Kunst / Bouwkunst

Geillustreerde beschrijving van het leven en vooral het werk van de Nederlandse beeldhouwer (1897-1979).

Charles Saatchi's collection of young British artists is one of the most celebrated collections of contemporary art in the world. 'But is it art?' was a frequent cry during the mid-90s, when he exhibited the works of artists such as Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk and Marcus Harvey. Artists such as these soon fulfilled their promise and consolidated their reputations, vindicating Saatchi's enthusiasm and their inclusion in this eclectic group. The book explores the ideas, aspirations and attitudes that inform each artist and the way that they are manifested in the end product. This publication, long out of print, remains an essential record of 35 artists that were collected by Charles Saatchi during the 1990s and is being reprinted to celebrate the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery later this year.
The book explores the ideas, aspirations and attitudes that inform each artist and the way that they are manifested in the end product.
This publication, long out of print, remains an essential record of 35 artists that were collected by Charles Saatchi during the 1990s and is being reprinted to celebrate the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery later this year.
'Art today makes approaches towards the unknowable... artists reflect something both psychological and social off that gaze, something that may hint at the face the future will present. In this activity artist and critic are linked in an intimate collaboration. The artist makes unverifiable hypotheses or intuitive proposals about the unknown, and the critic drives out into the verbal open their networks of implications.' Thomas McEvilley, 'Father the void' in 'Tyne International: a new necessity' 1990, p.133.
The name of this book is derived from Damien Hirst's extraordinary sculpture, 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, ' 1992, a fourteen-foot tiger shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde. It is appropriate that Hirst should introduce this anthology, since he was responsible for making visible many of the artists included in these pages and, in many people's minds, has come to epitomize the wild boy whose shock tactics and cool media manner give art a high profile and a bad name. His presence emphatically colours the 20water.
In 1988 while still a student at Goldsmiths', Hirst organized 'Freeze, ' an exhibition that included sixteen of his fellow students. This marked the beginning of a vital period of optimism and enthusiasm. The recession provided a plentiful supply of empty factories, warehouses and offices and young artists seized the initiative, raised funds and mounted further shows such as 'Modern Medicine' and 'Gambler' in these dramatic spaces.
Charles Saatchi had been collecting their work and bought Hirst's first major piece, 'A Thousand Years, ' with its rotting cow's head and flies. Support of this kind is of incalculable value; it sustains energy and optimism. Whereas struggling in a vacuum is soul-destroying, the prospect of having one's work enter a major collection provides both a goal and a context; it generates hope. Damien Hirst's shark swam into view in the first show of Young British Artists mounted at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992 and attracted unprecedented media attention.
At first sight there seem to be few links between the thirty-five artists represented in this book. What possible preoccupations could be shared by a minimalist painter and a pickler of sharks? In writing about them, the author was determined not to impose artificial groupings. Despite their work being lumped together under the rubric of 'conceptualism, ' often by those hostile to it, these artists do not form a group or a school. Many of them studied at Goldsmiths' and some are friends, but others have never met or even heard of one another. Kerry Stewart graduated only recently, Jenny Saville lives in Scotland, Carina Weidle has returned to Brazil and, although most of the others live in London, it is a big city. There is no cafe society or artists' meeting place and these people do not form a cosy coterie.

Die Ausstellung im Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum zeigt die Entwürfe des Meisters in ihrer ursprünglichen Form, so wie er sie bei der Arbeit vor Augen hatte. Dabei darf man nicht vergessen, dass das gedruckte Werk stets die gespiegelte Wiedergabe der ursprünglichen Komposition auf der Kupferplatte ist. Nicht selten verändert sich dadurch die Wirkung entscheidend. Auch wenn sich jeder Grafiker dessen bewusst ist, so bleibt die Frage, wie weit dies im Einzelfall berücksichtigt wird. Beim Großteil der so genannten Reproduktionsgrafik, also der drucktechnischen Vervielfältigung etwa von Gemälden, finden sich Seitenverkehrungen, und das selbst dann, wenn dieser Prozess von den Schöpfern der umzusetzenden Werke genau überwacht wurde, wie im Falle Rubens. Technische Möglichkeiten für seitenrichtige Reproduktionen hatte man durchaus, wie etwa Marcantonio Raimondis frühere Stiche nach Raffael zeigen. Exhibition: Suermont-Ludwig Museum, Aachen (12.11.2011-5.2.2012).

Confessions of a connoisseur: Insiders' tips on how the design art market really works "Art is about life, the art market is about money." --Damien Hirst

Whether you're an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the world's leading experts, Collecting Contemporary Art is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market. The introduction explains the ABCs of buying art on the primary and secondary markets, at auction, and at art fairs and gives an overview of the world art scene and its social circles. The main body of the book brings together tell-all interviews with the biggest players in the global art market: the Critic (Rimanelli), the Dealer (Boesky, Brunnet/Hackert, Coles, Deitch, Fortes, Gagosian, Gladstone, Glimcher, Hetzler, Lybke, Perrotin, Rosen, Shave, Wirth), the Consultant (Cortez, Fletcher, Heller, Segalot, Westreich), the Collector (Brant, Broad, Habsburg, Joannou, Lambert, Lehmann, Lopez, Paz, Pinault, Rothschild Foundation, Saatchi), the Auction House Expert (Cappellazzo, de Pury, Meyer), and the Museum Curator/Director (Dennison, Eccles, Heiss, Lowry, Peyton-Jones).

Rounding up the book are chapters on the year in art collecting--giving a timeline of the most important annual auctions, exhibitions, fairs, etc. around the world--as well as a glossary of terms every art savvy player should know. The text is illustrated by the work of the hottest artists in today's market, including Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lisa Yuskavage, and many more.

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Essays geschreven ter gelegenheid van de expositie die Komrij samenstelde op basis van de schilderijen die lagen opgeslagen in de kelders van het Stedelijk museum Amsterdam. Toelichting op zijn selectie. Over kijken naar kunst, kunstkritiek, de ontwikkeling van beeldende kunst en literatuur.

Nadat hij tijdens zijn verblijf in Antwerpen kennis had gemaakt met de Japanse ukiyo-e prenten, raakte Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) al snel in de ban van de Japanse kunst en cultuur. Toen Vincent en zijn broer, Theo, zich samen in Parijs vestigden, begonnen ze enthousiast Japanse prenten te verzamelen en zelfs te verhandelen. Hun beeldtaal en hun stijl oefenden echter ook een grote invloed uit op Vincents eigen werk. Deze prachtige publicatie werpt een nieuw licht op de inspiratie die Van Gogh uit de Japanse prentkunst putte.00Via essays van 's werelds toonaangevende Van Gogh-deskundigen beschrijft dit boek de diverse manieren waarop de kunstenaar zijn inzicht in de Japanse esthetiek ontwikkelde en dat in zijn eigen visie en kunstpraktijk verwerkte. Het boek wordt rijkelijk geïllustreerd met olieverfschilderijen, schetsen en prenten van Van Gogh zelf, naast een selectie van de Japanse werken die zo tot zijn verbeelding spraken. De omvang, de aard en het belang van Van Goghs eigen collectie Japanse prenten komt gedetailleerd aan bod, net als de impact die zijn nabootsingen van prenten op zijn hele artistieke loopbaan hadden.00Exhibition: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan (26.08.-15.10.2017) / Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (24.10.2017-08.01.2018) / National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (20.01.-04.03.2018) / Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23.03.-24.06.2018).

Uiteenzetting, in woorden, maar vooral in beelden van het kunsttheoretische denken van Batialle, waarin o.a. plaats is ingeruimd voor de markies de Sade evenals voor Gilles de Rais en zijn vrouwelijke pendant Erzsébet Báthory, die beiden jonge sekse-genoten op gruwlijke wijze offerden.

Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht commissioned the Tilburg artist Marc Mulders (1958) to make a stained-glass window for the large staircase of the museum. Mulders was inspired for this commission by the Apocalypse of the Revelation of John, the last book of the Bible. The depiction, built up from various layers, is a feast for the eyes - a powerful and intriguing interplay of colours, forms and quotations. Daan van Speybroeck has been following Mulders' work for many years and describes the iconography of the window and its place in the artist's oeuvre. Mulders previously made a stained glass window for Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) which Queen Beatrix received to commemorate her Silver Jubilee. With the Apocalypse by Marc Mulders, the Museum Catharijneconvent has aquired both a work of art and a statement at the same time. Text in English and Dutch.

Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings made him the star of the seventeenth-century Dutch golden age, but he was also an extraordinarily productive and original printmaker. In more than 300 known etchings, he covered the full range of subjects and styles for which he is celebrated, including self-portraits, scenes from the Bible, landscapes, vignettes of everyday life and character studies. Each of his prints is both a beautiful work in itself and an X-ray of the strategies of composition and scene-setting that went into his paintings. Rembrandt as Printmaker presents 69 of Rembrandt's finest prints from The British Museum, which is widely considered to hold the world's broadest collection. It is published on the occasion of the four-hundred-year anniversary of the artist's birth.

Waarom is moderne kunst wat het is, waarom wordt een onopgemaakt bed als kunst tentoongesteld? Waarom is een uitvergroot roze opblaasbaar varken zo veel geld waard? Elke museumbezoeker vraagt het zich wel eens af: is dit kunst? Is dit echt zo veel waard? In dit boek prikt de vermaarde Engelse kunstkenner Will Gompertz het pretentieuze kunstgebazel door en geeft hij op heldere en enthousiaste wijze antwoord op de belangrijkste vragen die elke kunstbeschouwer zich wel eens stelt. Een bezoek aan een museum of galerie zal na lezing van dit boek niet meer zo intimiderend zijn, maar wel veel interessanter. Gompertz maakt op overtuigende wijze de bizarre wereld van de moderne kunst voor iedereen begrijpelijk. Boekbespreking door Pieter Hoexum in Boekman.25(2013)94(voorjaar.110-111).

On April 26, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain was bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe in the midst of a bloody civil war on behalf of Francisco Franco's rebel forces. Twenty-four hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror and unspeakable cruelty--the first large-scale attack against civilians in modern warfare-outraged the world, and one man in particular. Pablo Picasso, an expatriate living in Paris, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on "Guernica," a painting that many today consider the greatest artwork of the twentieth century.
Weaving themes of politics, art, war, and morality, and featuring some of the twentieth century's most memorable and infamous figures, Martin follows this renowned masterwork across decades and continents. From Europe to America and, finally, back to Spain, "Picasso's War" sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to World War II and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about the horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today.

Veel Nederlandse gebouwen hebben een aanzienlijke ouderdom. Het ontrafelen van de bouwgeschiedenis behoort tot het terrein van de bouwhistorie en vormt de fundering van de monumentenzorg. In Inleiding in de bouwhistorie geven vooraanstaande bouwhistorici voor het eerst een systematisch overzicht van het werkterrein van de bouwhistoricus. In het eerste deel staan de vaardigheden centraal. Hierbij komen niet alleen hout, baksteen en natuursteen, maar ook jongere materialen zoals beton en staal aan de orde. Daarna volgen de constructies en bouwsystemen van de verschillende bouwmaterialen. Het boek bevat veel veldtekeningen, schets-opmetingen en plattegronden uit de praktijk. Beredeneerde literatuurverwijzingen bij elk onderwerp en een uitgebreid register maken de handleiding compleet. Inleiding in de bouwhistorie biedt een dwarsdoorsnede van het werkterrein van de bouwhistoricus en is een standaardwerk voor zowel studenten bouw- en architectuurgeschiedenis, erfgoedstudies, als monumentenzorgers en belangstellenden.

Geschiedenis, techniek, stijlkenmerken en achtergronden van het oosterse tapijt.

Prototyping and user testing is the best way to create successful products, but many designers skip this important step and use gut instinct instead. By explaining the goals and methodologies behind prototyping--and demonstrating how to prototype for both physical and digital products--this practical guide helps beginning and intermediate designers become more comfortable with creating and testing prototypes early and often in the process.

Author Kathryn McElroy explains various prototyping methods, from fast and dirty to high fidelity and refined, and reveals ways to test your prototypes with users. You'll gain valuable insights for improving your product, whether it's a smartphone app or a new electronic gadget.

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• Write basic pseudocode and translate it into usable code for Arduino
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Catalogus bij een expositie met beeldend werk van kunstenaars uit Nederland en België, waarin iedere kunstenaar uitdrukking gegeven heeft aan de persoonlijke beleving van religie.