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Author : Michael Petry
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050029223X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature Morte written by Michael Petry and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Richly rethinks one of art’s everlasting topics.” —Art & Auction Leading artists of the twenty-first century are reviving the still life, a genre that once was more associated with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters than with contemporary art. The audacious still lifes celebrated here challenge that historical supremacy and redefine what it means to be a work of nature morte (literally translated from the French: “dead nature”). Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries-old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy. Structured according to the classical categories of the still-life tradition—Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori—a reminder of death, change, and the passing of time—has been rediscovered for a new millennium. Among the artists represented are John Currin, Saara Ekström, Elmgreen & Dragset, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Jeff Koons, McDermott & McGough, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Cy Twombly.

Author : Yŏng-na Kim
Publisher : Hollym International Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea written by Yŏng-na Kim and published by Hollym International Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea deals with issues of tradition, modernity, and identity in modern and contemporary Korean art in Korea. On a deeper level, this is one of the only books of its kind in English that exposes readers to specific artists and their works, an especially useful resource for those who wish to know more than just surface level facts about Korean art.

Author : Kim Grant
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271079479
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All About Process written by Kim Grant and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played a dominant role in the development of modern and contemporary art. This astute account of the ways in which process has been understood and addressed examines canonical artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, and De Kooning, as well as philosophers and art theorists such as Henri Focillon, R. G. Collingwood, and John Dewey. Placing “process art” within a larger historical context, Grant looks at the changing relations of the artist’s labor to traditional craftsmanship and industrial production, the status of art as a commodity, the increasing importance of the body and materiality in art making, and the nature and significance of the artist’s role in modern society. In doing so, she shows how process is an intrinsic part of aesthetic theory that connects to important contemporary debates about work, craft, and labor. Comprehensive and insightful, this synthetic study of process in modern and contemporary art reveals how artists’ explicit engagement with the concept fits into a broader narrative of the significance of art in the industrial and postindustrial world.

Author : Jo Farb Hernandez
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578067503
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain written by Jo Farb Hernandez and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of artists balancing tradition with creativity

Author : Jean Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190078331
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themes of Contemporary Art written by Jean Robertson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 offers students and readers an introduction to recent art"--

Author : David Stuart Elliott
Publisher : Artasiapacific
ISBN 13 : 9780989688536
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Trousers written by David Stuart Elliott and published by Artasiapacific. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of essays on modern and contemporary Asian art by a key figure of the international contemporary art world. An illustrated collection of more than thirty essays and 350 color images, Art and Trousers moves deftly between regional analysis, portraits of individual artists, and a metaphorical history of trousers. This book presents a panoramic view of modern and contemporary Asian art, varying its focus on the impacts of invention, tradition, exchange, colonization, politics, social development, and gender. David Stuart Elliott spotlights the practice of many leading global artists of the early twenty-first century, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Rashid Rana, Bharti Kher, Makoto Aida, Chatchai Puipia, and Yeesookyung, among many others. Art and Trousers offers insight into the development of a key curatorial practice for our times, and it will be an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand contemporary art and the way it operates across borders.

Author : Anita Yan Wong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Tradition & Modernity written by Anita Yan Wong and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Tradition & Modernity features over 70 "Contemporary Traditional" paintings by Asia American artist Anita Yan Wong, one of today's most Internationally celebrated "Contemporary Lingnan" artists by the Millennial Art media. Known for her "Contemporary Traditional" painting. The body of work in this book is organized in three sections by their medium: pure ink, color ink and non-ink, different subjects such as animals and portraits; themes such as current events and conceptual works are featured under each of the 3 sections. Over 70 Contemporary Traditional paintings, drawn from both the private collection and the artist's own collection, dating from 2016 to the present, the finest and representational are selected and presented in this art book. Between Tradition & Modernity is the first in-depth exploration of the artist' s "Contemporary Traditional" Lingnan style Chinese ink painting and the most comprehensive of its kind.Between Tradition & Modernity blurs the boundaries between traditional and contemporary, East and West.These extraordinary paintings demonstrate the reinvigoration of classical techniques and materials, fine art with a blend of west and east, with distinctly contemporary perspectives. Illuminating inspirational statements situate these new works within the rich history of Lingnan school of painting, revealing the development of the unique " Contemporary Traditional" arts and reveals the new trends of Lingnan art by leading artist Anita Yan Wong. With artist biographies and handsome reproductions of many previously unpublished paintings, this book is essential for scholars and collectors of Asian art as well as for participants in the increasingly globalized contemporary art scene.

Author : Robert D. Mowry
Publisher : Harvard Art Museums
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tradition Redefined written by Robert D. Mowry and published by Harvard Art Museums. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the Chu-tsing Li collection of modern and contemporary Chinese paintings--the finest and most comprehensive of its kind in the West--A Tradition Redefined is the first in-depth exploration of the development of Chinese ink painting during the last half century. These extraordinary paintings demonstrate the reinvigoration of classical techniques and materials by artists throughout Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and abroad working with distinctly contemporary perspectives. Illuminating essays situate these new works within the rich history of ink painting in China, revealing how avant-garde artists, schools, and trends evoke traditional and early modern Chinese art while engaging with developments in the international art world. With artist biographies and handsome reproductions of many previously unpublished paintings, this book is essential for scholars and collectors of Asian art as well as for participants in the increasingly globalized contemporary art scene. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (November 3, 2007 - January 27, 2008) Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (June 28 - September 14, 2008) Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (October 11, 2008 - January 4, 2009) Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence (February 11 - May 24, 2009)

Author : Lisa Lyons
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892365821
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Departures written by Lisa Lyons and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Lyons, guest curator for Los Angeles's Getty Museum, chronicles a series of commissioned works in an array of media by eleven acclaimed artists in response to objects at the Getty. Fine bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Terry Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613167X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is Contemporary Art? written by Terry Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the question: What is Contemporary Art? Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by a return to mainstream modernism in the work of such artists as Richard Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as the retro-sensationalism of figures like Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. At the same time, Smith reveals, postcolonial artists are engaged in a different kind of practice: one that builds on local concerns and tackles questions of identity, history, and globalization. A younger generation embodies yet a third approach to contemporaneity by investigating time, place, mediation, and ethics through small-scale, closely connective art making. Inviting readers into these diverse yet overlapping art worlds, Smith offers a behind-the-scenes introduction to the institutions, the personalities, the biennials, and of course the works that together are defining the contemporary. The resulting map of where art is now illuminates not only where it has been but also where it is going.