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Mona Hatoum (Paperback)
Christine van Assche; Tate Publishing
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R1,304
Discovery Miles 13 040
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Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, artist Mona Hatoum came
toBritain as a student in the mid-1970s, settling in London in
1975.Her art - whether video, performance, sculpture or
installation- is concerned with confrontational themes including
violence,oppression and voyeurism, often in reference to the human
body;and with the juxtaposition of opposites such as beauty and
horror,desire and revulsion.Hatoum has participated in numerous
important group exhibitionsincluding The Turner Prize and the
Venice Biennale. As the winner ofthe Joan Miro Prize, she held a
solo exhibition at Fundacio Joan Miroin Barcelona in 2012, and the
following year was the subject of a soloexhibition at the
Kunstmuseum St Gallen. In 2014 a large survey showof her work was
held at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar.With eight new
essays, including an introduction by curator ClarrieWallis, and a
re-published text by renowned Orientalist scholarEdward Said, a
wide range of texts cover both the theory and practiceof Hatoum's
work. Beautifully designed, with 250 colour imagescovering the
whole of Hatoum's ouevre, this is the essential book on adistinctly
powerful voice in contemporary art.
Since 1960, progressive forces within art education have stoked,
and continued to fire, new impulses in the field of artistic
production. As society at large embraced youth and popular culture,
art school students with international aspirations exploded class
barriers, fused fashion with Pop and insisted that art was integral
to social change. These possibilities were unthinkable without
shifts in priorities. Replacing a craft-based curriculum, the
teaching in art schools across Britain, and notably in London,
began to widen the range of artistic exploration. A new generation
emerged, whose techniques, perspectives, and arguments had their
origins in these innovations and whose most striking forms of
expression maintain their influence on the most adventurous artists
in the new millennium. This history of innovation has been largely
unwritten. Here, scholars in the field explore key aspects of this
dynamic period such as changes in architecture, exhibition display
and approaches to art history.With 100 illustrations showing both
the art school in action and the works that were made under its
pull, this survey also provides key information for the London Art
Schools - Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon, Slade, Royal College of
Art, Goldsmiths and Central St Martins - allowing
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Fahrelnissa Zeid (Paperback)
Tate Publishing; Edited by Kerryn Greenberg
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R636
R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
Save R114 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-1991) was one of the most influential
Turkish artists, best known for her large-scale abstract paintings.
Marrying influences from Islamic, Byzantine and Eastern art with
the bold colour of the Fauvists, the geometrical dissonance of the
Cubists and the precise lines of Mondrian, Zeid developed an
abstract vocabulary that was a synthesis of East and West and was
uniquely her own. Born in Istanbul in 1901 into a family of highly
creative intellectuals, Zeid's artistic career began in the 1920s
in Paris and took her to Istanbul, Berlin and Budapest, before she
returned to Paris again in 1946. There she joined the Nouvelle
Ecole de Paris, a melting pot movement of international artists
that championed a new abstract aesthetic. In the mid-1970s Zeid
moved permanently to Amman, Jordan, where she established the Royal
Fahrelnissa Zeid Institute. She worked and taught there for the
rest of her life; her work was exhibited widely and internationally
throughout her career. This new book traces her development from
the first works she made in Turkey, through her engagement with the
D-Group, her later experiments with abstraction and, finally, her
return to figuration. It also examines the pivotal role she played
in the cross-pollination of artistic ideas in the twentieth century
through her involvement with key groups and movements in diverse
regions and communities. Documentary photography from the period
gives new insight into the historical and art historical events
that formed the backdrop to her ever evolving style. Featuring over
100 reproductions of Zeid's bold and colourful paintings, from her
earlier geometric, calligraphic style to the later, more expressive
portraits, the catalogue showcases the depth and range of her work.
Zeid's works have recently been the subject of renewed attention,
with prominent displays at the Sharjah Biennial and the fourteenth
Istanbul Biennale in 2015. Accompanying an exhibition at Tate
Modern, Fahrelnissa Zeid will be the only book available on the
life and work of this pioneering artist and will bring her unique
sensibility to the wider audience she deserves.
"Exploring Art and Visual Culture: A Reader" brings together
essential primary texts by artists, critics and art historians
ranging from the medieval period right through to our own times.
There is no other reader available that covers such an extensive
period. Selected by leading academics in their field, and published
in conjunction with the Open University, the reader will be an
essential sourcebook for every student of art history as well as
all those seeking a greater understanding of art and of the
cultural and historical context in which it is made. "The Reader"
is organised in three parts. The first section, Medieval to
Renaissance, 1000 - 1600, includes extracts from the writings of
the Venerable Bede, Vasari, Bernard of Clairvaux, Aristotle, Erwin
Panofsky, Nikolaus Pevsner, Erasmus and Walter Pater, among others,
and sections on sacred art, Gothic architecture, the art of the
crusades and the Renaissance. The second part Patronage to the
Public Sphere, 1600 - 1850 includes texts by W.J.T. Mitchell, Sir
Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Crowe, Richard Shiff and Caspar David
Freidrich and examines the city and the country, the golden age of
Dutch painting, London and Paris, landscape design, exploration,
neoclassicism and the birth of Romanticism. The section on
Exploring Art from Modernity to Globalisation, 1850 - 2010 includes
writings by Marinetti, Gauguin, John Ruskin, William Morris, John
Berger, Clement Greenberg, Lucy Lippard and Miwon Kwon examining
modernism, the rise of abstraction, conceptual art and
globalisation.
"All the work of the 1970s involved a kind of doubling; there was
the world of the everyday and there was the world of the
represented ...a sense of our experiential worlds becoming
bifurcated between image and reality." John Stezaker This is the
first publication to explore the rich history of conceptual art in
Britain during its most exciting and innovative period, from the
mid 1960s to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. It examines
how the early works of this period took the form of a challenge to
art's traditional boundaries and how by the mid 1970s, focus had
shifted away from issues of art and individual experience towards
questions of politics and identity, using the languages of
documentary, propaganda and advertising in the service of action.
After introducing the reader to the origins of this radical moment
in British art, the book goes on to explore the textual work of Art
& Language, Victor Burgin and others; the 'New Sculpture' being
produced by those such as Richard Long and Michael Craig-Martin who
questioned the traditional art object; and the artists who
addressed society and politics, including Stephen Willats and
Margaret Harrison.A final chapter deals with the key role of
photography, film and print - revealing them to be key modes of
dissemination and international exchange with Europe and America.
Essays are complemented by in-focus texts on the most significant
works and previously unpublished archival material. Featuring
contributions by experts in the field, this is the key book on the
subject for students, scholars and all those with an
Glenn Ligon (b1960) is one of the most significant American artists
of his generation. Much of his work relates to abstract
expressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal
characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of
the time, such as the civil rights movement. The exhibition brings
together artworks and other material he references in his own work
and writings, or work with which he shares certain affinities. This
publication is both a comprehensive exhibition catalogue, which
fully illustrating all works in the exhibition from artists
including Chris Ofili, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lorna
Simpson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jasper Johns, accompanied by
newly commissioned texts by Glenn Ligon, Francesco Manacorda, Alex
Farquharson, and Gregg Bordowitz; and an anthology of around 20
texts selected/excerpted by Glenn Ligon.
This is the third of three text books, published in association
with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of
art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics
rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the
process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences,
functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting,
sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual
culture in a variety of media and methods. "1850-2010: Modernity to
Globalisation" includes essays which engage directly with topical
issues around art and gender, globalisation, cultural difference
and curating, as well as explorations of key canonical artists and
movements and of some less well-documented work of contemporary
artists.
This beautiful book invites readers to join the Artful Sketcher on
an exclusive tour of one of the most creative factories they'll
ever know: the Little Factory of Potential Illustration. The
factory is full of eccentric artists who just love making pictures,
not to mention some oddball animals and astonishing machines. From
the get-go readers can doodle, experiment with different techniques
or simply draw alongside LIFIPO's resident team of artists. There's
a games pocket at the back with some weird and wonderful dominos,
and heaps of activities throughout exploring among other things
collage, patternmaking, sculpture and composition. Children will be
delighted to find that at the end of their tour they are given
their very own office and their first solo exhibition! Exploring
art techniques, geometry and game-playing simultaneously, this
beautiful and humorous book is perfect for budding artists.
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