In devising a concept for the Abbildungen exhibition, Konstantin Grcic thought back to one of his earliest designs, an additional pedestal for a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi. This became the leitmotif of his staging of twenty-one selected objects. The exhibition is the underpinning for the conception of this publication, which turns its gaze on the media-framing of Grcic's design objects. First researched in early magazines, company prospectuses, flyers and other print media, the selected pieces are presented here as reproductions of reproductions. The publication is accompanied by an...
In devising a concept for the Abbildungen exhibition, Konstantin Grcic thought back to one of his earliest designs, an additional pedestal for a sculp...
From 1904 until 1914, the painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), who was a friend of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, the Fauves and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, witnessed and absorbed the new art in Paris, the centre of European art. In 1932 he emigrated to the US and opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. This book tells his story.
From 1904 until 1914, the painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), who was a friend of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, the Fauves and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, wi...
