Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Contemporary (1945- )

Das Buch fuhrt von den russischen Avantgarden und ihrem Eintritt in die Sowjetpolitik zu den amerikanischen Kunstlern, die 1989 Gesetzesentwurfe zur Abschaffung des staatlichen Kunstforderungsprogramms auslosen. Die westliche Kunst will 1918 die Gesellschaft brechen und radikal neu gestalten. Am Ende des Jahrhunderts sucht sie die demokratisch-kapitalistische Grundordnung zu kritisieren, aber nicht zu sturzen. Salvador Dali veranschaulicht diesen Wandel wie kaum ein anderer Kunstler. Ausgehend von uneditiertem Quellenmaterial wird Dalis politische Kommunikation in Kunstwerken und im...

This publication presents, for the first time, the artistic life-work of Roswitha Ennemoser (1953 - 2008) to the public. Her oeuvre is in the tradition of constructive-concrete art and from early on it was distinguished by a reduced language of forms. Not only the serial and mainly multi-part objects (wall hung and free-standing) but also her writings come from in-depth analysis of perception.

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the World War I and the death the of the first Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bertha von Suttner. Today, most people find the idea of a war implausible, but is that really the case? The blurring of the conditions that are considered constitutive for the concept of "dignity" in relation to human life forms provides for the different approaches of this international cooperation.

Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, film, sculpture, printmaking, and theater. Rendered in stark contrasts of black and white, his images reflect his native South Africa and, like endlessly suggestive shadows, point to something more elemental as well. Based on the 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Six Drawing Lessons is the most comprehensive collection available of Kentridge's thoughts on art, art-making, and the studio.

Art, Kentridge says, is its own form of...

For four decades, Roger Shimomura's paintings, prints, and theatre pieces have addressed sociopolitical issues of Asian America. He does this through a style that combines his childhood interest in comic books, American Pop Art, and traditions of Japanese woodblock prints, thereby evoking his Japanese ancestry while locating him firmly within modern American artistic developments. Through this artistic device, he is able to bring together a wild mixture of compositions that offer up patterns of criticism within visually compelling works of sumptuous color and lighthearted Pop...

Maya Deren assesses both the filmmaker's completed work and her numerous unfinished projects, arguing Deren's overarching...

Maya Deren assesses both the filmmaker's completed work and her numerous unfinished projects, arguing Deren's overarching...

Growing up in the suburbs--confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother--Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of the time drift through the place, including Allan Kaprow and John Baldessari, not to mention the student who phones the Identi-Kit division of the Los Angeles Police Department and has them make a composite drawing of the Mona...