" Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think Me features a collection of critical appraisals of the artist by leading writers. It focuses on one aspect of his work: his preoccupation with the human condition. More than 60 works from 1966 to 2005 are illustrated and discussed, including sculpture, neons, video, performance, installation, and drawing. Naumans fascination with and manipulation of language are examined, as well as his use of the body, be ..."
"Set to accompany the John Piper exhibition at the Tate Liverpool and written by its curator, this book presents a comprehensive examination of the English artist's role as champion of modernism in Britain. John Piper (1903-1992) is renowned for his extraordinarily diverse practice that embraced landscape, architectural and abstract compositions, as well as his theatre and stage sets for Benjamin Britten and his stained-glass windows. Th ..."
"This book contains autobiographies by 12 individuals of Korean descent. However, their background experiences are vastly different. The editor of the book, Ariel Raimundo Choi, was born in Argentina and is still a citizen of Argentina; therefore, he considers himself a Hispanic-Korean-American. Ye One Chung grew up most of her life in Israel, so she considers Israel as her home. She writes a part of her autobiography in modern Hebrew, a ..."
"The stories that Lewis Carroll based around the character of Alice have proved among the most enduring literary creations of all time. For almost 150 years they have led a double life as classics of children's literature and as endlessly fascinating sources of inspiration for all manner of artists, writers, filmmakers and avant-garde figures. Beneath the surface of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Alice through the Looking Glass" ..."
"This important new book addresses a key area of post-colonial studies coined by the British academic Paul Gilroy in 1993 - the notion of 'The Black Atlantic' - and its relation to visual art from 1900 to today. It traces the imaginary and actual journeys of influential artists and intellectuals from North America, the Caribbean and Latin America across the Atlantic to Europe, the reverse direction to that of the slave-ships that carried ..."
"Glenn Brown is one of the most admired painters of his generation. Born in Hexham in 1966, he studied at Norwich School of Art, Bath College of Higher Education and at Goldsmith's College, London. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2000. Borrowing from art history and popular culture, he works from sources that include the paintings of Dali, Auerbach and Rembrandt, as well as the largely unknown artists who create imaginary worl ..."
"In a comprehensive series of consultation workshops groups and individuals from every conceivable background have been asked to share their thoughts, concepts and themes for the kind of exhibition they would like to experience. Tate Liverpool curators together with a range of internationally renowned artists have been reflecting on how these notions might be manifested within the Galleries and constitute an exhibition. Thus "The Fifth F ..."
"Gustav Klimt (18621918) remains one of the most popular and influential artists of the 20th century. His ornate, sensual paintings, often charged with eroticism and embellished with gold, have been reproduced as bestselling posters, cards, and book jackets, familiar to many who know little of the artist who created them. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Liverpool, Gustav Klimt explores the life and work of this unique ..."
"While scholars and critics generally agree that the 1960s signaled the end of high modernism, what is less clear is how to characterize contemporary art since the 1960s. Acclaimed art scholar Jonathan Harris here tackles this question by assembling a rich body of essays, along with an extended interview with renowned feminist art scholar Amelia Jones, that tracks the movements in and issues central to contemporary art practice since thi ..."
"Though the media has often focused exclusively on the shock value and use of horror effects in the work of Dinos and Jake Chapman, the artists have continued to address some of the most pertinent and controversial issues of our time: the endless human capacity for war, genetic manipulation, plastic surgery, cloning; the assumed asexuality and innocence of children; and the instability of moral and ideological belief systems. In this maj ..."
"GOD IS DAD. That was the title of Sarah Lucas's last show in New York, in which the pun-prone artist assembled an array of sculptures constructed from cast concrete forms, tacky beige nylon stockings and random metal objects. These typically abject art pieces fit right into the body of work Lucas has been building since the early 1990s from apparently banal, everyday materials. Old, worn furniture, clothing, food, newspapers, cigarettes ..."
Summer of Love Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s by TateGalleryLiverpool, Dawson Books 378 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-13: 978-1-84631-465-0, ISBN: 1-84631-465-8
"Richard Hamilton's definition of pop art, therefore, could be said to find a
contemporary articulation in Gavin turk's effigy of himself, ... of contemporary
cultural practice it might appear. ln an essay published in the catalogue for the
Los Angeles Environment exhibition, held ... Brillo boxes, Rexall drug store boys'
first basemen's mitts and neon signs in the spirit of anthropologists returning with
tribal masks."
"This catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, focuses on how particular personal and cultural histories come to bear on the practice of painting, resulting in a rich iconography that extends the language of abstraction and figuration in unexpected and inventive ways. The internation list of artists includes: Inka Essenhigh, USA; Fabian Marcaccio, Argentina; Beatriz Milhazes, Brazil; Monique Prieto, Usa; David ..."