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Entertaining, lyrical, and informative, Art Life is a selection of essays by well-known contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder, all written since 1991. Rinder's work is distinguished by a concern for art's role in reflecting and shaping daily life. Informed by history, philosophy, and popular culture, these essays provide keys to understanding a broad range of contemporary practices--from painting and drawing to net art and video installation. In each of these texts, Rinder muses on how the intersection of material, image, and idea creates meaning in some of the most compelling artworks of the past few decades. Among the many artists discussed are Luc Tuymans, Sophie Calle, Martin Creed, Ara Peterson, Jim Drain, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Lombardi, Jack Smith, and Irit Batsry. All of the essays in Art Life are unified by Rinder's clear writing style--seamlessly interspersed with a selection of images--and his consistent engagement with the experience of art and art's relevance to our daily lives. Ideal for scholars and students alike.
This collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived
when the French poet Franck Andre Jamme stumbled on a small
catalogue of Tantric art at a Paris bookseller's stall. The volume
included writings by Octavio Paz and Henri Michaux, and Jamme
became fascinated by the images' affinity with modern art and
poetry. He read voraciously and even journeyed to India, searching
in vain for Tantric practitioners, until a bus accident on the road
to Jaipur sent him home to France with serious injuries. When he
returned a few years later, he met a soothsayer who proclaimed that
Jamme had now paid sufficient tribute to the goddess Shakti and
required him to take a vow: he must visit the "tantrikas" alone or
only in the company of a loved one. Since then, Jamme has gained
extraordinary access to very private communities of adepts and
their intensely beautiful works. These contemporary, anonymous
drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of
Tantric art--the geometric yantras, or erotic illustrations of the
"Kama Sutra." The progeny of seventeenth-century illustrated
religious treatises, these drawings have evolved into a distinct
visual lexicon designed to awaken heightened states of
consciousness and are imbued with specific spiritual meanings (e.g.
spirals and arrows for energy, an inverted triangle for Shakti). A
revelatory volume on this occluded genre of Indian art, "Tantra
Song" is a convergence of east and west, the spiritual and the
aesthetic, the ancient and the modern.
Hans Hofmann, a representative of Abstract Expressionism and American Modernism during the 20th century with European roots, had a fundamental influence as a teacher on the development of modern art in America. His brightly coloured paintings, watercolours and drawings can now be discovered in a European retrospective. From 1904 until 1914, the painter Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), who was a friend of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, the Fauves and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, witnessed and absorbed the new art in Paris, the centre of European art. In his art school, founded in Munich in 1915, he became a mediator of French modernism and achieved international fame as an art teacher. In 1932 he emigrated to the United States and two years later opened the Han s Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. He influenced a new generation of American artists, including Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler and Barnett Newman.
This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art. By restricting herself to nonrepresentational forms, earth-based colors, and, in the case of her watercolors, "found" pieces of paper, Frecon achieves an unequaled sense of balance and openness in her work. The book features ten oil paintings and thirty watercolors dating from the late 1990s to 2007. form, color, illumination celebrates the uniqueness of Frecon's painting and articulates how her work distinguishes itself within the history of abstract painting. The authors describe in-depth how her artistic process and materials are an integral part of her focus and aesthetic. Included is an essay revealing the "ethics" of her aesthetics--an argument for abstraction and an attention to truth that is not divorced from social and environmental concerns. Distributed for The Menil Collection Exhibition Schedule: The Menil Collection, Houston (March 6 - May 11, 2008) Kunstmuseum Bern (June 11 - September 28, 2008)
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