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Modigliani (Hardcover)
Doris Krystof
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R487
R403
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In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art
history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable
as they are startling, sensual, and swan-necked. Modigliani's
unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty,
but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including
contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and
13th-century painting from his native Italy. Although most renowned
for his nude females, he applied similar stylistic techniques to
portraits of male artistic contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso,
Jean Cocteau, and Chaim Soutine. With key works from his highly
individualistic repertoire, this book introduces Modigliani's brief
but revered career at the heart of Paris's early modernist hotbed.
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
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Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive (Paperback)
Hito Steyerl; Edited by Doris Krystof, Florian Ebner, Marcella Lista; Text written by Tom Holert, …
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R1,250
R913
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Ai Weiwei (Hardcover)
Susanne Gaensheimer, Doris Krystof, Falk Wolf
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R1,422
R758
Discovery Miles 7 580
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"Everything is art. Everything is politics," says internationally
renowned artist Ai Weiwei. His statement informs this comprehensive
book that features sculptural installations, photographs, and
videos from every aspect of the artist's forty- year career and
touches on many contemporary social issues. The works featured in
the book include Straight, Ai's gigantic installation made from 150
tons of rebar salvaged from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which
comments on governmental corruption and negligence, and Sunflower
Seeds for which the artist filled the enormous Turbine Hall of
London's Tate Modern with 100,000,000 porcelain seeds, each made by
Chinese craftspeople. Also highlighted are his most recent works
addressing the refugee crisis, such as Laundromat and Life Cycle;
his provocative ventures into social media; and several early
works. Wide-ranging and penetrating, this collection of Ai's most
important work to date illustrates the depth of his conviction that
art is most powerful when it raises awareness and incites change.
Using collage and montage as a medium and always in connection with
his own biography, Marcel Odenbach investigates politically and
culturally relevant topics of his time, such as for example the
process of coming to terms with Nazi crimes, remembrance culture,
the effects and after-effects of European colonialism in Africa,
racism and time and time again the relationship between the
individual and society. The artist Marcel Odenbach (*1953) lives in
Cologne, Berlin and intermittently in Ghana. Since 1976 he has
worked with video. His filmic collages and installations have
contributed to the fact that today video art is a central medium in
contemporary international art. Parallel to this he has created a
wide-ranging graphic oeuvre. In the joint consideration of his
video and paper works it becomes clear that Odenbach regards art
and culture under a socio-political perspective and at the same
time relies on the strength of the sensuous-aesthetical experience
of images.
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Gillian Wearing (Paperback, New)
Daniel F. Herrmann, Doris Krystof, Bernhart Schwenk, David Deamer
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R942
R893
Discovery Miles 8 930
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This monograph provides an overview of the work of Gillian Wearing,
one of the UK's most significant Conceptual artists, from the
iconic Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that
Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992-93) - a series of
photographic portraits of people holding up signs with written
personal confessions or thoughts - to her 2010 video Bully, in
which the roles of victims and perpetrators, actors and directors,
are blurred. Also included are new photographic works, two
portraits from her ongoing series of iconic photographers, and
still lifes of flowers that are inspired by the rich symbolism of
seventeenth-century Dutch painting. The publication accompanied a
major international survey of the artist's work at Whitechapel
Gallery, London; K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf;
and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, in 2012-13. It features 100
full-colour illustrations and never-before-published archival
material, accompanied by new texts by the exhibition's curators
Daniel F. Herrmann, Doris Krystof and Bernhart Schwenk.
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