Filtrer
Distributed Art Publishers
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Jean Tinguely (Friburgo, 1925 - Berna 1991) è considerato uno dei grandi artisti pionieri del XX secolo, nonché uno dei maggiori esponenti dell'arte cinetica. Al centro del suo lavoro vi è la ricerca attorno alla macchina con il suo funzionamento e movimento, i suoi rumori e suoni, la sua poesia intrinseca. Tinguely è tra i primi artisti a utilizzare oggetti di scarto, ingranaggi e altri materiali che poi salda, creando macchine rumorose e cacofoniche funzionanti, dotate di veri e propri motori. Pubblicata in occasione della retrospettiva, la monografia approfondisce la pratica di Tinguely mettendo in luce le opere esposte in mostra, attraverso schede dettagliate, accompagnate da un'ampia selezione di immagini storiche. Il volume comprende inoltre un saggio di Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, che contestualizza l'opera di Tinguely nell'avanguardia europea e americana, un testo di Melissa Warak sul ruolo del suono e della performance nell'opera di Tinguely nel contesto degli anni sessanta, un'intervista a Renzo Piano di Lucia Pesapane e una cronologia illustrata dell'artista realizzata da Annalisa Rimmaudo. La pubblicazione è arricchita da due testi storici di Jean Tinguely e dai contributi dei curatori di mostra, fra cui un'introduzione sul progetto espositivo di Vicente Todolí, un testo di Camille Morineau sull'idea di «anti-museo» tanto auspicato da Tinguely, e un saggio di Lucia Pesapane per ricordare il forte rapporto dell'artista con la città di Milano, sede di alcuni dei suoi progetti più ambiziosi come La Vittoria (1971).
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Japan moderne: design gems from the 1920s and 30s /anglais
Archive Letterform
- Distributed Art Publishers
- 1 Avril 2025
- 9798991621205
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Caravaggio 2025
Francesca Cappalletti
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Marsilio Arte
- 31 Mai 2025
- 9791254632819
Il catalogo Caravaggio 2025, edito da Marsilio Arte e curato da Francesca Cappelletti e Maria Cristina Terzaghi, accompagna l'omonima mostra allestita a Palazzo Barberini dalle Gallerie Nazionali d'Arte Antica in collaborazione con Galleria Borghese (7 marzo - 6 luglio 2025), un progetto tra i più importanti e ambiziosi dedicati a Michelangelo Merisi detto Caravaggio (1571-1610). Riunendo alcune delle opere più celebri, l'esposizione vuole offrire una nuova e approfondita riflessione sulla rivoluzione artistica e culturale di Caravaggio, esplorando per la prima volta in un contesto così ampio l'innovazione che introdusse nel panorama culturale, religioso e sociale del suo tempo. Il volume illustra gli snodi biografici e gli sviluppi dello stile dell'artista attraverso saggi redatti da studiosi che, in ambito internazionale, hanno maggiormente lavorato su questi temi. Il catalogo si apre con il saggio di Keith Christiansen che traccia la parabola artistica del grande maestro, mentre i contributi delle due curatrici, Maria Cristina Terzaghi e Francesca Cappelletti, si concentrano sull'arrivo del grande maestro a Roma e sul collezionismo delle sue opere da parte delle grandi famiglie romane. Giuseppe Porzio ripercorre gli anni meridionali dell'artista, tra Napoli, Malta e la Sicilia; Alessandro Zaccuri propone una riflessione sul legame di Caravaggio con la spiritualità del suo tempo; Gianni Papi affronta uno degli argomenti più dibattuti, ovvero la ritrattistica - vera o presunta - del Merisi; Francesca Curti presenta, a partire da documenti d'epoca, le figure femminili ritratte dall'artista; Claudio Strinati e Stefano Causa affrontano un excursus storico delle mostre dedicate a Caravaggio e la sua fortuna critica, a partire dalla famosa mostra di Milano del 1951 che di fatto fa riscoprire l'artista dopo secoli di oblio; chiude Rossella Vodret con un'attenta analisi sulla tecnica esecutiva dell'artista. Le opere in mostra - ventiquattro e tutte di mano del Merisi - vengono analizzate attraverso schede dettagliate e approfondite che danno conto dei principali problemi critici, attributivi e di datazione. L'intero catalogo è illustrato con ricchezza di dettagli e le immagini coprono quasi interamente la produzione del maestro; completa il volume un'ampia bibliografia.
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Fire island modernist : Horace Gifford and the architecture of seduction
Christopher Rawlins
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Metropolis Book
- 15 Avril 2025
- 9781881616993
As the 1960s became the «Sixties,» architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York's Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford's serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift once spurned Hollywood limos for the rustic charm of Fire Island's boardwalks. Truman Capote wrote IBreakfast at Tiffany's/I here. Diane von Fürstenberg showed off her latest wrap dresses to an audience that included Halston, Giorgio Sant' Angelo, Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene. Today, such a roster evokes the aloof, gated compounds of the Hamptons or Malibu. But these celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Island's natural beauty.brBlending cultural and architectural history, IFire Island Modernist/I ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import. First published in 2013 and long out of print, this iconic book returns in an expanded edition, including four new featured houses and a new afterword by Charles Renfro.
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Inside Florence
Livia Frescobaldi
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Marsilio Arte
- 13 Mai 2025
- 9791254632642
"Vivere a Firenze", edito da Marsilio Arte, è un racconto inedito di Firenze che nasce dall'amore per la tutela dei suoi luoghi e dalla volontà di offrire uno sguardo intimo e originale sulla bellezza e la sapienza secolare delle botteghe artigiane cittadine, che fanno del capoluogo toscano una delle città più ammirate al mondo. Gli splendidi scorci, i minuziosi dettagli dell'arredo, le inquadrature, la cura e l'attenzione nel raccontare e descrivere l'opulenza e la raffinatezza delle dimore fiorentine, sono solo alcuni degli elementi che l'autrice Livia Frescobaldi ha selezionato per tracciare un itinerario alla scoperta dei suoi luoghi del cuore. Attraverso la fotografia di Alessandro Moggi e Eugenia Maffei, il volume incarna lo spirito di un affresco dagli infiniti scenari, i cui protagonisti sono gli eredi di una storia millenaria, in un difficile equilibrio tra modernità e tradizione. Sedici sezioni per sedici dimore - tra palazzi, giardini ed ex conventi - ciascuno dei quali legato ad uno specifico mestiere artigianale: il primo binomio raccontato è quello tra Palazzo Frescobaldi e l'Antico Setificio Fiorentino, il cui connubio è reso indissolubile dalla stoffa personalizzata Frescobaldi in produzione da tempi immemorabili. "Vivere a Firenze", oltre ad essere specchio della ricchezza architettonica e artistica fiorentina, è proprio un atto d'amore verso quelle figure professionali che, come sostiene Leonardo Ferragamo nel suo saggio introduttivo, «continuano a creare la storia del futuro con la loro ingegnosa, perseverante e dedicata passione». Arricchito dalle introduzioni di Eugenio Giani, Presidente della Regione Toscana, e Bernabò Bocca, Presidente della Fondazione CR Firenze, la pubblicazione reclama l'unicità e la storicità di una città, Firenze, che gelosamente custodisce i mestieri d'arte e le botteghe artigiane, i palazzi noti e quelli più nascosti, i giardini e gli spazi dedicati all'epoca contemporanea. Un itinerario pensato per chi vuole vivere Firenze, oltre che visitarla.
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Lee Alexander Mcqueen : mind, mythos, muse
Collectif
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Delmonico Books
- 1 Avril 2022
- 9781636810188
McQueen's iconic fashion juxtaposed with historic textiles and works of art, revealing the designer's dynamic approach to storytelling.
One of the most significant contributors to fashion between 1990 and 2010, British designer Lee Alexander McQueen was both a conceptual and a technical virtuoso. His critically acclaimed collections synthesized his unique training in Savile Row tailoring, theatrical design and haute couture with a remarkable breadth and depth of encyclopedic and autobiographical references spanning time, geography, mediums and technology. McQueen's singular viewpoint produced exquisitely constructed, thought-provoking, often subversive or allegorical fashion.
Taking a reflective look at McQueen's artful design process, this book documents the designer's diverse sources of inspiration by displaying McQueen's imaginative fashions alongside related artworks. McQueen's encyclopedic references range from ancient Greece and Rome to Tibetan silk brocade patterns, 17th-century Dutch painting, the prints of Goya and the films of Stanley Kubrick. In each of these cases and beyond, examples of McQueen's imaginative and extraordinary work are displayed alongside artworks from LACMA's permanent collection. Spanning art from a multitude of mediums, eras and cultures, this publication provides a new and innovative assessment of McQueen's work and highlights his mindful approach to storytelling and construction through fashion.
Lee Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most important fashion designers at the turn of the 21st century. In 2011, following his death, the Costume Institute in New York organized an enormously successful retrospective of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Bruno Munari : Fantasy
Bruno Munari
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Inventory Press
- 26 Novembre 2024
- 9781941753705
The first-ever English translation of Bruno Munari's classic treatise on creativity, replete with new contextualizing annotations.
"But isn't imagination also fantasy? And can't fantastic images also assume the form of sounds? Musicians speak of sonic images, sound objects. How does one invent a fish tale, an air-cooled engine, a new plastic? ... fantasy, invention, creativity think; imagination sees."
Never before translated into English, Bruno Munari's Fantasy, originally published in Italian in 1977, invites the reader to explore their own imagination, creativity and fantasy through a journey into Munari's mind and work. His theory of creativity, developed in conversation with the Reggio Emilia Approach (a self-guided approach to education) and the work of Jean Piaget (a Swiss developmental psychologist who proffered a theory termed "genetic epistemology") foregrounds the book's journey through Munari's design processes, both working for clients and teaching design principles to children. By turning both life and work into a classroom, Munari unlocks a path through imagination in order to access his, and in turn the reader's, deepest sense of play.
The facsimile reprint is accompanied by new contextual annotations by Munari scholar and design historian Jeffrey Schnapp. These microinterventions highlight the innovations that make this work as relevant today as when originally published.
Bruno Munari (1907-98) was an Italian artist, designer and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in Modernism, Futurism and Concrete art, as well as to nonvisual arts (literature, poetry) through his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning and creativity. -
God made my face : A collective portrait of James Baldwin
Hilton Als
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Dancing Foxes Press
- 12 Mars 2024
- 9781954947092
La vie et l'héritage de Baldwin représentés par un panthéon d'artistes et d'écrivains tel que eux se souviennent de lui: Diane Arbus, Avedon, Alice Neel
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Using the painter's queer identity as a framework to understand his visceral approach to figuration
Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century, best known for his distinctive way of portraying human figures. Especially in his male portraits and nudes, the physicality of the body--skin, flesh, muscles--is translated by the artist into thick, oily textures, giving the figures almost abstract shapes. Flashes of teeth, torsos and rib cages underscore Bacon's visceral philosophy regarding the human form. As the artist famously said: "We are meat, we are potential carcasses. If I go into a butcher's shop I always think it is surprising that I wasn't there instead of the animal."
Beyond their carnal overtones, these paintings unite a wide variety of influences, revisiting canonical themes and combining references to the great masters of painting with Bacon's own perceptions of the male body. Both his biography and oeuvre were permeated by the presence of his lovers, with whom he established intense and turbulent relationships. Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat accompanies the 2024 exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, exploring the queer aspects of the artist's work and highlighting how Bacon, with his innovative and impactful painting, paved the way for queer presence in visual culture.
Born in Ireland, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) worked in furniture design and interior decoration until 1945, when his career as a painter took off. He enjoyed colossal success in his lifetime, especially as part of a London cohort that included such contemporaries as Lucian Freud and John Deakin.
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Loïe Fuller : Lecture on radium
Loïe Fuller
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Christine Burgi
- 29 Avril 2025
- 9780997645620
The luminous and radical dance performances of Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) at the turn of the 20th century were unlike anything that had ever been staged before. In her Serpentine Dance, she wore a large, diaphanous gown she manipulated with her arms to form undulating waves, while colored lights projected onto the fabric gave the illusion of birds, animals or flowers. While her profound influence on writers and artists such as Mallarmé and Rodin is well documented, less well known is Fuller's passion for technology and her involvement with the leading scientists of the time.
Lecture on Radium spotlights Fuller's scientific forays in her own words alongside an array of archival documents and photographs of the dancer in action. The centerpiece of the book is her 1907 lecture on the invention of radium, her notes on meeting Marie and Pierre Curie and Thomas Alva Edison, and her literally explosive efforts to create a glow-in-the-dark dance performance. Featuring an introduction by renowned cinema scholar Tom Gunning, this book presents Fuller's eccentric passions and pioneering pursuits in a fresh light.
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Herve Guibert : The only face
Hervé Guibert
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Magic Hour Press
- 15 Mai 2025
- 9781738901357
This photobook by Hervé Guibert, The Only Face, is not a novel in the traditional sense but is nonetheless filled with characters, settings and mystery. It starts with bodies--their faces either eclipsed or out of frame--before unleashing a bravura sequence of portraits: friends, lovers, family and Guibert himself. As the book approaches its finale, his subjects are obscured and then disappear completely, leaving behind the objects they touched, until even those vanish, leaving only light.
Most of the photographs in The Only Face were taken on Guibert's European and American travels, but their settings are, with few exceptions, small private interiors. The effect is an inwardness that communicates Guibert's deep affinity with his subjects.
The Only Face, originally published in Paris in 1984, is the second and final photobook Guibert published in his lifetime (preceded by the photo-novel Suzanne and Louise, also reissued in English by Magic Hour Press). This new edition presents Guibert's photographs in their original sequence, with his titles and introductory text translated by Christine Pichini and a new cover by the artist Marc Hundley.
French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert (1955-91) was the author of 25 books, beginning with Propaganda Death (1977), a fictional memoir in the tradition of Georges Bataille, Jean Genet and the Marquis de Sade. His best-selling novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (1990) was inspired by his long friendship with Michel Foucault and the two men's experiences living with AIDS, which tragically ended Guibert's life at the age of 36. -
Picasso a Palazzo Te
Pablo Picasso
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Marsilio Arte
- 25 Février 2025
- 9791254632284
Pittore, disegnatore, scultore, ma anche fotografo, incisore, scenografo teatrale, ceramista, Picasso eccelle in ogni genere, feconda arti «nobili» (pittura e scultura) con tecniche mutuate dalle arti «minori» (artigianato), fa esplodere con gioia gerarchie e tradizioni, creando un'opera nella quale longevità, profusione e virtuosismo sono sconcertanti. Chi di noi sapeva, però, che fu anche l'illustratore di innumerevoli libri di scrittori e poeti come Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy e Michel Leiris, oltre che di Honoré de Balzac e Ovidio? Chi sapeva che, per tutta la vita, rimase legato al mondo dei poeti e degli outsider, coloro che lo accolsero a Parigi nel 1900 quando aveva solo diciannove anni? Che trent'anni dopo divenne scrittore, drammaturgo e poeta, scrivendo in francese nonostante non conoscesse una parola della lingua al suo arrivo nel paese? A lungo respinto dalle istituzioni ufficiali francesi e marchiato come «straniero», «presunto anarchico» o artista d'avanguardia, forse non è un caso se Picasso divenne un artista-Mercurio mascherato, e se il suo percorso di artista si svolse negli interstizi della società, ai confini della poesia, della mitologia e della metamorfosi. È nella commedia dell'arte che scoprì la figura di Arlecchino, nella mitologia antica che riprese quella del Minotauro, i suoi alter ego. Con Arlecchino e il Minotauro, attraverso la pratica dell'autoritratto celato, Picasso esprime abilmente i suoi dubbi, le sue ansie e la sua vulnerabilità. Oltre alla leggendaria personalità dell'artista, la mostra Picasso a Palazzo Te. Poesia e salvezza rivela oggi un affascinante dietro le quinte, popolato dai suoi amici, dai suoi doppelgänger, e dalle sue meraviglie.
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Routed west : Twentieth-century african american quilts in California
Elaine Yau, Collectif
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Delmonico Books
- 10 Juin 2025
- 9781636811598
A celebration of the joyful power of African American quilts, featuring images of over 100 quilts, new research and essays.
The first publication dedicated to historical African American quilts in California, Routed West traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration from 1940 to 1970. As millions of African Americans sought greater economic opportunities and freedom outside of the American South, hundreds of thousands initially arrived in the Golden State. -
Type by Roger Excoffon
Roger Excoffon
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Letterform Archive Books
- 4 Mars 2025
- 9798989142347
Roger Excoffon (1910-83) was an iconic French designer, painter and philosopher, best known for his typeface designs. This volume celebrates the beloved designer's oeuvre through a selection of his foundry specimens, which were slim but exquisitely designed booklets published to accompany the introduction of a new typeface. Taken from the impressive collection at Letterform Archive, these rare foundry specimens offer insight into the making and uses of such historic type designs. Type by Roger Excoffon reproduces these specimens as facsimilles bound together in a trifold hardcover portfolio and includes an additional interior pocket housing smaller booklets.
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Letizia battaglia photography as a life choice
Battaglia Letizia
- Distributed Art Publishers
- 15 Juin 2019
- 9788831744331
Plus de 300 nouvelles oeuvres de Letizia Battaglia (née en 1935), l'un des photographes les plus célèbres d'Italie, sont rassemblées dans cette nouvelle enquête majeure couvrant l'ensemble de ses 30 ans de carrière. Dans des photographies et des planches contact provenant des archives de Battaglia, le livre propose une synthèse complète du modèle engagé de son travail, illustré par ses représentations emblématiques de manifestations politiques et de meurtres de mafias dans sa ville natale de Palerme en Sicile, prises pendant que Battaglia était employée comme photographe.
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Thomas Wilfred : Clavilux and Lumia home models
Thomas Wilfred
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Christine Burgi
- 29 Avril 2025
- 9780997645637
Inventor, designer, artist and musician Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968) devoted his life to the creation of a new art form-"Lumia," or the art of light. He invented his own version of a color organ (a term he disliked) and dubbed it the Clavilux, from the Latin meaning "light played by key." After a successful international tour in the 1920s, Wilfred reinvented these large-scale performances as self-enclosed light shows for domestic entertainment. While they enjoyed a short commercial life, Wilfred's aesthetically elegant and interactive Clavilux and Lumia home models soon found their way into storied collections. His work was included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1952 exhibition 15 Americans, where it was seen by many artists who would work with light as their medium in the 1960s and '70s.
Clavilux and Lumia Home Models presents a stimulating collection of archival material culled from the Wilfred archive at Yale University and other sources, including Wilfred's never-before-published sketches.
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Women painting women
Emma Amos, Andrea Karnes, Faith Ringgold
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Delmonico Books
- 2 Mai 2022
- 9781636810355
Replete with complexities, abjection, beauty and joy, Women Painting Women offers new ways to imagine the portrayal of women, from Alice Neel to Jordan Casteel.
A thematic exploration of nearly 50 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works, Women Painting Women includes nearly 50 portraits that span the 1960s to the present. International in scope, the book recognizes female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration. Painting is the focus, as traditionally it has been a privileged medium for portraiture, particularly for white male artists. The artists here use painting and women as subject matter and as vehicles for change. They range from early trailblazers such as Emma Amos and Alice Neel to emerging artists such as Jordan Casteel, Somaya Critchlow and Apolonia Sokol. All place women--their bodies, gestures and individuality--at the forefront.
The pivotal narrative in Women Painting Women is how the artists included use the conventional portrait of a woman as a catalyst to tell another story outside of male interpretations of the female body. They conceive new ways to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of women by exploring themes of the Body, Nature Personified, Selfhood and Color as Portrait. Replete with complexities, realness, abjection, beauty, complications, everydayness and joy, the portraits in this volume make way for women artists to share the stage with their male counterparts in defining the image of woman and how it has evolved.
Artists include: Rita Ackermann, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Emma Amos, María Berrío, Louise Bonnet, Lisa Brice, Joan Brown, Jordan Casteel, Somaya Critchlow, Kim Dingle, Marlene Dumas, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Nicole Eisenman, Tracey Emin, Natalie Frank, Hope Gangloff, Eunice Golden, Jenna Gribbon, Alex Heilbron, Ania Hobson, Luchita Hurtado, Chantal Joffe, Hayv Kahraman, Maria Lassnig, Christiane Lyons, Danielle Mckinney, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Elizabeth Peyton, Paula Rego, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Susan Rothenberg, Jenny Saville, Dana Schutz, Joan Semmel, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Arpita Singh, Sylvia Sleigh, Apolonia Sokol, May Stevens, Claire Tabouret, Mickalene Thomas, Nicola Tyson and Lisa Yuskavage. -
Type by Aldo Novarese
Aldo Novarese
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Letterform Archive Books
- 4 Mars 2025
- 9798989142354
Aldo Novarese (1920-95) is widely considered to be one of the most influential Italian type designers of the 20th century, best known for his work with the Nebiolo Foundry in Turin. This volume gathers a selection of his foundry specimens--exquisite booklets designed to introduce new typefaces and show off their uses--from the dazzling Letterform Archive collection. Offering unparalleled access to type as it was first meant to be seen, these highly collectible specimens are reproduced here in facsimile form and bound into a trifold hardcover portfolio with an inside pocket containing smaller booklets.
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Lee Ufan & Claude Viallat
Lee Ufan
- Distributed Art Publishers
- Pace Publishing
- 20 Février 2024
- 9781948701655
Tous deux nés en 1936, Lee Ufan et Claude Viallat ont chacun joué un rôle clé dans des mouvements majeurs : Mono-ha au Japon et Supports/Surfaces en France. Ce livre documente leur première exposition commune en 2023 à la Pace Gallery, Londres.
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Robert wilson : chairs
Robert Wilson
- Distributed Art Publishers
- August Editions
- 25 Mai 2025
- 9781947359116
This unprecedented angle on the oeuvre of Robert Wilson reveals the importance of chair design for his cross-medium art.
For American experimental theater stage director and playwright Robert Wilson (born 1941), theater is a totality of visual, textual and performative mediums. Wilson has incorporated furniture designs into his scenography since his earliest productions in the 1960s. "In almost all of my plays, there is a chair specially designed," he said. "Often, the chairs are much like an actor." Wilson's chairs, with their frequently referential names (the Kafka Chair, Queen Victoria Chairs, the Mondrian Chair), assume expanded significance as the surviving artifacts of each performance.
The works in this publication range from 1969 to 2011, from the stainless steel mesh Parzival Sofa (1987) to the painted wood Clementine Hunter Rocker (2011). Wilson's practice as a designer is illuminated by his practice as a collector, with pieces in materials ranging from wood, bronze and steel to taxidermied legs, tempered glass and neon. This publication includes several works never previously exhibited. -
Josef sudek: window of my studio
Josef Sudek
- Distributed Art Publishers
- 26 Juillet 2016
- 9788072155071
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Pedro Almodovar : installation/instalacion
Tilda Swinton
- Distributed Art Publishers
- 20 Juin 2023
- 9781636810195
A visually immersive exploration of the provocative and humanistic themes at the heart of Almodóvar's cinema.
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most daring and influential writer-directors of our time. He directed his first feature in 1980, during La Movida Madrileña (the Madrid Scene), a countercultural and democratic movement in Spain, and has been pushing boundaries for over four decades. Often outlandish and provocative, and rife with passion, Almodóvar's 22 films to date explore the full spectrum of the human condition. In the process, they have transformed Spanish cinema and contributed invaluably to the global film scene.
Pedro Almodóvar: Installation/Instalación accompanies an immersive exhibition created by Almodóvar for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Spanning 1984's What Have I Done to Deserve This? to 2019's Pain and Glory, Almodóvar's 12-channel film installation distills his filmography around iconic scenes and key themes including Family, Bodies, Guilt and Pain, Mothers, Musicals, Noir and Religious Education. This lush volume devotes a visual chapter to each, showcasing Almodóvar's muses--including Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Pina Bausch, Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, Marisa Paredes and Julieta Serrano--and the inspiration he draws from filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Luis Buñuel.
The bilingual (Spanish and English) book also features a new conversation between Almodóvar and film journalist Rachel Handler, an introduction by Tilda Swinton, a preface by curator Jenny He, texts by curator J. Raúl Guzmán and Agustín Almodóvar, and a richly illustrated filmography. As bold and beautiful as Almodóvar's films themselves, Pedro Almodóvar: Installation/Instalación captures the dynamic female characters, tantalizing stories, colorful humor and depth of emotion that exemplify this Academy Award-winning director's career. -
L'artiste américain James Lee Byars (1932-1997) combinait des motifs issus des cultures orientales, comme le théâtre Nô et le bouddhisme zen, avec les idéologies propres à la philosophie occidentale. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition organisée au Pirelli HangarBicocca de Milan, ce catalogue présente une large sélection d'oeuvres emblématiques mêlant formes géométriques et matériaux précieux comme le marbre, le velours, le bois précieux et la feuille d'or. Il explore la pratique de l'artiste sous différents angles à travers les contributions de la chercheuse Sarah Kislingbury, des commissaires Jordan Carter et Alexandra Munroe et de l'historien de l'art Shinobu Sakagami.
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Published by leading outsider art imprint Raw Vision, Singular Spaces is a groundbreaking survey of art environments created by self-taught artists from across Spain. The book introduces and examines 45 artists and their idiosyncratic sculptures, gardens and buildings, most of which have never been published. The sites are developed organically, without formal architectural or engineering plans; they are at once evolving and complete. Often highly fanciful and quixotic, the work is frequently characterized by incongruous juxtapositions, an approach that appears impulsive and spontaneous. Director of the organization SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments), Jo Farb Hernández, combines detailed case studies of the artists and their work with contextualized historical and theoretical references to art history, anthropology, architecture, Spanish area studies and folklore. Breaking down the standard compartmentalization of genres, she reveals how most creators of art environments, who are building within their own personal spaces, fuse their creations with their daily lives.