"The trope of the idyll is no longer limited to rural simplicity or innocence. In its recent contemporary redux, it has appeared as a private space or withdrawal to the imagination, an illusion or a flight of fantasy. This volume is divided into four sections, focusing in turn on landscape, urban, private and utopian variants, exploring the issues that have made the idyll timely again, and following the course of its present radicalizati ..."
"Edition in three languages: English, French, German - The underbelly of the world and the pursuit of impossible truth. In his third Taschen book, celebrated artist photographer and winner of the 2000 Turner Prize Wolfgang Tillmans takes his exploration of the visible world to a new level. The title "Truth Study Center" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the paradox of our desire to find a universal truth and the impossibility of doing so ..."
"The now legendary cover designs for the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" (1979) and the New Order single "Blue Monday" (1983) brought the Manchester graphic designer Peter Saville immediate international renown, with their somber yet lush Modernist edge. Saville was the cofounder of Factory Records, and was single-handedly responsible for its unique house style, so widely imitated, and so entirely Saville's own. Outside of the Fac ..."
"In the previous century, photography helped shape art; in the current one, it has begun to dominate it. Not only are major international museums and galleries mounting blockbuster exhibitions, but art photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters and their work commands unprecedented prices. This indispensable survey presents the work of 76 of the most important and best-known art photographers in the world: Andreas Gu ..."
"Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. Eighty-five of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan, and Paris have contributed essays and selected the included artists. Designed by acclaime ..."
"Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as worthy of portrayal as other cultural icons. Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists begins where Warhol left off. Presenting visually striking and conceptually diverse works in a range of mediums, Likeness is the first exhibition and catalogue to propose a recent history of artists’ representations of other artists--of friends, peers, and ..."
"This book presents the AutoWerke collection - donated by the BMW Group to the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. In the period 1998 - 2000, BMW commissioned 28 international photographers to engage with the theme of the car and mobility. A total of 75 photographic and video works were produced, which provide very different views of the 'automobilized' society. The photographers include, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Candida Hofer, Thomas St ..."
""The Images of the World" project features works by an international group of artists who, in an age that is dominated by visual media, interpret the world and reproduce it in photographs to create individual, subjective and artist-specific worlds. The pictures - individually or as part of a series - reflect a variety of themes, including social and geographical elements to create an allusively linked web of images. This book is publish ..."
"The cultural-historical starting point of Saint Sebastian: Or a Splendid Readiness For Death is found in Gabriele D'Annunzio's Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian: A Mystery in Five Acts, a musical play on which D'Annunzio collaborated with Debussy and in which the role of Saint Sebastian was taken by D'Annunzio's lover, the dancer Ida Rubenstein, whose transvestism in the role brought denunciations from the Church. But that is another story. ..."
"Few artists have changed the manner in which photographic images are made, read, and received over the past two decades as dramatically as German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968). One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans’s work is internationally recognized for its powerful reflections on the often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life.With images culled from the entirety of Ti ..."
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Strömholm Christer Strömholm started his artistic studies in the Self-portrait with
Jacky, 1967 1930s, but broke off his career to fight in the Second World War, and
it was not until after the war that he came to Paris, entering the Académie des
Beaux-Arts. His intention was to study painting and graphic techniques, but it was
his encounter with photography ..."
"At just over 430 pages, this monumental and beautifully designed new monograph presents the most comprehensive view of the London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' work to date, featuring many photographic works and abstract "paintings" from the past five years that have never been published before. When he is working on an exhibition or a publication, Tillmans displays and combines pictures on long tables in his studio so that the ..."
"Wolfgang Tillmans. Sprengel Installation (+4). Acquisition of the Bernhard Sprengel Collection Foundation and Friends of the Sprengel Museum Hannover e.V. and (+4). Loans Hannover Re Foundation and Hong Kong Private Collection (Contributions to the Collection Volume II"
""This report is from a global treatment literacy meeting held in Cape Town - organised by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) from South Africa and HIV i-Base from the UK - to critically review existing treatment literacy materials, plan ..."
"A multi-generational selection of 31 artists was invited to contribute work for this 50th anniversary issue of "Jahresring," the Cologne journal of art criticism. After 49 issues dealing in various aspects of art criticism, the editors decided it was time to let art itself take the limelight. Artists such as Fischli and Weiss, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Artschwager, Diana Thater, On Kawara, Ellen Gallagher, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Gerhar ..."
"At this point in art time, new media work needs no longer be prefixed by "new." With a firm place in institutional and private collections, with an ever-burgeoning range of practitioners, media art can safely be considered a part of the contemporary canon. And hence Fast Forward, a hefty, thorough reference guide, a virtual catalogue raisonné of the medium, from works found in the Goetz Collection. Over 180 film and video works by almos ..."
WolfgangTillmans(1st Edition) Freedom from Known द्वारा Bob Nickas, WolfgangTillmans Hardcover, 80 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Steidl/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York ISBN-13: 978-3-86521-263-4, ISBN: 3-86521-263-8
"Freedom From The Known is the first book to focus entirely on Wolfgang Tillmans's abstract photographs, exploring the presence abstraction has had within his figurative and representational work. It is published on the occasion of the artist's first major solo exhibition for an American museum--curated by Bob Nickas, who contributes an essay here--which opened at P.S.1 in Long Island City, New York, in the spring of 2006. Of the 25 piec ..."