At the end of the nineteenth century, as a member of the avant garde Nabis group, Pierre Bonnard actively participated in the construction of aesthetic modernity. His painting proposed new, radical formulas for transforming space and narrative as he advocated for art that embraced all techniques and challenged the traditional hierarchy of genres. Elegantly packaged, and filled with large, full-colour, high quality reproductions this volume covers every facet of Bonnard's creative work.
Réédité ici en format compact, ce livre de Norbert Wolf présente les gravures et les peintures les plus célèbres de ce génie de la Renaissance allemande. De nombreux détails sont aussi reproduits et l'ouvrage comprend un catalogue raisonné de ses peintures.
Helmut Newton was in his sixties and already a well-established photographer when he and his wife moved to the French Riviera. At an age when many people would consider retirement, Newton instead plunged headfirst into one of the most prolific and liberating stages of his career.
The city of Monaco was the perfect backdrop for his fashion photography, and it also provided him with a wealth of subjects for his famous portraits, including the stars of the Ballet de Monte-Carlo and the Princely Family. And it was in Monaco that Newton finally tried his hand at landscapes. While this volume focuses primarily on the years 1981 to 2004, it also looks at Newton's historic links with the Cote d'Azur and the area around Bordighera, Italy. There are essays by a range of experts in photography, film, and art and three interviews, including one with Paloma Picasso.
In these remarkable photographs readers will discover the French Riviera through Newton's fascinated, slightly ironic lens: a way of life characterized by ease and elegance; a world dominated by appearance and superficiality; and a veritable living theater, in which he was both actor and privileged member of the audience.
Photographer Anders Petersen was hanging out at a dive bar on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in 1968 when someone grabbed his camera from the table where he was sitting and started taking pictures. Petersen used the opportunity to photograph the culprit-and the rest of the bar's motley crew of patrons.
The resulting project is one of the most revered photobooks of all time, a celebration of a gritty city at the tail end of the sixties, and the cornerstone of Petersen's storied career. The images have become classics of their genre; Tom Waits used one for the cover of his legendary album Rain Dogs. Their candidness and authenticity remain as eloquent today as when they were first published in 1978.
This sumptuously produced reissue features a new foreword by Waits, and is certain to find a new audience, who will appreciate the stunning analog photography and its elegiac collective portrait of the fringes of society.
This captivating glimpse of real-life mid- century fashion features vintage color photographs taken by amateurs from the past seventy years.
In 2017 filmmaker Lee Shulman bought a random box of Kodachrome slides and was so taken by the people and stories he discovered that he decided to create an ongoing archive, which he has called The Anonymous Project.
Haas' most cherished and personal project originally conceived as an audiovisual slideshow is recreated here in stunning color that will delight his numerous fans as well as anyone interested in Kodachrome photography.
Three decades after its completion, Haas' most personal and least-known project is now available for the first time in this exquisitely produced book. Presented in a clean and spare design, this volume features reproductions of superb quality that allow readers to appreciate his mastery of color, light, and composition, and his ability to capture the mystery of daily life.
For this collection Haas drew on images made in all phases of his career from 1952 to 1984, and, despite the title, most of these photographs are not abstract but rather clear, focused, well-exposed images of recognizable surfaces from the observable world around him: crumbling paint, graphic road markings, fabric, liquids, detritus, decay, and torn posters. David Campany's eloquent introductory essay lays the groundwork for a deep appreciation of the slideshow which, in book form, can be savored and understood in an entirely new way.
En 1952, le magazine américain Life demande à Ernst Haas de travailler en couleur sur New York, alors que le photographe expérimente depuis quelques temps déjà avec cette nouveauté encore très difficile à manier techniquement. Il photographie alors la ville dont il a rêvé quand il était jeune garçon, subissant le trauma de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale dans une famille juive autrichienne. Ces images, rassemblées dans ce livre, marqueront tout une génération de photographes amateurs et contribueront à faire changer la perception de la couleur en photographie.
Widely considered Japan's most influential and prolific photographer, Daido Moriyama has been challenging conventions of the art form for more than a half century. This exhaustive and electrifying retrospective, published in cooperation with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and based on entirely new research, looks at every stage of Moriyama's extensive career, including his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography.
One of a generation of postwar Japan's groundbreaking artists, Moriyama has continually established his own visual grammar.
This book features more than 250 chronologically arranged images that reveal his constantly evolving career: his early editorial work of the mid-1960s, focused on the American occupation and the experimental theater; his radical experimentation of late 1960s and the 1970s; the self-reflexive photos of the 1980s and 1990s; and his ongoing exploration of cities, among other relevant moments. It also includes more than 400 spread reproductions of Moriyama's rarely seen publications, mapping the sources of his visual production.
Rounding out the volume are texts by the editor and leading Japanese scholars, a personal essay by the artist, and a full chronology of his life and work.
Accompanying a major exhibition on Moriyama's output, this impressive volume reframes Moriyama's legacy and is certain to become the definitive publication on his work.
Publié pour la première fois en 1904 par le biologiste, philosophe et libre penseur Ernst Haeckel, Formes Artistiques de la nature regroupe 100 planches qui célèbrent la beauté de la nature.
The most wide-ranging and up-to-date volume available on the enigmatic and controversial graffiti artist, this deeply researched and highly personal tribute explores how Banksy continues to defy accepted wisdom about artistic success, growing only more famous and powerful even as he sticks to his anti-establishment platform and to his mission to give a voice to the voiceless.
Accompanied by stunning full-page, full-color reproductions and photographs of works in situ-including many that have been lost to time -photographer and street art expert Alessandra Mattanza's impassioned and informed text follows Banksy's career trajectory from creator of message-laden stencils on London's city walls to a sought-after champion of human and environmental rights. She investigates many of the key images that populate Banksy's work-animals, children, historic figures, balloons, cartoon characters, police officers, and others. She shows how Banksy's oeuvre has expanded beyond graffiti and stenciling and how his art has helped support his activism in a variety of causes-from calls for peace in the Middle East to the preservation of the natural environment. Best of all she helps readers make sense of the rather unusual path Banksy has chosen-an artist who uses his global platform to raise awareness about the underserved, rather than to his own celebrity. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how Banksy helped transform an illegal act of criminal damage into a high art form, and how, by ridiculing institutionalized art, he has achieved enormous fame within those very institutions.
Ce livre présente de nombreux dessins dont certains inédits de Paula Modersohn-Becker représentant des hommes, des femmes et des enfants confrontés à la pauvreté, ainsi que ses peintures de figures et de nus, y compris ses autoportraits. Accompagnant la première exposition muséale de l'oeuvre de Modersohn-Becker aux États-Unis, cette publication révèle le travail profondément personnel et authentique d'une artiste qui a résolument tracé sa propre voie.
This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition.
In particular, plants are often endowed with an allegorical meaning. Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele's landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject matter. His portrayal of nature and his rendering of towns and trees epitomize the life cycle and the human condition.
This catalogue, accompanying a spectacular exhibition on view at the Neue Galerie New York, will investigate the importance of landscape in the artist's work. The contributing authors are internationally distinguished experts on Schiele's landscapes and representatives of museums and universities in Europe and the United States.
For eight years before the First World War, a young Georges Braque and his friend Pablo Picasso shaped what was perhaps the most revolutionary stage in the history of modern painting: Cubism. This catalog of the accompanying exhibition focuses on Braque's turbulent pre-WWI period to reveal the processes by which the artist developed or reinvented his style in rapid succession- from Fauvism, Proto-Cubism, Analytical Cubism, papier colle to Synthetic Cubism. The amazing speed and intensity of Braque's evolution stands as a remarkable parallel to modern art's shifting focus from representation to abstraction. Bringing together sixty works from museums and private collections around the world, this book offers scholarly assessments that contextualise Braque's career amidst unprecedented technological advances, new schools of thought, and an overall acceleration of everyday life in Western Europe. This includes the invention of moving pictures, which held a particular fascination for the young artist. Film stills and documentary and archival material help readers make the connection between dynamization and the development of aesthetic forms in the visual arts, between the visual innovations of the pre-war period and the flood of media images in which we live today. More than half a century after Braque's death, this exploration of his remarkable career brings us closer to understanding the artist whom Guillaume Apollinaire considered the "touchstone" of Cubist art.
Depuis plus de 150 ans, le marché aux puces de Paris est un haut lieu pour les designers et les collectionneurs du monde entier. Un village au sein d'un village, ses ruelles animées et ses coins cachés abritent plus de deux mille stands qui offrent une vraie leçon d'histoire de l'art, d'artisanat et de design. Ce livre dresse le portrait d'une vingtaine de négociants clés du marché, invitant les lecteurs dans leurs univers et révélant les rouages cachés de leur métier. Les doubles pages dynamiques plongent les lecteurs dans ce monde peu connu. Avec un savoir-faire et des spécialités allant du milieu du siècle moderne et Art déco, à Memphis Milano et Louis XVI, ces antiquaires et brocanteurs animent la profusion riche et éclectique du marché, préservant non seulement l'histoire des arts décoratifs, mais aussi de façonner les futures tendances du design.
The photographer behind Life magazine's first ever all-color photographic essay, Ernst Haas made-and captured-history as an early adopter of Kodachrome film.
The Austrian-born artist had already established himself as a black and white photographer when he moved to America in 1951. But as a member of the renowned Magnum agency, he transformed the genre with his color-saturated images, the perfect medium for capturing America's geographic and cultural landscapes. From desert storms, Route 66 gas stations, and Las Vegas neon to rolling prairie, dilapidated farms, small-town parades, and city sidewalks, Haas' perfectly composed images, contain a distinct pictorial language, suffused with poetry, pattern, and light. At the same time his pictures communicate a journalist's point of view, whether the subject is rural poverty, suburban comfort, or the myth of the American West.
This remarkable book offers a vision of America that feels both poignantly distant and reassuringly familiar.
Faisant suite à leur projet à succès The Ruines of Detroit, ce nouveau travail du prolifique duo de photographes français Yves Marchand et Romain Meffre célèbre de manière poignante les restes en lambeaux de centaines de salles de cinéma à travers l'Amérique. À l'aide d'un appareil photo grand format, les images soigneusement composées des photographes capturent la riche diversité architecturale de ces salles de spectacle. Présenté ici dans un magnifique grand format, cet éloge illustré des palais américains du cinéma deviendra certainement un classique des temps modernes.
Gregory Crewdson (*1962, Brooklyn) est l'un des photographes les plus renommés au monde. Depuis le milieu des années 1980, Crewdson utilise le décor des petites villes américaines et des plateaux de tournage pour créer, tel un réalisateur, des photographies techniquement brillantes et colorées séduisantes qui se concentrent sur l'isolement humain et les abîmes de la société. Les scènes énigmatiques soulèvent de manière auto-réflexive des questions sur la frontière entre réalité et fiction, mais peuvent également être liées à des développements sociopolitiques. La rétrospective de l'ALBERTINA comprend au total neuf groupes d'oeuvres, créés au cours des trois dernières décennies et demie et conçus en série. En commençant par ses premiers travaux (1986-1988), l'exposition comprend les séries les plus connues de Crewdson telles que Twilight (1998-2002), qui dépeint des scènes façonnées par le langage cinématographique, dans lesquelles des personnes sont confrontées à des phénomènes inexplicables dans leur vie quotidienne. Les scènes impressionnantes et mystérieuses à grande échelle de la série Beneath the Roses (2003-2008) traitent de l'isolement et de l'aliénation des gens par rapport à leur environnement. Le groupe d'oeuvres le plus récemment achevé, Eveningside (2021-2022), dépeint une image non héroïque d'une petite ville fictive du même nom en noir et blanc atmosphérique. Après Cathedral of the Pines (2013-2014) et An Eclipse of Moths (2018-2019), Eveningside représente le dernier volet d'une trilogie à travers laquelle l'artiste interroge le déclin social d'une société très éloignée du rêve américain.
If you were a graffiti writer in 1980s New York City, you wanted Martha Cooper to document your work-and she probably did. Cooper has spent decades immortalizing art that is often overlooked, and usually illegal. Her first book, 1984's Subway Art (a collaboration with Henry Chalfant), is affectionately referred to by graffiti artists as the "bible". To create Spray Nation, Cooper and editor Roger Gastman pored through hundreds of thousands of 35mm Kodachrome slides, painstakingly selecting and digitizing them. The photos range from obscure tags to intimate portraits, action shots, walls, and subway cars painted inside and out. They are accompanied by heartfelt essays celebrating Cooper's drive, spirit, and singular vision. The images capture a gritty New York era that is gone forever. And although the original pieces (as well as many of their creators) have been lost, these resplendent photos feel as immediate and powerful as a subway train thundering down the tracks.
World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Hoech was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement - the riotous form of art that deconstructed sound, language, and images to re-assemble them into new objects, texts and meanings. Hoech was a pivotal force in the development of collage, paving the way for today's ubiquitous image editing techniques. A determined believer in women's rights, Hoech questioned conventional concepts of partnership, beauty and the making of art, her work presenting acute critiques of racial and social stereotypes, particularly that of her native Germany.
Focusing on Hoech's collages, this book examines the artist's career from the 1920s to the 1970s, charting her oeuvre from early works influenced by fashion and mass media, through to her later compositions of lyrical abstraction. It reveals her rapid development of a personal style, which was both humorous and often moving, but also offered critical commentary on society at a time of tremendous social change. Included are essays that examine themes such as the concept of the "New Woman" and the legacy of German colonialism. Featuring international scholarship on a groundbreaking artist, this volume brings together important source texts and reference material, which were first translated into English for the original edition of this book.
Tailored for design enthusiasts, this visually striking volume captures how Arne Jacobsen fused architecture and design to redefine modern living.
Best known for his sculptural Egg, Swan, and Series 7 chairs, Arne Jacobsen was far more than a furniture designer--he was a modernist whose belief in total design shaped every aspect of the built environment.
His influence defined the clean, functional aesthetic of Scandinavian design, from architecture and interiors to lighting, textiles, and tableware,
Après quelques années passées à étudier la mode, Viviane Sassen se tourne rapidement vers la photographie où elle se forme à la Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Dès la fin de ses études, elle alterne entre projets personnels et commandes commerciales. Son style photographique - aux couleurs intenses, aux jeux graphiques sur l'ombre et la lumière ainsi que le regard singulier qu'elle porte sur les corps - est rapidement plébiscité. Sassen acquiert une renommée internationale, aussi bien dans la sphère de la mode qu'au sein des institutions culturelles. Un ouvrage de plus de 400 pages, mêlant essais et photographies, sera publié à l'occasion de cette exposition aux éditions Prestel et en collaboration avec la MEP. La conception du livre est assurée par la graphiste néerlandaise Irma Boom.
L'un des plus grands peintres flamands du XVe siècle, Dieric Bouts était un maître en matière de composition, de précision technique et de représentations à caractère spirituel. Mais, comme le suggère ce catalogue d'exposition novateur, il était également un artiste commercial avisé, obtenant avec succès d'importantes commandes et transmettant de manière experte sa dévotion religieuse. Rempli de nouvelles perspectives éclairées par les dernières recherches, ce volume explore comment la carrière de Bouts a été influencée par l'environnement culturel et politique de sa ville natale de Louvain. Riche en illustrations et photographies des peintures et retables les plus importants de Bouts, l'ouvrage analyse de façon détaillée certaines de ses oeuvres plus importantes, notamment La Cène, Le Triptyque de la Descente de Croix, Le Martyre de saint Érasme avec les saints Jérôme et Bernard et le Christ couronné d'épines.
A l'occasion de son 100e anniversaire, le Musée ALBERTINA célèbre le maître du Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997, New York), avec une rétrospective complète qui rassemble plus de 90 peintures, sculptures et gravures.
