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Richter (Hardcover)
Klaus Honnef
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R485
R400
Discovery Miles 4 000
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An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened
horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From
early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to
late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter's work always offers
us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the
medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming
presence of digital images, he shows us the unsurpassed impact and
intensity of painting. A definitive introduction to one of the
greatest artists of our time spanning not only his entire career,
but also 50 years of cultural, economic, and political events.
Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream
approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale
interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the
artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing on issues of
materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market
sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's
most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter
epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as
challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular,
banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of
mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with
mechanized techniques such as screen printing. With featured
artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert
Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein,
this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining
modernist movement. 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 History series
features: approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory
captions a detailed, illustrated introduction a selection of the
most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page
spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as
well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist
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Warhol (Hardcover)
Klaus Honnef
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R543
R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent
of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of
American society, he explored key themes of consumerism,
materialism, media, and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary
advertisements, comic strips, consumer products, and Hollywood's
most famous faces, Warhol proposed a radical reevaluation of what
constituted artistic subject matter. Through Warhol, a Campbell's
soup can and Coca Cola bottle became as worthy of artistic status
as any traditional still life. At the same time, Warhol
reconfigured the role of the artist. Famously stating "I want to be
a machine," he systematically reduced the presence of his own
authorship, working with mass-production methods and images, as
well as dozens of assistants in a studio he dubbed the Factory.
This book introduces Warhol's multifaceted, prolific oeuvre, which
revolutionized distinctions between "high" and "low" art and
integrated ideas of living, producing, and consuming that remain
central questions of modern 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
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Olaf Schlote: Memories (Hardcover)
Olaf Schlote; Edited by Klaus Honnef; Text written by Ariella Amar, Yael Kishon, Shunit Netter Marmelstein
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R1,461
Discovery Miles 14 610
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It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi
government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his
photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The
bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to
deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the
downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was
manipulating the evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the
time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity
to go and visit the remaining bomb sites. Darchinger's pictures, in
color and black-and-white, show a country in a fever of
reconstruction. The economic boom was so incredible that the whole
world spoke of an "economic miracle." The people who achieved it,
in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and
diligent. And increasingly, they look like strangers in the world
they have created. The photographs portray a country caught between
the opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural
restoration, between affluence and penury, between German
Gemutlichkeit and the constant threat of the Cold War. They show
the winners and losers of the "economic miracle," people from all
social classes, at home, at work, in their very limited free time
and as consumers. But they also show a country that looks, in
retrospect, like a film from the middle of the last century. For
this revised edition, we have digitally remastered all
photographies in a new, full-frame format that captivate with their
highly pigmented colors and fine press varnish.
Newton's collection of portraits from the worlds of film, fashion,
politics, and culture can be considered a pantheon of VIPs. But his
work is a lot more besides. From his portraits, one can see that he
would have most liked to be a Roman paparazzo--as he once admitted.
Anyone who had a portrait made by him knew what the result would
by, and by the 1980s there were absolutely no 'beautiful people' in
this world who did not want to be photographed by him! In front of
his camera, both men and women peeled off their covers--literally
as well as figuratively. His brilliant staged creations celebrate
the attractiveness and prominence of his models as well as their
vanity and imperfections. Newton's top-quality work for major
fashion journals and elitist art magazines is likewise first-class
erotic art. This collection was first published by us in 1985.
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KOSCHIES - SURFACES (German, Hardcover)
Birgit Koschies, Axel Koschies; Contributions by Sigrid Weigel, Klaus Honnef, Christoph Tannert
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R1,195
Discovery Miles 11 950
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There is something magical about these photographs; they show faces
as they have never before been seen. The 360-degree portraits by
the artist duo Koschies deconstruct familiar occidental views. They
are not structured around a vanishing point, but instead take place
entirely in the planar dimension. With their fascinating time-slit
camera recordings, the artists enter into new visual terrain - not
on the basis of digital manipulation, but through creatively making
use of the influence of time in the pictures themselves. Just as
Impressionist pictorial forms in their day came as a shock to the
perception of academically trained viewers of art, these portraits
act as a substantial challenge to the eyes of their late modern
addressees, whose eyes have been inundated with traditional
photography.
This title covers Germany after the war 1952 - 1967.It was no more
than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when
Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey
through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II
had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet
his pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a
civilization. Not that the photographer was manipulating the
evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the time, a New York
travel agency was advertising the last opportunity to go and visit
the remaining bomb sites.Darchinger's pictures, in color and
black-and-white, show a country in a fever of reconstruction. The
economic boom was so incredible that the whole world spoke of an
"economic miracle." The people who achieved it, in contrast, look
down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and diligent. And
increasingly, they look like strangers in the world they have
created. The photographs portray a country caught between the
opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural restoration,
between affluence and penury, between German Gemutlichkeit and the
constant threat of the Cold War. They show the winners and losers
of the "economic miracle," people from all social classes, at home,
at work, in their very limited free time and as consumers. But they
also show a country that looks, in retrospect, like a film from the
middle of the last century.
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