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.

Abstract expressionism emerged in the 1940s in America, influenced by Arshile Gorky's innovative work. This movement, the first from the Americas to gain global influence, gave rise to two distinct sub-categories: action painting, represented by artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, and color field painting, popularized by Mark Rothko. Abstract expressionists aimed to convey emotions and ideas directly on canvas through color, form, and texture, embracing accident and chance while celebrating the act of painting itself. Featured artists include William Baziotes, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, David Smith, and others. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series offers a detailed illustrated introduction, a timeline of significant political, cultural, and social events, and a selection of key works from the era. Each artwork is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image, interpretation, and a brief biography of the artist, complemented by approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions.

Dreamlike, fantastic imagery With Salvador Dalí at its mast, the great ship of Surrealism launched off into the wild and turbulent sea of the Roaring Twenties, its sails puffed full of winds blown by Sigmund Freud and André Breton. With dreamlike, fantastic imagery, the Surrealists made great, sensational waves in the art world. The influence of artists such as Dalí, Ernst, and Magritte, on 20th century film, theatre, literature, and thought is inestimable.Featured artists Hans Arp, Brassaï, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, René Magritte, André Masson,, Matta, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Meret Oppenheim, and Yves Tanguy About the Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series

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

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.

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.

Art in the age of digital communication Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht D?rer and his use of the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik's experiments with video in the 1960s. In 1994, the advent of the Internet as a popular medium catalyzed a global art movement that began to explore the cultural, social, and aesthetic possibilities of such new communication technologies as the Web, video surveillance cameras, wireless phones, hand-held computers, and GPS devices. This book addresses New Media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing not only on technologies and forms but also on thematic content and conceptual strategies. New Media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the free sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses the political ramifications of technology around issues of identity, commercialization, privacy, and the public domain. Many New Media artists are profoundly aware of their art historical antecedents, making reference to Dada, Pop Art, Conceptual art, Performance art, and Fluxus. Artists featured: Cory Arcangel, Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Vuk Cosic, Mary Flanagan, Ken Goldberg, Paul Kaiser and Shelly Eshkar, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Mouchette, MTAA, Keith and Mendi Obadike, Radical Software Group, Raqs Media Collective, RTMark, and John F. Simon Jr.

Tracing the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, this guide to conceptual art, includes an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, and its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s, namely the modernist theory of Clement Greenberg and his disciples.

"International Art Galleries is the first book to examine the modern gallery phenomenon, offering over seventy-five portraits of art galleries from around the world. The galleries profiled have represented the finest artists of the last sixty years and have played a key role in defining the artistic zeitgeist. Organized decade-by-decade, each chapter is introduced by a brief historical sketch summarizing the social background of the decade in question. The galleries, which are assigned to the eras in which they enjoyed their greatest influence with the public, are introduced by a factual section detailing their foundation, proprietor, address and the artists represented, followed by a lively illustrated essay." "Lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs of artists, dealers and art world luminaries, this comprehensive history of the modern gallery system offers an intriguing and engaging new slant on the development of art since 1945"--Jacket.

The art of the 1980s and 90s can seem like an impenetrable tangle of isms that are alarmingly diverse and mutually contradictory. In the post-postmodern age, anything and everything goes. The new generation of artists has a penchant for venturing into territory not traditionally associated with high art, and designers, architects and film-makers can be found at the cutting edge. This book offers a broad overview of the international art scene at the end of the twentieth century. Four pages are devoted to each of the 137 artists featured, all of whom are listed alphabetically. Their work is introduced with pithy commentaries and displayed in more than 1,200 illustrations, documenting the latest trends in art. As the millennium draws to a close, this guide suggests directions in which the art of the future might be heading.

Ein Porträt bedeutender Künstlerinnen und ihrer Ausdrucksformen (u.a. Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Meret Oppenheim, Tamara de Lempicka, Yoko Ono, Eva Hesse); reichhaltig illustriert.

Alle Welt redet über chinesische Kunst, denn die Preise für Werke aus dem Reich der Mitte sind in astronomische Höhen geklettert. Zahlreiche Ausstellungen zum Thema China wecken die Neugier, etwas über die Künstler und ihre Arbeiten zu erfahren. Welcher Künstler ist ein moderner Meister, welcher nur eine Eintagsfliege? Schon die Namen der Künstler klingen für hiesige Ohren alle gleich. Die Gemälde, Skulpturen und Fotografien sind zwar ansehnlich, aber was ist nur gutes Kunsthandwerk und was ein echtes Kunstwerk? Diese erste umfassende Übersicht über die aktuelle Kunstszene in China präsentiert die 80 bedeutendsten und einflussreichsten zeitgenössischen Künstler, inklusive der Shootingstars von morgen. Auf jeweils sechs Seiten wird jeder Künstler vorgestellt: mit einem Text von einem international renommierten Kritiker, einem Porträt, einem Zitat, vielen Abbildungen seiner Schlüsselarbeiten sowie einer Auswahl seiner wichtigsten Ausstellungen und Publikationen. • Der erste Standardband zur zeitgenössischen chinesischen Kunst • Dreisprachig: deutsch, englisch, chinesisch Mehr unter: www. china-art-book. de

„Wenn Sie am Puls der aktuellen Kunstszene von heute sein wollen, können Sie natürlich alle Galerien in Chelsea abklappern, ganze Tage in der Tate Modern verbringen, das Centre Pompidou abscannen, jede Biennale besuchen und das Artforum wie eine Bibel lesen. Aber glücklicherweise haben wir das alles für Sie bereits getan. TASCHENs zweiter Band von Art Now hält Sie auf dem Laufenden und informiert Sie über die neuesten Trends und Namen in der Kunstszene.“

Die Fotografie erfindet sich gerade neu. Mit der digitalen Revolution haben sich nicht nur die Aufnahmeverfahren, sondern auch die Ästhetik und die Inszenierung radikal verändert. Zu den Tafelbildern im Monumentalformat, den Fotografien hinter glatt poliertem Plexiglas oder den fein getonten Schwarzweißabzügen sind eigenwillige Präsentationsformen (räumliche Installationen, Layouts, Websites) hinzugekommen, die der Fotografie eine ganz neue Aura verleihen. In diesem Übersichtsband werden auf je vier Bildseiten 120 junge Künstler und Fotografen vorgestellt, die in den letzten Jahren für Furore gesorgt haben. Umfangreiche Bildstrecken und aussagekräftige Texte internationaler Experten dokumentieren diese nie dagewesene Vielschichtigkeit. Ein ausführliches Glossar der wichtigsten technischen und ästhetischen Begriffe macht die Publikation zu einem richtungsweisenden Standardwerk für interessierte Zeitgenossen, Fotografen, Sammler und Freunde der Fotografie und der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Mit Texten von Paolo Bianchi, Reinhard Braun, David Brittain, Florian Ebner, Erik Eelbode, Roy Exley, Felix Hoffmann, Barbara Hofmann-Johnson, Karen Irvine, Martin Jaeggi, Sarah Lewis, Jan-Erik Lundström, Nadine Olonetzky, Johan Sjöström, Rik Suermondt, Ossian Ward, Grant Watson

Overzicht in woord en beeld van de verschillende kunstvormen die 56 vrouwelijke kunstenaars in de 20e eeuw hebben voortgebracht.

Přehled významných žen v umění 20. a 21. století. Každé umělkyni jsou věnovány zhruba čtyři stránky s údaji o tvorbě a s ukázkou z děl.

Der Kubismus, der u. a. von Picasso und Braque begründet wurde, gilt manchen als erste Avantgarde-Bewegung der Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert. Von afrikanischer und indianischer Kunst inspiriert, dekonstruierten seine Anhänger die europäischen Konventionen von Form und Perspektive und schufen zweidimensionale, fragmentierte und revolutionäre Bilder. Picassos berühmtes Gemälde Les Demoiselle d’Avignon mit seiner radikalen Fragmentierung von Gegenständen und Figuren, die unterschiedliche Blickwinkel wiedergeben, gilt als das ursprüngliche kubistische Werk schlechthin. Danach bildete der Kubismus zwei unterschiedliche Richtungen aus: den Analytischen Kubismus, der weiterhin perspektivische Ebenen in den Farben Schwarz, Grau und Ocker miteinander verwob, und den späteren Synthetischen Kubismus, der von einfacheren Formen, strahlenderen Farben und Collage-Elementen wie Zeitungsfetzen geprägt war. Dieses Buch stellt Werke der Hauptvertreter des Kubismus vor, darunter Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes und Robert Delaunay.

Inspired by the development of Cubism, the Futurist movement was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini. The school, which celebrated technology and the mechanical era, was comprised of painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers.