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Author : Patricia McDonnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Painting Berlin Stories written by Patricia McDonnell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174739
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Berlin Stories written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity.
Author : Stefan Koldehoff
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1644211203
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Art & Crime written by Stefan Koldehoff and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world. The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world--everything from "artnapping," in which an artwork is held hostage and only returned for a ransom, to forgery and tax fraud. However, the extent of the economic and cultural damage that results from criminality in the global art scene rarely comes to light. The stories of high-stakes, brazen art crimes told by art experts Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm are by turns thrilling, disturbing, and unbelievable (the imagination for using art to commit crimes seems boundless). The authors also provide a well-founded analysis of what needs to change in the art market and at museums. From the authors of False Pictures, Real Money (about the Beltracchi art forgery case), Art and Crime includes a chapter on art owned by Donald Trump. It is a thoroughly researched, explosive, and highly topical book that uncovers the extraordinary and multifarious thefts of art and cultural objects around the world.
Author : Mary M. Lane
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610397371
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Last Hostages written by Mary M. Lane and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day. Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise was achieved not only by harnessing the military but also by restricting artistic expression. Hitler, an artist himself, promised the dejected citizens of postwar Germany a purified Reich, purged of "degenerate" influences. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he removed so-called "degenerate" art from German society and promoted artists whom he considered the embodiment of the "Aryan ideal." Artists who had produced challenging and provocative work fled the country. Curators and art dealers organized their stock. Thousands of great artworks disappeared--and only a fraction of them were rediscovered after World War II. In 2013, the German government confiscated roughly 1,300 works by Henri Matisse, George Grosz, Claude Monet, and other masters from the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of one of Hitler's primary art dealers. For two years, the government kept the discovery a secret. In Hitler's Last Hostages, Mary M. Lane reveals the fate of those works and tells the definitive story of art in the Third Reich and Germany's ongoing struggle to right the wrongs of the past.
Author : Michael Fried
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300092196
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Menzel's Realism written by Michael Fried and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the 19th century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land. In this study a leading art historian argues that Menzel deserves to be recognized not only as one of the greatest painters and draftsmen of his century but also as a master realist whose work engages profoundly with an extraordinary range of issues - artistic, scientific, philosophical and socio-political. Michael Fried explores Menzel's large and fascinating oeuvre, and in so doing seeks to make the artist's achievement accessible to a wide audience.
Author : Atak
Publisher : Nobrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781909263048
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Topsy Turvy World written by Atak and published by Nobrow Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastical illustrated book where mice chase cats, penguins live in the jungle, cars fly and aeroplanes float!
Author : Jason Lutes
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770463828
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Berlin written by Jason Lutes and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazism. During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens—Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters’ lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes’ masterful hand. Weimar Berlin was the world’s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium.
Author : Gerhard Richter
Publisher : Halifax : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book 128 Details from a Picture (Halifax 1978) written by Gerhard Richter and published by Halifax : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bridget Riley
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 0989980979
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961-2014 written by Bridget Riley and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of Bridget Riley’s major exhibition at David Zwirner in London in the summer of 2014, this fully illustrated catalogue offers intimate explorations of paintings and works on paper produced by the legendary British artist over the past fifty years, focusing specifically on her recurrent use of the stripe motif. Riley has devoted her practice to actively engaging viewers through elementary shapes such as lines, circles, curves, and squares, creating visual experiences that at times trigger optical sensations of vibration and movement. The London show, her most extensive presentation in the city since her 2003 retrospective at Tate Britain, explored the stunning visual variety she has managed to achieve working exclusively with stripes, manipulating the surfaces of her vibrant canvases through subtle changes in hue, weight, rhythm, and density. As noted by Paul Moorhouse, “Throughout her development, Riley has drawn confirmation from Euge`ne Delacroix’s observation that ‘the first merit of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.’ [Her] most recent stripe paintings are a striking reaffirmation of that principle, exciting and entrancing the eye in equal measure.” Created in close collaboration with the artist, the publication’s beautifully produced color plates offer a selection of the iconic works from the exhibition. These include the artist’s first stripe works in color from the 1960s, a series of vertical compositions from the 1980s that demonstrate her so-called “Egyptian” palette—a “narrow chromatic range that recalled natural phenomena”—and an array of her modestly scaled studies, executed with gouache on graph paper and rarely before seen. A range of texts about Riley’s original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes the images, including new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff, texts on both the artist’s wall paintings and newest body of work by Paul Moorhouse, 20th Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a 1978 interview with Robert Kudielka, her longtime confidant and foremost critic. Additionally, the book features little-seen archival imagery of Riley at work over the years; documentation of her recent commissions for St. Mary’s Hospital in West London, taken especially for this publication; and installation views of the exhibition itself, installed throughout the three floors of the gallery’s eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse located in the heart of Mayfair.
Author : Clare Clark
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 054414757X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book In the Full Light of the Sun written by Clare Clark and published by Harper. This book was released on 2019 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries, where nothing is quite what it seems. It is home to Emmeline, a young art student; Julius, an art expert who loves paintings more than people; and Frank, a Jewish lawyer looking for a way to protect both his family and his principles as the Nazis begin their rise to power. Rachmann, a mercurial art dealer-- and newly discovered paintings by Vincent van Gogh-- will provide a scandal that turns all their lives upside down. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Mandy Robotham
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008364508
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Berlin Girl written by Mandy Robotham and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A USA Today Bestseller.*** The heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of a world on the brink of war from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife.
Author : Al Burian
Publisher : Microcosm Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781934620052
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Burn Collector written by Al Burian and published by Microcosm Pub. This book was released on 2009-11-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth, trouble, and everyman blues are the themes of the essays in this collection. Whether battling the cops in Chicago, chronicling the frenetic nervous breakdown of city life, spilling the secret truth of all religions, or talking comics and punk shows, Al Burian does so with class, humor, and a timeless feel for language. Heavily illustrated, dense with stories, and ripped right from the headlines of Burian's hard, hilarious, rowdy life, this edition is sure to entertain.
Author : Nicholas Serota
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 : 9781938922923
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Gerhard Richter written by Nicholas Serota and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2016 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original edition published 2011 by Tate Publishing.
Author : Nell Painter
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640090614
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Old In Art School written by Nell Painter and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age” (Essence). Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school––in her sixties––to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what an artist is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference? Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this "glorious achievement––bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives" (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).
Author : Ali Fitzgerald
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683961323
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Drawn to Berlin written by Ali Fitzgerald and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her students draw images of tragic violence and careful optimism: rafts and tanks, flowers and the Eiffel Tower. In her eight years in Germany, Ali Fitzgerald experiences the highs of the creatively hopeful, along with the deep depression of the disillusioned, all while waiting to stumble onto her own glory like the great Modernists before her. In the gigantic plastic bubble that is the refugee center, worlds collide and echo, and her drawings are compassionate and unflinchingly intimate, perfectly visualizing the fantasy of her Bohemia crumbling in a globalized city.
Author : Oliver Jeffers
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847862992
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Oliver Jeffers written by Oliver Jeffers and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Oliver Jeffers gives readers an unprecedented and intimate window into his creative process, weaving his popular works with never-before-seen art and illustrations, alongside his personal story of how he came to art, his love of books, and his bookmaking, fashioned from his personal sketchbooks. This dynamic visual biography is Jeffers's personal chronicle of an artist who blends his love of creating stories with his love of art and his infectious charm, and is a must-have for art lovers and bibliophiles both young and old. Oliver Jeffers takes a dive into Oliver's own origin story, inspirations, art evolution, and passion for storytelling: from growing up loving art and creating stories as a young boy in Belfast, Ireland; to finding a huge audience for his loveable stories; to what led him to his enormously clever found painting; to his collaborations with U2, TED, Colette, and Apple, to his newest meditative dipped painting performances. Oliver Jeffers is a fresh canvas for his imagination, and includes a pass through his most popular work, never-before-published illustrations and art, and a look into his more personal world of sketchbooks and doodles. Oliver's own story, infused with the whimsy and joy his work is famous for, is must-have not only for current fans of Oliver Jeffers's picture books, but also new fans, art lovers, and bibliophiles both young and old.
Author : Robert Storr
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 : 9781854379641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (796 download)
Download or read book September written by Robert Storr and published by Tate. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century and is still at the forefront of painting today. His painting 'September' is the response to the bombing of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. This book explores the painting and the event itself.
