"During the 1940s and 1950s, the Affichistes appeared in Paris with a new andrevolutionary artistic format: the tearing down of posters. In the resulting lootedrandom images, they created a radical contradiction to the dominant abstractpainting of the postwar period. This catalog, accompanying the exhibition byMuseum Tinguely and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, provides a comprehensivelook at activities spanning two decades (1948-68) by ..."
"The exhibition and book bring together about 200 pieces from Gauri Gill's pivotal series like the long-term project Notes from the Desert. A particular focus is on Gill's collaborative approach and her work with artists from rural regions."
"This book features about 25 of Ryggen's signature tapestries including Etiopia (Ethiopia), Drommedod (Death of Dreams), and Vi lever pa en stjerne (We Are Living on a Star)."
Rosa Barba Blind Volumes (English and German Edition) by EstherSchlicht, Rosa Barba Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2017 by Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst ISBN-13: 978-3-903153-22-6, ISBN: 3-903153-22-2
"Her sculptural objects and spatial interventions both examine cinematic aspects and move in a field between material and immaterial presence.Rosa Barba's cinematic - sculptural oeuvre has been presented internationally in numerous solo and ..."
Hannah Ryggen(1st Edition) Woven Manifestos by Marit Paasche, EstherSchlicht Hardcover, 132 Pages, Published 2020 by Prestel Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5926-7, ISBN: 3-7913-5926-6
"Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) was a Swedish-Norwegian modern artist who began her career as a painter before switching to creating political art in the form of monumental tapestries. Combining the decorative and the political, Ryggen was ahead of her time with her turn to "political weaving." She was also a feminist with strong communist sympathies involved in the international workers' movement. Her dramatic, beautiful tapestries were show ..."
"In Zeiten, in denen die weißen Flecken auf den Landkarten weitgehend verschwunden sind, kehrt die "Wildnis" zurück in die Kunst. Die Expedition als künstlerisches Medium, Visionen einer posthumanen Welt oder die Neuverhandlung des Verhältnisses von Mensch und Tier prägen die Werke vieler zeitgenössischer Künstler. Die Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt widmet dieser wiederkehrenden Faszination eine umfassende Themenausstellung. Seit Beginn der ..."
"Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle FrankfurtGebundenes BuchZwei Künstler, zwei Generationen mit denkbar unterschiedlicher HerkunftIn einer umfassenden Ausstellung widmet sich die Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt den überraschenden und bislang nicht beachteten Verbindungen im Werk von Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) und Bruce Nauman ( 1941). Zeichnungen, Fotografien, Videos, Skulpturen und raumgreifende Installationen des US-amerikanischen Multimediakünst ..."
"Von Manet bis Kippenberger. Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung in Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2013Gebundenes BuchBerühmte Alterswerke wie die späten Seerosenbilder von Claude Monet oder die Gemälde der 1980er Jahre von Willem de Kooning sind ebenso Gegenstand der Betrachtung wie die 1949 entstandenen, radikal reduzierten Punkte-Bilder von Francis Picabia oder die Wolkenbilder der fast 80-jährigen Georgia O'Keeffe, die in de ..."
"For the last 50 years, Erró has been creating paintings that make equal use of art history, cartoons, comic books, politics, popular culture and social tableaux. This publication features Erró's series "Scapes," and for the first time, presents the entire 1968 "Monster" cycle--double portraits that contrast the official likenesses of celebrities with monstrously distorted visages."
"The Rent Collection Courtyard , a sculpture group founded in 1965 by teachers and students of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in Chongqing, created a work of 100 life-sized characters that count as major works in China's modern art history and are firmly anchored in China's collective consciousness. In a dramatic sequence of scenes, which brings together traditional Chinese, Soviet and Western representational elements, the sculpture ..."
""Zelluloid" focuses on films in which no camera is used: instead, the image is generated by physically manipulating the filmstrip. "Zelluloid" features examples of cameraless works by Brakhage alongside films by Tony Conrad, Amy Granat, Hy Hirsch, Takahiko Iimura, Len Lye, Luis Recoder, Jennifer Reeves, Dieter Roth, Harry Smith and others."