"Swiss painter Johannes Hüppi (born 1965) depicts young girls in a variety of circumstances and genres--as nudes, as Pieta-style icons, as modern citizens bathed in the glow of the computer screen or bathing nude in the sea. This volume surveys his works of the past 25 years."
Alighiero Boetti Catalogue Raisonné from 1972 to 1979 (Volume 2) द्वारा Jean-ChristopheAmmann, Alighiero Boetti Hardcover, 640 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2013 द्वारा Mondadori Electa (Acc) ISBN-13: 978-88-370-9002-9, ISBN: 88-370-9002-1
"This second part of the cataloge of the work of Boetti, an artist who, to begin with, associated himself with the Arte Povera movement, looks at the crucial period when his work took the form of conceptual poetry."
"In her new series Jessica Backhaus sets out a quest for traces of time and meaning—things that once were, still are, and will stay forever. Some photographs date from her last year in New York, where she had lived for fourteen years, others tell of her radical break with the past and her return to her homeland in Europe. The personal and cultural changes caused her to contemplate the fragility of our emotions and existence—thoughts the ..."
"This volume takes Franz Gertsch's new Four Seasons cycle, completed in 2011, as an occasion to look back on his paintings, prints and drawings of the past 30 years. One of Switzerland's leading contemporary artists, Gertsch is a virtuoso of hyperrealism, as his newest series demonstrates."
"General Idea was founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson as a generic identity to free the artists “from the tyranny of individual genius.” Under the leadership of their fictitious muse Miss General Idea, and inspired by William Burroughs' conception of the “image virus,” the collective interrogated media image culture through now legendary projects like File magazine, as well as paintings, installations, ..."
"In 1958, on a visit to Iceland, Dieter Roth met the Swiss goldsmith Hans Langenbacher, and the two soon agreed to collaborate. Roth came up with the brilliant idea of devising rings with exchangeable parts--a variety of brightly-colored corkscrew-like attachments to the ring's main body--which Roth then housed in containers such as old pipes or wooden boxes. This gem of a volume reproduces Roth's rings alongside sketches, photos and a l ..."
"A recent spate of exhibitions and an upcoming retrospective have drawn increased attention to the Italian Arte Povera pioneer Alighiero Boetti (or, in his identity-suturing guise, Alighiero e ["and"] Boetti) (1940-1994). Perhaps Boetti's best-known works are the textile maps of the world that he commissioned from female weavers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, beginning in 1971. In these maps, every country appears in the color and design o ..."
"The Swiss artist Manon has been a pioneer of female body and performance art since the 1970s. From the beginning of her career, her work addressed the construction of sexual, gender, and identity stereotypes long before it became widely accepted or fashionable to do so. ManonâA Person is the first comprehensive study of this groundbreaking contemporary artist, featuring the entire range of her work, from the first fetish images and in ..."
"In 2006, The New York Times' art critic Roberta Smith described Art Basel Miami as, " a decentralized sprawling mass of excitement and display, plus lots of disposable wealth. It is the art world's version of Mardi Gras." The Miami fair's more established European partner, Art Basel, has been described as "the Olympics of the art world," and "a modern art mecca" by The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal respectively. Add to thes ..."
Alex Katz First Sight द्वारा Jean-ChristopheAmmann, Alex Katz Hardcover, 470 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2003 द्वारा Peter Blum Edition, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-935875-20-1, ISBN: 0-935875-20-4
"In the more than 500 working drawings by Alex Katz reproduced here, we are able to look over the artist's shoulder at works in their nascent state--a rare experience essential to any understanding of the artist's oeuvre. Like a sculptor's preparatory drawings, these are the sketches of a painter who is not a draftsman but a painter; they are the raw material, revealing Katz's methods of looking and recording. Contours, overlappings, mov ..."
"The work of Lucian Freud exemplifies the art-historical distinction between nudity and nakedness--instead of presenting the body as a stylized object for the viewer's consumption, Freud's intensely psychological portraits delve into the existential core of his subjects. Freud has always occupied a unique stance in the field of figurative painting, seeking a perfect realism that has less to do with creating an effective likeness than wit ..."
"Ellen Auerbach is a remarkable New York artist, honored in 1998 (at the age of 92) with an important exhibit of her photographs at Berlin's prestigious Academie der Kunst. Ellen Auerbach: Berlin, Tel Aviv, London, New York, the exhibition catalog, traces her trajectory through the century with photos she took between 1929 and 1965. Some of her early images (created with studio partner Grete Stern) have a surrealist tinge. In 1933, Aub ..."
"With a bilingual text, this book is linked to the second of three exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibitions were designed to provide an examination of the complex artistic cross-currents between Europe and America, and the impact that 20th-century artists from the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and the United States have had on each other. The book highlights masterworks from the Whitney's Permanent Col ..."