Dada - perhaps the most famous and outrageous of modernism's artistic movements - is said to have begun at the Cabaret Voltaire, a literary evening staged at the restaurant Meirei in Zurich on February 5, 1916. The evening featured stamping, roaring, banging on the lids of pots and pans, and the recitation of incomprehensible "poemes simultanes." ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Finland
Date Published: 1993
Description: The title of the exhibition, Combi-Nation, is a play on words and refers to the fact that the artists work with “ impure strategies” , (combining diverse elements in the same work); furthermore, in Spanish the word has the connotation of the “ unification of nations” . The subtitle, imagen sueca, strives to indicate that the artists represented here are all dealing with a common theme: “ The Image of Sweden” and that image is presented in many different ways. ... read more
Description: The selection for this exciting exhibition of contemporary art was guided by the ambiguity of the artworks, which oscillate between different meanings, but which have as a common theme the question of individual identity. Working in a variety of media, these talented Scandinavian artists include Ernst Billgren, Dan Wolgers, Raul Grunstein, and others., Swedish/Finnish/English, Year, Illust. B/W24, Illust. Color13, ISBN9170570205, Softbound, Not in perfect condition., Location of Exhibition: ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sweden
Date Published: 1998
Description: Why do we consider a dirty, broken coffee cup ugly when compared with a whole, round cup? How do we actually define what is ugly? Beautiful things have always been the objects for an aesthetic discussion in past decades, but the ugly has always been relegated to the background, existing simply as a negation of beauty, or its complete opposite. Sandqvist initiates a discussion concerning the concept of ugly as he sees the once definitive borders between ugly and beautiful become blurred in ... read more
Description: A Finnish contemporary artist doing intriguing sculptural work and painting in many media and with strong classical connections, quite beautiful and unsual., Year1990, Illust. B/W, Illust. Color24, ISBN952953101X, Clothbound, Not in perfect condition., Location of Exhibition: Amos Anderson Art Museum, Bio. Pages48, Size9 7/8” x8 1/8” 2. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sweden
Date Published: 1996
Description: Bruce Nauman is a child of his time. He belongs to a generation that has lived through, been formed by, and explored a number of epistemological and artistic paradigm shifts, all of them leading to the collapse of the great ideological systems, all of them questioning the whole of Western rationality as a kind of Cartesian basis for the big ontological Tale. The borderlines between art and non-art, between true and false, between man and woman have been crossed constantly., Swedish/ English, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sweden
Date Published: 2000
Description: The artist had made a name for herself in contemporary Swedish art as the “ painter of wounds” when she was commissioned to “ decorate” the Institute of Education at the University of Umeå. She has also been designated as a minimalist, a concretist and even as an expressionist. In her earlier paintings she alludes to both Nordic and Greek mythology, arousing feelings of running fluids, blood, sick and nausea. Her later work focuses on the interplay with the architectural ... read more
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