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A deep look at a contemporary artist whose work highlights how the
rise of technology and corporate capitalism have disrupted our
lives and polarized society One of the most thought-provoking
artists of his generation, Josh Kline (b. 1979) creates
installations, sculptures, videos, and photographs that address the
ways new technologies affect how people live and work. Engaging
with a range of concerns that impact the entire labor force, from
essential workers to the creative class, Kline demonstrates how
climate change, automation, disease, and politics have shaped our
identities. At a time when so many aspects of life are under
threat, Kline takes an unflinching look at how we got here and
boldly imagines a more equitable and empathetic future. Kline's art
demonstrates the ways technology has widened and reinforced the gap
of inequity in America, while also carrying the potential to make a
fairer world. "As an artist who's thinking about the consequences
of technological innovation," Kline has said, "I think there's an
obligation to raise questions about who benefits." His ongoing
cycle of installations (Freedom, 2014-16; Unemployment, 2015-16,
Civil War, 2016-19; Climate Change, 2019- ) that imagine the next
hundred years of society are featured in this book, along with his
earlier bodies of work, Creative Labor (2009- ) and Blue Collars
(2014- ) and production images and concept sketches for his newest
works that are published here for the first time. Distributed for
the Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition Schedule: Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York (April 19-August 13, 2023)
Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic
and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence
of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC
to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the
first two centuries AD. * Compares the evolution of Greek sculpture
over the centuries to works of contemporaneous Mediterranean
civilizations * Emphasizes looking closely at the stylistic
features of Greek sculpture, illustrating these observations where
possible with original works rather than copies * Places the
remarkable progress of stylistic changes that took place in Greek
sculpture within a broader social and historical context *
Facilitates an understanding of why Greek monuments look the way
they do and what ideas they were capable of expressing * Focuses on
the most recent interpretations of Greek sculptural works while
considering the fragile and fragmentary evidence uncovered
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Olga Jevric
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Ingrid Swenson; Introduction by Fedja Klikovac; Text written by Phyllida Barlow, Richard Deacon, Jesa Denegri, …
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This first ever monograph in English on Olga Jevric offers a unique
opportunity to discover the work of a remarkable Serbian artist
whose long and distinguished career established her as the most
significant modernist sculptor from the former Yugoslavia. Despite
gaining widespread acclaim from her contemporaries both in Europe
and the USA, economic, social and geopolitical upheavals meant that
her work has been little seen outside Serbia in the past four
decades. As a witness to the Second World War and its aftermath,
Jevric sought to give voice to the spiritual roots, cultural
foundation and social conditions of the war-torn environment in
which her work developed. Through her materials - primarily a
mixture of cement, iron oxide, rods and nails - she created
distinctive forms that communicate the relationship between matter
and void; weight and weightlessness; containment and release.
Though many of her works are modest in scale, they have an
immensely powerful presence. This collection of texts and images
provides a range of perspectives on, and a thorough contextual
overview of, Jevric's work from some of the UK's most influential
sculptors, alongside prominent art historians from the former
Yugoslavia. It was produced in celebration of Jevric's exhibitions
at London art platforms PEER (28 June-14 September 2019) and Handel
Street Projects (28 June-13 December 2019), along with the
acquisition of nine of her sculptures by Tate Modern.
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Bernar Venet
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Clare Lilley, Barry Schwabsky, Florence Derieux
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The first true monograph on the work of celebrated French
conceptual artist and sculptor Bernar Venet Bernar Venet is one of
France's most celebrated living artists. Having emerged from the
late 1960s avant-garde scene in New York, Venet developed a
personal aesthetic based on an innovative use of mathematics and
science, where control, chance, and chaos converge to form a fine
equilibrium while investigating their relationship with the
environment. Conversant in many media, Venet is mostly known for
his monumental outdoor sculptures in major cities worldwide and, in
fall 19, his Arc Majeur is due for completion at a site in Belgium
- at almost 200 feet in height (60 metres), Venet's sculpture will
be taller than New York's Statue of Liberty.
Berlin-based artist Sebastian Kusenberg (b.1958) is well known for
his photographic work, but he is also a sculptor, and for the past
15 years has been working on a whimsical series of small wooden
figures. Romantic and quietly comical, his LITTLE PEOPLE have been
constructed with cuttings and scraps from his larger wooden
sculptures, bits of wood which he has not altered, but has used as
they are. The book features a text in 8 chapters by the well-known
author Sten Nadolny. ...Some people still believe they have an
unbroken, linear origin. Nonsense! Our genes don't care about that
one bit. You have two parents, four grandparents, sixteen
great-grandparents, you are a hodgepodge of large-scale
swept-together snippets!... --Sten Nadolny
This volume addresses the question of the relation between
sculpture and coins--or large statuary and miniature art--in the
private and public domain. It originates in the Harvard Art Museums
2011 Ilse and Leo Mildenberg interdisciplinary symposium
celebrating the acquisition of Margarete Bieber's coin collection.
The papers examine the function of Greek and Roman portraiture and
the importance of coins for its identification and interpretation.
The authors are scholars from different backgrounds and present
case studies from their individual fields of expertise: sculpture,
public monuments, coins, and literary sources. Sculpture and Coins
also pays homage to the art historian Margarete Bieber (1879-1978)
whose work on ancient theater and Hellenistic sculpture remains
seminal. She was the first woman to receive the prestigious travel
fellowship from the German Archaeological Institute and the first
female professor at the University of Giessen. Dismissed by the
Nazis, she came to the United States and taught at Columbia. This
publication cannot answer all the questions: its merit is to reopen
and broaden a conversation on a topic seldom tackled by
numismatists and archaeologists together since the time of Bernard
Ashmole, Phyllis Lehmann and Leon Lacroix.
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Antico
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Eleonora Luciano, et al
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This publication will be the only available English-language
monograph to date on sixteenth-century sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari
Bonacolsi (c. 1455-1528), who earned the nickname 'Antico' with his
highly refined reductions of Greco-Roman antiquities. His bronzes -
many of which were produced at the brilliant court of Isabella
d'Este at Mantua - were remarkable for being meticulously cast and
finely cleaned and finished, designed for close appreciation in the
privacy of a courtly studio. His black patination and exquisite
detailing, such as gilded hair and silver-inlaid eyes, are
characteristic. Given Antico's importance for the history of
sculpture, this book is a much needed resource in the field,
presenting new scientific research and the results of technical
studies undertaken at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. A
series of essays places Antico's life, work and technique in a
contextual framework useful for understanding his body of work. In
addition to providing an overview of the artist's career, the
catalogue will address key topics from his workmanship and craft to
his relationship with the court of Mantua. Eleonora Luciano,
associate curator of sculpture at the National Gallery of Art,
provides a biography of the artist; Claudia Kryza-Gersch, curator
of Italian sculpture at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
discusses Antico as a pioneer of Renaissance sculpture; Stephen
Campbell, professor and chair of the department of the history of
art at John Hopkins University, writes about 'Antico and Humanism
at the Court of Mantua'; Davide Gasparotto, curator at the Galleria
Nazionale di Parma, considers Antico's portraiture; Denise Allen,
curator at the Frick Collection, New York, writes about 'Materials,
Workmanship and Meaning' in the artist's work. Two appendices
present new scientific work: Dylan Smith and Shelley Sturman, both
conservators at the National Gallery of Art, explore the technology
of Antico's bronzes, and Richard Stone, conservator emeritus at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, examines Antico's patinas.
Exhibition held at National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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Duchamp
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Janis Mink
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When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp
(1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the
French artist's Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a
gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment that
reverberate right through to today. This essential introduction
distills all the daring and the scandal of Duchamp's practice into
one essential overview not only of a pioneering creative but also
of a critical moment in Western culture. From his groundbreaking
blend of abstraction, Cubism, and Futurism in Nude Descending a
Staircase (1912) to his forays into the now-iconic "readymades"
such as Bicycle Wheel (1913) and Bottle Rack (1914) we explore how
Duchamp consistently challenged the notion of what art is and, in
so doing, opened up a world of conceptual possibilities beyond the
"retinal" experience. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic
Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection
ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a
detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the
artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a
concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory
captions
"The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the
motivating source of most of my work."-Richard Serra Drawn from
talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art
historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume
offers revelations into Serra's prolific six-decade career and the
ideas that have informed his working practice. Conversations about
Sculpture is both an intimate look at Serra's life and work, with
candid reflections on personal moments of discovery, and a
provocative examination of sculptural form from antiquity to today.
Serra and Foster explore such subjects as the artist's work in
steel mills as a young man; the impact of music, dance, and
architecture on his art; the importance of materiality and site
specificity to his aesthetic; the controversies and contradictions
his work has faced; and his belief in sculpture as experience. They
also discuss sources of inspiration-from Donatello and Brancusi to
Japanese gardens and Machu Picchu-revealing a history of sculpture
across time and culture through the eyes of one of the medium's
most brilliant figures. Introduced with an insightful preface by
Foster, this probing dialogue is beautifully illustrated with
duotone images that bring to life both Serra's work and his key
commitments.
In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the
Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy
in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around
these "miraculous images" in the city and surrounding countryside
beginning in the late 13th century. In The Miraculous Image in
Renaissance Florence, Megan Holmes questions what distinguished
these paintings and sculptures from other similar sacred images,
looking closely at their material and formal properties, the
process of enshrinement, and the foundation legends and miracles
associated with specific images. Whereas some of the images
presented in this fascinating book are well known, such as Bernardo
Daddi's Madonna of Orsanmichele, many others have been little
studied until now. Holmes's efforts center on the recovery and
contextualization of these revered images, reintegrating them and
their related cults into an art-historical account of the period.
By challenging prevailing views and offering a reassessment of the
Renaissance, this generously illustrated and comprehensive survey
makes a significant contribution to the field.
Medieval polychrome wood sculptures are highly complex objects,
bearers of histories that begin with their original carving and
adornment and continue through long centuries of repainting,
deterioration, restoration, and conservation. Abundantly
illustrated, this book is the first in English to offer a
comprehensive overview of the conservation of medieval painted wood
sculpture for conservators, curators, and others charged with their
care. Beginning with an illuminating discussion of the history,
techniques, and meanings of these works, it continues with their
examination and documentation, including chapters on the
identification of both the wooden support and the polychromy
itself-the paint layers, metal leaf, and other materials used for
these sculptures. The volume also covers the many aspects of
treatment: the process of determining the best approach;
consolidation and adhesion of paint, ground, and support; overpaint
removal and surface cleaning; and compensation. Four case studies
on artworks in the collection of The Cloisters in New York, a
comprehensive bibliography, and a checklist to aid in documentation
complement the text.
The outstanding collection of European bronze scupltures formed by
Peter Marino, which focuses especially on French and Italian
bronzes of the High Baroque, includes masterpieces by some of the
greatest sculptors of their age, among them Ferdinando Tacca,
Giovanni Battista Foggini, Robert le Lorrain, and Corneille van
Clève. This volume of the contributions to the symposium held in
June 2010 testifying to the importance of the Marino Collection
includes ten essays by distinguished scholars of sculpture. Charles
Avery, author of major monographs on Giambologna and Bernini,
discusses the impetus behind one of the most exciting models in the
Marino Collection, a Hercules and Antaeus, after Maderno.
Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Director of the Louvre Sculpture
Department, examines the discovery of a large number of small
pieces of terracotta sculpture, thought to be from the workshop of
Andrés-Charles Boulle, which was destroyed in 1720. Anthea Brook,
who has published extensively on Ferdinando Tacca, considers the
attribution of a pair of small Florentine bronze hunting groups in
the Marino Collection, making the case for Damiano Cappelli - a
bronze-casting specialist in the workshop of Tacca - to be
considered as a scupltor capable of creating his own designs.
Rosario Coppel investigates the impressive collection of small
bronzes of the 3rd Duke of Alcalá(1583-1637), who was Philip IV's
extraordinary ambassador to Pope Urban VIII and later Viceroy and
Captain General in Naples. Phillippe Malgouyres, Curator of
Bronzes, Ivories, and Metals at the Louvre, discusses the bronze
casts after Bernini sculpture, a little-studied subject in the wide
field of Bernini studies. Jeffiner Montagu, Senior Fellow of the
Warburg Institute, attempts to put together and define the oeuvre
of the unknown sculptor of the magnificent 15-figure group of
bronze hunters, their hounds and a bull, in the Suermondt Ludwig
Museum in Aachen. Independent scholar Regina Seelig Teuwen extoles
Guillaume Berthelot as a sculptor of small bronzes, while Jeremy
Warren, Collections and Academic Director at the Wallace
Collection, discusses the challenges of cataloguing the Peter
Marino Collection for the 2010 exhibition. Dimitros Zikos of the
Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence presents the extraordinary
collection of bronzes and terracottas of Giuseppe and Ferdinando
Borri. Eike Schmidt, James Ford Bell Curator of Decorative Arts and
Sculpture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, discusses the
adaption of two-dimensional models in Giovanni Battista Foggini's
bronze sculpture.
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of
interest in sculpture. Sculptors of the New Sculpture movement
engaged in a wide range of experimentation, seeking a new direction
and a modern idiom for their art. This book analyzes for the first
time the art-theoretical concerns of the late-Victorian sculptors,
focusing on their attitudes toward the representation of the human
body. Sculpture through close study of works by key figures in the
movement: Frederic Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Hamo Thorneycroft,
Edward Onslow Ford, and James Havard Thomas. These artists sought
to activate and animate the conventional format of the ideal statue
so that it would convincingly and compellingly stand in for both a
living body and an ideal image. Complicating the conventions that
had characterised much previous sculpture in Britain, they
fervently pursued a commitment to the mimetic rendering of the body
in three dimensions. In response to the problems and perils of such
a commitment, late-Victorian sculptors worked to develop strategies
that allowed them to accommodate naturalism and symbolism as well
as the materiality of sculpture. Getsy offers an analysis of the
conceptual complexity of the New Sculpture and places its concerns
within the larger framework of the development of modern sculpture.
Rini Tandon's work is characterized by a poetic cross-media
approach: her oeuvre comprises works on paper, paintings, and
sculptures, as well as photographs and videos. This monograph
provides, for the first time, an overview of the oeuvre of the
artist, who was born in India and lives in Austria, and who studied
under Nasreen Mohamedi at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the
University of Baroda. The book takes the reader on a fascinating
journey - from Rini Tandon's early work, which already showed an
affinity for sculptural expression, through to her post-minimalist
geometric sculptures and her interventions in architectural and
landscape space. As a result of her engagement with digital
modernism she finally produced experimental setups and videos with
a scientific slant.
Bonalumi is one of the figures who has made the most significant
marks on the Italian artistic scene starting from the 1960s. He
took part in the cultural debate that developed in those years,
contributing decisively, together with Enrico Baj, Piero Manzoni
and Enrico Castellani, to the transcending of informal language in
the name of a new objectification of the artwork. Starting from
1959, Agostino Bonalumi began to create shaped works using convex
canvas obtained through the use of wooden or steel elements
positioned behind the canvas itself. This is a stylistic
characteristic that was to remain unchanged over the years and that
would lead to the artist testing his skills in both the sculptural
and the environmental/architectural fields. Through a special
selection of works of small dimensions, created by the artist
during the entire course of his career, one can look back to his
conceptual and project path, from the convex canvases to his
sculptural production. The sophisticated results of the artist's
research are achieved here also thanks to a more intimate
dimension, in which he employs his own methodological approach. The
works presented here are neither preparatory models nor sketches of
works of larger dimensions: rather, they have come about from the
same practice and sometimes share the conformation of the larger
works. The small format works were often realised following the
larger ones, as if the reduced dimensions enabled the artist to
better delineate the project idea lying at the basis of the latter.
Text in English and Italian.
This first monograph on Phillip Lai (b.1969, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia) charts the artist's sculptural development over the
course of the last two decades. From a basement soy-sauce factory
to the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, the publication surveys
several of the artist's exhibitions across London, Wakefield,
Turin, Berlin and Hong Kong. The nine chapters explore an evolving
oeuvre that finds form in materials like aluminium, pewter,
concrete, resin, rice, cooking pots, textiles and film. It is
through these technologies that Lai broaches the material limits of
the everyday world, often working with casting processes that see
the abstraction and changing stability of materials as they
transition from fluid to solid. What comes into focus is a
fascination with how objects can relieve or modulate primal human
urges to food and water and how, by extension, a material world
might be re-envisioned around concerns of depletion and survival.
This publication includes an essay by critic and writer Jan
Verwoert, with bilingual text in English and Chinese throughout.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from
India's Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the
thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced
thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection
was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.
During festivals, these bronze sculptures-including Shiva, referred
to in a saintly vision as "the thief who stole my heart"-were
adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active
participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book,
leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within
the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing
so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our
very eyes. Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that
interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of
their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday
activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for
the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She
considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities,
proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the
Chola empire's political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also
investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and
discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in
translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls. From the
Cholas' religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even
food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete
immersion in a community still accessible to us through its
exquisite sacred art. Published in association with the Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art
spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an
outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40
exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park attracting a
diverse audience to Long Island City's East River waterfront. This
handsome book is published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of
Socrates Sculpture Park, and it is the first major publication on
this unique outdoor museum. Sculptor Mark di Suvero founded the
Park with the assistance of fellow artists, community members, and
city officials who transformed an abandoned lot into an
award-winning urban renewal project. The history, spirit, and
nature of this collaborative enterprise is presented through
photographs and essays that reveal the beauty, energy, and import
of this successful public art space. Distributed for Socrates
Sculpture Park
In the year 1260 Nicola Pisano, the sculptor who initiated the
revival of classicizing ideals that would later form a major
component of Italian Renaissance art, created a remarkable and
unusual monument for the Baptistry of Pisa, a hexagonal pulpit
supported by seven colorful columns and displaying on its parapet
five visually compelling narrative reliefs; several years later he
designed a second pulpit, this time for the cathedral of Siena.
Toward the end of the century, his son Giovanni received a pulpit
commission for the parish church of Sant'Andrea, Pistoia, to be
followed a few years later (c. 1302) by another one for the
cathedral of Pisa. These four extraordinary monuments, each
building upon both older traditions and its own immediate
predecessors, yet each a highly innovative and original solution,
are the primary subject of this book.
The Venus de Milo is both a great work of art and a popular icon,
and from the moment of her discovery in 1820, she has been an
object of controversy. In Disarmed, Gregory Curtis gives us the
life of this magnificent statue. Unearthed by a farmer digging for
marble building blocks on the Aegean island of Melos, at the moment
a young officer and amateur archeologist happened by, the ownership
of the Venus was fought over by the island's elders and their
Turkish overlords. The French pressed their claim and then,
outwitting other suitors, brought her to the Louvre, where she
became an immediate celebrity. century, caught in the grip of a
classical art mania and a burgeoning romantic Hellenism. He
sketches a tale of rich historical intrigue, revealing just how far
the Louvre was prepared to go to prove it had the greatest
classical find of the era. And how two magisterial scholars, one
French and one German, battled over the statue's origins and
authenticity for decades. This is a marvellously readable and
entertaining history of one of the best known artworks in the
world.
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