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The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of
biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise
vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s
Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes,
but also smaller domestic ones. When her marriage breaks down,
Kirsty Bell – a British-American writer, in her mid-forties,
adrift – becomes fixated on the history of her building and of
her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her
starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various
inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg
and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of
Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new
cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into
energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories
beneath the city’s familiar narratives. Humane, thought-provoking
and moving, The Undercurrents is a hybrid literary portrait of a
place that makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves,
our cities and our histories.
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Alexandra Bircken - A-Z (Paperback)
Monika Bayer-Wermuth; Text written by Marie-Luise Angerer, Kirsty Bell; Designed by Hit
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R1,146
Discovery Miles 11 460
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The title seems to announce a comprehensive encyclopedia: from A to
Z, each and every object or material has the potential to become an
element in one of Alexandra Bircken's charged objects and
installations. Whether it's packaging materials, machine parts, or
bones, everything finds a use-the organic as well as the inorganic,
raw materials and industrially produced goods. The constant
reference point in her artistic explorations is the human body and
its contradictory relationship to the environment, as defenselessly
at its mercy as it is dependent on it. This catalogue is the first
to provide a comprehensive overview of Bircken's sculptural
practice from all creative periods, which here enter into a
dialogue that explores the artist's multi-layered statements on
surface, body, movement, shell, and skin.
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Edward Hopper's New York (Hardcover)
Kim Conaty; Contributions by Kirsty Bell, Darby English, David Hartt, David M. Crane, …
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R1,607
R1,478
Discovery Miles 14 780
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A revealing exploration of Edward Hopper's inspired relationship to
New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and
never-before-published archival materials This engaging book delves
into the iconic relationship between Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and
New York City. This comprehensive look at an essential aspect of
the revered American artist's life reveals how Hopper's experience
of New York's spaces, sensations, and architecture shaped his
vision and served as a backdrop for his distillations of the urban
experience. During sidewalk strolls and elevated train rides,
Hopper sketched the city's many windowed facades. Exterior views
gave way to interior lives, forging one of Hopper's defining
preoccupations: the convergence of public and private. These
permeable walls allowed Hopper to evoke the perplexing awareness of
being alone in a crowd that is synonymous with modern urban life.
Drawing on the vast resources of the Whitney Museum of American
Art, the largest repository of Hopper's work, and the recently
acquired gift of the Sanborn Hopper Archive, this book features
more than 300 illustrations and fresh insight from authoritative
and emerging scholars. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of
American Art Exhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (October 19, 2022-March 5, 2023)
The title seems to announce a comprehensive encyclopedia: from A to
Z, each and every object or material has the potential to become an
element in one of Alexandra Bircken's charged objects and
installations. Whether it's packaging materials, machine parts, or
bones, everything finds a use-the organic as well as the inorganic,
raw materials and industrially produced goods. The constant
reference point in her artistic explorations is the human body and
its contradictory relationship to the environment, as defenselessly
at its mercy as it is dependent on it. This catalogue is the first
to provide a comprehensive overview of Bircken's sculptural
practice from all creative periods, which here enter into a
dialogue that explores the artist's multi-layered statements on
surface, body, movement, shell, and skin.
Elizabeth Peyton s work has been acclaimed since the early 1990s,
when she began exhibiting her intimate portraits of artists,
musicians, historical figures, and friends. This new volume,
prepared by the artist in collaboration with designer Brendan
Dugan, founder of Karma bookstore and gallery, presents a
concentrated view of a period bookended by two exhibitions in
Brussels, one in 2009 and the second in 2014, a time of
introspection, and the development of a more personal painterly
language. This phase of Peyton s work is about a new realism and a
considered situating of her interests and passions in relation to
her own working practice. We see her range expand to take in lush
still lifes composed of books, flowers, and fragmentary interiors;
expressive, blood-drenched scenes drawn from Richard Wagner s
operas; and many magnificent and subtle portraits of peers and
mentors, historical or present-day. From David Bowie to celebrated
tenor Jonas Kaufmann; from Delacroix and Giorgione to Peyton s
artist peers such as Matthew Barney and Klara Liden; from Friday
Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch to tattoo artist Scott Campbell, as
well as numerous self-portraits, her work is about narrowing the
distance between the self and the object of fascination. They are
people expressing what it is to be human. Most art that s any good
is trying to do that trying to put a voice to feeling. And in
particular, the feeling of their time, writes Peyton.
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