Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Trained as a horticulturalist, Swiss photographer Yann Mingard (born 1973) offers a wonderfully intimate view of nature with his close-up views of undisturbed forest underbrush. Mingard takes all his photographs at dusk with a long exposure, revealing fragments of withered grass and dark earth.
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) reinvented the genre of nude photography for the early twentieth century. Drtikol opened his Prague studio in 1907, and his nudes from this early period convey the dreamy eroticism of Art Nouveau and the foreboding accents of Prague Symbolism that he was to return to throughout his somewhat brief career (Drtikol abandoned photography for painting…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: For their 19,000-mile journey across China, Swiss photographers Monika Fischer and Mathias Braschler made one portrait every day. The resulting series of documentary photos depicts both the winners and losers of the country's economic transformations, from the small farmer who still plows his fields with water buffaloes to the wealthy yacht club owner posing with his Lamborghini.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Alongside Monet, Bazille and Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir laid the foundations of Impressionism in 1860s Paris. But acclaim for his painting was slow in coming, primarily because of the tribulations of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, which put a hiatus on so much artistic activity during the 1860s-70s. As a result, the first two decades of Renoir's career are sometimes ignored, an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In DDR Views, Thomas Hoepker (born 1936) documents life in East Germany from 1959 to the fall of the Berlin Wall: photos of children playing along the wall, party rallies, propaganda posters, ramshackle old facades from the Imperial Era and new apartment blocks, images of Sunday outings and empty supermarket display cases, all tell the tale of a nation that is no more.
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: My material is light, says Helsinki School photographer Niko Luoma (born 1970), and my process is a combination of... calculation and chance. Inspired by mathematics and geometry, and elaborating on the rich tradition begun by August Strindberg's celestographs, Luoma creates elaborate and marvelously evocative photographic abstractions, in compositions of lines and geometric shapes. His methods…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 536) Аннотация: The Guidebook is entirely devoted to the artists participating in Documenta 13. Each one is introduced in an illustrated essay written by one of the Documenta's agents, in close collaboration with the artists-who also contribute illustrations, which are as diverse as the projects themselves. These essays are individual visual statements, ranging from drawings to notes. Narrative introductions to…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Figuring Color looks at the work of four artists who use color and shape to represent a metaphorical body. For instance, Roy McMakin's sculpture of a chair is at once a body and an implication of an absent body, where two tables intertwined suggest bodies nestled together. Kathy Butterly's ceramic sculptures are miniature bodies, whose sensuality amplifies clay's potential for delightful form. In…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: One of India's most influential contemporary artists, Nalini Malani (born 1946) creates paintings, wall drawings, theatrical works, video and shadow plays. Inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes are challenged from a contemporary urban, internationalist point of view. This catalogue accompanies her show at Documenta 13.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: In the early 1960s, what was then the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf received a large gift of Japanese woodcuts (Ukiyo-e), a gift to which the donor would generously add until 1988. This catalogue presents 220 pieces from this collection, by the enormously prolific illustrators Kunisada (1786-1865) and Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), masters of the Utagawa School. The prints of these artists transport the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Marking the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ostzeit portrays East Germany through photographs of the Clarchens Ballhaus dancehall and the Marx-Engels monument; Werner Mahler's study of Bad Berka in Thuringia; Harald Hauswald on the comedy of everyday life in the GDR; Ute Mahler on Berlin's 1980 May Day Parade; and other projects.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Like his fellow Pop painters Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos (born 1935) derives the motifs for his work from mass media and advertising. In bold and immediately recognizable canvases, he unites consumer goods with idealized pin-up girls modeled after magazine images dating from the 1950s and 1960s. Ramos immortalizes these models' lascivious poses by entwining them with the featured…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Famed for her painted portraits, Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) has also created a wide range of prints over the past two decades, including monotypes, lithographs, woodcuts and etchings. Experimenting with different techniques, she uses a variety of diverse paper stocks and handmade papers as well as various colored and monochromatic inks. In comparison to the diminutiveness of her paintings, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 148) Аннотация: A master of deadpan sculpture and the absurd gesture, the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm (born 1954) is tireless and brilliant in his constant reinvention of sculptural convention. With each new work Wurm seems to think sculpture completely afresh, and always with materials readily to hand, such as cars, houses, or bodies: his One-Minute Sculptures (which marked his international debut) consisted of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Jeff Koons (born 1955) is probably the most famous artist of the 1980s, and certainly one of the most notorious and controversial. In the summer of 2012, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt are collaborating on a bold and unprecedented simultaneous overview of Koons' sculptural and painterly oeuvre. The Liebieghaus show, titled «Jeff Koons: The Sculptor»,…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: The spoken and the written word have long since found their way into the visual arts: as epigrams, marginal notes, quotes, collaged text fragments, or part of a performance, a video, or a sound installation. In particular since the advent of Conceptual Art, language has even been regarded as the actual and independent material and medium of the visual arts. Association of Arts and Culture of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Incomparable masterpieces of Netherlandish drawing from the collection of Viennas Albertina. The entire artistic spectrum is opened up page by page: landscapes, seascapes, topographical views, portraits, rural genre scenes, and still lifes. The Albertina owns one of the worlds most important collections of Netherlandish drawings dating from the period 1430 to 1650.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Featuring over two hundred examples of designs, this publication focuses on Jonathan Ive (*1967 in London), Senior Vice President of Industrial Design for Apple, who since 1997 has been responsible for the design of all of the company s products. Over the past decade, Ive and his team of designers wrote electronics design history with their standard-setting iMacs, iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Their…
Скачать книгу (размер 667 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 132) Аннотация: Well-traveled photographer and war correspondent Felice Beato (1832 1909) reached the Japanese port city of Yokohama in July 1863 and spent more than twenty years there. He captured unique portraits of geishas in splendid kimonos, samurai, sumo wrestlers, and scenes of everyday life or classic Japanese landscapes. Beato s photographs deeply influenced the style of the Yokohama School, not so his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: The inimitable works of art by Jeff Koons (*1955 in York, Pennsylvania), one of the most famous artists in the world today, have been causing uproars since the eighties. This publication is an in-depth examination of three major groups of works: The New (1980 87), Banality (1988), and Celebration (ongoing since 1994), each one of which represents a spectacular and consequential phase in Koons s…