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Author | : Robert Rosenblum |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-06-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780810991880 |
John Currin's paintings sit at the crossroads where Old Master painting technique and 20th-century kitsch collide. His figurative paintings mix humour with traditional painterly skills and have earned him comparisons with artists ranging from Breugel to Rockwell. 1989.
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Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0847849864 |
Along with an insightful new essay, this beautiful book features over forty-five striking color reproductions of John Currin’s most recent paintings, spanning from 2011 to 2015. At once highly seductive and deeply perplexing, John Currin’s paintings draw inspiration from such disparate areas as Old Master portraits, pinups, pornography, and B-movies. Consistent throughout his oeuvre, however, is his search for the point at which the beautiful and the grotesque hold each other in perfect balance, and this new book from Gagosian Gallery demonstrates just that. In his most recent work, Currin layers each canvas with multiple scenes, creating paintings within paintings. He paints idealized yet challengingly perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs and dour matrons to more ethereal feminine prototypes. While his eroticized subjects often exist at odds with the popular dialogue and politics of contemporary art, they entice viewers, and are reproduced here in stunning detail.
Author | : John Currin |
Publisher | : DISTRIBUTED ART PUB |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Artists' writings |
ISBN | : 9780979764257 |
"John Currin worked on the painting that became 'The Dogwood Thieves' for six years. Starting with a photograph from a magazine advertisement, he altered the painting several dozen times until he was satisified with the composition. This publication is based on a lecture given by John Currin in August 2010 at the Acadia Summer Arts Program"--P. [3].
Author | : Sharon Coplan Hurowitz |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781838661281 |
The book invites you into the private studios of seventeen of the most celebrated contemporary artists as they draw, paint, sculpt, or design an original project for readers to recreate at home. It demystifies the studio practice through the fun, accessible format of D.I.Y., leading you step-by-step through each artist's project. Eight inserts specially designed by the artists for completing their projects - from stencils to cut-outs - are included. The result can inspire people everywhere to blaze their own creative trails
Author | : Stacey Goergen |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781419717826 |
"Artists living with art" is full of fascinating and often surprising revelations about the artworks a select group of the world's most influential contemporary artists choose to collect and display in the intimacy of their own homes. (Just as Andy Warhol famously collected cookie jars, so do these 25 artists, all living in New York, collect art and in some cases, mundane objects they cherish as art.) The works they display reflect remarkably diverse, eclectic and often unexpected tastes. Many of these homes, some of which also function as studios, have never been seen and offer unique insight into each artists' personal life, creative process, and artistic practices, as well as what inspires them and who their friends are (many swap art with one another). Readers will learn about the pieces most treasured by each artist, as well as their favourite period in art (a surprising number have a preference for pre-twentieth-century art). Authors Stacey Goergen and Amanda Benchley gained unprecedented access into each home for the photography and interviews, and highly acclaimed photographer Oberto Gili was commissioned to shoot the these homes especially for the book.
Author | : Laura J. Hoptman |
Publisher | : The Museum of Modern Art |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780870703621 |
Author | : Jennifer Higgie |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1643138049 |
A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.
Author | : Wyndham Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Dieter Roth |
Publisher | : Holzwarth Publications |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art, Modern |
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Essays by Dietmar Elger, Oliver Koerner von Gustorf and Bernadette Walter. Interview by Dirk Dobke with Dorothy Iannone.
Author | : Philip Roth |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1446400743 |
A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and powered by moral blackmail. And yet, the the couple's relationship is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying - and failing - to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and scorching truths, acts of weakness and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a fierce tragedy about a fatal impasse between a man and a woman.