Kunst / Antiek

The artist Lee Lozano (1930--1999) began her career as a painter; her work rapidly evolved from figuration to abstraction. In the late 1960s, she created a major series of eleven monochromatic Wave paintings, her last in the medium. Despite her achievements as a painter, Lozano is best known for two acts of refusal, both of which she undertook as artworks: Untitled (General Strike Piece), begun in 1969, in which she cut herself off from the commercial art world for a time; and the so-called Boycott Piece, which began in 1971 as a month-long experiment intended to improve communication but became a permanent hiatus from speaking to or directly interacting with women. In this book, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer examines Lozano's Dropout Piece, the culmination of her practice, her greatest experiment in art and endurance, encompassing all her withdrawals, and ending only with her burial in an unmarked grave.

And yet, although Dropout Piece is among Lozano's most important works, it might not exist at all. There is no conventional artwork to be exhibited, no performance event to be documented. Lehrer-Graiwer views Dropout Piece as leveraging the artist's entire practice and embodying her creative intelligence, her radicality, and her intensity. Combining art history, analytical inquiry, and journalistic investigation, Lehrer-Graiwer examines not only Lozano's act of dropping out but also the evolution over time of Dropout Piece in the context of the artist's practice in New York and her subsequent life in Dallas.

Summary: Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is de bekendste kunstenaar van de Amerikaanseschilderkunst uit het begin van de twintigste eeuw. Zijn oeuvre kenmerkt zich door een verraderlijke kalmte in lege straten en landschappen, en door eenzame figuren in een stedelijke omgeving. Zijn schilderijen hebben hun stempel gedrukt op ons beeld van Amerika. In de tentoonstelling en publicatie wordt Hopper voor het eerst in de context van zijn tijd getoond. Naast topstukken van Hopper zijn ruim tachtig meesterwerken uit de collectie van het Whitney Museum of American Art in New York geselecteerd van kunstenaars als Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray, Lyonel Feininger, Grant Wood en Alfred Stieglitz. Exhibition: 26.09.2009 - 17.01.2010, Kunsthal Rotterdam.

This volume includes full-color reproductions of drawings and woodblock prints by Japan's most beloved artist. These landscapes-including his famous views of Mount Fuji- portraits of lovers and kabuki actors, nature and animal illustrations, as well as scenes of daily life in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japan reveal the artist's genius for rendering a wide variety of subjects. Matthi Forrer discusses in his essay Hokusai's life and lasting popularity while placing his work within the context of Japanese society and the work of his contemporaries.

Geschiedenis van de Russische familie Stroganoff (1400-1900) en de bijzondere collectie beeldende kunst die zij heeft opgebouwd.

In 1915, Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) radically transformed the course of twentieth-century art with his "Black Square" painting and his manifesto "From Cubism to Suprematism." These works espoused a new art of pure geometricism, intended to be universally comprehensible regardless of cultural origin. Although he is famed for his rigorous pursuit of the "non-objective," Malevich in fact explored many strands of painting, embracing at various stages Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism and Cubism, as well as traditional Russian folk art. Drawing on the collections of Nikolai Khardzhiev and Georges Costakis--the two leading collectors of Russian avant-garde art, whose collections were largely assembled at a time when abstract art was banned in the Soviet Union--this catalogue traces the breadth of Malevich's career through his oil paintings, gouaches, drawings, sculptures and designs for opera and film. All phases of his development are represented here, from his early Impressionist-style work to his iconic Suprematist pieces, as well as his lesser-known figurative paintings and works on paper. These are contextualized alongside work by Malevich's contemporaries, such as Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova, Vera Pester, Ivan Puni and Mikhail Meno.

Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley’s bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist’s various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work—which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists—such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye—who are reworking art history and questioning its depictions of people of color. Co-published with the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the major touring retrospective, this volume surveys Wiley’s career from 2001 to the present. It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem’s streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet, and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps. Also included is a generous selection from Wiley’s ongoing World Stage project; several of his enormous Down paintings; striking male portrait busts in bronze; and examples from the artist’s new series of stained glass windows. Accompanying the illustrations are essays that introduce readers to the arc of Wiley’s career, its critical reception, and ongoing evolution.

Overzicht van de Vlaamse schilderkunst van de vijftiende eeuw.

An emancipator of porcelain, Piet Stockmans has freed this material to be a purely artistic means of expression. The Belgian artist first defunctionalized tableware, then created installations with porcelain on walls and floors, and finally introduced the human body into his oeuvre. This book is the first extensive monograph on the artist.

Monografie over de Nederlandse beeldend kunstenaar (1925- ).

Egon Schiele was one of the most influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna. Now back in print, this magnificent volume of his complete work has thirty-two pages of new material, including 205 extra catalogue raisonné entries, and 245 new illustrations, making it the most comprehensive book on the artist ever published. Renowned Schiele scholar Jane Kallir contributes a copiously illustrated biography of the artist and the catalogue raisonné, which now encompasses more than 3,275 works. A must for serious scholars and collectors, this definitive work also includes an extensive bibliography, a list of exhibitions and details on provenance, signature styles and materials used by the artist.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is the only sculptor of equal rank who can be placed alongside the finest painters of his generation such as great French painters as Manet and Cézanne. While he has been considered an early Modernist among sculptors, he drew on a uniquely rich variety of artistic traditions, including those of ancient Greece, Egypt, the Far East and the Renaissance.

This classis monograph, first published in 1939, gathers together a stunning collection of photographs, all specially commissioned for this edition, that depict Rodin's masterpieces in great detail. We are able to contemplate the momentous presence of The Thinker, the powerfully melancholy of The Burghers of Calais and outstanding portrait busts of the last century.

This monograph is itself a special work: not solely on account of Rodin's legendary sculpture, but also because of its incredibly competitive price given quality and elegance of the edition.

A study of the transformation of sacred metaphor into descriptive narrative.

Catalogus bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in het Bijbels Museum te Amsterdam van 8 maart 2013 t/m 25 augustus 2013 over de vrouwelijke kanten van God. Oorspr. uitgave: Gott weiblich. Eine verborgene Seite des biblischen Gottes (2008).

Abstract: Documentatie in woord en beeld over werk van de Nederlandse kunstenaar (1924-1994) in opdracht van anderen

Documentatie in woord en beeld over de 'gedichttekeningen' van de Nederlandse dichter en kunstenaar (1924-1994)

keramiek, beeldhouwkunst

Documentatie in woord en beeld over de Duitse schildersgroep uit het begin van de 20e eeuw.

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