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Alchemy and Kabbalah (Paperback)
Gershom Gerhard. Scholem; Translated by Klaus Ottmann
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A classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish
mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in
English translation. Scholem looks critically at the century-old
connections between alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its Christianized
varieties, such as the gold- and rosicrucian mysticisms, and the
myth-based psychology of C. G. Jung, and uncovers forgotten
alchemical roots of embedded in the Kabbalah.
This collection, spanning two decades of artistic activity,
features selections of writings tracing the intellectual influences
and development of one of the more formidable and productive minds
in the contemporary art world. The writings of Enrique Martinez
Celaya comprise public lectures; essays; interviews; correspondence
with artists, critics, and scholars; artist statements; blog posts;
and journal entries. This selection of writings includes the six
public lectures Martinez Celaya delivered during his three-year
appointment as the second Visiting Presidential Professor at the
University of Nebraska. Marked by an encyclopedic curiosity and
considerable knowledge about the world, these lectures explore the
nature of photography and painting, the role of the artist as
prophet, the relationship of art to the university and the museum,
as well as reflections on his own work. Enrique Martinez Celaya:
Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010 features seventy-nine
photographs from Martinez Celaya's collection; an introduction by
Klaus Ottmann, who teaches art history at the School of Visual Arts
in New York and is the Robert Lehman Curator for The Parrish Art
Museum in Southampton, New York; and a foreword by James B.
Milliken, president of the University of Nebraska.
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Honor Titus
Honor Titus, Henry Taylor, Durga Chew-Bose, Klaus Ottmann
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Honor Titus (born 1989) is an American artist who lives and works
in Los Angeles. A self-taught painter, Titus is deeply influenced
by his creative past as a musician and poet. Titus’s paintings,
often suffused with a sense of romance, are embedded with nostalgic
references to a simpler time and feature dark, luminous jewel
tones. His works often depict faceless figures in minimal urban
landscapes, reflecting the isolation that stems from metropolitan
anonymity. Titus’s simplified compositions and striking patches
of colour are inspired by Les Nabis while his flat, decorative
surfaces echo the graphic hyperrealism of artists inspired by
American advertising, such as Alex Katz. This, the artist’s first
trade monograph, presents new and recent works, including a body of
work presented in his 2022–3 solo exhibition at Timothy Taylor,
London, Bourgeoisie in Bloom. Here Titus expands on the themes of
ritual, class and nostalgia that have characterised previous work,
incorporating debutante balls in which young adults are presented
to society. Favouring bright panels of colour, Titus evokes
traditions of cultural formality, using precise brushwork to
delineate details of old-world glamour such as the tilt of a bow
tie and the line of a ballgown. A foreword by artist Henry Taylor
considers his first encounters with Titus’s work and their
continuing friendship. Taylor describes the biographical factors
that inform the subjects Titus paints, including music, referencing
the first solo show of the artist’s work held at Henry Taylor
Gallery in Chinatown, 2020. A text by Durga Chew-Bose brings the
themes of nostalgia and memory into the field of discussion.
Anecdotes relayed to Chew-Bose bring forward real experiences in
relation with his work. The artist’s own words illuminate filmic,
musical, photographic and romantic influences on the paintings,
while dwelling, lastly, upon his studio space. Klaus Ottmann’s
text reflects philosophically and sociologically on Titus’s
oeuvre, bringing key art historical reference points into the
discussion. Ottmann’s contribution draws connections to key works
of literature and criticism that contextualise his work. Published
following the exhibition Honor Titus: Bourgeoisie in Bloom at
Timothy Taylor, London, 17 November 2022 – 14 January 2023, the
publication has been edited by Chloe Waddington, designed by Joe
Gilmore, and co-published in 2023 by Timothy Taylor and Anomie
Publishing, London. Honor Titus (b. 1989, Brooklyn, NY) is a
self-taught American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles,
California. Recent solo exhibitions include Honor Titus:
Bourgeoisie in Bloom, Timothy Taylor, London, United Kingdom
(2022–3); Spotlight: Honor Titus, The FLAG Art Foundation, New
York, NY (2022); Honor Titus: For Heaven’s Sake, Timothy Taylor,
New York, NY (2021) and Honor Titus: Goodness Gracious, Studio
Henry Taylor, Los Angeles, CA (2020). His work has been part of
numerous group exhibitions, including IRL (In Real Life), Timothy
Taylor, London, United Kingdom (2021); Parallel Worlds, Nassima
Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel (2021); and I will wear you in my heart of
heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2021); and (Nothing
but) Flowers, Karma, New York, NY (2020), among others. His work is
represented in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,
Texas; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Rennie
Collection, Vancouver, Canada; The Bunker Artspace, Palm Beach,
Florida; and the Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China. Titus has
been featured in publications including Art in America, Artnet,
Frieze, GQ, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, and Town &
Country.
This volume offers a compelling examination of the surprising
conceptual and visual correspondences between the works of these
two pivotal artists known for their innovative practices. Klein
(1928-1962) was a major figure in postwar art who opened up new
possibilities for material, conceptual and performative expression,
often touching on the metaphysical. Hammons (born 1943) is a
conceptual artist whose works in performance, installation,
sculpture, printmaking and other media confront contemporary
realities with an often hard-hitting wit. This publication aims not
to draw out any notion of influence or direct correlation between
these bodies of work, but rather to elucidate a resonance between
two artists who both engage transformative processes to invest the
humblest of everyday materials with deep aesthetic significance.
This is the first complete collection of the writings of the
visonary French conceptual artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) to be
published in English translation. Klein was an artist with a keen
philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual. Inspired by his study of
the Japanese Kata (the abstract movements in Judo), Rosicrucian
cosmogony, alchemy, and the phenomenological and psychological
philosophies that emerged during his lifetime (particularly the
writings of Gaston Bachelard), he constructed his vision of a
future art that would purify the soul and society from the ashes of
painting.>
The Human Argument is the first publication of Agnes Denes's
Collected writings. Denes--an early pioneer of both the
environmental art movement and conceptual art--has investigated the
physical and social sciences, philosophy, linguistics, psychology,
art history, poetry and music and transformed her explorations into
unique works of visual art. Her work involves ecological, cultural,
and social issues, and are often monumental in scale. She is
perhaps best known for Wheatfield -- A Confrontation (1982), a
two-acre wheat field she planted and harvested in down-town
Manhattan, a work that addresses human values and misplaced
priorities.
This is the first translation into English of an important early
work of the German idealist philosopher F.W.J. Schelling.
"Philosophy and Religion "(1804) is considered a precursor to his
major work on freedom, his "Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature
of Human Freedom "(1809). In "Philosophy and Religion," Schelling
raises the question of how philosophy can come to terms with the
failure of approaching the highest principle of being, the Absolute
(or God), rationally. He argues that the only possibility of
recognizing the Absolute lies in intellectual intuition, which goes
beyond presentiment or religious intuition. For Schelling, it is
the task of philosophy to lead the soul towards the intuition of
the Infinite: "All philosophy begins . . . with an animated idea of
the Absolute." In recent years, Schelling's philosophical ideas
have been adopted by contemporary thinkers such as the Slovenian
philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Zižek and the French
theorist of "Non- Philosophy," Francois Laruelle.
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