Drukwerk
Author: Karel Martens
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780907259114
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Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group
Author: Michael Duncan
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781942884873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.
The Cage
Author: Martin Vaughn-James
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2013-10-07
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1770563679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1975, The Cage was a graphic novel before there was a name for the genre. Considered an early masterpiece of the genre, the Canadian cult comic has been out of print for decades. The new edition includes an introduction by Canadian comics master and Lemony Snicket collaborator Seth (Palookaville; It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken). Cryptic and disturbing, like Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) illustrating a film by Ozu, The Cage spurns narrative for atmosphere, guiding us through a series of disarrayed rooms and desolate landscapes, tracking a stuttering and circling time and a sequence of objects: headphones, inky stains, bedsheets. It's not about where we're going but how – if – we get there.
Apparitions
Author: Allegra Pesenti
Publisher: Menil Foundation
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300214697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating publication sheds light on a medium that combines the qualities of drawing with those of sculpture, printmaking, and painting, and is the first to focus exclusively on the art technique known as frottage, derived from the French word frotter, meaning "to rub." Over 100 pieces, ranging from contemporary conceptual works to rubbings recording tombs and inscriptions, are assembled and sumptuously reproduced in color. More than 50 artists--including the famous, like Max Ernst, inventor of the term "frottage," and the relatively unknown--are presented. Four thematic sections explore different aspects of frottage: its roots in Surrealism and the practice of automatic drawing; the notion of trace, of either a place or an idea left behind in a rubbing; the "apparitions" or ghostlike attributes that can appear on the surface of an artwork; and the associations between rubbings, death, and memory. Distributed for the Menil Collection Exhibition Schedule: Hammer Museum, UCLA (02/08/15-05/31/15) The Menil Collection (09/11/15-01/03/16)
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Author: Leonora Carrington
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2017-04-28
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0997366648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories—many newly translated from their original French and Spanish—is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.” —Carmen Maria Machado, NPR Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. Published to coincide with the centennial of her birth, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington collects for the first time all of her stories, including several never before seen in print. With a startling range of styles, subjects, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), The Complete Stories captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist’s life.
Zero
Author: Pat Schleger
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis work for a range of British clients demonstrates his skill at combining photography, illustration, and type in humorous, sometimes surreal, and always ingenious ways.".
Girl
Author: Maren Karlson
Publisher:
Published: 2018-12
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9783905999983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGood girl, bad girl, you take me by the hand and lead me into the world where everything is known? past, present, and future, be not afraid, little flower heart glow, smiling sea anemone, earth song, emerald river dance, loyalty 2 Gaia, you're gonna wear the scar of a woman, wild angels, what a relief never having to be beautiful again, sun rays, silver lining, rosyfingered moon, to respond to life as though it were perfect. - Maren Karlson00Maren Karlson is a drawer and painter that lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Moirémotion
Author: Takahiro Kurashima
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9783037786574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the worldwide success of his Poemotion trilogy, Takahiro Kurashima's latest book delights the eye with ingenious visual play Kurashima's interactive book objects feature graphic patterns that are animated by the reader/viewer with a special foil contained within the book, so that figures and forms are created out of optical overlays, set in motion and then disappear again. Here, an astonishing panorama of unseen moiré effects (i.e. interference patterns produced when an opaque ruled pattern with gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern) unfolds. Kurashima deploys the digital tools for his creations with tremendous virtuosity, while also evoking and alluding to the rich precedents of kinetic art. Moirémotion offers contemplative recreation for our eyes. Takahiro Kurashima (born 1970) studied at the Musashino Art University and since 1993 has lived in Tokyo, where he works as an artist and designer. He collaborates with artists from various genres such as fashion, design and music. Kurashima's series Poemotion 1-3 is known all over the world.
Vignettes from the Zenith City Archives
Author: Matt Leines
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783905999808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the dawn of this century, Matt Leines has produced a steady flow of fine art to delight and confound viewers?drawings and paintings rich in color and detail?exploring the kaleidoscope of memory and outer zones of imagination. He possesses a workmanlike approach to symbolism and surrealism, the poet?s ability to realize longed-for images and a passion for theatrical sports. The world moves in patterns, faces unfixed, lines dancing across pyramid walls. Perspective is subservient to unique modernist iconography; his characters operate in a kind of abstract epic or post-Columbian codex that blurs pure myth and daily life.00Observant, vibrant, obsessively intricate and rippling with gnostic strength and humor, Leines? output reflects the 80?s pop culture of his New Jersey youth, highlights from the modern art playbook and a global range of graphic influences. He is master of lines and balance?the kind of kid born with a crayon gripped in his hand?who developed his talent through practice and study. This genius for drawing is supported by genuine sympathy for the mysteries of existing and an eye that ranges far and wide, past, present and future, real and unreal.00Leines lives and works in Brooklyn. He passed through other east coast visual centers, earned a degree from Rhode Island School of Design and spent a few years at Space 1026 in Philadelphia. Free News Projects published a retrospective monograph in 2008 titled, You Are Forgiven. His work has been shown at Deitch Projects, Clementine Gallery and The Hole in New York; Roberts and Tilton and New Image Art in Los Angeles; as well as international venues in Sweden, Italy, Spain, Greece and Japan.0.
Lost in Reverie
Author: Victionary
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789887972723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs adults in a fast-paced modern world, many can hardly afford to enjoy the simplest things in life today. With data and technology being at the forefront of our increasingly digital lifestyles, it is becoming almost impossible to make time for pure creativity, imagination, and freedom of expression - unless we start allowing our minds to wander fearlessly into the unknown and celebrate the art of doing nothing, whenever we can. Lost in Reverie sets out to capture the magic and mystique of dreamscapes, from the comforting to the unsettling and everything else in between. The book will comprise art and illustration featuring intriguing concepts and styles that explore the realms between the real and surreal; becoming a means of escape from the dreariness of everyday and a beautiful reminder to never stop dreaming. Includes works by: Akira Kusaka, Ana Miminoshvili, Andrea Wan, Fuco Ueda, Jun Cen, Marie Muravski, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Owen Gent, Petra Eriksson, Rune Fisker and more.
