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An-My LĂȘ: Between Two Rivers
Roxana Marcoci; Contributions by La Frances Hui, Joan Kee, Thy Phu, Caitlin Ryan, …
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R1,084
Discovery Miles 10 840
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Using her own body as raw material for her artistic practice,
French artist ORLAN deconstructs the traditional iconography of the
feminine. In the 1990s, ORLAN caused a sensation with surgical
operations performed on her body, but it was as early as 1964, at
the age of 17, that she gave birth to her artistic self. Since
then, she has continuously recreated herself and keenly explored
the concept of identity. In her "carnal art," the body becomes both
subject and object. This publication traverses the six decades of
ORLAN's oeuvre, revisiting her early performances in particular.
One of her most recent creations is the ORLANOIDE robot, and thanks
to an augmented reality app, ORLAN avatars come to life and emerge
from this richly illustrated volume. The political status of the
body is made evident through all of her works: in 1989 she
transformed Gustave Courbet's famous painting L'origine du monde
into L'origine de la guerre by replacing the vulva with the
phallus. The statement has not lost any of its topicality.
Published to accompany the first museum exhibition in the United
States of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean
Horacio Coppola, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires explores the
individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the
foremost practitioners of avantgarde photography in Europe and
Latin America. The book traces their artistic development from the
early 1930s, when the two met in Berlin at the Bauhaus, through the
mid-1950s, by which time they had firmly established the
foundations of modern photography in Buenos Aires. While
twentieth-century photography has a fair number of important teams,
Stern and Coppola are unique in that they managed to share their
avant-garde ambition while maintaining their autographic styles and
individual practices. The couple effectively imported the lessons
of the Bauhaus to Latin America, and revolutionized the practice of
art and commercial photography on both sides of the Atlantic by
introducing such innovative techniques as photomontage, embodied in
Stern's protofeminist works for the women's journal Idilio, and
through Coppola's experimental films and groundbreaking images for
the photographic survey Buenos Aires 1936. Featuring a selection of
newly translated original texts by Stern and Coppola, and essays by
curators Roxana Marcoci and Sarah Meister and scholar Jodi Roberts,
From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires is the first publication in English to
examine the critical intersections that defined the notable careers
of these two influential artists.
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