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Lars Muller Publishers Shizuko Yoshikawa
Book SynopsisShizuko Yoshikawa (born 1934 in Japan, based in Switzerland) was one of the first and few Japanese students at the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung, known as the postwar “Bauhaus.” She later married the renowned designer Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914–1996), a pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design, and moved to Switzerland, where she became an artist and a member of the second generation of concrete art. Amongst the very few women belonging to this art movement, she takes a special position due to her Japanese origins and education. Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition.
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Birkhauser Verlag AG Piet Mondrian New Design: Bauhausbucher 5, 1925
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Lars Muller Publishers New Works from Bauhaus Workshops: Bauhausbucher
Book SynopsisThe Bauhaus sought to unite life, craftsmanship, and art under one roof. In this volume, Walter Gropius provides a comprehensive overview of the Bauhaus workshops. He explains the basic principles guiding the teaching, describes contemporary developments in architecture, and illuminates the Bauhaus point of view on household utensils, which was geared toward finding the most suitable form for the respective object. Here, Gropius presents the Bauhaus workshops in Weimar devoted to furniture, metals, textiles, and ceramics, among other subjects.
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Lars Muller Publishers Frida Escobedo Book of Hours
Book SynopsisHow does light transform the objects it shines upon? What are the consequences of such meta- morphoses on architectural thought? Book of Hours seeks to answer these questions. To this end, it presents the architect Frida Escobedo's research on the transformative effect of light on matter. Time lapses show the process in action and translucent paper mimics the permeable barrier between light sources and objects and enacts the mutability of matter.
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Lars Muller Publishers Helmut Schmid: Typography
Book SynopsisThe Austrian typographer Helmut Schmid was a master of his craft. He put his own spin on Emil Ruder’s teachings at the Basel School of Design while remaining faithful to the principles of clarity, simplicity and elegance. Blending eastern and western influences, Schmid honed his skills and put them into practice in the fields of editorial design, packaging of ethical drugs and visual identity of brands such as Pocari Sweat sports drink (Otsuka Pharmaceutical), Maquillage (Shiseido) and IPSA. He also produced independent publications in parallel, such as Typographic Reflections. Helmut Schmid Typography explores the typographer’s oeuvre in its entirety. The book’s generous design allows each image to breathe, and the accompanying texts narrate Schmid’s life and career in an informative but pleasant manner. Complementing the publications Weingart: Typography and Ruder Typography, Ruder Philosophy, this bilingual monograph completes the Basel school of typographic thought.
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De Gruyter Pretsch - Rauh
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De Gruyter Raum - Rimpatta
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De Gruyter Rimpl - Rover
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De Gruyter Ambiguität Und Die Ordnungen Des Sozialen Im
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De Gruyter Andere Ästhetik: Grundlagen - Fragen -
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De Gruyter Ecce figura
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De Gruyter Von Kulten Und Künsten: Lektüren Am Schnittpunkt
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De Gruyter Hacia Una Poética del Rap Feminista
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De Gruyter Environmental Justice Poetics
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Walter de Gruyter Graffiti Scratched Scrawled Sprayed
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Campus Verlag Traces of Modernism – Art and Politics from the
Book SynopsisTraces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributors consider an extensive range of philosophical and artistic ideologies—from Bauhaus and Italian futurism to plans for totalitarian state-building—that bloomed in the wake of the World War One and the ensuing worldwide revolutions. These ideologies developed amid the uneasy backdrop of new kinds of international cooperation that were periodically punctuated by sharp bursts of fervid nationalism. At the center of each essay in Traces of Modernism stands the image of the machine, a metaphor for technological innovation and new systems of order that stood unfortunately ready for corruption by forces of authoritarianism.
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De Gruyter Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Akl), Nachtragsband
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Walter de Gruyter & Co Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Akl), Teil 2,
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J.B. Metzler Anselm Kiefer Die Himmelspaläste
Book SynopsisEinführung.- Die sieben Himmelspaläste.- Der Zug der Argonauten.- Valentinus und Jakobs Traum.- Die Malerpalette.- Die Himmelspaläste.
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Prestel Pop Art: 50 Works of Art You Should Know
Book SynopsisWhen it emerged in the 1950s, the Pop Art movement presented a challenge to fine art with its incorporation of images from television, newspapers, and advertising. Artists used humor, provocation, and garish gestures to help dissolve the barriers between high and low culture. Over time, Pop Art developed into one of the most influential movements of the 20th century and many of its works have achieved iconic status. This introduction to Pop Art focuses on fifty of the movement's most important works, and covers every major artist of the style, including David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol. Each work is featured on a beautifully illustrated double-page spread. An informative text highlights the work's classic characteristics as well as unusual aspects, its significance in the Pop Art movement and its influence on the history of contemporary art, and art in general. Including brief biographies of each artist, this book is a beautifully illustrated survey of Pop Art.
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Prestel Universitaten in Deutschland / Universities in
Book SynopsisA reference volume, story and picture book in one - this compendium offers a complete overview on the German system of higher education. Organised alphabetically by city, the Universities featured in this book are presented using contemporary and historical images, the most important statistics and an elaborate institutional profile. The book contains 110 institutions where one can earn a higher degree: 83 public Universities from Aachen to Wurzburg, 12 private and 9 parochial institutions, along with 6 teacher training Universities in Baden-Wurttemberg. Richly illustrated entries highlight various aspects of university life, as well as research facilities and offer fundamental information on the establishments as well as photographs of the various campuses. This is an essential guide to higher-level education in Germany for high school students, university students and employees.
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Prestel New Guinea Highlands: Art from the Jolika
Book SynopsisThe Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco consists of thousands of objects and represents hundreds of clans and villages throughout New Guinea. The first book in a projected ten-volume series, this lavishly illustrated volume focuses on the Highlands-a region of rugged mountains, fertile valleys, and a civilization that dates back more than forty thousand years. Here, in more than six hundred pages of rich color, are beautifully crafted masks, shields, headdresses, and ceremonial and personal objects, the majority of which have never before been published or exhibited. Archival and reference photographs, maps of key locations, and authoritative essays by more than a dozen preeminent scholars covering a wide range of subjects, from prehistoric agriculture to body art, make this book a collector's dream.
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Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Maria Lassnig Film Works
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Koc University Press Artamonoff: Picturing Byzantine Istanbul,
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Koc University Press Youssouf Bey – The Charged Portraits of
Book SynopsisYusuf Franko Kusa Bey (1856–1933), a high-ranking bureaucrat in fin-de-siècle Ottoman imperial administration, was also a talented caricaturist. Because of his duties in the Ottoman Foreign Ministry, and spending most of his life in Istanbul, he was both a member and an observer of high-society social circles in Pera [Beyoglu]. Ambassadors, ministers, diplomats, famous opera singers, painters, Pashas and Efendis, Madames and Monsieurs, were part of this social milieu, and most of them became eternally recorded through the ‘types and charges’ in Yusuf Franko’s caricature album. Including images of himself, he charged his subject materials, the people in his social network, with their particular qualities and transformed their portraits into witty caricatures that reflected contemporary scenes of social life and political debates in Pera. This book, which accompanies the facsimile of Yusuf Franko’s own caricature album, Youssouf, consists of three articles and an annotated appendix. While the articles analyze the majority of his caricatures from diverse perspectives (his family history and biography, the history of contemporary European caricature art and politics, and the social and spatial context in which he drew his caricatures), the appendix gives brief information about each caricature plate following the exact order in the facsimile. These extraordinary caricatures are published for the first time in their entirety since they were discovered in an antique rug dealer’s shop in Istanbul in 1957.
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Trivent Publishing Ruedas Campanas Y Tardones
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Trivent Publishing Ambiguous Women in Medieval Art
Book SynopsisAmbiguous Women in Medieval Art brings together the work of seven researchers who, coming from different perspectives, and in some cases different disciplines, approach the question of ambiguity in relation to different case-studies where the represented women do not follow the ever-present dichotomy exemplified by Eve and Mary. In doing so, they demonstrate the complexities of a topic that is as contemporary as it is ancient. Through them, we can get valuable insights on the understanding and experience of gender in the past and the ways in which these experiences have shaped our own understanding of this topic.Table of Contents Introduction, By Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo 1. The Disease Woman: A Neutral Representation of Health? by Sara Öberg Strådal 2. The Woman in Labour: A Twelfth-Century Navarrese Relief from the Church of San Martin de Tours, Artáiz, by Dilshat Harman 3. Bathsheba's Bath and the Seven Deadly Sins: A New Interpretation of a Visual Narrative Strategy in Late Medieval Books of Hours, by Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo 4. King Solomon's Ambiguous Wife in the Queste del Saint Graal, by Anastasija Ropa 5. Saint Eugenia Outside-Inside-Outside Rome: An Iconographic Continuity?, by Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky 6. Doubly crowned: The Public and Private Image of Two Fourteenth-Century Hungarian Queens, by Christopher Mielke 7. Material and Temporal Ambiguity at Santiago de Compostela: The Case of the South Portal's Woman with the Skull, by Karen Webb
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Illustrations of Myanmar: Manuscript Treasures of
Book SynopsisThis volume commemorates a new exhibition of Burmese artifacts at the Musée Guimet in Paris and showcases the vibrant art and manuscript traditions of Myanmar. The central pieces displayed in the exhibition were three richly illustrated manuscripts called parabaiks. These vivid paintings, which show lively festivals and the pageantry of daily religious and courtly life, are a window into the culture and customs of nineteenth-century Burma. Also in the exhibition were a number of other manuscripts, inscriptions, diagrams, and even an ornate wooden model of a traditional Burmese monastery. The accompanying essays—translated from the original French exhibition booklet—explore complexities of the Burmese language, manuscript production, and background of the exhibited items as well as explaining the festivities and other spirited scenes illustrated in the parabaiks.
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Protecting Asia’s Heritage: Yesterday and
Book SynopsisAsian activists, organizers, critics, teachers, artists, and entrepreneurs have become passionately involved in protecting Asia’s heritage. In this book, twelve principal authors from eleven of the region’s countries present their experience of what has been done in the past and their ideas on what should be done in the future. Chapters cover Siam’s temples, Korean religious murals, Beijing’s neighborhoods, Lao textiles, Javanese ruins, Cambodian dance, old Bangkok and George Town, Philippine creative arts, Calcutta’s architecture, China’s salt industry, and the Burmese cat. This book records the start of a conversation that promises to transform the protection of Asia’s heritage.
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Getty Trust Publications Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires vied for commercial and political control of oceanic routes between Asia and the Americas. Transpacific Engagements addresses the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on the Spanish and American enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. This volume explores artistic expressions of imperial aspirations and imaginaries in the Philippines, Spain, Japan, and Hawaii; the transformations of texts, images, and culinary practices as they moved from one cultural context to another; and the movement of objects and people across the transpacific, with particular attention to the Manila Galleon trade that flourished from 1565 to 1815. Featuring contributions by art historians, anthropologists, historians, and cultural studies scholars, Transpacific Engagements gathers groundbreaking investigations of objects and histories to illustrate the role of East, South, and Southeast Asian polities and dynasties in these multilateral exchanges. Published by the Ayala Foundation, Inc. in association with the Getty Research Institute and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut).
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Action Art: Happenings, Actions, Events,
Book SynopsisCzech action art - a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience - emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little critical attention, however, as the Iron Curtain prevented its dissemination to an international audience. Here theorist and art historian Pavlina Morganova gives this art scene its due, chronicling its inception and tracing its evolution through to the present. Morganova explains the various forms of action art, from the "actions" and "happenings" of the 1960s; to the actions of land art that encompass stones, trees, water, or fire; to recent displays of body art; to the actions of the latest generation of artists, who are using the principles of action art in contemporary postconceptual and participative art. Along the way, she introduces the most prominent Czech artists of each specific niche, including Milan Knizak, Zorka Saglova, Ivan Kafka, Petr Stembera, Karel Miler, Jiri Kovanda, and Katerina Seda, and demonstrates not only the changes in the art forms themselves but also the shifting roles of artists and spectators after World War II. With over one hundred illustrations, Czech Action Art introduces this heretofore overlooked but fascinating art form to a global readership.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Renaissance Prague
Book SynopsisAt the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague’s throne, the character of the city’s municipalities began to transition from medieval to Renaissance. In Renaissance Prague, historian Eliška Fučíková paints a vivid picture of the Bohemian capital during this time of sweeping change. As Fučíková reveals, this period saw the evolution of new architectural motifs across the city. In particular, there was a distinct transformation of Prague Castle, including the construction of well-known features such as the Ball Game Hall and Queen Anne’s Summer Palace. Featuring a concise historical overview and a guide to prominent figures of the time, as well as a variety of illustrations—from artwork to archival images, contemporary photographs, and maps—Fučíková’s book is a beautiful, enlightening tour through the Renaissance metropolis of the Bohemian Kingdom.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Making the Most of Tomorrow: A North Bohemian
Book SynopsisMost, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expectations ran high; in the end, however, Most became a symbol for the heartless incompetence of Czechoslovak communism. In this book, Matěj Spurný explores the historical city of Most from the nineteenth century into the years following World War II, investigating the decision to destroy it as well as the negotiations concerning the spirit of the proposed new city. Situating postwar Most in the context of cultural and social shifts in Czechoslovakia and Europe as a whole, Spurný traces the path a medieval city took to become a showcase of brutalist architecture and the regime’s technicist inhumanity. But the book, like the city of Most itself, does not end in tragedy. Fusing architectural and political history with urban and environmental studies, Spurný’s tale shows the progress that can be made when Czechs confront the crimes of the past—including the expulsion of local Germans and the treatment of the Romani minority—and engage with rational, contemporary European concepts of urban renewal.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting
Book SynopsisAlthough Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life--from his early years in the Nazi protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, through four decades under communism and the period after the Velvet Revolution returned the Czech state to democracy--the essays and interviews in this volume examine the depth and breadth of his accomplishments. Essays by scholars from the Czech Republic, United Kingdom, and the United States clarify and illuminate Malina's contributions to art both in Central Europe and across the world. Exploring multiple aspects of Malina's career, they shed light on his roots in modernism, which characterized the years of the First Republic (1918-38), through the advent of postmodernism, contextualizing his accomplishments in a variety of media while adding insights about his methods and their philosophical underpinnings. Appearing in print for the first time, interview transcripts provide an intimate view of the impulses that guided Malina over the course of his career. Also featuring over one hundred and fifty color images that illustrate the connections between Malina's public scenographic work and his more personal paintings, this book reveals Malina as an artist who continued to work during difficult and changing times without ever losing a very human approach to life.Trade Review"Richly illustrated, this book is a deep examination of the work of one of the most important stage designers in Europe of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. Brandesky edits a multifaceted exploration of Malina's expressions of truth through art in an oppressive Communist political system and a post-Velvet Revolution Czech Republic."--Margaret Mitchell, University of the Incarnate Word
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Degrees of Separation: Bohumil Kubista and the
Book SynopsisIn Degrees of Separation, scholars from the Czech Republic, Canada, Germany, and Hungary take a new approach to exploring the work of one of Central Europe’s most interesting modernist painters, Bohumil Kubišta. While many art historians have viewed Kubišta’s work solely in the context of an idealized Czech canon, Kubišta did not identify with a nation-state clearly defined by ethnicity, language, or territorial reach. Taking a transnational approach that incorporates thorough topographical research, the authors attempt to redraw the map of European modernism by exploring the artist’s subversive approach to the stylistic currents of his time. The book reveals the complex relationships within early twentieth-century Europe, as Kubišta and other Central European artists tried to balance their admiration for the dominant artistic trends coming out of Paris with their desire to find alternative forms of expression arising from local artistic and intellectual sources. The richly illustrated book features a wealth of documentation, including an exhaustive timeline with notes, a comprehensive inventory of Kubišta’s works, and an up-to-date exhibition list.Table of ContentsI. Introduction (Marie Rakušanová) II. Map: Kubišta and Europe III. Kubišta and the World: Reality Mediated by Objects (Marie Rakušanová) IV. Map: Kubišta in Florence V. Florence: Objects, Territories and Topographies (Marie Rakušanová – Eva Bendová) VI. Map: Kubišta in Prague VII. The First Osma Exhibition (Marie Rakušanová – Mahulena Nešlehová) VIII. The Concept of Colour in the Work of Bohumil Kubišta (Mahulena Nešlehová) IX. The Second Exhibition of the Osma Group (Marie Rakušanová – Mahulena Nešlehová) X. Kubišta’s French Connections: Networks, Reception, Ideals (Françoise Lucbert) XI. Map: Kubišta in Paris XII. Kubišta and the Social Topography of Paris: 1909–1910 (Marie Rakušanová) XIII. Inspirations Drawn from Kubišta’s Stay in Paris (Mahulena Nešlehová) XIV. Map: The Movement of Kubišta’s Works through Europe XV. Bohumil Kubišta and Germany (Anke Daemgen) XVI. Kubišta, Ethics, Dietetics, the Psychology of Vision, Spirituality and Monism (Marie Rakušanová) XVII. The Will to Spirituality and Its Influence on the Composition of Kubišta’s Works (Mahulena Nešlehová) XVIII. The Concept of Geometric Infrastructure in the Work of Kubišta and the Section d’Or (Mahulena Nešlehová) XIX. Kubišta’s Paradoxical Cubism: 1912–1913 (Marie Rakušanová) XX. Bohumil Kubišta, Cubism and Hungary (András Zwickl) XXI. Kubišta – Futurist, Cubist, Expressionist in Lviv in 1913 (Marie Rakušanová) XXII. Moderní umení, the 45th Exhibition of the Mánes Association of Fine Artists – “The Most Comprehensive Exhibition” in the “Whole World”? (Marie Rakušanová) XXIII. Map: Kubišta in Pula XXIV. A View through the Cannon Barrel: Bohumil Kubišta in Pula, 1905–1906, 1913–1918 (Eva Bendová) XXV. Indications of Kubišta’s New Programme (Mahulena Nešlehová) XXVI. Conclusion (Marie Rakušanová) XXVII. Timeline and Documentary Section XXVIII. Notes XXIX. Abbreviation List XXX. Sources XXXI. Inventory of Paintings XXXII. Index of Names
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Tulika Print Communication Services Ramkinkar Vaij – Sculptures
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Tulika Books Art Critique – Selected Writings of K. B. Goel
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Tulika Books Improvised Futures – Encountering the Body in
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Transformation – Art in East–Central Europe After
Book SynopsisThe year 1989 marked the end of one era and the beginning of another—the period of postcommunist transformation. Similar processes were taking place in other former Eastern Bloc countries that were declaring free elections, reclaiming full sovereignty, building democracy, and completely changing their economies in favor of free market capitalism. The several historic months in the latter half of 1989 came to be known as the “Autumn of Nations” and ushered in the total liberation of East-Central Europe from Soviet domination. Less than two years later, the Soviet Union itself collapsed, signaling the end of the Cold War in Europe. The new era brought not only political and economic changes, but also cultural ones which would lead to reclaiming individual liberties and other civil rights, as well as to the rebuilding of national identities within the European community which could now, finally, encompass the entire continent. Culture became a moving force for change, as censorship was abolished, monuments to communist heroes were removed, and streets renamed.The radical cultural changes reverberated in the art of the period, its ideology, and the system of institutional sponsorship that promoted the three approaches most popular with artists. Many of them engaged in the changes directly, creating works that either commented on current events or proposed what they believed to be the right direction for the transformation to take. Others, although preferring to observe from a distance, highlighted the diverse contexts and historical antecedents generated by the cultural identities of countries, regions, or even artistic centers, in which the changes were rooted. The third contribution of contemporary art was its role in shaping how we remember the communist period, by on the one hand questioning the past, and on the other accenting the persistence of the traces it left behind, thereby inviting reflection on its negative as well as its positive ramifications. The art created in these circumstances and that related directly to the post-1989 transition, democracy, and a free market economy can be united under the name “art of the transformation” and it is the subject of this publication.Trade ReviewAndrzej Szczerski's book raises a very important problem, which has not received comprehensive elaboration in Polish literature (and to some extent also in foreign literature on the subject). Thus, the book fills an important gap in our knowledge of the latest Polish art and the art of our closer and further neighbors. The author skillfully combines in his text general issues with detailed examples of works and artistic projects of artists originating from a wide range of countries included in East-Central Europe according to the definition adopted by him. His curatorial experience is important too – he was curator of some important exhibitions of contemporary art. -- Tomasz Gryglewicz
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The Post–Crash Decade of American Cinema – Wall
Book SynopsisCrisis defines the present cultural moment. From the environment, through migration, to democracy, a continuous state of emergency engulfs us – so much so that crisis appears to be one of the few things not in crisis. The Post-Crash Decade of American Cinema: Wall Street, the "Mancession" and the Political Construction of Crisis focuses on two instances of this overwhelming trend: the latest masculinity crisis and what helped trigger it – the 2008 global financial crash. Looking at selected American cinematic texts of culture from the subsequent ten years, depicting both the causes of the crash and its victims, the volume offers answers to the questions: how has (popular) culture, in particular literature and film, responded to the greatest economic upheaval since the Great Depression, and what conclusions can be drawn from this response?Timely, interdisciplinary and in-depth, this analysis combines literary and cultural studies, as well as feminist criticism, gender studies and masculinities studies with research on the latest history of political economy to interrelate such diverse phenomena as capitalism, "Wall Street culture", the "Mancession" myth, Donald Trump, pornography, patriarchy, neoliberalism, precarity, postfeminism, the fourth wave of feminism, the #MeToo movement, 9/11, home, housing studies, positive psychology, and happiness studies. Ultimately, the book problematises the very concept of "crisis", elucidating it as a powerful political construct.Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English> is a bilingual, English-Polish book series dedicated to publishing original research on 20th and 21st century literature in English. Monographs and collective volumes in the series address, but are not restricted to, the following research areas: literary genre studies, comparative literature, cultural poetics and transversality of ideas, as well as transnationalism of literature in English.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART ONE: Wall StreetCHAPTER ONE The Super-CEO, the Financial Crash in Hollywood Cinema and the Preservation of Patriarchal Power in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never SleepsCHAPTER TWO The Pornography of Corporate Capitalism: The Wolf of Wall StreetCHAPTER THREE A Funeral, Fun and Games, and the First Gun in Margin Call, The Big Short and Money Monster PART TWO: The “Mancession” CHAPTER FOUR The "Mancession" and Nostalgia for When "Men Knew Who They Were": Power Tools, More Guns and Moral Comfort in The Company Men and Hell or High WaterCHAPTER FIVE Home in 99 Homes and The Florida Project: Women and Children LastConclusionFilmographyBibliographyName IndexSubject Index
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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Andrzej Wróblewski: Recto / Verso
Book SynopsisOne of Poland's most important and independent postwar artists, Andrzej Wroblewski (1927-57) created in his short life his own highly individual, suggestive, and prolific form of abstract and figurative painting that continues to inspire artists today. This volume offers a stunning presentation and thorough reevaluation of his work and its legacy in the international context of art history. Offering an insightful picture of the world of postwar painting in communist Europe, and highlighting Wroblewski's political engagement, the book helps us to understand the immensely evocative vision of war and oppression that he created. This close look at a painter and a period that are of growing interest for international art historians will serve to further cement Wroblewski in the postwar pantheon.
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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Something Flashed, Something Broke, Something Re
Book SynopsisConsciousness Neue Bieremiennost was an art group formed in the mid-1980s in Poland by three sculptors: Miroslaw Balka, Miroslaw Filonik, and Marek Kijewski. Their collaborative exhibitions, which included action art, performances, and sculptures, mounted political protests by mocking highlights of the communist calendar, such as Women's Day, Victory Day, and Miner's Day. This volume recreates the history of the group and its often fleeting creations and sets it in the context of Polish life and politics of the 1980s and the artistic scene it spawned. Offering new insight into Polish art of the '80s, and particularly into the relationship between the communist art system and the alternative art scene that opposed it, the book offers the most comprehensive picture yet of this group's work and legacy.Trade Review"A fresh perspective on the phenomenon of alternative art in Poland in the last decade of communism." (Anda Rottenberg, art historian, critic, and curator)"
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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Maria Bartuszová – Provisional Forms
Book SynopsisThe work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-96) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appeared in influential exhibitions and been included in prestigious contemporary art collections, up until now, she has yet to receive the widespread recognition she deserves. Dziewanska's book offers distinct perspectives on Bartuszova's work from renowned international critics in an effort to increase our awareness of her sculptures. Working alone behind the Iron Curtain, Bartuszova was one of a number of female artists who not only experimented formally and embarked intuitively on new themes, but who, because they were at odds with mainstream modernist trends, remained in isolation or in a marginalized position. Revealing her dynamic treatment of plaster-a material that, from a sculptor's point of view, is both primitive and common-the book deftly reveals how Bartuszova experimented with materials, never hesitating to treat tradition, accepted norms, and trusted techniques as simply transitory and provisional. Offering a much-needed history of a vibrant body of work, Maria Bartuszova: Provisional Forms is an important contribution to the literature on great female artists.
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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw The Other Transatlantic – Kinetic and Op Art in
Book SynopsisThe Other Transatlantic is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Central and Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin American counterparts on the other, converged in a shared enthusiasm for Kinetic and Op Art. As the axis connecting the established power centers of Paris, London, and New York became increasingly dominated by monolithic trends including Pop, minimalism, and conceptualism another web of ideas was being spun linking the hubs of Warsaw, Budapest, Zagreb, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Sao Paulo. These artistic practices were dedicated to what appeared to be an entirely different set of aesthetic concerns: philosophies of art and culture dominated by notions of progress and science, the machine and engineering, construction and perception. This book presents a highly illustrated introduction to this significant transnational phenomenon in the visual arts.
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Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Edi Hila
Book SynopsisThis catalog accompanies Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation, the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila’s eyes, the Eastern European experience is stripped of accident or adventure and instead gives weight to distilled general truths. The catalog traces key moments from his formative artistic experience, including a firsthand account of his infamous 1972 painting, Planting of Trees, which because of its unusual use of color and form that ran contrary to approved socialist realist doctrine, led to his being forced to labor in a poultry processing plant. In the evenings, however, he secretly created a series of drawings documenting the life of the workers, which became the Poultry series, harrowing in its raw realism. The publication continues to track Hila’s practice through the 1990s, when we find the artist carefully observing life after the fall of Enver Hoxha’s regime and his attempts at depicting the realities of the Albanian transformation on the precipice of the new millennium, before concluding with a review of Hila’s contemporaneous practice, which discloses more the limitations and traps of transformation than its promises. Richly illustrated with reproductions of Hila’s work in full color, many of them never before published, this is a groundbreaking catalog, one that will help establish Hila’s international reputation as a master painter of the region and Europe at large.
£22.00
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Ion Grigorescu – In the Body of the Victim
Book SynopsisThis book considers the oeuvre of Ion Grigorescu, one of the most charismatic and original artists from the former Eastern bloc, who until 1989 worked in relative isolation and whose art reflects his search for a place within an extremely oppressive political system. Grigorescu, born in 1945 in Bucharest and educated as a painter, was one of the first Romanian conceptual artists and advocates of anti-art, postulating a radical consolidation of artistic activities with quotidian life. He is the creator of numerous films, photographic series, and actions recorded on film, as well as drawings and collages that documented both his private life and the passage of the Romanian people from life under communist regimes to the realities of expansive capitalism. The retrospective understanding of his art presented here offers much more than just another lost chapter in the history of the Central European avant-garde - Grigorescu's work is revealed to be singular, introducing religious and spiritual motifs into conceptual art and demonstrating his conviction that political crises are rooted in a crisis of the spirit.
£22.00
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Frida Obsession
Book SynopsisFrida Kahlo (1907-1954) is without doubt the most famous Latin-American painter of the 20th century and a fundamental figure in Mexican art. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. This fabulously illustrated volume brings together a series of stunning portraits, each one giving readers a glimpse into the many and varied ways in which Frida Kahlo has inspired countless artists across the globe.
£14.39
