Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Individual Artists - Essays

Kunstwerke lassen sich nicht allein auf die Lebensgeschichte von Kunstlerinnen und Kunstlern zuruckfuhren, doch es ware auch falsch anzunehmen, dass die Bedingungen der Produktion, seien sie sozialer, technischer oder personlicher Natur, am Werk keine Spuren hinterlassen und fur dessen Wirkung unerheblich waren. Der Band untersucht dieses Verhaltnis an Hand einer Auswahl internationaler Kunstler.

Turbulenz und Wiederaufbau ist eine Anthologie von 13 interdisziplinaren Essays. Sie beschaftigen sich mit der Frage wie Kunst, Design und Technik dazu beitragen konnen, die Gesellschafts- und Umweltprobleme auf eine neue Weise zu sehen. Die Essays zeigen die komplexen Zusammenhange von Ursache und Wirkung auf: sie fuhren weg von der popularen Schwarz-Weiss Malerei und fragen, ob der mediale Wandel nicht Teil einer sinnvollen Entwicklung ist.

"People tell me I'm not Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Puvis de Channes--but I already know that Why tell me?" --Paul Gauguin

"Criticism is our censorship...." So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) wrote "Racontars de Rapin" only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through discussions of numerous artists, both his contemporaries and predecessors, Gauguin unpacks what he viewed as the mistakes and misjudgments behind much of art criticism, revealing not only...

When Mary Kelly's best-known work, Post-Partum Document (1973--1979), was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 1976, it caused a sensation--an unexpected response to an intellectually demanding and aesthetically restrained installation of conceptual art. The reception signaled resistance to the work's interrogation of feminine identity and the cultural mythologizing of motherhood. This volume of essays and interviews begins with this foundational work, offering an early statement by the artist, a subsequent interview, and an essay situating the work within a...

"Monsieur Degas, you just said some things that would make an old soldier blush "

There are many myths about Edgar Degas--from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English, the text's original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist's death, has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We...