Sally O'Reilly writes about contemporary art with a keen awareness of debates in science, politics, and critical theory. Her work demonstrates insightful analysis and engagement with the art world, offering readers a rich perspective. O'Reilly brings expertise from diverse fields to her writing, enriching her critical commentary. Her prose is direct and informative, making her a valued voice in art criticism.
Featuring work across a range of media, from painting and sculpture to installation, video art and performance, this book examines the different roles played by the body in art, from being the subject of portraiture to becoming an active presence in live and participatory events.
In the boldest imagining of the era since Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth, this spellbinding novel of witchcraft, poetry and passion, brings to life Aemilia Lanyer, the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's Sonnets - the playwright's muse and his one true love.
Simon my big self decoy justin beiber brings together a significant new body of painted drawings by the artist that format themselves around the double page spread, with both image and text on the page to invite and resist quiet contemplation. These exquisitely delicate and brutal drawings tussle with one another for space, pulling the viewer into the energetic and colourful vortexof the artist’s psyche. Diaries jostle with devotions, desires and disputes―a confabulation of friction and fiction in a place where fetish and fact collide.Simon English draws across the blank page with the instincts of one entering cyberspace. His surfing history is left only too clear on the surface of the page, or buried beneath heavy black deletions and overpainting. His are the ‘old’ gremlins, the monsters within that say one is too much and more is never enough. In 2004, Bill Arning wrote that “for picture addicts like myself, English is the equivalent of a crack dealer”.,br>The work within the book is brought together with written contributions from Laurence Scott, who will contribute a text emanating from English’s imaginary drawing database, and Sally O’Reilly, who will construct a voice for the work somewhere between art, theory, fiction and fantasy.
Der Körper bietet Künstlern als Schnittstelle zur Welt seit jeher ein enormes Potenzial. Seine Präsenz in der Kunst reicht von bloßer Repräsentation bis zum Hervortreten als aktiver Teilnehmer. Der dritte Band der Reihe 'dkv kunst kompakt' gibt einen gut strukturierten Einblick in die Vielfalt des künstlerischen Umgangs mit dem Körper in so unterschiedlichen Medien wie der Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Videokunst und Performance. Sally O’Reilly stellt zahlreiche Arbeiten bekannter wie aufstrebender zeitgenössischer Künstler vor und veranschaulicht dabei eindrücklich den tiefgreifenden Einfluss gesellschaftlicher und psychologischer Prozesse auf die Darstellung der menschlichen Gestalt in der Gegenwartskunst.