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The Nude, Ideal and Reality: Photography

The Nude, Ideal and Reality: Photography more books like this

by Peter Weiermair, Claudio Marra, Ulrich Pohlmann

This volume presents a selection of 200 extraordinary images that reflect the central role played by the genre of the nude in the history of photography and in its experimentation. Ever since the invention of photography in 1839 the nude has constituted a favorite subject among the practitioners of the medium. Through numerous extraordinary ...

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The Bird of Self-Knowledge: Folk Art and Current Artists' Positions

The Bird of Self-Knowledge: Folk Art and Current Artists' Positions more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor), Saul Ostrow (Text by), Wolfgang Bruckner (Text by)

Twenty-five contemporary artists invade a space normally devoted to the display of Austrian folk art and contribute inventive and interventive works in response to it. The painting The Bird of Self-Knowledge is the central motif for an exhibition of the same name. Twenty-five contemporary artists were invited to create a work in response to the ...

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Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm more books like this

by Peter Weibel (Text by), Peter Weiermair (Preface by), Christa Steinle (Preface by)

Erwin Wurm, one of Austria's most important and internationally famous sculptors, has been preoccupied with expanding the concept of sculpture since the eighties. In his "One Minute Sculptures, for example--temporary, grotesquely comic works--he invites the spectator to become a sculpture, even providing various kinds of accessories for the ...

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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor), Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Storr (Text by)

Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois is one of the great lone wolves of 20th-century art. The work of the sculptress, a resident of New York since 1938, has attracted a steadily growing circle of admirers in the U.S. since the 1970s. The strong interest in her work found its first major expression in the retrospective presented by the New York ...

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The Measure of All Things: On the Relationship Between Photography and Objects

The Measure of All Things: On the Relationship Between Photography and Objects more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Text by), Peter Peryer (Photographer), Alessandra Tesi (Photographer)

Seven contemporary photographers, focused upon the object and its representation in photography, demonstrate the diverse styles and approaches possible. The approaches featured in this book document the wealth of aesthetic strategies available to photographic artists today. The images disclose a clear rejection of the naive documentarism of the ...

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Arthur Tress(cl)

Arthur Tress(cl) more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor)

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Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler more books like this

by Tony Oursler, Friedemann Malsch, Portikus (Gallery)

A student of John Baldessari's at the California Institute of the Arts and a frequent collaborator with Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler plumbs popular and punk culture for the twisted icons that structure our collective unconscious and the ideology of our time. Working in installations, video, sculpture, and a variety of mixed media including dolls and ...

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Body: Contemporary Art in Canada more books like this

by Nicole Gingras, Hans Heidt, Peter Weiermair

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Steven Arnold: A Retrospective

Steven Arnold: A Retrospective more books like this

by Steven Weiermair, Peter Weiermair

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Second Nature more books like this

by Peter Peryer, Peter Weiermair (Editor), Gregory Burke (Editor)

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Male Nudes by Women more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor)

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100 Years 100 PHO

100 Years 100 PHO more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor), Wilfried Wiegand

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Luigi Ontani: A Monograph

Luigi Ontani: A Monograph more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor), Luigi Ontani

Luigi Ontani's art is an expression of a life devoted in large part to the fictions of fantasy. His staged photographs place him among the pioneers of self-representation, and his large drawings originated alongside the artists of the 'transvanguardia.' his eclectic oeuvre includes handcrafted masks, collaborations with artists in India and ...

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Hidden Image: Photographs of the Male Nude in the 19th and 20th Centuries more books like this

by Peter Weiermair, Claus Nielander (Translator)

The Hidden Image is both a stunning anthology of the male nude and a revealing history of how male sexuality has been portrayed photographically from the earliest daguerreotype self portrait of Hippolyte Bayard to the formalized fantasies of Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Libera Mente: La Figurazione del Sentimento more books like this

by Alice Rubbini, Peter Weiermair (Text by)

This book assembles work from a cast of international artists -- including Jack Pierson, Stefano Arienti, and Nobuyoshi Araki -- and presents over one hundred works, including video art, painting, photography, installation, sculpture, and computer art. The connective theme of this contemporary survey is that art offers -- either metaphorically or ...

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Ann Mandelbaum(cl) more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor), Duane Michaels (Photographer), Thomas Sokolowski (Text by)

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Portraits: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor)

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Karl Prantl Sculpture(cl) more books like this

by Peter Weiermair, Kristian Sotriffer, Peter Murray

This book is a record of two outstanding exhibitions of works of the same sculptor in two different countries. The photographs and text are designed to communicate the impact of 23 major sculptures by the Austrian Karl Prantl (b. 1923) in their respective public spaces, and over the course of changing seasons. Prantl's enigmatic and uncluttered ...

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Jack Pierson: The Lonely Life(cl) more books like this

by Jack Pierson, Peter Weiermair (Editor)

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From Schiele to Wotruba(cl) more books like this

by Antonia Hoerschelmann (Editor), Peter Weiermair (Editor)

Although Austrian art stood in the international limelight during the last two decades before the First World War and took on renewed significance after 1945, the period between the wars has remained largely unknown - and with it the history of the drawing in Austria. The period which ended with Austria's political eradication and the inner and ...

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Erotic Art: From the 17th to the 20th Century, the Private Collection of Hans-Jurgen Dopp more books like this

by Hans-Jurgen Dopp (Editor), Peter Weiermair

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Gerhard Richter Paintings more books like this

by Gerhard Richter, Pier L Siena, Peter Weiermair

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Male Nude more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Editor)

An anthology on the theme of the male nude as seen by a diverse selection of 22 male photographers, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Pter Hujar, Duane Michals, Herb Ritts, and Paul Blanca.

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Ideal and Reality (CL) more books like this

by Peter Weiermair (Text by)

A comprehensive survey of the image of the human body in 20th-century art, featuring drawings, gouaches, pastels, and watercolors by 200 artists. In the course of the 20th century, the body has become the focus of the conflict between norms and deviation, order and excess -- the symbol of a constantly changing concept of human beauty. Covering a ...

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Wilhelm von Gloeden more books like this

by Peter Weiermair

A collection of erotic photographs by Wilhelm von Gloeden.

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