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Franz West: The 1990s

Author : Franz West
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 9781941701102
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Franz West: The 1990s written by Franz West and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, Franz West’s work moved in new and innovative stylistic directions, as his career was solidified through important international exhibitions. This publication delves into this significant decade in an effort to contextualize the evolution of West’s singular practice. The 1990s proved critical in the development of the idiosyncratic style for which West is still known today. His key innovations from this period—which included the addition of exuberant color to his papier-mâché forms, the incorporation of furniture both as art object and as social incubator, and the inclusion of work by other artists in his own installations—resulted in dynamic, frequently interactive installations that helped to expand the possibilities of sculpture and the ways in which art is experienced. Produced on the occasion of David Zwirner’s 2014 exhibition in New York, this fully illustrated publication gives an in-depth overview of the decade, arguably the most important of the artist’s lengthy career. It features essays by noted West scholars Eva Badura-Triska and Veit Loers, as well as a personal account by Bernhard Riff on video collaborations made with the artist throughout the 1990s.

Franz West

Author : Franz West
Publisher : Severn House Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781935263692
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Franz West written by Franz West and published by Severn House Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce a major sculpture exhibition by the late Franz West. West was actively engaged with the preparation of this exhibition up until his untimely death earlier this summer. Belonging to the generation of artists exposed to Actionist and Performance Art of the 1960s and70s, West instinctively rejected the traditionally passive nature of the relationship betweenartwork and viewer. Being equally opposed to the physical ordeal and existential intensity insisted upon by his performative forbears, he made work that was vigorous and imposing yet free and light-hearted, where form and function were roughly compatible rather than mutually exclusive. In the seventies, he produced the first of the small, portable, mixed media sculptures called Adaptives (Passstucke). These ergonomically inclined objects become complete as artworks only when the viewer holds, wears, carries or performs with them. Transposing the knowledge gained with these formative works, he explored sculpture increasingly in terms of an ongoing dialogue of actions and reactions between viewers and objects in any given exhibition space, while probing the internal aesthetic relations between sculpture and painting."

Franz West

Author : Eva Badura-Triska
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783863352813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Franz West written by Eva Badura-Triska and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this publication is Franz West's (1947-2012) Kombi-Werke installations, in which greatly differing individual pieces are brought together and then recomposed into new works. Gathering elements such as fittings, furniture, sculpture, videos and works on paper from all periods--and even works made by artist friends--into grand ensembles, the Kombi-Werke are without doubt key elements in West's legacy. An example is the three-part papier-mâché sculpture "Redundanz" its starting point is the gouache "Lost Weight" (1994), with its motif of a dieting woman showing her oversized pants. Omitting the "W," West transforms "Lost Weight" into "Lost Eight," in order to derive the title for a larger work, "Where Is my Eight?" With 250 color illustrations, this substantial and inspiring volume, and the exhibition it accompanies, were overseen by the artist himself, before his death in the summer of 2012.

Franz West Notes

Author : Franz West
Publisher : Walther Kanig, Kaln
ISBN 13 : 9783960981251
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Franz West Notes written by Franz West and published by Walther Kanig, Kaln. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential Austrian artist, Franz West (1947-2012) had been writing texts, notes, remarks and aphorisms non-stop since 1977.He attached these texts to his sculptures, continuing the sculptural expression linguistically without illustrating or explaining.In places the titles, epithets and texts can raise awareness of the sculpture's form, in others they can drive the viewer mad or fascinate like the cryptograms of a lingual alchemist.Texts accompany Franz West's complete oeuvre. Thus far, more than 200 have been created and they are published here in their entirety for the first time in a newly edited form, as facsimiles and in transcriptions.The Franz West retrospective exhibition is taking place at Centre Pompidou, Paris (autumn/winter 2018), and at TATE Modern, London (spring/summer 2019).There was a major Franz West exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2014.

Franz West

Author : Max Wechsler
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
ISBN 13 : 9783037644270
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Franz West written by Max Wechsler and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the long collaboration between Franz West (1947-2012) and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, this volume offers a comprehensive yet singular overview of the artist's oeuvre. Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by art theorist and friend of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's work closely for many years, and whose illuminating foreword begins: "Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and eccentric par excellence." This publication underlines the importance of the gallery space as an artistic laboratory, and highlights an unusually creative relationship between an artist and his gallerist.

Tamuna Sirbiladze

Author : Tamuna Sirbiladze
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 1941701809
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Tamuna Sirbiladze written by Tamuna Sirbiladze and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a large body of work mainly comprising mixed-media paintings, Tamuna Sirbiladze was known for her distinctive style, which continually forged new terms between dichotomous relationships. Abstract and figurative, playful and serious, energetic and quiet, vibrant and muted, Sirbiladze’s work is characterized by both its intensity and flexibility. Known for the speed at which she worked, there is a quality of immediacy in her paintings, as if they provide direct access to her imagination. This primacy is perhaps most evident in her gestural, improvisatory paintings made with oil sticks on unstretched, raw canvas, which purposely retain the appearance of being unfinished. “As an artist,” Sirbiladze writes, “I don’t want to control what the representation will be seen as.” This catalogue presents a careful selection of these oil stick works along with her other paintings—including her celebrated V Collection (2012), which was made in dialogue with iconic works by Caravaggio, Giotto, Raphael, and Velazquez, as well as her later paintings focused on women’s bodies in intimate, underrepresented scenes, Sirbiladze’s response to male dominance in the art world. With contributions by Max Henry, Anna Kats, and Julie Ryan, as well as a conversation with the artist and an arrangement of fifteen sonnets by her partner, Benedikt Ledebur, this publication provides a comprehensive survey of Sirbiladze’s works and practice.

Franz West

Author : Franz West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Franz West written by Franz West and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz West is widely considered to be one of Europe's most important contemporary artists, and he has reached that position without ever having needed to limit himself to a single medium or mode of expression. Like other artists who came of age in the midst of Conceptualism and Minimalism, his work has ranged widely and blurred the boundaries between art and life. The works showcased here, including autonomous sculpture and interactive pieces, were all made between 1972 and 1988, starting with the furniture with which he expanded our understanding of sculpture--a chair with a seat made of chains still stirs visceral reactions--and the photo-filled and always photogenic collages with which he seemed to join Pop. Early Work exemplifies the richness of West's early production, and Eva Badura-Triska's insightful essay traces through it the development of the theories and practices that continue to shape his work today.

The Decline of the West

Author : Oswald Spengler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195066340
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book The Decline of the West written by Oswald Spengler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Hans Arp

Author : Julian Heynen
Publisher : Distanz
ISBN 13 : 9783954760565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Hans Arp written by Julian Heynen and published by Distanz. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Arp (b. Strasbourg, 1886; d. Basel, 1966) is a familiar figure of classical modernism and was a key contributor to the development of Dada and Surrealism in the early twentieth century, yet it was during the decades that followed that he articulated the forms to which he would persistently return.

Gregory Crewdson: Alone Street

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Publisher : Aperture
ISBN 13 : 9781597115131
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Gregory Crewdson: Alone Street written by and published by Aperture. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist's obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson's unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, "all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson's scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots." In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.

The Inner Mirror: Conversations with Ursula Hauser, Art Collector

Author : Laura Bechter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783906915388
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Mirror: Conversations with Ursula Hauser, Art Collector written by Laura Bechter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Blade and Bullet

Author : Margaret Franz
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525588257
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Between Blade and Bullet written by Margaret Franz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Steinhauser is the only peace officer in the history of penal institutions in Canada to willingly offer up her life in the service of her country. It was during a 1975 prison escape attempt and 41-hour hostage-taking by three desperate inmates of the British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster, B.C. that Mary volunteered to be the principal hostage. For 41 hours, she was held as a human shield, protecting not only the inmates but the fourteen other hostages sequestered in a nearby vault. Her calmness, composure and bravery throughout the entire hostage-taking was noted by the negotiators and penitentiary staff alike. She was killed there. This is her story. This biography of Mary's life and tragic death is narrated by Margaret, her younger sister. From Mary’s early childhood in rural B.C., it charts the evolution of a young nurse from social worker to symbol for those dedicated to prison reform. Mary's experiences are fascinating reading for any adult interested in local history, law enforcement, mental health awareness, and criminal justice. Her work as a psychiatric nurse in hospitals and institutions across Canada led to her introduction to prison life, which sparked her fierce determination to improve the inmate experience, prisoner justice, and prison reform. Sprinkled throughout with personal anecdotes and quotes from important people in Mary's life, Between Blade and Bullet is a compelling, deeply emotional, and thought-provoking look into the life and death of one heroic woman. Searchingly honest, it examines how Canadian institutions closed down to protect themselves, and the consequences of justice for those left on the outside.

Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller

Author : Friedl Kubelka-Bondy
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
ISBN 13 : 9783037643204
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller written by Friedl Kubelka-Bondy and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers a retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Friedl Kubelka (born 1946)--known as a filmmaker under the name of Friedl vom Gröller. It gathers her portraits of filmmaker friends and family, film stills and a selection of her fashion photographs. In 1972 she began her epic project Year's Portraits, for which she photographed herself daily over a period of one year--a process that has been repeated every five years since. Among the artist's portrait subjects are Franz West, Walter Pichler and Peter Kubelka (her husband), as well as central protagonists of the American Independent Cinema such as Jack Smith, Bruce Conner, Hollis Frampton, Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas, George and Mike Kuchar, and many more. Most of the images gathered together here are published for the first time in book form. The book also includes a DVD with a selection of vom Gröller's 16 mm films.

End and Beginning

Author : Franz Borkenau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231050678
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book End and Beginning written by Franz Borkenau and published by . This book was released on 1984-11-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Western civilization looks at each preceding era's influence on the next, and predicts future developments in our culture

Ahead of the 21st Century

Author : Simon De Pury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775712514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Ahead of the 21st Century written by Simon De Pury and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damien Hirst's Alone Yet Together, a pseudoscientific installation of fish suspended in formaldehyde in small, identical glass boxes, graces the cover of this volume. As the singular image selected to represent the Pisces Collection, it demands some exploration of wordplay. Pisces is, after all, the zoological term for fish and also the name of a zodiac sign--the astrological sign, as it happens, of the collection's anonymous owner. Devoted to contemporary art from the 1980s onward, the Pisces Collection takes not an encyclopedic approach but a focused one, concentrating on representing the work of a relatively small group of artists in depth. For the first time, 150 pieces from this very valuable collection are presented to the international public, featuring work by John M. Armleder, Ross Bleckner, George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Fischli & Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Mariko Mori, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Ruff, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, and Christopher Wool. Highlights from the 80s include Prince's My Name and Koons's Encased Five Rows; the 90s are represented through photographic works by Sherman and Gursky, alongside Struths's Paradise 2 (Pilgrim Sands). Hirst's Something solid beneath the surface of several creatures great and small, with its use of live and dead animals, is one of the collection's more controversial pieces.

Primitive Art

Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : Amberg Press
ISBN 13 : 9781473310414
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Primitive Art written by Franz Boas and published by Amberg Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Primitive Art' is an attempt to give an analytical description of the fundamental traits of primitive art. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Germany. Boas enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. He completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. He became a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1899 and founded the first Ph.D program in anthropology in America. He was also a leading figure in the creation of the American Anthropological Association

Clegg & Guttmann

Author : Clegg & Guttmann
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
ISBN 13 : 9783037643174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Clegg & Guttmann written by Clegg & Guttmann and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s, the photographs of Clegg & Guttmann have explored the representation of power and the codification of gestures. Famous for their images of powerful people or families inspired both by seventeenth-century Dutch painting and commissioned portraits for annual reports, they have developed various typologies of photographic portraiture over the past three decades. This volume examines two typological series in particular: "Portraits and Artworks" and "Collaborative Portraits." These series feature artist sitters such as Sari Carel, Joseph Kosuth, David Robbins, Christoph Schlingensief, Joseph Strau, Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West.