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SteinerBooks, Inc Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart: A Natural
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£28.50
Museum of Modern Art Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art
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£31.20
David Zwirner Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt
Book SynopsisThe renowned American artist Sherrie Levine engages her ongoing practice of appropriating artworks from the Western art historical canon—this time taking Ad Reinhardt’s Blue Paintings as a point of departure.Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1–28 (2018) continues the artist’s ongoing investigation of color separated from its representational function. Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings held at David Zwirner, New York in 2017, Levine has created abstract restatements of the 28 works that were on view, making use of pixilation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value. This work revisits a technique first employed by Levine in her 1989 group of woodcut prints Meltdown, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists’ iconic paintings.Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt is published on the occasion of Levine’s eponymous solo exhibition at David Zwirner’s Upper East Side location in New York in 2019. The publication features full color reproductions of Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1–28 and includes the 1965 text “Reinhardt Paints a Picture,” in which Reinhardt famously interviewed himself.
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David Zwirner A Balthus Notebook
Book SynopsisIn his 1989 book on Balthus—the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century—Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master. Reading it today highlights the change in perspectives on sexuality and nudity in art in the past thirty years.Written over several years in his notebooks, Davenport’s distinct reflections on Balthus’s paintings try to explain why his work is so radical, and why it has so often come under scrutiny for its depiction of girls and women. Davenport throws the lens back on the viewer and asks: is it us or Balthus who reads sexuality into these paintings? For Davenport, the answer is clear: Balthus may indeed show us periods in adolescent development that are uncomfortable to view, but the eroticization exists primarily on the part of the viewer. Arguing that Balthus’s figures are erotic only if we make them so, and that their innocence is more present than anything pornographic in them, Davenport posits that the paintings hold up a mirror to our own perversities and force us, difficultly, to confront them. He writes, “The nearer an artist works to the erotic politics of his own culture, the more he gets its concerned attention. Gauguin’s naked Polynesian girls, brown and remote, escape the scandal of Balthus’s, although a Martian observer would not see the distinction.” Davenport’s critique helps us understand Balthus in our times—something we need more than ever as we crucially confront sexual politics in visual art.
£8.50
David Zwirner Feint of Heart Art Writings 19822002
Book Synopsis“Dave Hickey’s writing is an atomic bomb of wild styling, brilliant insight, philosophical leaps of a visionary imagination, and astral projections of sixth-sense taste. A perfect combination of Billy the Kid, Waylon Jennings, and Oscar Wilde.” —Jerry Saltz “As a writer, Dave is a deep stylist, one of the best in the language. He uses style to tell truths otherwise inaccessible. You can’t separate his meaning from the timbre of his prose, whose repertoire includes plain American (which dogs and cats can understand, as Marianne Moore noted), philosophical precision, polemical scorched earth, and defrocked scholarly mandarin. His arguments are places of the heart: bright pastures or dark alleys where you are accompanied by a voice explaining things you suddenly feel you always knew.” —Peter Schjeldahl “Feint of Heart, what a substantial necessary collection. It’s too big to slip inside t
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Legend Press Ltd The Hockneys: an intimate look into the early
Book SynopsisThe most charming portrait of this ever-popular artist so enormously appealing: good-natured, bluntly told, skimmed with Yorkshire humour This is a story of sticky jam tarts, catching tadpoles in jars, torchlit conversations under the bedclothes, gossipy queues at the butcher's and hikes among the hedgerows under swallow-strewn skies.' The TelegraphNever Worry What the Neighbours Think' was the philosophy that Kenneth Hockney used to inspire his children David Hockney, one of the world's greatest living artists and siblings John, Paul, Philip and Margaret to each choose their own route in life.The Hockneys is a never before seen insight into the lives of the family by youngest brother John, from growing up in the Second World War in Bradford through to their diverse lives across three continents. Hardship, successes as well as close and complex relationships are poignantly illustrated by both famous and private pictures and paintings from David Hockney.With a rare and spirited look into the lives of an ordinary family with extraordinary stories, we begin to understand the creative freedom that led to their successful careers and the launchpad for an artist's work that has inspired and continues to inspire generations across the world.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Strengthening Emotional Ties through
Book SynopsisParent-child-dyad art therapy is an interesting and innovative art therapy, in which parent and child share the production of an artwork. Aiming to reinforce or re-establish bonds between children and parents, it provides a space where parents' early unresolved conflicts and children's developmental abilities can be expressed. Lucille Proulx explores many aspects of dyad art therapy including attachment relationship theories, the roles of parents and art therapists in dyad interventions, the importance of the tactile experience and ways in which dyad art therapy could be used to treat other age groups. This original book, with illustrations of parent-child artwork, will be invaluable to mental health professionals in prevention and early childhood fields and also to any parents wishing to enrich their interactions with their children.Trade ReviewStrengthening Emotional Ties through Parent-Child-Dyad Art Therapy, a must, which should be required reading for all those interested in understanding the complex dialogue between mother and child. Lucille Proulx introduces us to some of the essential elements of this crucial interaction, which remains the one major cornerstone upon which the child will grow and develop into the person he is to become. Starting from an excellent theoretical basis, the author presents various original techniques of interventions. This is an excellent book which should be on the must read list for art therapists, educators, psychologists and parents who want to better understand and improve their parenting skills. -- Pierre A.Gregoire, Ph.D., ATR., University of MontrealThis volume offers a new and exciting model of treatment for attachment-disordered children. The unique and clearly depicted art therapy interventions will amaze the reader and enchant those seeking effective tools to facilitate the development of primary relationships. By combining the achievements of attachment theorists and investigators with her creativity and developmental expertise, Lucille Proulx has created a series of art therapy interventions that offer a delightful method of treatment consistent with current advances in psychology and the neurosciences. Strengthening Emotional Ties is a very important contribution to the field of art therapy and to mental health researchers and providers assessing and treating very young children and their families. -- Linda Chapman, M.A., ATR-BC, RPT-S, University of California San Francisco Injury CenterTable of ContentsForewords, Lee Tidmarsh and Joyce Canfield. 1. Clinical issues in parent-child dyad art therapy. 2. The role of the parent as partners in child art therapy. 3. The sensory experience and internalization. 4. The art therapy attachment metaphor. 5. Symbols and metaphors in art making. 6. The role of the art therapist as facilitator. 7. Conclusion. Appendices. References. Index.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist
Book SynopsisArguing that the profession of art therapy has its roots in the studio environment, Catherine Moon proposes that it is now time to reclaim these roots, and make art once again central to art therapy. She suggests that there has been a tendency for art therapy not merely to interact with and be enriched by other perspectives - psychological, social, anthropological and transpersonal - but to be subsumed by them. For this reason she makes a clear distinction between using art in one's practice of therapy, and working from an art-based model. This book presents a model of art therapy where the products and processes of art constitute the core of the model, rather than serving as the impetus for adaptations of other theories of counselling or therapy. It addresses how an arts-based approach can inform the therapist in all aspects of practice, from the conception of the work and the attempt to understand client needs to interacting with clients and communicating with others about the profession of art therapy.Integrated into the book are stories about the work of art therapists, art therapy students and those who seek help in art therapy, presenting the theory behind studio art therapy and bringing it to life. Moon believes that the arts have something unique to offer to the therapeutic process which distinguish the arts therapies from other therapeutic professions. This book is a comprehensive and engaging exploration of the possibilities inherent in the therapeutic use of the arts.Trade ReviewThe main concerns of this book are that art therapy has been subsumed in other healing practices and that it is time for art therapy to be reclaimed once more for what it should be, a practice based on the products and processes of art. The author argues that the original spirit of studio art therapy must have a place in the development of current art therapy practices. -- Arts Research DigestTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. How we conceive of the work we do. 3. The process of cultivating an artist identity. 4. Creating the studio space. 5. Responding to clients through the poetry of their lives. 6. A relational aesthetic. 7. Influence of an artistic perspective on therapeutic work. 8. Role of the therapist as artist. 9. Communicating with others about the work we do. 10. Art therapy and social responsibility. Epilogue. References. Index.
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Working Press Crossing Black Waters
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Clinamen Press Ltd Disclosing Spaces: on Painting: On Painting
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£15.19
Fontanka The Majlis: A Meeting Place
Book SynopsisThe Caravane Earth Foundation presents The Majlis book, a rich and colourful documentation of the creation of the “Majlis” exhibition, a multi-layered nomadic project at the 17th annual Biennale di Venezia. The book tracks the multifaceted nature of the exhibition itself, which comprised an architectural object, an exhibition, and a garden, all three hosted by the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. Additionally, the book tells the broader story of Caravane Earth, chronicling research conducted by the foundation and the key ideas that form its philosophy and agenda. The Majlis highlights the main elements of the project in Venice while giving an introduction to key members of Caravane’s community of experts. With a narrative structure broken into four sections - Exhibition, Architecture, Craft, and Earth - The Majlis book features interviews with important figures and institutions from these fields, stunning visual documentation of the creation process and featured artefacts, and critical writings on permaculture, architecture, and craft. Featuring discussions with the Smithsonian Foundation, landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, The International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU), director and curators of the Sheikh Faisal Museum, and many more, the collection provides a deep look and education into the many causes championed by Caravane Earth.
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Artwords Press The Blue Guitar
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Artwords Press The Slender Margin Between the Real and the
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Artwords Press Shadows
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Artwords Press Dumb Fixity: the Impossible Question
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Artwords Press Mutual Dependencies
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£11.74
Artwords Press Labour, Work, Action
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£14.50
Dent-De-Leone ABC
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£21.85
Bitter Lemon Press Summers of Discontent
Book SynopsisSince the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered on the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings. None of their theories have met with universal or even popular acceptance. But here is theory that places the arts - all the arts - firmly and squarely within everyone's everyday experiences. Summers of Discontent goes to the heart of the arts. It's an examination of why artists create them in the first place and why we all feel the need for them. Tallis thinks the arts spring from our inability as humans fully to experience our experiences; from our hunger for a more rounded, more complete sense of the world. Tallis's thesis is original and fresh, down-to-earth and life-enhancing. Above all it is practical and intelligible. It will inspire anyone who feels the creative urge today, or anyone who wants to understand why and how the arts enrich their lives and those of others.Trade Review'Tallis has a range of expertise that would leave Jonathan Miller gasping.' Sunday Times
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Bitter Lemon Press Realisation - From Seeing to Understanding: The
Book SynopsisOur world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and finally as a veil which became a window through which we peered only to discover ourselves on a sphere, a bubble which might burst at any moment. Our changing views are interpreted through iconic images of the remote and more recent past: the Venus of Willendorf, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, the Scream, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.Trade ReviewPraise for The Art of Wonder: 'It does for art what Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time did for science - a thoroughly good read.' Washington Daily News 'Written with a beautiful lucidity - ' A.C. Grayling, The Art Newspaper
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Uniformbooks Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the Artists' Book
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£12.00
Uniformbooks All or Nothing and Other Pages
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£15.20
HENI Publishing Focal Points Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Book SynopsisFocal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews, by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited by art historian and curator Francesca Pietropaolo, and richly illustrated, it lends Storr's illuminating insights into some of the critical themes across recent decades that are of timely urgency. Brilliantly scholarly, accessible and engaging, Focal Points offers fresh interpretations of the varied territory of modern and contemporary art. This volume grapples with one of the most critical topics at the heart of culture in the United States: racial division. In the essay, originally produced in 1994 when Storr lived in the diverse neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn and worked as a curator in the then predominantly white, male world of New York's Museum of Modern Art, the author vividly describes the role of the modern art museum and multiculturalism, and analyses issues of identity and representation explored in the works of a range of artists including Dav
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Luath Press Ltd Art, Truth and Time: Essays in Art
Book SynopsisArt, Truth, and Time is a book which endeavours to show that artistic creation depends as much upon the body, as it does the soul, and the soul’s intelligent use of the body’s way of understanding. When there occurs a complete disjunction between the two, as occurs in much of contemporary art, art is stripped of its inherent beauty, its wholeness. In this book the author considers the nature of art from its earliest manifestations to the present day, endeavouring to show that its truth transcends time and place through the unity of soul and body and man’s awareness of this unity, not a barren unity, but a unity which is profoundly creative.Trade Review'This book is lighting from a clear sky. For one who has spent many years contemplating the vastaterra which is the landscape of contemporary art, the words of the writer – clear, lucid, limpid as a summer stream – offer hope and consolation. Here is a vision of art which is supremely sane, lit with the light of heaven which can be touched with our fingers, called by St Thomas Aquinas organa organorum, the tool of tools, then held close in the dizzy course of time so that truth might be known in our world. This book should be read by all those who care about the fate of art in our times.' -- CHARLES STEPHENSTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 9 Foreword 11 Preface 13 PART ONE – Art and Truth The Experience of Truth 16 Art, Truth and Time 18 PART TWO – Art and Humankind Body and Soul: Some Reflections on Art and Religion 24 The Sense of Touch Versus Conceptual Art 28 Why Artists Need Hands and the Process of Individuation 35 PART THREE – Criticism Spontaneity and Objectivity 41 Relativism: Art Without Object 46 Boredom and ‘The Art of Change’ 51 Technology and Technique Versus Art 56 The Importance of the Subjective: the True Meaning of Originality 63 PART FOUR – Art and Death Two Contrasting Images of Death: or Horizontal and Vertical Images of Death 70 Art and Death: the Endless Search, the Enduring Present 77 PART FIVE – Architecture To Innovate with Tradition: the Aesthetic Spirituality of Dom Paul Bellot, Architect and Monk 88 Visual Silence in Monastic Architecture: Cistercian Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries 95 APPENDIX 101
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Beam Editions Enough Is Definitely Enough
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£25.99
David Zwirner No Problem: Cologne / New York 1984-1989
Book SynopsisIn the words of Peter Schjeldahl, writing in The New Yorker about the exhibition No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984–1989 at David Zwirner in New York, “the show’s cast of artists amounts to a retrospective shopping list of what would matter and endure in art of the era.” With an eye to canonizing that moment, this seminal publication examines the latter half of the 1980s through the lens of international art scenes that were based in Cologne—arguably the European center of the contemporary art world at that time—and New York. While a number of established Cologne-based gallerists, including Karsten Greve, Paul Maenz, Rolf Ricke, Michael Werner, and Rudolf Zwirner, had already begun shaping the European reception of American art in the previous decade, the 1980s marked a period during which art being produced in and around Cologne gained international attention. A burgeoning gallery scene supported the emerging work of artists based in the region, with gallerists such as Gisela Capitain, Rafael Jablonka, Max Hetzler, and Monika Sprüth showing artists such as Walter Dahn, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, and others. The works of these German artists were exhibited along with the latest contemporary art from the US by artists like Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Christopher Wool. Conversely, the works of German artists were presented in New York, with breakout exhibitions at galleries such as Barbara Gladstone, Metro Pictures, Luhring, Augustine & Hodes, and other significant venues. Important museum exhibitions that explored work being produced and exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic also set the tone for this ongoing dialogue, among them Europa / Amerika (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1986) and A Distanced View: One Aspect of Recent Art from Belgium, France, Germany, and Holland (New Museum, New York, 1986). Big, bold, and vibrant, this Pentagram-designed publication revives the conversation, reproducing in full color over one hundred immensely varied artworks by the twenty-two international artists included in this massive exhibition—one of the largest in David Zwirner’s history. Beyond its stunning visual components, the book features crucial new scholarship by Diedrich Diederichsen and Bob Nickas, and an illustrated chronology of the decade by Kara Carmack. The book also includes an arsenal of compelling archival material, from documentary photographs from the period to reproductions of Cologne’s culture magazine Spex. Taken as a whole, this ambitious exhibition catalogue encapsulates the energy, heart, and “dissonance of styles”—in the words of Schjeldahl—embodied by this fascinating and fecund moment in global art history. Artists featured in the book include Werner Büttner, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Günther Förg, Robert Gober, Georg Herold, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Albert Oehlen, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, and Christopher Wool.
£33.60
David Zwirner Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam
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£27.20
David Zwirner Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from
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£23.80
David Zwirner ArtCenter Talks: Graduate Seminar, The First
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£23.80
David Zwirner Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
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£48.00
CRMEP Books Thinking Art: Materialisms, Labours, Forms
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Editions Flammarion Man to Man: An Obsession, The Pierre Passebon
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£24.00
Editions Skira Paris Shakir Hassan Al Said: The One and Art
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£33.60
Editions Skira Paris HA! HA! HA!: The Humour of Art
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£27.20
Editions Skira Paris Lebanese Pavillon: The World in the Image of Man
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£24.00
After 8 Books Estelle Hoy sake blue. Selected Writings
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Actes Sud Native Land: Stop Eject
Book SynopsisNative Land explores people’s attachment to their countries, and the planet’s role in forming one’s identity, as well as the paths and consequences of human migrations. The book features photographs and movie stills by Raymond Depardon, multi-screen installations and press articles, while the subjects discussed range fromTuvaluans forced to leave their Pacific island, to a human cannonball who catapults himself over the US-Mexico border.
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Dis Voir Adventures of Percival
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Dis Voir You Know Where I'm At And I Know Where You're At:
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Dis Voir Have you ever seen a nomad in a Hurry ?:
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Dis Voir Raul Ruiz: A Nine Year Old Aviator
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Merian, Christoph Verlag Real Intelligence and Other Flows and Fictions.
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Merian, Christoph Verlag Andere Intelligenzen Other Intelligences
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De Gruyter Vermeer und Epikur: Lebenslust in der Kunst der
Book SynopsisVermeer van Delft gilt als der bedeutendste Schilderer holländischen Lebens im sog. Goldenen Zeitalter. Viele Studien zu seinen Gemälden haben sich mit der Entschlüsselung verborgener Zusammenhänge und symbolischer Bezüge beschäftigt. Bisher ging die Forschung dabei davon aus, dass die Philosophie Spinozas und Descartes' den Maler beeinflusst haben könnte. Andeas Prater zeigt hingegen, dass und wie bestimmte Maximen und Sentenzen Epikurs und seines lateinischen Herolds Lukrez in Vermeers Malerei Eingang gefunden haben. Epikur wurde im 17. Jahrhundert wiederentdeckt und hinsichtlich seiner lange in Verruf geratenen Lehre von Freude und Lust rehabilitiert. Die bisher völlig unbeachteten und unbekannten Aspekte lassen das Werk des großen holländischen Malers in einem ganz neuen Licht erscheinen.
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De Gruyter Probelauf
Book SynopsisDas Parlament in Szene gesetzt Anlässlich des Wiedereinzugs des parlamentarischen Betriebs in das sanierte österreichische Parlamentsgebäude wagt dieses Buch eine künstlerische und fotografische Auseinandersetzung mit parlamentarischen Prozessen, mit dem Parlament als Bühne und als zentrale Institution des demokratischen Systems. Sensible Gebäude werden nach einem Neu- oder Umbau vor der Inbetriebnahme in einem Testbetrieb auf Funktionalität, Sicherheit etc. überprüft. Mitarbeiter:innen der Parlamentsdirektion, der Ministerien und weitere Personen erprobten die verschiedenen Abläufe nach einem Drehbuch. Im Zuge dieses Kooperationsprojekts realisierten Studierende der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien in dem Gebäude zahlreiche künstlerische Arbeiten mit dem Ziel, gesellschaftliche Ordnungen performativ zu befragen und neu auszuloten. Kooperationsprojekt der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien und der Parlamentsdirektion zum
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Das Sichtbare Und Das Unsichtbare: Zur
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De Gruyter Die Freiheit der Linie: Callot, Della Bella,
Book SynopsisEtching, the origins of which as an intaglio technique can be traced back to the beginning of the 16th century, unfolded its full glory in the 17th century. Famous engravers such as Albrecht Dürer had rejected etching as an inferior technique to copperplate engraving, but a century later it experienced its Baroque heyday. The etching technique owes its albeit late success to the freedom of its lines. Unlike the laborious method of copperplate engraving, the artist’s hand can playfully transpose the drawing onto the etching plate with ease. This catalogue provides fascinating insights into the working processes and aesthetics of Baroque printmaking. The focus is on works by three artists who excelled in the etching technique: Jacques Callot, Stefano della Bella and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Exhibition: 8. September to 3. December 2023, Landesmuseum Mainz New state of research on Baroque etching Look inside https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_die_freiheit_der_linie
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De Gruyter BildRaumWissenschaft
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