Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Sculpture & Installation

Why free art in Barcelona?

The idea for these guides sprang from hard times. Whether in boom or recession, art remains fundamental. But while free art is a great idea, not all great art is free. So this guide takes you places where there is no admission fee.

BCN Free Art 01: The Port and Barceloneta guides you around artworks on Barcelona's waterfront and through the fishing district of Barceloneta, describing Barcelona's history, the artists who created these sculptures and the stories that bring this city alive.

The Barcelona Free Art guides...

Erster umfassender Uberblick uber das Schaffen des osterreichischen Bildhauers Roland Reiter. Reiters Kunst kalkuliert nicht kuhl, das emotionale, das "ausdrucksvolle" Moment ist eines ihrer Kennzeichen. Sie kombiniert Materialien, die klassischerweise nicht zusammenpassen, sich gegenwartskunsttechnisch aber doch wieder erganzen. Dadurch entsteht eine Art von Spannung, die durchaus einen eigenen Voyeurismus zu bedienen weiss.

Drawing on Sandback's substantial archive, Edward A. Vazquez demonstrates that the artist's work--with all its physical slightness and attentiveness to place, as well as its relationship to minimal and...

Hanakam & Schuller are tricksters. As artists and researchers, they remodel the rules of fine art, creating idiosyncratic orders and new world designs incorporated in videos and objects. The artefacts of the two artists from Vienna are "Gestalt-changers"; they change their outer shape and re-appear in a number of different contexts.

The trickster art book illustrates the oeuvre and provides an insight into its making using multi-page photo spreads from video stills, and production photographs. The Arkadikon essay captures readers and leads them to contemporary hypothetical...

This is the first full-length biography of Horatio Greenough. Aside from a short fifty page account published in 1853, no one up to now has attempted to write the complete story of his life.

Greenough, who lived from 1805 to 1852, was the first American to devote himself from the outset of his career to the profession of sculpture and the first to set forth at any length the concept of functionalism in architecture. He was generally forgotten after his death, chiefly because the heroic, classical tradition in sculpture to which he was committed gave place to the realistic depiction...