Reproduction of the original: Vigée Le Brun by Haldane MacFall
Hélio Oiticica (1937–80) was one of the most brilliant Brazilian artists of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a forerunner of participatory art, and his melding of geometric abstraction and bodily engagement has influenced contemporary artists from Cildo Meireles and Ricardo Basbaum to Gabriel Orozco, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Olafur Eliasson. This book examines Oiticica's impressive works …
La presente edición preparada por Isabel Valverde, autora también de una extensa introducción y de abundantes y minuciosas notas, reúne los escritos más importantes de Stendhal en este ámbito: sus crÃticas a los Salones de 1824 y 1827, que por su calidad y empeño pueden contemplarse como una continuación de los Salones de Diderot y un avance de los que poco después publicará Baudelai…
In 1934, New York's Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and products. The exhibition, titled Machine Art, explored these ordinary objects as works of modern art, teaching museumgoers about the nature of beauty and value in the era of mass production. Telling th…
"Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art" by John Galsworthy. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost r…
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La irrupción del expresionismo abstracto o pintura de acción en los años cuarenta trajo consigo un cambio sustancial en las interpretaciones habituales del arte moderno, métodos y criterios historiográficos y crÃticos. En este marco la obra de Jackson Pollock ocupa el lugar más destacado y muchos de los nuevos estudios le están dedicados. Cabe afirmar que en torno a ella se produjo un v…
Ausstellungen wollen Wissen vermitteln und zugleich ästhetische Erfahrungen ermöglichen. Aber wie genau tun sie das? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen an der Schnittstelle von Ausstellungstheorie und kuratorischer Praxis der Frage nach, wie in Museen und Ausstellungen durch expositorische Konstellationen Evidenzerfahrungen nicht nur erzeugt, sondern auch unterlaufen und damit problematisiert…
In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of ph…