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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among
the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Sartre,
Breton, and Winnicott are just some of the great thinkers who have
drawn upon the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which has
continued to resonate with artists, writers, and audiences. In this
book, Timothy Mathews explores the themes of fragility, trauma,
space, and relationality in Giacometti's art and the texts that
respond or refer to them: the novels of W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett
and Cees Nooteboom, and the theories of Bertolt Brecht, which
recasts the iconic L'Homme qui marche as Walter Benjamin's Angel of
History. During his lifelong quest to represent the human form, and
to locate the humanity at the heart of conflicting conceptions of
modernity, Giacometti returned to the key notions of depth and
flatness, memory and attachment, through his sculptures and
writings. Both a critical study of Giacometti's life and work, and
an investigation of their affective power, this book asks what
encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about the history
of our own time, and our ways of looking; about the nature of human
attachment, and the humility of relating to art.
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Sokunge (As If)
(Paperback)
Masimba Hwati; Designed by Baynham Goredema; Interview by Ryan Chokureva
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R922
Discovery Miles 9 220
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Swiss artist Heidi Bucher was a major feminist figure on the
international neoavantgarde art scene, whose work is characterized
by a unique performative, yet material concept of sculpture. As
early as the 1970s Bucher was experimenting with unusual materials
such as latex, breathing life into them. She would pour liquid
rubber onto surfaces and then pull it off again with great physical
force, literally coming to grips with the world of things she
experienced and pressing forward into psychological border zones.
By transforming materials in ways that were as radical as they were
sensual, she explored forms of human existence and how they are
embedded in societal and private power structures. This monograph
presents Bucher's oeuvre from her early days as a student in Zurich
in the 1940s, to her experimental phase in New York and Los Angeles
of the 1960s and 1970s, to her major works of "skinning"
architecture and people, all the way to the pieces she created
during her final years on Lanzarote.
An original and entertaining catalogue for a travelling exhibition
that has already been much talked about. The expressive power of
glass emerges from the pages of the Glasstrees catalogue, which
travelled from the Venice Biennale to the Museum of Art and Design
of New York in February 2012. The excellent colour photographs
illustrate the glass sculptures and installations by
internationally-acclaimed artists and designers, some of the most
important on the international scene, who for the occasion tackled
one of the arts to have made Venice famous throughout the world.
This catalogue will become a "must" for collectors, designers,
students and connoisseurs.
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