A graffiti artist and tagger by nature, Barry McGee has in the last few years taken a stealth, guerilla art form, one that is typically the subject of complaint, arrest, and general unappreciation, and transformed it into a well-received medium for display in museum and commercial gallery spaces. His drawings, paintings, and mixed-media ...
German artist Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important and controversial artists of the post-world war II art scene. Begining with the work he showed at the 1980 Venice Biennale, he has interpreted the great political and cultural issues at the heart of the modern European sensibility, through media as diverse as painting, photography, artist's ...
Vertigo seeks to document the surge of multimedia art driven by the advent of new technologies, including works produced by great names in art such as Balla, Warhol, Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik, and Laurie Anderson.
Works by Robert Mapplethorpe are paired with with classical artworks, primarily Mannerist engravings and sculpture, in this stunning exhibition catalogue. The pairing of works is among the first collaborations between the Guggenheim and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Accompanies an international traveling exhibition ending ...
Created in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, this tribute to Italian designer Giorgio Armani looks back at Milan in the 1970s, when Armani began to reinvent the men's suit, pointing out how he influenced the world with his comfortable, relaxed, yet sophisticated designs. Armani is also celebrated ...
Published to accompany the first major exhibition of Jim Dine's (b. 1935) work from the 1960s, this book reproduces scores of never-before-seen mixed-media works, paintings, and sculpture by one of America's best-known image-makers. Many of the works featured in this volume contain elements of the now-familiar themes of Dine's career: tools, robes ...
The Tribeca Film Festival brings together film lovers from around New York City and around the world to watch and discuss the newest U.S. and international independent and studio films. In addition to the film program is the Tribeca Talks panel series that includes one-on-one discussions with influential filmmakers. This publication is a ...
Richard Meier, one of America's most influential and widely emulated architects, began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects, whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture. Renowned as the designer of large-scale works around the world, including the Jubilee Church in Rome ...
As curator of a major U.S. museum, Germano Celant had access to the most influential figures in the scene at a time when America was the eye of the contemporary art storm. This book presents his essays devoted to the most powerful movements in American art from 1960-2000.
After World War II, New York became the laboratory for the Western world's avant-garde art movements, a prominent role it maintained for decades. Generations of New York artists have left their mark on the development of contemporary art in the context of influential art movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Super Realism, Minimalism, ...
Claes Oldenburg has become one of America's most influential artists. His subject-matter is the everyday object - food, clothing and mechanical devices - which he reincarnates in provocative sculpture, drawings and performances. This comprehensive volume, published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of his works organized jointly by the ...
Winner of the 1990 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Italian architect and theorist Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) gained international renown for his imaginative and starkly beautiful designs. Rossi's writings, drawings and buildings have distinguished him as one of the great architects of our time. They are unique for their simple forms such as cones, ...
This catalogue of the exhibition curated by Germano Celant in the Correr Museum of Venice investigates a specific aspect of the work of Claes Oldenburg, a major figure of contemporary American art: that of his creations relating to architecture, documenting the large scale projects executed by the artist between 1969 right up to 1999. Here is an ...
Merce Cunningham was a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance company from 1939 to 1945, performing his first New York solo concert in 1944. Thus far, Cunningham's career has seen him choreograph nearly 200 works for both his own company and other dance troupes, including the New York City Ballet, Ballet of the Paris Opera and American Ballet ...
Dennis Oppenheim has centred his artistic investigations into the dialogue between art and the self within the nature and technology continuum of the modernist mainstream. This leading protagonist of both land- and body art has been an active innovator since the late Sixties. The expression has taken a wide variety of forms; performance, video, ...
Created in collaboration with the Archivio Opera Piero Manzoni (Onlus) this volume is the first complete cataloging of the work of Manzoni. A major figure in the art scene of Europe in the late 20th century, Manzoni interpreted the cultural experiences of his time and mixed and matched them, furiously inventing a vast variety of found materials ...
Divided into five sections, the volume is the catalogue of the Agrati Collection, an important collection of contemporary art with over 400 works by leading artists of the major artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century. Among the movements covered are Action Painting, Hyperrealism, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Land Art, and Arte ...
Arte Povera was among the most important aggregations not just in Italian art of the 1960s, but in all avant garde art from that period. Roughly translated as "poor art", the term was coined by the critic Germano Celant to describe the radical use of common objects in the work of such artists as Anselmo, Boetti, Calzolari, Fabro, Kounellis, Metz, ...
In 1996 the city of Florence was host to its first Fashion Bienniale. Directed by Germano Celant, curator of the Contemporary Art Section of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Ingrid Sischy, director of the famous magazine Interview and Luigi Settembrini, it was composed of seven large exhibitions held in a wide and exciting variety of venues, ...
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