Miriam Cahn

Miriam Cahn
Author: Miriam Cahn
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3775748350

The Swiss artist Miriam Cahn (*1949, Basel) deals with political and social themes in oil paintings; charcoal, chalk, and colored and lead pencil drawings; and in photographs, films, and installations. Strong color is characteristic of her work, forming a stark contrast to the recurring motifs of violence, tenderness, war, destruction, and physical infirmity. Her habit of commenting upon her work in writing is a golden thread running throughout Cahn's career. She illuminates her own art, commenting in the process on art and world events, and she sets up the texts opposite her artworks in exhibitions and publications. WRITING IN RAGE is the first compilation of her writing by itself, and includes essays, journal entries, and correspondence with friends, foes, family members, and gallerists. The book provides very personal insights into Cahn's life, her family, and the art market, introducing the reader to a disputatious, independent spirit. The Swiss artist MIRIAM CAHN (*1949, Basel) deals with political and social themes in oil paintings; charcoal, chalk, and colored and lead pencil drawings; and in photographs, films, and installations. Strong color is characteristic of her work, forming a stark contrast to the recurring motifs of violence, tenderness, war, destruction, and physical infirmity. Her habit of commenting upon her work in writing is a golden thread running throughout Cahn's career. She illuminates her own art, commenting in the process on art and world events, and she sets up the texts opposite her artworks in exhibitions and publications.

Miriam Cahn: Me As Happening

Miriam Cahn: Me As Happening
Author: Gaëtane Verna
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9783775752114

A co-produced publication released on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, organized by The Power Plant, and presented initially at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, was the Swiss artist's first solo exhibition both in North America and Denmark. The publication documents an expansive constellation of Miriam Cahn's multidisciplinary work, presented for the first time in Canada and Denmark as part of the eponymous exhibition, Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING. This exhibition was organized by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, presented initially at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, from 7 October 2020-4 April 2021, then at The Power Plant, from 2 October 2021-2 January 2022.

MIRIAM CAHN

MIRIAM CAHN
Author: Marta Dziewanska
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788364177552

A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and performance art. Cahn’s diverse body of work is disturbing and dreamlike, filled with striking human figures pulsing with an energy both passionate and violent. These pieces, along with Cahn’s reflections on artistic expression, have always responded to her contemporary moment. In the 1980s, her work addressed the feminist, peace, and environmental movements, while the work she produced in the 1990s and early 2000s contains allusions to the war in the former Yugoslavia, the conflict in the Middle East, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Her recent production tackles ever-evolving political conflicts, engaging with the European refugee crisis and the “#metoo” movement. Miriam Cahn: I as Human examines different facets of the artist’s prolific and troubling oeuvre, featuring contributions from art historians, critics, and philosophers including Kathleen Bühler, Paul B. Preciado, Elisabeth Lebovici, Adam Szymczyk, Natalia Sielewicz and .

MIRIAM CAHN

MIRIAM CAHN
Author: Marta Dziewanska
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-04-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8364177699

A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and performance art. Cahn’s diverse body of work is disturbing and dreamlike, filled with striking human figures pulsing with an energy both passionate and violent. These pieces, along with Cahn’s reflections on artistic expression, have always responded to her contemporary moment. In the 1980s, her work addressed the feminist, peace, and environmental movements, while the work she produced in the 1990s and early 2000s contains allusions to the war in the former Yugoslavia, the conflict in the Middle East, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Her recent production tackles ever-evolving political conflicts, engaging with the European refugee crisis and the “#metoo” movement. Miriam Cahn: I as Human examines different facets of the artist’s prolific and troubling oeuvre, featuring contributions from art historians, critics, and philosophers including Kathleen Bühler, Paul B. Preciado, Elisabeth Lebovici, Adam Szymczyk, Natalia Sielewicz and .

Drawing Room Confessions. Miriam Cahn

Drawing Room Confessions. Miriam Cahn
Author: Miriam Cahn
Publisher: Mousse Publishing
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788896501535

Drawing Room Confessions is a new printed journal named after a parlour game played by Marcel Proust, the Surrealists and others. It is made of words and exchanges, with no images. Six different sections (The Egoist, The Blind Man, Two to Tango, Ekphrasis, Time Lineand La Madeleine) comprise the Rules of the Game, which are the same in each issue. What changes are the players, or interviewers, who open each round of conversation with the featured artist and who come from a wide range of fields.

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly
Author: Guerrilla Girls
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1452175845

Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective of political feminist artists who expose discrimination and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture all around the world. This book explores all their provocative street campaigns, unforgettable media appearances, and large-scale exhibitions. • Captions by the Guerrilla Girls themselves contextualize the visuals. • Explores their well-researched, intersectional takedown of the patriarchy In 1985, a group of masked feminist avengers—known as the Guerrilla Girls—papered downtown Manhattan with posters calling out the Museum of Modern Art for its lack of representation of female artists. They quickly became a global phenomenon, and the fearless activists have produced hundreds of posters, stickers, and billboards ever since. • More than a monograph, this book is a call to arms. • This career-spanning volume is published to coincide with their 35th anniversary. • Perfect for artists, art lovers, feminists, fans of the Guerrilla Girls, students, and activists • You'll love this book if you love books like Wall and Piece by Banksy, Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope by Artisan, and Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents by Nicholas Ganz

Descartes' Daughter

Descartes' Daughter
Author: Melanie Gilligan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9783956790423

... Documents the critically lauded 2013 exhibition of the same name as well as continuing its ideas. Taking the historical account of philosopher René Descartes' creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, the exhibition explored the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body.

The Birth Project

The Birth Project
Author: Judy Chicago
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1985
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Fifty full-color and 350 black-and-white photographs illustrate the Birth Project exhibit, conceived by Judy Chicago, based on nearly one hundred of her works, and needleworked by women across the country. Between 1980 - 1985, Judy Chicago designed dozens of images on the subject of birth and creation to be embellished by needleworkers around the United States, Canada and as far away as New Zealand. Formatted into provocative exhibition units which included both needleworks and documentary materials, these works toured the country and Canada, eventually placed by 'Through the Flower' in numerous institutions where they are on public view or used as part of university curricula. Prior to the Birth Project, few images of birth existed in Western art, a puzzling omission as birth is a central focus of many women's lives and a universal experience of all humanity - as everyone is born. Seeking to fill this void, Judy Chicago created multiple images of birth to be realized through needlework, a visually rich medium which has been ignored or trivialized by the mainstream art community.

Reaching for the Heavens

Reaching for the Heavens
Author: Yehuda Cahn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2020-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734370805

Book of Jewish philosophy including such topics as reconciling science and religion, Divine providence, God's infinitude and omniscience, reincarnation, how faith has the power to alter nature, God's immutability, how to reconcile spirituality with the physical universe, and resurrection

Performing the Body/Performing the Text

Performing the Body/Performing the Text
Author: Amelia Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005-08-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134655932

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.