The Roof Garden Commission Petrit Halilaj Abetare

Author : David Breslin
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397769
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj: Abetare written by David Breslin and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrit Halilaj’s immersive installations express the artist’s wish to alter the course of personal and collective histories, creating complex worlds that claim space for freedom, desire, intimacy, and identity. In his first major outdoor installation, the artist explores the intersection of reality and fantasy through the rich world of children’s drawings. This volume examines Halilaj’s inspiration for the work in found inscriptions, carvings, and scribbles collected from desks at his former primary school and other schools in Eastern Europe—a record of children’s fantasies, fears, and private messages conveyed in many languages. An interview with Halilaj connects his practice with those of artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Julio González, situates this project within his broader career, and considers how memory, identity, and history present in his work. This publication reveals his new installation to be at once a story of children in a time and place marked by social and political conflict and a universal reflection on youthful imagination, hopes, yearnings, anxieties, and dreams.

Author : Ian Alteveer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395197
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imran Qureshi written by Ian Alteveer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with "The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 14 through November 3, 2013."

Author : Yves Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788494509636
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Orchard to the Garden written by Yves Berger and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey from blooming fruit trees to carpets of fragile flowers, from dark wet branches to pistils surrounded by loud, vivid colours. Throughout this visual offering of nature came the human figure, haunting, questioning, suffering and hoping. How is it that the forces of life grow over what's left dead? How do we reach the other side? On asking these questions, Berger observes how human nature exists within nature itself and transforms it into something both terrible and beautiful. The show features recent works on paper using three different techniques: monoprints of apple trees executed during Spring 2016, etchings of human figures worked on over the last few years, and pastel drawings of flowers executed in an Alpine botanical garden during the month of June 2016.

Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392279
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternal Ancestors written by Barbara Drake Boehm and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many masterpieces of central African sculpture were created to amplify the power of sacred relics that affirm a family's vital connection to its ancestral heritage. This important volume, focusing on some 130 works representing a diverse variety of regional genres, illuminates the purpose and significance of these icons of African art, which first came to prominence because of their appeal to the Western avant-garde. While providing an overview of sources ranging from colonial explorers, missionaries, critics, artists, and art historians, the book breaks new ground in its examination of the complex aesthetic and spiritual dimensions of the reliquaries. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together the perspectives of scholars in African and medieval art history along with those in African history, religion, and ethnography." -- Publisher.

Author : Christopher Noey
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0714873543
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artist Project written by Christopher Noey and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists have long been stimulated and motivated by the work of those who came before them—sometimes, centuries before them. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that spark their imagination shed new light on art-making, museums, and the creative process. Images of works from The Met collection appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.

Author : Stephanie D'Alessandro
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397270
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surrealism Beyond Borders written by Stephanie D'Alessandro and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrealism Beyond Borders challenges conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement. Tracing Surrealism's influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey, this publication includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures—including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró—as well as numerous artists who are less widely known. Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists' responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism.

Author : Ian Alteveer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395693
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe written by Ian Alteveer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed French artist Pierre Huyghe has spent the past twenty-five years experimenting in a great variety of media, from drawing and film to uncommon components such as living animals, plants, and other natural elements. His new project, Rite Passage (2015), conceived and created for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will explore the transformation of cultural and biological systems through the Museum’s collection, architecture, and surroundings. This fascinating and informative book is the third in a series that documents and contextualizes the Met’s annual rooftop commissions. The introductory essay by Ian Alteveer discusses the nineteenth-century scientific and artistic endeavors that have long inspired Huyghe. The dynamic interview between the artist and Sheena Wagstaff explores the conceptual framework for Huyghe’s latest project as well as the wide-ranging sources that inform this remarkable event.

Author : Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588392309
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tapestry in the Baroque written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Dominique Levy Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9781944379001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Motherwell written by and published by Dominique Levy Gallery. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Motherwell (1915-91) came to abstraction not through painting, but through philosophy, poetry and art history. While studying at Stanford, he was introduced to modernism and symbolism; Mallarmé's dictum, "To paint, not the thing, but the effect it provides," would prove essential in Motherwell's work. Elegy to the Spanish Republic is perhaps the most literal example of this influence. Begun in 1948, the series, comprising some 150 canvases, was the artist's "funeral song for something once cared about" in abstract pictorial form. Exploring the inextricable links between poetry, politics, writing and painting revealed in the history of the series, this volume includes Harold Rosenberg's "A Bird for Every Bird," Federico García Lorca's "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías," notes and writings by Motherwell on the Spanish Civil War, scholarly essays and rare archival material.

Author : David Rimanelli
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847870286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Sachs written by David Rimanelli and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent body of paintings of this New York-based artist, featuring the artist's examination of consumer culture in his handmade, "do-it- yourself " aesthetic. This is the first publication to focus exclusively on the roughly hewn paintings by Tom Sachs (b. 1966), tracing his interest in combining cultural icons and corporate logos with a handcrafted aesthetic. Mining the American landscape for iconography, Sachs investigates themes of corporate and cultural identity--such as consumerism, branding, cultural dominance, and technological development--to explore the achievements, failures, and inherent contradictions of contemporary society. In addition to the essay by David Rimanelli and twenty-two plates, there is a conversation with the artist and an extensive chronology. Sachs's meticulously handcrafted paintings depict such diverse topics as the Reese's candy bar, Fanta logo, Family Guy, Air Force One, Krusty O's cereal box, and the American flag; all modern icons that document successes and failures of the American experience and the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in its society and culture.