Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Bohlau Verlag Wilhelm Stiassny 1842-1910: Judischer Architekt
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£60.51
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Zeitwesen: Autobiographik Osterreichischer
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£71.99
Bohlau Verlag Der Dirigent Hans Swarowsky (18991975): Musik,
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£77.39
Edition Olms John Mayall: The Blues Crusader
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£21.25
Edition Olms Western Portraits of Great Character Actors: The
Book SynopsisThe American West, as we know it, is defined by the movies, and the Western is the oldest film genre. When the movies were born, it was not that long after Promontory Point and the Civil War, so those memories were still there in the minds of the very first movie audiences as they watched The Great Train Robbery. And the myth-making is as important as the brutal truths of history. As the reporter tells Jimmy Stewart in Fords The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Rendered in rare, evocative tones reminiscent of Edward Sheriff Curtiss immortal photographs, Western Portraits of Great Character Actors provides readers with a collection of stylised portraits that capture the allure and mystique of the Old West, complete with authentic costuming, weaponry and settings. From the epic feature film to the TV series and serial, this coffee table book will put the story of character actors and the significance of their memorable roles into an entertaining perspective. The subjects include such popular, recognizable actors as Karl Malden, David Carradine, Denver Pyle, R G Armstrong, L Q Jones, Horst Buchholz, Henry Silva, Ruta Lee, Morgan Woodward, Bo Hopkins, Clu Gulager and 72 others.
£35.96
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Dokumente Zur Geschichte Des Thomaskantorats:
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£68.00
Bohlau Verlag Musikreisen in innere Raume: Biographische
Book SynopsisIn the 20th century, listening to music in therapeutic methods was combined with hopes for new paths in the art of healing through the possibilities of modern technology. These hopes have become the lifelong theme of the American musician and music therapist Helen Lindquist Bonny (19212010): As a violinist, she first developed an expertise in classical-romantic aesthetic music before becoming active in music therapy and then with Guided Imagery and Music ( GIM) designed a music-receptive set of methods. Her path through life was linked to efforts towards female emancipation and the reception of a zeitgeist in which the examination of forms of altered waking consciousness was fascinating. Musical journeys into inner spaces opens with her biography a panorama of the early history of receptive music therapy in the 20th century.
£72.22
Harrassowitz Zwischen Gewandhaus Und Gulag: Alexander Weprik
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£82.65
Harrassowitz Der Weibliche Vulcan: Die Pianistin Und
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£27.37
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Frei: Zwei Gesprache
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£18.81
Peter Lang AG Die Lieder von Maurice Ravel
Book SynopsisIn dieser Arbeit wird das Liedschaffen Maurice Ravels (1875-1937) am Beispiel einzelner Lieder detailliert dargestellt und zum Teil erstmals ausführlich gewürdigt. Aus der Untersuchung ergibt sich eine starke Affinität Ravels gegenüber der Literatur und Lyrik des Fin de siècle, die sich in der Wahl seiner Liedtexte sowie in seinen literarischen Vorlieben offenbart, aber auch auf seine ästhetische Haltung weist. Die vielschichtigen Vertonungen zeigen Ravels Faszination am Spiel mit unterschiedlichen Stilen und sein Bestreben, durch Stilüberblendungen sowie Verfahren der Ironisierung und musikalischen Allusion ein Moment der Verfremdung hervorzurufen.
£61.56
Kerber Verlag Rudolf Zwirner and Jakob Mattner: On the Mystery
Book SynopsisThe dedicated art dealer Rudolf Zwirner and the artist Jakob Mattner meet to look back at his over 40-year-long career. They discuss the fascination with perspective, the poetic means of light, the change of position, and procedure of reversal through which the essence of art can be achieved without withholding information from the viewer: the secret of transcendence, its cause and effect. Text in English and German.
£26.00
Books on Demand Meggy Schneider - Von der Wiege bis zur Bühne:
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£15.21
Brill Fink Das Skizzenbuch Engelmann: Untersuchungen Zu
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£205.20
Brill U Fink Die Filme Fatih Akins
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£57.00
Hirmer Verlag Willem De Kooning
Book SynopsisIn 1926 22 year - old Dutchman Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997) travelled to the USA on a British freighter – without papers and hidden in the machine room. The young art student eked out a living by painting houses, signs and façades, before he was able aft er eight years to dedicate himself entirely to painting. In the United States he established contacts with the art scene and forged friendships with artists such as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Today De Ko oning belongs to the outstanding painters of Abstract Expressionism and together with Jackson Pollock is regarded as a pioneer of Action Painting. This publication vividly examines De Kooning’s life, marked by self - doubts, successes, new beginnings, excess es, and scandalous paintings, as well as the evolution of his artistic work. In addition, author Corinna Thierolf opens up exciting perspectives on De Kooning’s work by revealing entirely new, surprising relationships with the works of fellow artists such as Franz Marc, Piet Mondrian, or Wassily Kandinsky.
£9.45
Hirmer Verlag Florine Stettheimer: A Biography. 2nd. Ed.
Book SynopsisThis first full biography confirms Florine Stettheimer as one of the 20th century’s most significant, progressive artists whose work remains highly relevant today. Stettheimer was a feminist and a multi-media artist who painted several sexually explicit, political works examining identity issues documenting New York City’s growth as the centre of cultural life, finance, and entertainment between the World Wars. During her first 40 years in Europe, Florine Stettheimer studied academic painting and was aware of all the earliest modernist styles ahead of most American artists. Returning to New York, she and her sisters led an acclaimed Salon for major avant-garde cultural figures including Marcel Duchamp, the Stieglitz circle, poets, dancers, writers, etc. She showed her innovative paintings in over 46 of the most important museum exhibitions and Salons, wrote poetry, designed unique furniture and gained international fame for her sets and costumes for avant-garde opera.
£35.00
Prestel Frida Kahlo: The Story of Her Life
Book SynopsisThe perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo's brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful. In this illustrated "biography", Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo's world in boldly colored, minutely detailed illustrations. Blending facts and history with dreamlike and surreal sequences, Vinci creates an intimate portrayal of an artist who incorporated her life experiences into her art. Burning love and crushing loss, incredible joy and deep despair-these were all part of Kahlo's life and part of the paintings that are some of the most celebrated art of all time. Filled with images that populated Kahlo's work-monkeys and parrots, traditional clothing and lush gardens-Vinci imbues her text and drawings with an artist's perception and sensitivity. The result is an evocative, fittingly passionate tribute to a legendary figure.Trade Review"Prestel has just released Frida: The Story of Her Life, a graphic novel by Vanna Vinci that makes the perfect addition to the visual history of one of the most famous artists in the world. Here Vinci brings to life the beautiful and horrific moments of Kahlo’s life in a series of iconic scenes that integrate her country, her culture, and her passion into a great, tempestuous personality. The result is a portrait of the artist that complements the self-portraits that the world adores, giving us another look at the soul of a woman who continues to inspire and provoke." -Crave"This is an extraordinary way of presenting the story of the life of Frida Kahlo" -Her Campus
£17.99
Prestel Edward Hopper: The Story of His Life
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking graphic novel delves into the life of the acclaimed artist Edward Hooper, whose iconic works depict quintessentially American scenes and experiences. While many of Hopper's most acclaimed works have been embraced by American culture, the artist himself rejected much of the lyricism and romance that his audience imposed on his paintings. This unique overview of Hopper's life and career offers a fascinating and unflinching portrait of an artist trying to establish himself and define his own style. Using Hopper's own words as a jumping off point, the book traces his roots as an art student and commercial illustrator; his life-changing time in Europe; his rocky relationship with his wife Jo, and his incredible success later in life. It also shows how, as he became increasingly famous, he grew more taciturn and resolute in his disparagement of American society and the labels thrust on him. Using clean lines and a palette that mimics Hopper's own, the book's illustrations reflect the style and substance of the artist's life--and help create a refreshing reconsideration of a creative genius who never wavered from his vision.
£16.99
Prestel Banksy: A Graphic Novel
Book SynopsisTold in classic comic-book form, this graphic biography invites a new audience to learn about Banksy-and uses a pitch-perfect medium to convey the artist's message that art is for the people. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all time. But we don't actually know who he is. This is just one of many contradictions that are addressed in this enormously compelling graphic biography. When two young Londoners are caught spray-painting graffiti on a city wall, they get to know each other while detained by the police. After they are released, they decide to make a film of Banksy's life, tracing the arc of his career as they travel through the streets of London. Readers will learn not only of Banksy's politically charged art and the causes he championed, but also of its worldwide dissemination, museum exhibitions, and record-breaking auctions. While readers may not learn Banksy's true identity, this uniquely graphic form of storytelling communicates the artist's belief that art is for everyone, speaks to everyone, and is owned by everyone.
£17.09
Prestel Niki de Saint Phalle: The Story of Her Life
Book SynopsisFew artists’ lives are as inspiring as that of Niki de Saint Phalle. While she started her career as a fashion model, a subsequent breakdown led to her taking up painting as therapy. Entirely self-taught, Niki spent the rest of her years devoted to art that was based in emotional truth and a feminist point of view. This graphic novel follows Niki’s extraordinary career, from her early “shooting pictures,” in which she fired bullets at bags of paint, to the creation of the exuberantly formed life-sized dolls she called “Nanas,” which established her as an international success. The book also looks at her close collaborations with her husband and fellow artist Jean Tinquely; her painting, drawing, assemblage, performance art, and large-scale installations; and her work in film, theater, and architecture. The texts explore how Niki tackled social and political issues and institutions— and shows why her work remains as eloquent and powerful today as when it was first created. Looking beyond her brightly colored sculptures, this book tells the story of a woman who fought for a fairer world; a headstrong outsider, who made a name for herself in the male-dominated art world of the day; and an autodidact, who became one of the greatest artists of her time.
£17.09
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Hans Georg Nageli (1773-1836): Einsichten in
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£120.96
VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K. Geometric Pitch Structure and Form in Déserts by
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£38.64
Taschen GmbH Rembrandt
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£14.25
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Popular Is Not Enough: The Political Voice Of Jo
Book SynopsisIn his study, Markus Jäger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavours as a political activist throughout the last fifty years. He illustrates an American popular singer's significance as a political activist - for her audiences and for her opponents as well as for those victims of politically organised violence who have profited from her work. Mingling popular culture with political activism can turn into a helpful means when it comes to a non-violent progress of society. Joan Baez's work offers an excellent example for this hypothesis.Trade Review"If we are to deepen our understanding of art and resistance, we need to address hard questions about protest music and popular culture and the importance of community in organizing against war." -- American StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Stepping Over Boundaries: Materials, Methodologies And Theory 2. The Kingdom Of Childhood: Major Moments Of The 1950s 3. On Refusal Without Violence: Joan Baez And Henry David Thoreau 4. High School Activist And Folk Music Revivalist 5. Postwar Fractions In Society: Joan Baez In The 1960s 6. A Roller Coaster Decade: Joan Baez In The 1970s 7. A Narcissistic Decade: Joan Baez In The 1980s 8. Gone From Danger: Joan Baez In The 1990s 9. A Lifetime Achievement: Joan Baez In The 2000s Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgments Curriculum Vitae
£30.59
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Sonja Sekula and Friends
Book SynopsisSonja Sekula (1918-63) was born and educated in Lucerne, Switzerland, but emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1936. In 1941, she began studying art at the Arts Students League in New York and made the acquaintance of Andre Breton and his friends among the surrealists. Her automatic paintings and texts soon captured the interest of Peggy Guggenheim and Marcel Duchamp. In 1943, she was invited for the first time to show her work at Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery, and, throughout the late 1940s, she was also featured in solo and group exhibitions at Betty Parsons Gallery. However, mental health problems dogged her throughout her life, and she returned to Switzerland for treatment in 1955, where she committed suicide in 1963. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Sekula's art in context of the work of her friends and fellow artists from the period. Richly illustrated, it offers a chance to rediscover an immensely talented artist who has been unjustly neglected.
£34.20
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work: A Biographic
Book SynopsisOver the past thirty years, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has expressed himself on numerous occasions and in a range of contexts about his work and his self-conception as an architect. Many of these statements have been recorded on film. Christoph Schaub, Swiss film director and internationally renowned author of documentaries on architects and architecture, has composed a biographic film collage from this rich legacy of interviews and conversations, lectures, and public talks. It spans Zumthor's entire career from early days in the 1980s until today, including conversations with Schaub recorded for this compilation. This portrait also introduces us to Zumthor as a persona that has changed over three decades, yet still remained much the same man. Authentic, abiding, and passionately he responds to questions about his positions. His statements reveal sensitivity and consistency; they demonstrate a person following his inner compass and ideals. Christoph Schaub has conceived this biographic collage in collaboration with Atelier Peter Zumthor to coincide with the exhibition Dear to Me, curated by Zumthor, at Kunsthaus Bregenz in autumn 2017. DVD has English subtitles.
£23.34
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Jimmie Durham: In Europe
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£24.27
Edition Axel Menges Erdmut Bramke, Werkverzeichnis: Bd.1 -- Gemalde
Book SynopsisText in German. Erdmut Bramke, who was born in 1940 in Kiel and died in 2002 in Stuttgart, is one of the few 20th-century artists whose work consistently expressed a purely painterly position. She worked only with colour and structures. The use of acrylic colours enabled her to create unique colour constellations. Her unusual palate of colours and novel shades of colour were a constant surprise. In her stylistic idiom she emphasised flowing lines, interspersed colour shadowing with linear structures and experimented with images produced by dip-ping the image body in colour and also by using different materials. Her works are represented in many public and private collections, including the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Ulmer Museum, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Bundeskunsthalle, also in Bonn, and the Kunsthalle Kiel. Erdmut Bramke studied painting from 1961 to 1967 at the academies in Berlin and Stuttgart. Her teachers were Heinz Trökes and K R H Sonderborg. Repeated study periods in France and Italy took her creative work into constantly new directions. Particularly important for her artistic development was the time she spent as a stipendiary fellow at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1979/80 and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1986. The present catalogue raisonné of the artists freelance work was commissioned by the Freunde der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, as prescribed by the terms of the bequest of Erdmut Bramke her artistic design of buildings will follow in a later volume. Volume one is devoted to the paintings. It is introduced by essays of six people in her circle who focus on Bramkes importance for painting in the latter half of the 20th century. Volume two presents the sizable uvre of her works on paper, which must be accorded equal weight in the artists work. Reprinted in both volumes are contemporary texts from catalogues, newspaper articles and talks by Reinhard Döhl, Eugen Gomringer, Karin von Maur and others that show how the artists work was received during her lifetime. Until her retirement, Ulrike Gauß was the head of the Graphische Sammlung of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Susanne Grötz is a freelance art historian and exhibition curator, Carolin Jörg teaches artistic design at the Hochschule Augsburg.
£96.75
Edition Axel Menges Gerda Taro: With Robert Capa as Photojournalist
Book SynopsisParis in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral procession wends its way from the city center eastward toward the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, accompanied by the sounds of Chopin's funeral march. The photojournalist Gerda Taro had been killed in the Spanish Civil War a few days earlier. Thousands come to pay their last respects to the émigrée from Hitler's Germany. The poet Louis Aragon speaks at the graveside, young girls hold up a large portrait of the deceased. Why did the French Communist Party honor a foreigner - one who was not even a member of the Party - with a "first-class" burial? Ernest Hemingway is said to have found Gerda Taro while searching for "better Germans", the term he used to describe Germans fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Taro is today considered one of the path-breaking pioneers of photography. She captured some of the most dramatic and widely published images of the Spanish Civil War and was the first female photographer to shoot images in the midst of battle. Her willingness to work close to the fighting set new standards for war photography and ultimately cost her her life. Taro stands alongside early twentieth century war photographers like Robert Capa and David "Chim" Seymour. Her death, the first fatality during war coverage, garnered worldwide attention. She had broken new ground, as a woman and as a photographer. Despite this, Gerda Taro has largely fallen into oblivion, especially in comparison to her colleague and partner Robert Capa. Whether gender and religion played a role in this would require a separate investigation. In any case, in her study of women resisting fascism, Ingrid Strobl reaches the conclusion that a combination such as woman-Communist-Jew represented a threefold stigma, and would almost guarantee Taro's exclusion from official history, both in the East and the West. It has been almost twenty years since the first biography of Gerda Taro, written by Irme Schaber, led to Taro's rediscovery as a photographer. Since that time, the discovery of the "Mexican Suitcase", containing more than 800 of her photos, has made new research on Taro possible. In this new, fully revised biography, Irme Schaber presents groundbreaking insights regarding cameras, copyrights and the circumstances surrounding Taro's death.
£44.91
DOM Publishers Stalin's Architect: The Rise and Fall of Boris
Book SynopsisBoris Iofan (1891 – 1976) was considered Josef Stalin’s ‘court architect’ due to his closeness to the dictator, whose design ideas he translated into reality. His name is associated with projects such as the House on the Embankment, the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair and the Palace of the Soviets, which was never realised. In the period from 1932 to 1947, he was one of the most important, if not the most important architect of the Soviet Union. This biography, a detailed study of Iofan’s creative development, is based on previously unpublished documents. It also contains never-before-published visual material, including original drawings and sketches by the architect and his collaborators: most of this comes from Iofan’s archive, which is now in the collection of the Museum für Architekturzeichnung in Berlin.
£23.75
Dr Ludwig Reichert Er Ist Original! Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sein
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£28.50
Dr Ludwig Reichert Das Verborgene Band: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
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£39.90
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Be Sand, Not Oil – The Life and Work of Amos
Book SynopsisAmos Vogel was one of America's most innovative film historians and curators. An émigré from Austria who arrived in New York just before the Second World War, in 1947 he created Cinema 16, a pioneering film club aimed at audiences thirsty for work "that cannot be seen elsewhere," and in 1963 was instrumental in establishing the New York Film Festival. He later embarked on an ambitious teaching career, synthesizing decades of experience and directing his ideas towards students and, eventually, the wider public. In 1974 he published the culmination of his thoughts – along with an extraordinary collection of stills – in Film as a Subversive Art. On his death, the New York Times wrote that Vogel "exerted an influence on the history of film that few other non-filmmakers can claim." Be Sand, Not Oil is the first book about Vogel, and includes uncollected writings, an unpublished interview, and new essays documenting his never-ending quest for what Werner Herzog, his friend of many decades, has described as "adequate imagery."Trade ReviewAn important new book. * The New Yorker *An indispensable study...If the book is invaluable for gathering together numerous never-before-collected or previously unpublished pieces by Vogel himself, the newly commissioned essays by various scholars are every bit as welcome. -- filmcomment
£23.80
VFMK Art of Wagnis: Christoph Schlingensief's Crossing
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£36.00
Verlag fur moderne Kunst GmbH Birgit Nilsson: La Nilsson My Life in Opera
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£23.20
Universitymedia Richard Wagner and Buddhism
£15.79
Hauser & Wirth Publishers The Inner Mirror Conversations with Ursula Hauser
Book SynopsisInvaluable, intimate insight into the life and work of art collector and gallerist Ursula Hauser, whose outstanding private collection of modern and contemporary art is among the world's most revered. In the 1980s, Ursula Hauser began quietly building what's become one of the world's most impressive private collections of modern and contemporary artacquiring works from visionary artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Carol Rama, Alina Szapocznikow, Franz West, and many othersand in 1992, she co-founded one of today's most important galleries, Hauser & Wirth. This book presents the first-ever extensive and intimate account of her life and art collection.
£24.00
Hauser & Wirth Constructive Clarity
Book SynopsisAngela Thomas, art historian and Max Bill's widow, offers intimate insight into the peak years of the Swiss polymath's career. Constructive Clarity: Max Bill and His Time, 19401952, the second installment of art historian Angela Thomas's multivolume biography, continues her meticulous exploration of the life and work of the influential artist. Max Bill was undoubtedly one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth centurya designer, painter, sculptor, architect, graphic designer, typographer, writer, curator, teacher, and politicianwho influenced generations of artists. Picking up where the first volume left off, Thomas turns her attention to Bill's life during World War II, exploring the ground-breaking artistic and intellectual networks to which Bill belonged: from his time at the Bauhaus in Dessau to his connections with the Parisian avant-garde and his lifelong friendship with Georges Vantongerloo. His importance as a writer, publisher, and exhibition organizer comes to the f
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Hauser & Wirth Nonmemory
Book SynopsisProduced in conjunction with Del Vaz Projects, Nonmemory presents seminal work from Mike Kelley in dialogue with seven contemporary artists whose works engage with the locus of memory, and its role as it posits our perceptions of space and pace. Nonmemory brings together works by Mike Kelley and a group of artistsKelly Akashi, Meriem Bennani, Beatriz Cortez, Raúl de Nieves, Olivia Erlanger, Lauren Halsey, and Max Hooper Schneiderwhose work similarly engages Kelley's titular concept: the non-memory' of the various institutional spaces or built environments he encountered in his life. Documenting the eponymous exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles in 202324, the book also features reproductions of important works by Kelley, his foundational essay, Architectural Non-memory Replaced with Psychic Reality,' conversations with each artist, and a new text by exhibition curator and editor of the publication Jay Ezra Nayssan.
£28.50
Hauser & Wirth Gustav Metzger
Book SynopsisThe artist's biography as told by Metzger himself, a leader of the Auto-Destructive Art and Art Strike movements. A visionary artist and radical thinker, Gustav Metzger asked provocative questions about the role of the artist and of conventional forms of artmaking and display. In this richly illustrated book, Metzger tells the story of his life and work in a series of interviews with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. He recounts his Orthodox Jewish childhood in 1930s Nuremberg and his arrival in England as part of the Kindertransport before shedding light on his development as an artist, including his early contributions to computer art, his leading role in the Destruction in Art Symposium of 1966, and his call for an art strike' from 197780. An artist for our times, Metzger's uncompromising commitment to combating environmental destruction was fundamental to his understanding of art as a vehicle for change. This publication speaks emphatically to the undimmed urgency of Metzger's ar
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Hauser & Wirth Publishers Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce
Book SynopsisEduardo Chillida?s daughter reminisces on the life and work of her artist parentsPublished to mark the centenary of Eduardo Chillida?s birth, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce: Memories of a Daughter is the first English translation of Susana Chillida?s memoir about her parents, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce. With abundant archival images, the book reflects the couple?s universe, family, friendships and the cultural circles in which they ran, while also providing an intimate portrait of the couple as innovative artists and socially conscious individuals.Susana Chillida has published several books and directed several films on her parents Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce, including Memory of Filming with My Father (2002); One Hundred Words for Eduardo Chillida (2015); From Chillida to Hokusai: Creation of a Work (1994); and Art and Dreams (1998). She studied documentary filmmaking at New York University.
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Kurz & Bundig Jurgen Von Der Lippe: Komiker. Klugscheisser.
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£14.85
Kurz & Bundig Hartmut Engler: Pur. Popstar, Poet
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£14.85
Bbooks Verlag Edgewise - a Picture of Cookie Mueller
Book SynopsisThe story of cult figure Cookie Mueller's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with those who knew her, with photographs by David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as an actress in the films of John Waters, and then as an art critic and columnist, a writer of hilarious stories and a maven of New York's downtown art world. Edgewise, by Berlin-based actress and writer Chloé Griffin, tells the story of Cookie's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with the people who knew her, including John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, Sharon Niesp, Max Mueller, Linda Yablonsky, Richard Hell, Amos Poe and Raymond Foye. The contributors take us from the late-1960s artist communes of Baltimore to 1970s Provincetown and New York, through 1980s Berlin and Positano. Along with the text, Edgewise includes artwork, unpublished photographs and archival material and photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others.Trade ReviewInstead of an ordinary biography, Berlin-based artist Chloe Griffin's Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller is an oral history of the people who knew underground writer and actress Cookie Mueller, best known as a character in John Waters's movies Pink Flamingos and Multiple Maniacs: her friends, members of her family, and her colleagues, who shared their stories of the time they spent with the artist. For several years, Griffin traveled around recording conversations and taking photos that she distilled into a book spanning all periods of Cookie's life.--Corinna Pichl "Bookslut "
£20.90
Riverside Publishing Beuys: Die Biographie (Band 1)
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£14.00
Zaphon Bernard V. Bothmer, Egyptologist in the Making,
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£71.25
Die Gestalten Verlag BLUE CHIP: Confessions of Claudia Schiffer's cat
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£23.96
