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A new monograph brings together 30 important paintings by Pierre
Bonnard (1867 1947) on loan from museums and private collections,
including still lifes, nudes, interior scenes, and landscapes, many
never seen together before and published here for the first time.
The book reveals how Bonnard s modern compositions transformed
paintings in the first half of the twentieth century, while
celebrating his unparalleled ability to capture fleeting moments,
memories, and emotions on canvas. Rather than focus on a particular
time period or subject, Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing aims to
present Bonnard s modernity and concentrate on his influence on
contemporary painters working today. The book draws attention to
how Bonnard translated the experience of perception with his
shifting spaces, camouflaged and dissolving figures going in and
out of focus, and forms hidden at the periphery and how we as
viewers experience his paintings, with his works slowly revealing
themselves to us over time.
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Amelia Rosselli; Introduction by Barry Schwabsky
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R423
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Rose Wylie: Which One (Hardcover)
Rose Wylie; Foreword by Nicholas Serota; Text written by Judith Bernstein, David Salle, Barry Schwabsky; Interview by …
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R1,625
Discovery Miles 16 250
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"Wylie fearlessly tackles the thorniest topics head-on, committing
her thoughts and questions about politics, religion, fame, love,
history, money and nature to canvas." - Charlotte Brook, Harper's
Bazaar Inspired by film, pop culture, and the history of fashion as
she experienced personally, Wylie harnesses a union of high and low
culture with a bold technique of mark making. Her unique practice
of material overlay and erasure creates fantastic compositions.
Creating conceptual tensions between formal and informal
aesthetics, Wylie employs the visual elements of text as formal
details in her paintings. With a beautiful swiss binding, this
monograph compiles the work of four exhibitions at David Zwirner
offering a full breadth of Wylie's most recent work to date. Giving
insight and compassion to Wylie's feminist and rebellious impulses,
Judith Bernstein writes an accompanying text on how she relates to
Wylie's ambitious and playful energy. With a foreword by Nicholas
Serota, this publication also features new essays by Barry
Schwabsky and David Salle and an enlightening interview between the
artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Whether as a reaction to our technological present or as a
manifestation of fears concerning our environmental future,
depictions of the natural world in painting have never seemed more
pertinent or urgent. Some of the most ambitious, crucial and
intellectually vibrant paintings being created in this century
involve the landscape - from a more traditional, perceptual based
approach for rendering vistas to a looser, topography-inspired
gestural abstraction that blurs the line between form and space, to
many other modes in between. Surprisingly, there has not been an
ambitious and wide-reaching publication on the subject - until now.
The result of several years' worth of research, Landscape Painting
Now is the first book to explore the very best contemporary
landscape painting. Featuring artists from nearly twenty-five
countries born over seven decades, it includes some of the
brightest stars of the contemporary art world. It is introduced by
an essay from Barry Schwabsky, who discusses the history of
landscape painting, exploring how the genre developed through the
20th century to today, and how it has become increasingly relevant
to art now. He also explores the notion of what is actually called
a landscape painting today, and looks to expand beyond commonly
held preconceptions concerning the genre.
A groundbreaking examination of Mel Bochner's inventive drawing
practice produced collaboratively with the artist Encompassing both
works on paper and oversized wall drawings made from the 1960s to
the present, this handsomely designed volume documents the
first-ever museum retrospective of drawings by Mel Bochner (b.
1940). Drawing has long been critical to the work of this
pioneering conceptual artist, and essayists explore the theoretical
framework and playful experimentation of his decades-long practice.
The book, conceived and designed in close collaboration with the
artist, features his own writings about his philosophy of wall
drawings and reflections on significant exhibitions of his work.
Bochner was a key figure of the Minimalist and Conceptual Art
movements whose first exhibition in 1966 is now recognized as
seminal. Today the artist is known for works in a range of media
that explore the conventions of language and visual art as well as
the relationships between them; his experimental works on paper,
canvas, and wall-all of which are celebrated here-are a
foundational facet of his practice and a critical influence on
contemporary art. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (April 23-August 22,
2022)
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Jeff Wall (Hardcover)
Jeff Wall; Edited by Emily Wei Rales, Nora Severson Cafritz, Fanna Gebreyesus, Yuri Stone; Text written by …
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R1,049
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Edmondo Bacci: Energy and Light
Edmondo Bacci; Edited by Chiara Bertola; Text written by Barry Schwabsky, Toni Toniato, Riccardo Venturi
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R934
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From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art
critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended
conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian
critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their discussions ranged widely over a
vast range of topics, from American pop art and minimalism to
abstraction and appropriationism. Yet they continually returned to
the concepts at the core of Danto's thinking-posthistory and the
end of aesthetics-provocative notions that to this day shape
questions about the meaning and future of contemporary art. Art and
Posthistory presents these rich dialogues and correspondence,
testifying to the ongoing importance of Danto's ideas. It offers
readers the opportunity to experience the intellectual excitement
of Danto in person, speculating in a freewheeling yet erudite
style. Danto and Paparoni discuss figures such as Andy Warhol,
Marcel Duchamp, Franz Kline, Sean Scully, Clement Greenberg, Cindy
Sherman, and Wang Guangyi, offering both insightful comments on
individual works and sweeping observations about wider issues. On
occasion, the artist Mimmo Paladino and the philosopher Mario
Perniola join the conversation, enlivening the discussion and
adding their own perspectives. The book also features an
introductory essay by Paparoni that provides lucid analysis of
Danto's thinking, emphasizing where the two disagree as well as
what they learned from each other.
From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art
critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended
conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian
critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their discussions ranged widely over a
vast range of topics, from American pop art and minimalism to
abstraction and appropriationism. Yet they continually returned to
the concepts at the core of Danto's thinking-posthistory and the
end of aesthetics-provocative notions that to this day shape
questions about the meaning and future of contemporary art. Art and
Posthistory presents these rich dialogues and correspondence,
testifying to the ongoing importance of Danto's ideas. It offers
readers the opportunity to experience the intellectual excitement
of Danto in person, speculating in a freewheeling yet erudite
style. Danto and Paparoni discuss figures such as Andy Warhol,
Marcel Duchamp, Franz Kline, Sean Scully, Clement Greenberg, Cindy
Sherman, and Wang Guangyi, offering both insightful comments on
individual works and sweeping observations about wider issues. On
occasion, the artist Mimmo Paladino and the philosopher Mario
Perniola join the conversation, enlivening the discussion and
adding their own perspectives. The book also features an
introductory essay by Paparoni that provides lucid analysis of
Danto's thinking, emphasizing where the two disagree as well as
what they learned from each other.
Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used
for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting
facial expressions. In David Schutter's work, Le Brun's manual is
set to a different direction--a series of abstract drawings
recalling vestiges of the human face animated by emotion. But
Schutter's drawings are neither copies nor portraiture. Rather,
they are reflections on how Lebrun's renderings were made.
Collected here, Schutter's work recreates not the subject matter
but the very values of Lebrun's drawings--light, gesture, scale,
and handling of materials. The cross-hatching in the original was
used to make classical tone and volume, in Schutter's hand the
technique makes for unstable impressions of strained neck and
deeply furrowed brow, or for drawing marks and scribbles unto
themselves. As such, these drawings end up denying a neat
closure--unlike their academic source material--and render
unsettling states of mind that require repeated viewing.
Accompanied by essays from art critic Barry Schwabsky and Neubauer
Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete, The Escape will appeal to
students, critics, and admirers of seventeenth-century, modern, and
contemporary art alike.
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Suh Seung-Won (Hardcover)
Suh Seung-Won; Text written by Barry Schwabsky, Sohl Lee
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R971
Discovery Miles 9 710
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The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence
sculpture and installation art.
Jessica Stockholder has long broken
down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture
to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found
objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours. This revised,
updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her
career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping
some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary
sculpture and painting revolve today.
The singular paintings of British artist Gillian Carnegie (b.1971)
have been exhibited and discussed extensively for nearly two
decades but this is the first substantial publication on her work.
Carnegie's work is explicitly analytical, systematic yet oblique in
its reexamination of traditional painting genres such as still
life, landscape, portraits, and the nude - all of them 'genres
without a subject', as they have sometimes been called. Yet she
makes clear that her impulse to resuscitate these categories is not
simply an exercise in formalism, historicism, academic reverence,
postmodern pastiche, or nostalgia. And far from being without a
subject, far from having no story to tell, Carnegie's paintings
insistently suggest that there is a subject, that there is a story,
but that the painting exists not to communicate it but to conceal
it, to hold it incommunicado. In contemporary painting Gillian
Carnegie's work stands apart, quietly, calmly and insistently
uncanny, with an emotional tenor unlike anything else in art today.
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Bernar Venet (Paperback)
Clare Lilley, Barry Schwabsky, Florence Derieux
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R891
Discovery Miles 8 910
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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.
The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have
made a clean break with the past. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and
critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding
of art's present must also account for the ongoing life and
changing fortunes of its past. In surveying the art world of this
past decade, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant
newer faces-among them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei,
Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpson-but their forebears, both recent
(Jeff Wall, Nancy Spero, Dan Graham, Cindy Sherman) and more
distant (Velaquez, Manet, Matisse, and the portraitists of the
Renaissance). "The art critic," Schwabsky writes, "formalizes and
deliberately exemplifies the role of the spectator who realizes the
artist's work, not by leaving it just as it is, but by adding
something to it, making a personal contribution." Despite the
hysterical pronouncements of criticism's demise, Schwabsky's rich
and subtle considerations of art's complexly intertwined traditions
are an indispensable contribution to understanding our present
moment.
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Anna Leonhardt - Lights (Hardcover)
Anna Leonhardt, Marc Straus Gallery; Text written by Barry Schwabsky, Mathias Wagner
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R677
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The paintings of Anna Leonhardt take time. Little by little, an
astonishing light emerges giving the roughly applied, expressive
paint clarity and definition. Her pictures are very direct, but
based on experience. The ambiences and sensations unfolded by lines
and paint carry Anna Leonhardt's painting. Mere surfaces become
broad, atmospheric spaces, while individual colours begin to
vibrate reciprocally and enthral us as viewers. The book presents
her painterly work for the first time. Text in English and German.
In this collection of critical essays, Barry Schwabsky re-examines
the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the
achievements of 'high modernism' remain consequential to it,
through tensions between representation, abstraction, and pictorial
language. Offering close readings of works produced by several
generations of European and American artists, he begins with an
analysis of the late period of two Abstract Expressionists, Philip
Guston and Mark Rothko, who saw their own success as a failure of
reception and who came to question radically their own work. With
the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel
Bochner, major figures of arte povera and conceptual art whose
works in a variety of media demonstrate a continuing critical
engagement with modernism, Schwabsky also studies the work of
artists, such as L. C. Armstrong and Rainer Ganahl, who also
continued to examine modernism's legacies.
Leading art critic explores the connections between art's past and
present Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean
break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry
Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art's
present must also account for the ongoing life and changing
fortunes of its past. Surveying the art world of recent decades,
Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer faces -
among them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei, Chris Ofili,
and Lorna Simpson - but their forebears as well, both near (Jeff
Wall, Nancy Spero, Dan Graham, Cindy Sherman) and more distant
(Velazquez, Manet, Matisse, and the portraitists of the
Renaissance). Schwabsky's rich and subtle contributions illuminate
art's present moment in all its complexity: shot through with
determinations produced by centuries of interwoven traditions, but
no less open-ended for it.
The large-scale forms of Scottish sculptor Karla Black (born 1972)
evoke the pastel, towering layer cakes one might see in a bakery
window. Materials include cellophane, plaster powder, lip gloss,
glitter hair spray and tracing paper. This publication explores
Black's tactile, confectionlike creations.
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