant-Garde?: "The underground is where
the real freedom and the real ability to change society are to be
found." The writings in this collection have this "beautiful slow
pace as if forcing the mind of the reader to change pace as well
and let the other world come to the forefront - the cartography of
the soul is where you take us ... each in our own way ... rather
than your way ... which is generous indeed of you." (Shelley Berc,
writer, teacher) "You've hit another homer ... You ought to publish
a book of essays or perhaps a Frank Moore anthology." - Bill
Mandel, broadcast journalist, left-wing political activist and
author, best known for his televised condemnation of Sen. Joseph
McCarthy in the early '50s and later for his dramatic defiance of
the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in May 1960.
Published by Inter-Relations
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