Published to accompany the John Piper exhibition at Tate Liverpool and written by its curator, this book presents an examination of the artist's role as champion of modernism in Britain. The book contains works by Piper including painting, relief, collage and photography and also presents comparative works and information compiling over 70 images.
The Belgian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker René Magritte (1898–1967) was one of the leading figures in the Surrealist movement, producing some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. His trademark flat, inexpressive manner, combining apparently mundane, everyday scenes with elements of the fantastic or erotic, created a disturbing, dreamlike atmosphere that is all his own. He remained faithful to Surrealism throughout his career and developed a vocabulary of symbols—floating rocks, bowler-hatted men carrying umbrellas, incongruous nudes, concealed or shrouded faces—that is among the most recognizable in modern painting. This book explores the full scope of Magritte’s work through the format of an A to Z, fully illustrated in color, with entries written by a range of international scholars. The entries under the letter A alone—Absence, Abstraction, Appropriation, Anonymity, Artifice, Automatism, and Automatic Writing—show how this approach reveals and explores the themes and motivations in this most enigmatic artist’s work.
‚Glam’ entstand in den frühen 1970er Jahren und ist bis heute eines der unverkennbarsten und von der Kritik zugleich missachteten Stilphänomene der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Vor allem bekannt durch die Musik dieser Ära ist der Stil mit seiner Nähe zu Theatralik, Künstlichkeit, Mythologisierung und Androgynie auch in anderen Kunstformen zu finden. Den renommierten Autoren dient Glam als ein Prisma, durch das sie die Kunst, Musik und Mode der Zeit analysieren und neues Licht auf die Extravaganz dieser Periode werfen. Die Publikation bietet einen detaillierten Einblick in die Kunst und Performance und legt offen, wie Ideen der bildenden Kunst an vorderster Front der Populärkultur Einzug hielten. Künstler u. a.: BENGLIS, Lynda BOURDIN, Guy BYARS, James Lee CHAIMOWICZ, Marc Camille GENERAL IDEA GERTSCH, Franz GOLDIN, Nan GOLDSTEIN, Jack HAMILTON, Richard HARRISON, Margaret HUJAR, Peter JARMAN, Derek JONES, Allen KLAUKE, Jürgen MCLEAN, Bruce MCMANUS, John POLKE, Sigmar SHERMAN, Cindy SIEVERDING, Katharina WARHOL, Andy