"What might the collections of Western art galleries look like today if a global understanding of art had informed their development? Subjecting its collection to a critical revision, the National Gallery in Berlin investigates, looking at artworks from non-European centers of modernism and exploring the untold stories and overlooked connections behind them. Accompanying a large-scale exhibition featuring artworks from all ov ..."
"A monograph on abstract artist Jack Whitten, who strove throughout his life to connect across cultural, historic, and artistic boundaries.Jack Whitten's alluring and inventive paintings are part of the collections of some of the world's most prominent museums and galleries--but this profoundly inventive artist worked primarily under the radar for most of his life. This book, conceived with Whitten's collaboration shortly before his deat ..."
"Published to accompany an exhibition at the Berlin National Gallery, this richly illustrated book reflects on contemporary Africa and its cultural landscape through the lens of colonial history, using literary and scientific texts and essays. A series of essays questions theWestern view of Africa, and explores how African history is told and interpreted today. Additionally, five internationally respected artists of African origin – El A ..."
"Gebundenes BuchDie dreizehnteilige Filminstallation Manifesto des Film- und Videokunstlers Julian Rosefeldt ist eine Hommage an die poetische Sprengkraft der großen Kunstlermanifeste der letzten hundert Jahre. Die australische Schauspielerin Cate Blanchett spielt darin dreizehn verschiedene moderneCharaktere in Alltagssituationen und zitiert dabei Passagen aus Manifesten von bildenden Kunstlern, Schriftstellern, Architekten, Performern ..."
"Eleven top curators from international museums tap 25 young artists to break out and change the art world. The curators, many of whom match the same criteria--young and gunning for change--include Udo Kittelmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Trevor Smith, among others. Artists include Brock Enright, Reena Spaulings and Paul Chan."
"A leading figure in Russian Conceptualism, multimedia artist, editor and collector Vadim Zakharov (born 1959) has been chosen to represent his country for the second time at the Venice Biennale. This volume documents his work for the 2013 Russian Pavilion."
"Richard Long is one of the leading protagonists of Land Art. "Berlin Circle" records the eponymous piece, a circle of stone installed by the artist for the opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof in 1996, as well as five other floor works and a large site-specific wall painting in mud."
"The opening of the new national stadium at Wembley in 2007 was the catalyst for a major new sound and video installation by the leading US artist Paul Pfeiffer commissioned by Artangel, the UK's leading public arts organisation. Celebrating the arguably most vital element in any football stadium - the crowd - The Saints is a lasting document of the evocative artwork of the same name, capturing the excitement and energy of the football c ..."
"This publication provides the first overview of the work of the 2013 winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst.Gathered together here are selected works as well as exhibition and publication projects since 2002, up to her ..."
"Best known for his monochromatic works with synthetic-feeling combed surfaces, painter Jason Martin (born in New Jersey in 1970) here presents recent drawings, paintings and sculptural pieces, as well as his first artworks actually made for a sacred space--the Church of the Apostles in Gütersloh, Germany."
"American artist George Widener (born 1962) developed a passion for calendars, numbers and numerology, historical data, population statistics and mathematical calculations early on in life. His clearly structured drawings combine actual historical events with his own computations, analyzing both world affairs and his own biography, and developing codes for super-intelligent computers of the future. Influenced by the theories of Ray Kurzw ..."
"In Soma, Belgian artist Carsten Höller (born 1961) traces the myth of the titular healing drink made by Vedic nomads in northern India during the second century BC. Drinking soma was thought to provide access to the divine. This publication collects writings on soma, from the early eighteenth century to the present, on which Höller drew for his most recent hallucinatory installation."
"As artists, they were self-taught and created a cosmos of images that still captivates us today with its sensual immediacy and has made a lasting mark in art history on the work of non-academically trained artists: Henri Rousseau (1844 ..."
"New York-based, Italian-born artist Rudolf Stingel radically questions contemporary painting through his use of unusual materials like carpet, aluminum insulation paneling and Styrofoam. For example, for his 1991 New York debut at Daniel Newburg Gallery, Stingel exhibited a bright orange rug in the otherwise empty space. Conceived by Stingel, and photographed and designed under his direction, this volume presents images from Stingel's 2 ..."
"The book may be considered the first compendium of Piene's work after the ZERO period in Germany.The title itself is a programmatic attempt to expand the arts."
"Genre/Form: Exhibition catalogs Exhibitions Named Person: Anton Henning; Anton Henning Document Type: Book All Authors / Contributors: Anton Henning; Martin Hentschel; Jan Hoet; Udo Kittelmann; Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany); Museum Haus Esters.; MARTa Herford (Herford, Germany) Find more information about: ISBN: 3938025735 9783938025734 OCLC Number: 155942320 Language Note: Text in German with translations into E ..."
"...now I put everything into equal sized brown cardboard boxes with a colored label on the side for the corresponding month and year. I hate memories full of melancholy, and deep inside I hope all those boxes will get lost, so I won't have to look through them ever again... On the other side, I would really like to keep these things, so that they can find a new use one day. --Andy Warhol, 1975 Beginning in the 1970s, Andy Warhol colle ..."
276 Pages In Kunst, um Kunst und um Kunst herum (Statement-Reihe) 通过 Udo: Kittelmann, Andreas Dehmer Paperback, 276 页, 发布时间 2003 通过 Verlag Lindinger + Schmid, ISBN-13: 978-3-929970-53-1, ISBN: 3-929970-53-8
"The sexually charged works of Louise Bourgeois and Hans Bellmer reveal remarkable parallels, even though the artists never actually met. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) skeptically examined the traditional image of women, Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) created in the puppet an idea woman in which all his desires and fantasies are reflected. This publication establishes for the first time a dialogue between two artists, which are marked by the v ..."