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This highly entertaining exploration of art, history, and commerce
reveals how 30 masterpieces made the journey from image to icon.
How did paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Scream achieve
worldwide recognition? Why do certain artworks populate T-shirts,
mugs, calendars, and advertising? Witty and well researched, this
accessible exploration of visual and pop culture reveals how
particular works of art have become part of the collective
imagination. Readers will learn that Myron's Discobolus only became
widely known when used to promote the Olympics, that Leonardo's
Last Supper was one of the first paintings to be mass-reproduced,
that the Mona Lisa became a celebrity only after being stolen from
the Louvre, and that Girl with a Pearl Earring was deemed a minor
Vermeer until it became the subject of a bestselling novel. Ranging
from classical to contemporary, traveling through the Renaissance,
Surrealism, and abstraction, Mona Lisa to Marge offers insights
that are in turn thought provoking and surprising. Generously
illustrated, it features the original artworks as well as the
cartoons, ads, book and album covers, and everyday objects they
inspired. The book will open readers' eyes to the artistic images
that have become universal touchstones--and the fascinating stories
of how and why they got there.
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Maurizio Cattelan: Index (Paperback)
Maurizio Cattelan; Edited by Roberta Tenconi, Vicente Todoli, Marta Papini; Text written by Fiammetta Griccioli, …
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The Berlin-based artist, Robin Rhode (* 1976 in Cape Town), engages
in a variety of visual languages such as photography, performance,
drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives.
Coming of age in a newly post-apartheid South Africa, Rhode was
exposed to new forms of creative expression motivated by the spirit
of the individual rather than dictated by a political or social
agenda. This new publication emphasizes the creative influence of
the Italian Art movement Arte Povera during the early sixties and
seventies on Rhode's hybrid street-based aesthetic. The creative
dialogue transformed urban landscapes and interior spaces into
imaginary worlds, compressing space and time, as two-dimensional
renderings become the subject of three-dimensional interactions by
a sole protagonist. Rhode's work reveals a mastery of illusion, a
rich range of historical and contemporary references, and an innate
skill for blending high and low art forms.
Anna Freeman Bentley (b. Freeman, 1982) is a painter based in
London. Her practice explores the built environment, architecture,
and interiors, inviting emotive, psychological, and semiotic
readings of space. With an intense, regularly dark palette and
energetic yet often intricate brushwork, her paintings depict all
manner of places - derelict factories and warehouses, baroque
buildings, shops, cafes, and modern industrial and corporate
architecture. With a particular focus on the relationships between
the design of architecture, its function and use, how these uses
change over time, and how streets, areas, communities, and cities
decline, regenerate, and gentrify, Freeman Bentley's practice
documents the changing vocabulary of architecture and captures some
of the complex dynamics, atmospheres, politics, and states of mind
that these places engender. This, the artist's first monograph,
features over forty paintings spanning her career to date, offering
a journey through the built environment that takes the viewer into
realms as diverse as psychogeography and heteropias, romanticism
and modernism. From the needs and desires of individuals to those
of the different communities that make up urban life in cities and
towns today, her paintings open up questions about displacement and
replacement, decay and rebirth, change and transformation, public
and private, social and economic mobility, aspiration and desire,
buildings and people. Seeking to go beyond the visible and tangible
and to explore ideas of faith and the sacred within space, Freeman
Bentley's work looks through the fabric of our physical environment
to ask about what lies behind, into the dialogue between matter and
spirit. The publication features newly commissioned texts by
London-based curator and writer Michele Robecchi, New York-based
art writer and editor Marina Cashdan, and Ben Quash, Professor of
Christianity and the Arts at King's College London. Edited by Matt
Price and designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik, this hardback monograph
presents the arresting and engaging work of one of the UK's most
promising emerging painters. Freeman Bentley studied painting at
Chelsea College of Art and Design before graduating with an MA from
the Royal College of Art in 2010. She has had solo exhibitions in
Berlin, Venice, and California, residencies in London with the
Florence Trust and with Pied a Terre Michelin-starred restaurant,
and participated in group exhibitions including the Prague Biennale
and the inaugural East London Painting Prize, 2014.
The practice of Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College
graduate Greg Rook (b.1971, London) explores the rich visual
history, curious cultural politics and often complex ideologies of
those who seek to start a new life or wish to lead alternative
lifestyles. From pioneers travelling to new continents to those
wanting to stay put and live self-sufficiently, Rook invites us to
join him on his own aesthetic and critical journey through a world
of colonies, communities, communes and cults. By means of
figurative painting that pushes the boundaries between realism and
lyricism, Rook captures something profoundly revealing in terms of
the hopes, dreams and successes as well as the disappointments,
disillusionment and disasters that radical departures from home
life and mainstream society can entail. For some, utopias can turn
to dystopias, the Romantic imaginary can turn to tragedy, the
sublime can turn to misery. For those fleeing oppression, however,
it can be completely the opposite - newfound freedom, affluence and
happiness. Rook's oeuvre, which incorporates cowboys and
communists, agrarians and anarchists, believers and book-burners,
depicts how the relationship between people and land is regularly
fraught with issues, especially when migration and a clash of
mindsets or ways of life is involved. What are brave new worlds for
some are threatened old worlds for others... This hardback
publication, the first monograph to be devoted to the work of Greg
Rook, has been co-published by Vento& Associati and Anomie to
coincide with a substantial mid-career survey exhibition of the
artist's work being staged by Vento & Associati at the Fabbrica
del Vapore in Milan in spring 2019. Featuring approximately fifty
illustrations of paintings and works on paper made by Rook since
2006, along with an introduction by London and Milan-based critic
and curator Michele Robecchi and a significant newly commissioned
essay by Matt Price, a leading voice in the field of contemporary
British painting, the publication offers an engaging and pertinent
commentary on Rook's long-standing painterly investigation into how
people choose to live their lives. Vento& Associati is a
Milan-based company operating in global contexts that specializes
in strategic cultural communication within fields such as public
affairs, corporate and social responsibility, and cultural
fundraising. Vento & Associati manages a programme of
exhibitions at the Fabbrica del Vapore as part of the Spazi al
Talento initiative of the City of Milan.
The book presents a series of new works produced by Adel Abdessemed
for the MAC's/Museum of Contemporary Arts in Grand-Hornu. The
Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971) works in a
wide variety of media including animation, installation,
performance, sculpture, and video; through his art he addresses
contemporary themes and he reflects the bleak picture of the
present day. His works, unsettling in their simultaneous beauty and
raw reality, have made Abdessemed one of the most visible
international artists of our time. This volume is composed of two
distinct parts, each showcasing and examining one of two series of
brand new, site-specific works created by Abdessemed for the Museum
of Contemporary Arts in Grand-Hornu and the Musee d'Art
Contemporain in Lyon. Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition
Schedule: MAC's, Grand Hornu (03/04/18-06/03/18) Musee d'Art
Contemporain, Lyon (03/09/18-07/08/18)
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