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David Hockney (born 1937 in Bradford) is one of the most influential and technically versatile artists living today. This new publication gathers some of his most defining work from the 1960s to the present, including major works in the Tate collection. From early graphic cycles, double portraits and iconic pool paintings through to his photo collages, plein air landscapes, iPad drawings, and multimedia installations, the volume documents central themes and genres in Hockney's oeuvre, as well as his constant experimentation. Original essays by renowned critics and commentators illuminate the artist's search for new forms of expression, the topographical and biographical reference points of his work, the technical innovation of his painting and printmaking, as well as his approach to new media.

Referencing mythical, historical, literary and spiritual imagery, Horn invokes these bodily concerns with such objects as violins, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes and drawing machines. She is best known for such works as "Pencil Mask" (1972), which looks like an instrument of torture, but which actually transforms the wearer's head into an instrument for drawing.

Daniel Spoerri was a co-signatory of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960, an early member of Fluxus and the author of the classic Anecdoted Topography of Chance, which recorded and annotated the contents of Spoerri's desk. In 1968 Spoerri also opened Restaurant Spoerri, introducing his concept of Eat Art, which he had initiated a decade earlier, and which explored the creation, decay and trapping of food upon tables that were then recapitulated as assemblages. Marking the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday, Daniel Spoerri: Eaten By approaches the theme of food throughout Spoerri's oeuvre, from the early 1960s to the present. It includes the artist's replica of the Restaurant Spoerri, a survey of Spoerri's trap pictures from 1978 to 1992, and a large number of more recent assemblages and sculptures, bringing his audience fully up to date.

Landscape in my Mind ist eine Bilder-Reise durch die Landschaftsräume der aktuellen Kunstfotografie, die internationale Positionen von Hamish Fulton bis Andreas Gursky vereint. Landschaft wird als Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen Mensch und Natur präsentiert, als mentale Projektion unserer Umgebung. Die Kunstwerke fungieren als „verzerrter“ Spiegel der Realität und sind hybride Tableaus zwischen Fiktion und Abstraktion, die den Blick auf die Welt reflektieren. Diese Fotografien, oft „mit der Kamera gemalte Bilder“ im Großformat, strahlen das Selbstbewusstsein der Neuen Fotografie aus. Unschärfe und kompositorische Qualitäten steigern den malerischen Wert der Werke. Künstler wie Elger Esser und Jörg Sasse sehen sich als „Bildermacher“, während bei Thomas Struth eine sachliche Perzeption von Landschaft vorherrscht. Stattdessen erzeugt die Ausstellung beim Betrachter emotionale Empfindungen wie Überwältigung und Melancholie. Die Fotografie wird zum „großen Kino im Kopf“: von waghalsigen Erstbesteigungen bis zu Expeditionen ans Ende der Welt. Die Wahrnehmungsperspektiven wechseln ständig, während einige Künstler Landschaftsfotografie als Erlebnis und Abenteuer inszenieren und digitale Bildcollagen schaffen. Andere, wie Thomas Ruff, entlarven den schönen Schein und zeigen die digitale Information. Die Barth’sche Formel „So ist es gewesen“ löst sich im Spannungsfeld von Manipulation und Fiktion auf, wodurch Landschaftsfotografie als male

This volume gathers Rainer Ganahl's numerous works devoted to Alfred Jarry, the playwright, novelist, avid cyclist and chief theorist of Pataphysics. Ganahl, in whose art bicycles are a recurrent motif, here presents a series of staged photographs of himself with a bike, costumed as Jarry, as well as Jarry-related sculptures and drawings, weaving a semi-fictitious portrait of the great man.