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This illustrated volume highlights the rich personality of the
Armenian painter Rafael Megall (born 1983), his connection with the
artistic tradition of his country, and the peculiar language
inspired by the story of his people. The book offers a panorama of
his production, among others: the famous icons, paintings on wood
first showcased at the 57th Venice Biennale; the installation The
Artist and His Mother, showcased at the National Gallery of
Armenia, one of the most powerful artworks dedicated to the
Armenian genocide; the unpublished series of portraits dedicated to
Lev Tolstoy.
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.
The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted
to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang
Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because his
work underlines, through new expressive language forms, the deep
social changes the country is experiencing. This monograph reveals
for the first time the entire oeuvre of the artist, whose works are
classified in China under the genre of Political Pop, and are kept
in the collections of the most important museums and foundations in
the world. Born in Heilongjiang Province in 1956, Wang Guangyi
became one of the great stars of contemporary Chinese art through
his Great Criticism series. Through the juxtaposition of two
definitely opposing ideologies, each represented through iconic
symbols, Guangyi criticises Communism and consumerism while
negating both by combining them skilfully. Stylistically merging
the government-enforced aesthetic of Agitprop with the kitsch
sensibility of American Pop, Guangyi's work adopts the cold-war
language of the 1960s to ironically examine the contemporary issues
of globalisation. Through their critique, Guangyi's paintings weave
intricate narratives, implying the role of the artist as an active
participant (both as subjugator and subservient) in economic and
social policies. Guangyi treads a very delicate line between moral
dictum and capitalist endorsement; the interpretation of his
paintings alternates with the subjectivity of context.
Amalgamating, confusing and blurring opposing ideological beliefs,
Guangyi's billboard-sized canvases readily sell out national
valour, while simultaneously devaluing status symbol luxury for the
proletariat cause.
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.
The most complete monograph realized about the noted Austrian painter, photographer, filmmaker, performer and set designer, born in Vienna in 1948.
The works of Helnwein show the bare truth where society instead hides and removes. What emerges by leafing through the pages of this monograph is the obsession that accompanies the artistic career of this notable Austrian artist, marked by the wish to breakdown the rhetoric of war, the constructions of self-absolution, the mystifications of religious institutions in whose pitfalls men periodically fall as if they had not committed the same mistake over and over again.
Edited by Demetrio Paparoni and divided into sections that make this volume a valid tool for exposing the different aspects of Helnwein’s work, the monograph includes, aside from the editor’s text, a preface by Sean Penn and essays by Klaus Schröder (director of the Albertina in Vienna) and Martin Muller (director of Modernism Gallery in San Francisco) and a conversation between the artist and Jonathon Keats (American conceptual artist and experimental philosopher).
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Barrioquinto (Hardcover)
Demetrio Paparoni, Patrick Duarte Flores
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R2,005
R1,581
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The volume deals with the complex universe of the artist (Manila,
1975), who combines elements deriving from the iconography and
aesthetic of Baroque with Japanese woodcuts (ukiyo-e),
reinterpreted in a Pop style. In his paintings, men, women, and
anthropomorphic animals are shown in forests plentiful with
butterflies and birds, introducing the theme of vanitas in a
context of strong visual impact.
This stunning volume comprehensively tackles Nyoman Masriadi s
artistic universe, which is considered to be among those that have
most strongly impacted the definition of the new art of Southeast
Asia. He is Southeast Asia s most well-received contemporary artist
at auctions, and the first living Southeast Asian artist whose work
has topped $1 million at auction. Masriadi s paintings frequently
depict superhuman figures whose narratives, while rooted in
Indonesian cultural history, offer witty and often biting social
commentary on contemporary life and global pop culture. Through his
expert control of light, shadow, and volume, Masriadi endows the
monumental characters of his works with a sculptural, almost
three-dimensional presence. Sometimes these characters appear in
the archetypal roles of comic-book heroes, cowboys, soldiers, and
athletes; but just as frequently, they are simply powerfully built
people engaged in solitary acts of strength or captured in private
moments of vulnerability.
Artists play a fundamental role as mirrors of society and can, in
particular, give expression to specific corners of the world in our
global economy. Timer 1 presents the work of eighty international
artists from all generations. The overarching theme of this volume
is "Intimita/Intimacy" and deals with the relationship the artist
has with him/herself in the age of the telecommunications
revolution. All works date from September 11th, 2001, a date
forever stamped in our memories and a turning point in our history.
Timer 1 explores the interior spaces of a new social context
created after the attack on the Twin Towers.
Simple, direct, and penetrating, the celebrated photographer
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders portrays his subjects like a painter
from another age. Thanks to his 11x14" Fulmer & Schwing, an old
wooden box dated 1905, which he uses as if he were using a palette
and brush, he produces portraits that are rich in detail without
being overly psychological. The poignant poses and expressions he
captures in his straightforward images convey a sense of the
person. Like Rembrandt and Velazquez depicting the great figures of
their time, Greenfield-Sanders focuses his lens on today's icons:
artists, architects, writers, scientists, actors, directors,
musicians artists, architects. Undoubtedly one of
Greenfield-Sanders's greatest merits is his being able to limit the
distance that separates the portrait from the observer. This
beautifully produced volume brings together an impressive selection
of portraits taken between 1977 and the present with over 100 never
published before. The juxtaposition of the portraits adds a
compelling dimension to the individual portraits. The intensity of
Elaine and Willem de Kooning or Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal
multiplies as they appear next to each other on the page. William
Wegman and Richard Hamilton lean toward each other, toward some
kind of cosmic center. Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg seem to
confirm the notion that a director is in total control. And porn
star Briana Banks, look every bit like a porn star.
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