Uta Grosenick Books

AN OVERVIEW OF THE MOST TALENTED WOMEN ARTISTS WORKING TODAY.

This is a collection of photographs examining contemporary Japanese society. The photographer, Paul Graham, identifies a collective amnesia in Japan which, 50 years after the end of World War II, obscures the memory of total defeat and unconditional surrender. Simultaneously, the book recognizes the cloud of benevolence masking the true source of political power.

Der Abstrakte Expressionismus betrachtet den ungegenständlichen Einsatz von Farbe als Mittel des persönlichen Ausdrucks. Die erste amerikanische Kunstbewegung, die einen weltweiten Einfluss ausübte, entstand in den 1940er-Jahren. Zu ihren Protagonisten gehörten Jackson Pollock , Philip Guston , Robert Motherwell , Mark Rothko und Willem de Kooning . Aus dem Abstrakten Expressionismus gingen viele verschiedene Stilrichtungen hervor, aber zwei machten besonders Furore: das von de Kooning und Pollock praktizierte Action Painting und die Farbfeldmalerei, die vor allem durch Rothko berühmt wurde. Alle Abstrakten Expressionisten wollten Emotionen und Ideen durch Markierungen , Formen, Texturen, Farbschattierungen und die Art des Pinselstrichs transportieren. Sie bevorzugten großformatige Leinwände und räumten dem Zufall in der Entstehung ihrer Kunst eine wichtige Rolle ein. Dieses Buch präsentiert Arbeiten der 20 wichtigsten Abstrakten Expressionisten und stellt die Bewegung vor, die das Zentrum der Kunstwelt von Paris nach New York verlagerte und für viele nach wie vor den Höhepunkt amerikanischer Kunst repräsentiert.

Detailed introduction to Dadaism with 30 photographs plus timeline of most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events. Body of book contains 35 of most important works of epoch with interpretationand artist biography.

With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, Surrealism's mysterious, dream-like imagery made sensational waves in the art world. This work highlights the movement's style and influence on 20th-century culture.

Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging with colorful and often comical works. Pop Art's profound influence on contemporary art and culture remains prominent today. Nowhere else can you find so much Pop Art in such a compact, stylish book!

Land of The earth as canvas In the mid-60s, artists in the USA and Europe began planning works for sites outside the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums. It began with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in the deserts of America, or in the moors of Scotland. Following this were spectacular earthen sculptures of gigantic proportions, some of which are still in the process of completion today. One distinguishing feature of Land Art is its critical preoccupation with the tradition of sculpture. Sculpture can now be an earthwork excavation, a field of metal poles, a buried hut, a trace in the grass, or even a book. Another of the movement’s special characteristics is its emphasis on site-specific, outdoor works intended to lastingly alter our perception of places, and to set new parameters in art production and reception. Artists Carl Andre, Alice Aycock, Herbert Bayer, Christo & Jeanne Claude, Walter De Maria, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Peter Hutchinson, Patricia Johanson, Dani Karavan, Richard Long, Mary Miss, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles Ross, Robert Smithson, Alan Sonfist, James Turrell About the Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series

Founded as a backlash against abstract expressionism, minimalism was characterized by simplified, stripped-down forms and materials used to express ideas in a direct and impersonal manner. By presenting objects as simple objects, minimal artists sought to communicate without referring to expressive or historical themes. This critical movement, which began in the 1960s and branched out into land art, performance art, and conceptual art, is still a major influence today. Featured artists: Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Ronald Bladen, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Robert Grosvenor, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Gary Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Anne Truitt.

Packed into a pocket-sized book is a concise selection of art from the last two decades of the 20th century, culled from the Taschen title 'Art at the Turn of the Millennium'. Two pages, with illustrations and biographical/bibliographical information, are devoted to each artist.

This lavishly illustrated, accessible survey presents the work of nearly 120 international artists at the forefront of the boom in photography, among them Elina Brotherus, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Alec Soth, Jens Ullrich and Michael Wesely. Each artist is introduced by a brief essay, followed by four pages of their superbly reproduced work. This is a valuable and forward-looking reference book for photographers, collectors and photography lovers everywhere.