"Our image of the world, our conduct and our thinking is to an increasing degree influenced and determined by visual media. Each day presents an ever larger amount of images and media messages to process--to cope, we develop mental filters that exclude unwanted visual impressions. Breaking these mental filters necessitates constantly new and unexpected media strategies, most recently the use of techniques geared to the immersion of the v ..."
"This phonebook-sized survey of current contemporary art is the world's first look at the collection of the brand-new Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and LeAn, in Spain. MUSAC's stated mission is to serve as a museum of the present, an ever-changing art environment in a "living space that opens the door to a wide range of contemporary artistic expressions... a series of game boards on which action is the leading player." The museu ..."
"In this book the Dsseldorf-London-based artist group HobbyPopMuseum gives insight into their new work which mixes images, words, sound, and action, into an artistic reality that has resulted in invitations by institutions like the Tate Britain, and initiated collaborations with artists such as Andreas Gursky. The book contains a CD with selected compositions from HobbyPopMuseum's 2001-2004 exhibitions."
"How does a museum build up its own collection? How do the choices made by an institution, and the eventual content of its collection, compare to that of a private collection? These questions and many more about the nature of art collecting are addressed in Imagine You Are Standing here in Front of Me, an attractive, generously illustrated overview of the Caldic Collectie, the sizeable, kaleidoscopic, and willfully accumulated private co ..."
"Damien Hirst's Alone Yet Together, a pseudoscientific installation of fish suspended in formaldehyde in small, identical glass boxes, graces the cover of this volume. As the singular image selected to represent the Pisces Collection, it demands some exploration of wordplay. Pisces is, after all, the zoological term for fish and also the name of a zodiac sign--the astrological sign, as it happens, of the collection's anonymous owner. Dev ..."
"Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Günter Förg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jörg Sasse, "XL-Photography" presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum ..."
"Architecture has always been a natural subject matter for photographers, but for most of the twentieth century the practice of architectural photography has been a professional endeavor--anonymous photographs taken for clients for specific, commercial reasons. This book concerns itself with another aspect of the phenomenon: the photography of architecture as an art practice. It considers the work of seven contemporary photographers who ..."
"This series of images from contemporary photographers including Sugimoto and Gursky, and painters including Rothko, Martin, Mondrian and Friedrich, juxtaposes horizontal landscapes with horizontally structured abstract works. Its concentrated selection reveals formal analogies and similarities of both content and effect: the horizontal reads as a synonym for calm, concentration, and transcendental experience."
"Broschiertes Buch"Ein Buch, das die OberFläche zerkratzt, bis das wahre Leben sichtbar wird." (Spiegel Online)Es soll eine Traumreise werden, als die neunzehnjährige Betti aus Westfalen zum ersten Mal nach Monaco fährt. Dort will sie ihre langjährige Brieffreundin besuchen, die hübsche, coole, mondäne September Nowak, die im Penthouse über der Côte d'Azur lebt. Doch in Wahrheit ist September ganz anders als erwartet, ihre Briefe Täuschu ..."
Bangkok द्वारा AndreasGursky, Beat : Wismer Hardcover, 67 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा Steidl Gerhard Verlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86930-525-7, ISBN: 3-86930-525-8
"GURSKY'S AMAZING WORK IN A GREAT BOOK. NICE PRINT JOB TOO!"
"Styles and lifestyles are fast becoming uniform under labels and definitions of fashion, and as an industry and a cultural form. Total Living is the point of no return in a project which, step-by-step, develops strategies whose goal it is to offer an even more sophisticated and targeted lifestyle. It is a place where there are definitions for clothes, behavior modes, and even the atmoshpheres and spaces in which one moves. Assuming the ..."
"Andreas Gurskys new Bangkok series forms the basis of this book. Gurskys photos depict the dark, moving water of Thailands Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting. Indeed these photos are reminiscent of some of the most recognisable examples of Modernist Abstraction such as the work of Hans Arp, but they also echo the more hostile patterns of military camouflage. Seductively beautiful on ..."
"A new book from sensational artist Andreas Gursky is always a publishing event. This stunning, large-format exhibition catalog from Gursky's recent solo show in Munich is made up of works mostly created since his Museum of Modern Art show in 2001.Gursky's photos exploit the visual codes of a globalized world. They combine collective memories into rhythmic images that appear familiar and intelligible to viewers because the situations hav ..."
""In all eras there have been artists who have aspired to encyclopedic summation of the world, to find a form to accommodate the mess," as Samuel Beckett once put it. The Renaissance marked the juncture at which it became impossible for any one person to have read every book in existence (just as books became widely available for the first time, ironically); today it would be a feat even to count the number of toothpastes in your average ..."
"Famed worldwide for his epically-proportioned photographs, Andreas Gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive information--which he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. The extreme detail of Gursky's final image--achieved by digital restructuring--produces a vertiginous effect on the viewer, as it oscillates between total representation and total ab ..."