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Through clothing, we celebrate or suppress identity, indicate allegiances and communicate our positions, aspirations and desires. Little wonder, then, that so many contemporary artists are invested in exploring the role of clothing in the construction of self and society. Aware: Art Fashion Identity reflects on these artists and their work, and what it says about our physical covering and our constructed personal environments. Essayists Gabi Scardi, Lucy Orta and Joanne Entwistle consider issues of belonging, nationality, displacement and political and social confrontation in the artwork of Yinka Shonibare, Sharif Waked, Alicia Framis, Meschac Gaba, Dai Rees and Vito Acconci. Personal accounts of the role of clothing are drawn out through the work of Helen Storey, Marie-Ange Guilleminot and Claudia Losi, while the art and designs of Hussein Chalayan, Gillian Wearing and Andreas Gursky offer a platform for a discussion of the connection between fashion, clothing and performance.

Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu, along with top photographers Mary Ellen Mark, Patrick Bard, Graciela Iturbide, and Miguel Rio Branco, bring together their highly perceptive visions on cultural diversity in a book that combines seductive images and firsthand remarks on the unique experience of shooting Babel. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, the film is the third in the director’s trilogy started by Amores Perros and 21 Grams.

Shot in Morocco, Tijuana, and Tokyo, and involving a multilingual cast lead by Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, and Koji Yakusho, as well non-professional actors from the three countries portrayed, Babel continues the director’s quest to explore the effects of loss and grief, and seeks to relate the modern implications of ancient myth on the origins of human inability to successfully communicate.

This book is a visual recollection of the parallel stories and real-life characters that revolved around the making of Babel, and the unexpected ways in which fiction and reality collide. Photographs both from the set and the surrounding disparate landscapes are paired with the director’s personal commentary on the larger-than-life film shoot. Introduced with essays by novelist and poet Eliseo Alberto and Gonzalez Iñárritu, as well as an interview with the director by Rodrigo García, the result is an engaging book that both complements Babel's powerful statement on the barrier of language, and reveals the fascinating reality of the people and places that inspired the film.

The director: Born in Mexico City in 1963, Alejandro González Iñárritu studied filmmaking and theater and composed music for Mexican features before directing and producing his debut feature film, Amores Perros (2000), which was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film and received over 53 awards from all over the world, including BAFTAs, the Golden Globes, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Edinburgh, San Sebastian, and Toronto. Iñárritu’s follow-up film, 21 Grams (2003), which he directed, co-wrote, and produced, starred Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, and Naomi Watts. Both Del Toro and Watts received Oscar nominations for their roles in the film and Penn won the Jury Prize for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. Babel, which will be released worldwide in November 2006, garnered the Best Director Prize at the 59th Cannes Film Festival. Iñárritu lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos that lies within and struggling with all that is inexplicable. Erotic and grotesquely beautiful is the work of this legendary painter whose haunting, distorted figures have inspired entire generations of painters who seek to emulate his highly original style.

The author:
Luigi Ficacci studied Art History in Rome under Giulio Carlo Argan. He is curator at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome and lectures at different Italian universities. The focal points of his research work are the issues raised by 17th and 18th century and contemporary Italian art.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

* a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
* approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
* a concise biography

Форми почуттів. Людське тіло в стражданнях

Френсіс Бекон (1909–1992), значною мірою самоучка як художник, розвинув унікальну здатність перетворювати внутрішні та несвідомі імпульси на фігуративні форми та надзвичайно клаустрофобні композиції.

Здобувши популярність у період після Другої світової війни, Бекон обрав людське тіло як номінальний об'єкт свого зображення, але об'єкт, спустошений, спотворений та розчленований, щоб корчитися та голосити від інтенсивного емоційного змісту. З розмахуючими кінцівками, порожнечами та пухлиноподібними наростами, його захопливі, часто гротескні портрети є стільки ж роздумами про випробування та травми людського існування, скільки й дослідженнями характеру. Ці нав'язливі форми також були одними з перших в історії мистецтва, що зображували відверто гомосексуальні теми.

Ця книга знайомить з еротичним, тривожним, незабутнім доробком Бекона, трансформаційним корпусом робіт, який часто наслідують, багато аналізують і, перш за все, відчувають.

Про серію:

Кожна книга із серії Basic Art видавництва TASCHEN містить:

- детальний хронологічний виклад життя та творчості митця, що охоплює його культурне та історичне значення
- стислу біографію
- приблизно 100 ілюстрацій із пояснювальними підписами

Марина Абрамович, яка народилася в Белграді в 1946 році, була піонеркою у використанні перформансу як форми візуального мистецтва. Тіло завжди було для неї одночасно об'єктом і середовищем. Досліджуючи фізичні та ментальні межі свого буття, вона протистояла болю, виснаженню та небезпеці в пошуках емоційної та духовної трансформації. Абрамович займається створенням робіт, що ритуалізують прості дії повсякденного життя, такі як лежання, сидіння, мрії та мислення – кожна з яких фактично є проявом унікального психічного стану. Як важливий член покоління новаторів-перформансистів, до якого належать Брюс Науман, Віто Аккончі та Кріс Берден, Абрамович створила одні з найважливіших історично ранніх перформансів і є єдиною, хто досі створює важливі роботи тривалого характеру.

Повернувшись із серії перформансів під назвою «Сім легких п'єс», що відбулася в листопаді в нью-йоркському музеї Гуггенхайма, Марина Абрамович представляє свою нову роботу «Балканський еротичний епос». Художник описує це так: «Балканський еротичний епос базується на моєму дослідженні балканської народної культури та використання в ній еротики. Через еротику людина намагається зрівнятися з богами. У фольклорі жінка, яка виходить заміж за сонце, або чоловік, який одружується з місяцем, має зберегти таємницю творчої енергії та зв'язатися через еротику з незнищенними космічними енергіями. Люди вірили, що в еротичній енергії є щось надлюдське, що походить не від [них], а від вищих сил. Непристойні предмети та чоловічі й жіночі статеві органи відігравали дуже важливу функцію в обрядах родючості та сільськогосподарських обрядах балканських селян. Вони використовувалися дуже відверто для різних цілей. Жінки в ритуалах відкрито демонстрували свої вагіни, сідниці, груди та менструальну кров. Чоловіки в ритуалах відкрито демонстрували свої сідниці та пеніси в актах мастурбації та еякуляції».

Монографія, каталог виставки, що проходила в міланському ангарі Bicocca Hangar, представляє шість робіт художника, якого міжнародні критики вважають одним із видатних художників нашого часу: новий «Балканський еротичний епос» разом із п’ятьма іншими відеоінсталяціями: «Балканське бароко» (надзвичайний перформанс/інсталяція, представлений та нагороджений премією «Золотий леоне» на Венеційській бієнале 1997 року), «Герой», «Розраховуйте на нас», «Урна Тесли» та «Оголена зі скелетом».

Книга, що починається з тексту Аделіни фон Фюрстенберг, містить есе Фульвіо Сальвадорі та Стівена Генрі Медоффа, а також опис робіт, розмову про «Балканський еротичний епос» між Фредріком Карлстрьомом та Мариною Абрамович, а також інтерв’ю з художником, проведене Жанетт Фішер.

After four years of collaboration with choreographer Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet, Swiss portrait photographer Henry Leutwyler was granted unprecedented backstage access to the Company during the winter of 2012. The resulting book, Ballet, reflects 30 years of his passion for the art form, realized in 30 days of photographing.

Leutwyler inhabited the shadows of the stage and became "invisible," recording images of the dancers using nothing more than his 35mm Leica. He was able to explore the performers' immediate space, affording a more abstract portrait of their frenzied existence in an art form predicated on perfection. This clothbound masterpiece is a homage to the gritty world behind the curtain. With impresario Lincoln Kirstein, George Balanchine co-created the New York City Ballet in 1948. What followed is arguably one the most revolutionary periods in ballet history as he redefined the art form, introducing abstract works performed with a signature speed, musicality and precision. Under the leadership of Peter Martins, these are the hallmarks of the Company to this day.

About Henry Leutwyler

Henry Leutwyler was born in Switzerland in 1961. He lived and worked in Paris for a decade before finding his way to New York City in 1995, where he established his reputation as a portrait photographer. Steidl published Leutwyler’s first book Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson, in 2010. The images from Neverland Lost and Ballet have been exhibited in solo shows in Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, Moscow, Madrid and Zurich. 

Uncover the most mesmerising moments in ballet history with this scintillating visual guide.

Written with ballet legend Viviana Durante, this book will introduce you to the most famous performers and enthrall you with fascinating stories.

Discover more than 70 celebrated dances, from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake to The Rite of Spring. Learn about renowned companies such as The Royal Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet. Explore the lives of ballet dancers across the centuries, such as Margot Fonteyn, Carlos Acosta, and Darcey Bussell, and meet composers and choreographers, including the likes of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Matthew Bourne.

Tracing the history of ballet all the way from its origins at court and the first institutes to the contemporary scene, this comprehensive yet accessible volume offers an unrivalled overview of this dance form.

Rarely seen photographs covering key figures, pieces, and performances, alongside compelling facts about each dance - the sources they draw from, their production history, and their reception over time - make for a sumptuous visual treat and an essential gift for all dance and ballet enthusiasts.

Realist of the unreal

French-German painter Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001), known as Balthus, shocked the Parisian art world in 1934 with his dreamy, sensual, Neo-Classical portraits of nymphets at a time when Surrealism and abstraction were de rigueur. As a provocateur, Balthus was often scorned; as an artist, he was widely embraced as a prodigy. In response to critics of his realist style, Balthus said: "The real isn’t what you think you see. One can be a realist of the unreal and a figurative painter of the invisible." His erotic, poetic paintings live on as examples of the best figurative work of the modern era.

The author:

Gilles Néret (1933–2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'Œil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, Matisse, and Erotica Universalis.

About the Series:

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art Series features:

• a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
• a concise biography
• approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions

The bulk of this handbook is step-by-step case studies, comprehensively explained and illustrated with photographs. Each chapter demonstrates and guides the reader through procedures for making a bangle or bracelet using a particular technique, approach or skill. Topics covered include: wax-work (casting), chain making, wire work, found objects,
piercing, stone-setting.

Designed to appeal to both beginners and practising jewellers, there is an introductory chapter on basic techniques, covering the fundamentals of jewellery-making, complete with detailed explanations and photographs. Each chapter includes a generous garnish of relevant 'tips and tricks' - useful hints from the author and other experienced jewellers.

Photographer Ray Mock takes you along on his exciting hunt for new Banksy work during the famous “Better Out Than In” project in his new book Banksy in New York.

This personal narrative offers a day-by-day account of Banksy’s first New York residency, chronicling works that include “Sirens of the Lambs” and the Central Park stand at which original works by Banksy were sold for only $60. Mock’s work captures not only Banksy’s artwork but the reactions of the public and media frenzies that often accompanied it, giving fans a direct window into the frenetic scavenger hunt that took over New York City in October 2013.

Banksy in New York offers a closer look at Banksy’s witty and irreverent art and the varied responses it received while lending insight into the artist’s sharp social commentary. This book is a must-have for those new to the scene and Banksy fanatics alike.

Ця книга представляє багатство, різноманітність та силу творчості найвідомішого художника вуличного мистецтва у світі... і все ж ніхто не знає його особистості. Нам пропонується простежити еволюцію художника з Англії до Сполучених Штатів, Франції, Ізраїлю та України, і через понад сто знакових робіт пояснити всі. Це оригінальний каталог-резонне Музею Бенксі, в якому всі ці роботи відтворені в їхньому міському контексті, що дозволяє широкій публіці реалістично відкрити їх та зрозуміти їхню силу, включаючи ті, що були вкрадені або пошкоджені та більше не існують.

Включено: Останні роботи Бенксі в Україні

Про автора:

Хазис Вардар, власник і продюсер театрів (зокрема, нічного клубу The Palace у Парижі), є засновником музеїв Бенксі (у Парижі, Брюсселі, Барселоні, Празі, Мілані та Дубаї). Бенксі народився в Брістолі, Велика Британія, приблизно в 1974 році. Він став ключовою фігурою у світі вуличного мистецтва в середині 1990-х років завдяки своєму провокаційному та унікальному стилю. Сьогодні він наймодніший вуличний художник світу.

New, expanded, 2020 Edition.

The single best collection of photography of Banksy’s street work that has ever been assembled for print. If that isn’t enough there are some words too.

You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat covers his entire street art career, spanning the late '90s right up to the ‘Seasons Greetings’ Christmas 2018 piece in Port Talbot, Wales.

This new edition includes his self-destructing ‘Love is in the Bin’ intervention, which according to Sotheby's is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." The groundbreaking ‘Dismaland’ show, his Paris ’68 revisited works, The Walled Off Hotel, Brexit, Cans Festival, Brooklyn and Basquiat, as well as new works from Gaza and New York.

Also featuring the controversial ‘Cheltenham Spies’ as well as ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, ‘Art Buff’ and the spectacular ‘Mobile Lovers’ which appeared outside Bristol Boys Boxing Club. 248 pages featuring his greatest works of art in context.

The single best collection of photographs of Banksy's street work. Period. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat concentrates on this singular artist's iconic imagery, spanning the late '90s up until the end of 2011. The locations are from around the world (predominantly the UK, US and Europe), and many images have never been seen before. When Banksy started out painting, the political landscape was bleak. Fortunately now, it's ten times worse. As Banksy's cheerfully aggressive political work becomes ever more relevant, this comprehensive tome sets about presenting his art in the context of the era he was responding to

The Baroque period in painting and sculpture, stretching from the late 16th century to the early 18th century and occurring between the Mannerist and Rococo movements, was marked by richness, drama, and grandeur. Stylistically complex yet intensely engaging, Baroque art commonly combined dramatic lighting effects and theatrical compositions with great movement and energy. Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Rembrandt, and Rubens are among the artists most commonly associated with the Baroque movement.

Artists featured: Francesco Albani, Caravaggio, Valentin de Boulogne, Jan Breughel the Elder, Annibale Carracci, Anthonis van Dyck, Adam Elsheimer, Georg Flegel, Luca Giordano, Guercino, Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob Jordaens, Willem Kalf, Giovanni Lanfranco, Charles Le Brun, Johann Liss, Claude Lorrain, Batolomé Esteban Murillo, Nicolas Poussin, Mattia Preti, Rembrandt, Guido Reni, Jusepe de Ribera, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Stehen, Hendrick Terbrugghen, Georges de la Tour, Diego Velázquez, Willem van der Velde the Younger, Jan Vermeer, Simon Vouet, Francisco de Zubarán

About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series features:

* a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, etc.) that took place during the time period
* a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work and brief biography of the artist as well as additional information such as a reference work, portrait of the artist, and/or citations

The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was the response by artists to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe; the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Peter Paul Rubens of the Northern School alone show the importance of this artistic period. Rich in images encompassing the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, this work offers a complete insight into this passionate period in the history of art.

About the author
Victoria Charles is a professor of art history. She has published many different works and is a regular contributor to Art Information, an international guide to contemporary art. A frequent writer of articles for specialist journals and magazines, Victoria Charles has recently taken part in the creation of a collective work: 1,000 Paintings of Genius.
Klaus H. Carl is the author of numerous works on the history of great cities, and is also a well-known photographer of fauna and flora. A teacher by profession, he is currently devoting himself to a monumental History of Art.