Мистецтво

Au travers de mises en scène entre trompe-l'oeil et comic strip, Levalet s'amuse à surprendre les passants en réinventant l'histoire des lieux. Dans un langage plus inspiré du théâtre que du graffiti, le street-artiste donne vie à des personnages se livrant à des actions décalées, voire incongrues. Ses oeuvres, empreintes d'humour, d'espièglerie et de poésie, incitent le spectateur à mieux observer les espaces urbains délaissés et à prendre du recul sur les travers de son quotidien. À Paris, Barcelone ou Bologne, la rue devient la scène de compositions dessinées dont le réalisme feint alterne entre mise en abîme de la vie de l'homme moderne et fable jubilatoire.

Comic genius

One of the most important exponents of Pop Art

In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art - that movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art. This apotheosis of banal, everyday objects simultaneously constituted a criticism of the traditional elitist understanding of art.

Almost alone among artists, Lichtenstein pursued the question of how an image becomes a work of art. Wholly in keeping with the spirit of the Classical Modern, he held that it was not the "rank" of the picture’s subject that lends the picture its artistic character, but rather the artist’s formal treatment of it. To Lichtenstein, however, this position seemed far too broad to be seriously pursued.

Developed in the early 60s, Lichtenstein’s grid technique, with its allusion to the mass-production of graphic art, allowed the painter to give vent to his own artistic scepticism. In the 60s and 70s, Lichtenstein expanded his formal repertoire of techniques for creating distance and irony by means of an idiosyncratic process of abstraction and especially by his use of his numerous art quotations.

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

From the funny pages to the canvas, comics recontextualized

In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art - that movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art. This apotheosis of banal, everyday objects simultaneously constituted a criticism of the traditional elitist understanding of art.

Almost alone among artists, Lichtenstein pursued the question of how an image becomes a work of art. Wholly in keeping with the spirit of the Classical Modern, he held that it was not the "rank" of the picture’s subject that lends the picture its artistic character, but rather the artist’s formal treatment of it. To Lichtenstein, however, this position seemed far too broad to be seriously pursued.

Developed in the early 60s, Lichtenstein’s grid technique, with its allusion to the mass-production of graphic art, allowed the painter to give vent to his own artistic scepticism. In the 60s and 70s, Lichtenstein expanded his formal repertoire of techniques for creating distance and irony by means of an idiosyncratic process of abstraction and especially by his use of his numerous art quotations.

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 author:
Janis Hendrickson studied art history at Smith College and gained her doctorate in Hamburg under Martin Warncke. She is presently a writer and curator.

The Rolling Stones formed precisely a half century ago (well, maybe not precisely-even Keith Richards, in his recent Number One bestselling autobiography, wasn't sure if the audition was April or May). And they are still at 'work - or, rather, at play, celebrating 50 years of phenomenal music and a journey as raucous as 'Jumpin' Jack Flash. "Life's" cameras were there early and have been there since, capturing all the ragged glory. The same editors who produced a bestselling book on the Beatles as well as individual illustrated biographies of John Lennon and, recently, George Harrison now look at the long history of the Stones: the mysterious death of Brian Jones, the essential push-pull relationship of Jagger and Richards, the '60s signpost that was Altamont, the later glam, and then the welcomed return to roots. There are funny moments (the early Stones with TV host Dean Martin, who just doesn't get it when the band first fails-and fails miserably-to "conquer America") and many thrilling moments.

Mutabor’s practical guide to creating logos for our digital age

Mutabor has developed into one of the most important and creative design agencies in Germany. The company has also made a name for itself internationally with its succinct logos and icons for renowned clients such as the German soccer league, the Bundesliga. Over the years Mutabor has successfully expanded its core expertise into the comprehensive design of interdisciplinary brand presentations. Its award-winning projects for clients such as Audi, Adidas, Deutsche Telekom, and BMW range from printed editorial design to the creation of brand showrooms and large-scale presentations for automobile trade shows. A key aspect of Mutabor's work is optimally showcasing brands in digital media.

In Lingua Digitalis Mutabor demonstrates how to develop effective logos and icons for our digital age including applications for the iPad, apps, and interface design. The book presents over one thousand pieces of work, some of which are published here for the first time. Through these examples, Mutabor explains how designers can unlock even the most complex or abstract logo design assignments across various platforms.

Lingua Digitalis is a practical reference tool that is specifically intended to assist designers in their daily work. On the basis of the broad scope of featured examples this internationally recognized design company reveals its proven approaches and methods for creating digital logos.

Перша книга, яка розповідає історії найшанованіших живих японських керамістів століття їхніми словами, простежуючи еволюцію сучасного ремесла та мистецтва в Японії, а також значний вплив цих художників, який далеко виходить за межі національних кордонів.

Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists – це перша книга, яка представляє розмови з деякими з найважливіших живих японських художників-керамістів. Простежуючи еволюцію сучасного ремесла та мистецтва в Японії, цей новаторський том висвітлює шістнадцятьох людей, чиї неперевершені майстерність та творчий блиск надали їм вплив, який далеко виходить за межі національних кордонів.

Незважаючи на блискучу кар'єру та міжнародне визнання за свою роботу, ці шістнадцять художників були маловідомими з точки зору їхніх особистих історій. Віком від шістдесяти трьох до дев'яноста трьох років вони втілюють різноманітний досвід кількох поколінь, які були активними та успішними з кінця 1940-х років до наших днів, періоду масштабних змін. Тепер, вперше ділячись своїми історіями у виставці Listening to Clay, вони не лише описують свої особливі процеси, натхнення та стосунки з глиною, але й разом простежують сейсмічний культурний зсув у галузі, в якій багатовікові, але виняткові традиції гончарства відкрилися для нових практиків та видів практик.

Listening to Clay включає розмови з художниками, народженими в гончарних сім'ях, а також з деякими з перших жінок, прийнятих на керамічний факультет Токійського університету мистецтв, розповідаючи ширшу історію про винахідливість та новаторство, що сформували сучасне мистецтво в Японії та в усьому світі. Кожен художник представлений у статті, що включає короткий вступ, портрет, вибрані приклади його робіт та інтимне інтерв'ю, проведене авторами протягом кількох особистих візитів з 2004 по 2019 рік. В основі кожної історії лежить особистий зв'язок художника з глиною, який часто описують як співпрацю з матеріалом, а не як нав'язування наміру.

Найстарший художник, з яким брали інтерв'ю, Хаяші Ясуо, вступив до армії під час Другої світової війни у ​​віці п'ятнадцяти років і пройшов навчання на пілота-камікадзе. Він народився в родині, яка поколіннями випалювала кераміку в кооперативних печах, але відмовився від традиційних методів і став першим художником у Японії, який створив справді абстрактну керамічну скульптуру. Наприкінці 1960-х років інша художниця, Місіма Кімійо, розробила техніку шовкографії на глині ​​та почала створювати керамічні газети, щоб прокоментувати поширення цих медіа. Вона захопилася сміттям, відтворюючи його з глини, і працювала у відносній безвісті протягом десятиліть, поки у 2015 році не відбулася велика виставка в Токіо.

Виставка Listening to Clay з передмовою куратора, письменника та історика Гленна Адамсона та передмовою Моніки Бінчик, заступника куратора японського декоративного мистецтва в Метрополітен-музеї, була проектом, який понад п'ятнадцять років створювали авторки Еліс та Холсі Норт, шановані та обізнані колекціонери та меценатки сучасної японської кераміки, та Луїза Еллісон Корт, почесний куратор кераміки Національного музею азійського мистецтва Смітсонівського інституту. Книга також містить розмови з п'ятьма важливими дилерами сучасної японської кераміки, які відіграли та відіграють вирішальну роль у представленні робіт цих художників світові, кілька детальних додатків та глосарій термінів, відповідних людей та стосунків.

Listening to Clay – це давно очікувана та прониклива книга, яка вперше висвітлює деяких найвідоміших сучасних японських художників-керамістів через особисті, своєрідні розповіді про їхнє повсякденне життя, надаючи особливий доступ до їхнього творчого процесу та художнього розвитку.

Про авторів:

Аліса та Холсі Норт – новатори-колекціонери та прихильники сучасної японської кераміки. Вони організували керамічні тури Японією для Нью-Йоркського Японського товариства. Їхня колекція була представлена ​​на виставці «Сучасна глина: японська кераміка для нового століття», що проходила в Музеї образотворчих мистецтв у Бостоні у 2005-2006 роках, та в Нью-Йоркському Японському товаристві у 2006-2007 роках. Основним завданням їхнього колекціонування та пропаганди було познайомити нову аудиторію з цим видом мистецтва. Вони передали значну частину своєї колекції американським музеям, зокрема Метрополітен-музею в Нью-Йорку, Музею образотворчих мистецтв у Бостоні та Національному музею азійського мистецтва Смітсонівського інституту у Вашингтоні, округ Колумбія. У Метрополітен-музеї також зберігається база даних, архіви та бібліотека їхньої колекції.

This extraordinary three-dimensional package of Live the Art, is a suitable homage to Jeffrey Deitch’s legendary stature and influence as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that robustly transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition.”

More than four years in the making, and divided into chapters devoted to each year between 1996 and 2010, Live the Art explores in detail the astonishing shows and performances the visionary Deitch mounted in a one-story former garage on Grand Street in Soho that would be the primary home of Deitch Projects for fifteen years.

Deitch illuminates the founding concept by stating, “Deitch Projects was not meant to be an art gallery. The concept was simple. We would not operate as a gallery but would become a commercial version of the ‘project room’ that the Museum of Modern Art and a number of other American Museums had established in the ‘70s and ‘80s.”

Deitch’s original guidelines were simple: his intention was to invite artists who had not yet had a solo exhibition to create a “project” rather than a conventional show of work, and he would provide funds for the artist to produce their visions in the space.
The first artist was Vanessa Beecroft who produced “VB16 Piano Americano-Beige, 1996” which consisted of the immediately notorious roomful of models clad in pantyhose, bras, high heels and matching platinum wigs milling languorously around the space. Images in the book of this performance are accompanied by Beecroft’s notes and memories about the project, and this formula is repeated throughout the book with the artist’s own commentary alongside images of over 150 projects mounted in the space, and in other locations including Union Square Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, Miami Beach, Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn, and Deitch’s satellite space in Long Island City.

Artists whose no-holds-barred projects graced Deitch Projects in its fifteen years include Barbara Kruger, Cecily Brown, Malick Sidibé, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, ASFOUR, Liza Lou, a collaboration between Madonna and photographer Steven Klein, Kehinde Wiley, assume astro vivid focus, Yoko Ono, Jeff Koons, film director Michel Gondry, Dan Colen, Vito Acconci, Stefan Sagmeister, Stephen Sprouse, Jules de Balincourt, Shepard Fairey, and Miranda July, among many others.

A Deitch Projects event launch was the place for an art-savvy New Yorker to be, and the street theater of attendees became part of the events themselves.  As Deitch notes in Live the Art, “One of my goals in starting Deitch Projects was to create not just a gallery but a community. It is very rewarding to see that we created not just a community, but an art family.” There is no question that this goal was achieved, and Live the Art is a detailed look back on every event created by Deitch and shared by this “family” of artists and art lovers for fifteen incredible years.

About the Authors:

Deitch Projects created a new model redefining what an art gallery could be. In addition to presenting more than 250 artist projects during the fifteen years of its existence it created a remarkable community of artists, musicians and other creative talents. After closing the gallery Jeffrey Deitch became the director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Deitch is now working on bringing his influential Art in the Streets exhibition to New York.  

Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He is co-founder of Sagmeister & Walsh, a design firm that creates identities, commercials, websites, apps, films, books and objects.

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Great walls in China

Splendid and traditional homes in the People’s Republic

Dating back more than six thousand years, China is the world’s oldest civilization and most populous nation. With its remarkable history, rich culture, and diversity of ethnic groups, China is an endlessly fascinating country. Sneaking a peek at an array of different homes, from ancient to modern, Living in China brings you to places that most will never have a chance to visit. Whether it’s the Bamboo Wall by Kengo Kuma, a 600-year-old round earth house in Fujian, the artsy Shanghai apartment of a celebrated but banned Chinese writer, the Hong Kong residence of the owner of the China Clubs and Shanghai Tan, or an artist studio and home in the largest art community in the world, all of the interiors featured here capture intriguing facets of life in China today.

In recent years a new generation of artists and designers has discovered that garden plants - from moss and grass to fullgrown trees - can become astonishing works of living sculpture. Iconoclast garden designer Paul Cooper has gathered together the best examples of this exciting new art form while overturning many preconceptions about what is possible in the context of both gardening and art, showing that every garden has the potential to include dramatic and lasting sculpture.

A unique collection of photographs of one of the greatest and most beautiful Hollywood legends
A private album of photographs, taken during Elizabeth Taylor’s classic years by a trusted friend
Candid shots of Elizabeth Taylor’s personal life and images of the star on the sets of such films as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Raintree County
Bob Willoughby is one of the foremost iconographers of Hollywood’s greatest stars
Many of the photographs have never been published
Will appeal to fans everywhere of one of the most enduring idols of the silver screen

The exhibition constitutes an important milestone as the first show on kinetic art, means art with moving parts, to be held in Spain that features works created since the late 19th Century up to those produced in 2006. The museum received loans never before seen in Spain from the most important museums in the world, such as the MoMA/NY, the Centre Georges Pompidou/Paris, the Whitney Museum of American Art/NY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, the Tate Modern/London and the Galería Nazionale D'Arte Moderna di Roma. Important galleries also loaned pieces, such as the Denise René Gallery, which in 1955 organized the first exhibition dedicated to kinetic artists. The show brings together over 80 works by 45 Spanish and foreign artists. In this exhibition, visitors will be able to view paintings, objects, chronophotographs, calotypes, serigraphs, digital prints and films that all have one thing in common - the implicit concept of movement. Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect.The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. The term kinetic sculpture refers to a class of art made primarily from the late 1950s through 1960s. Kinetic art was first recorded by the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner in their Realist Manifesto issued as part of a manifesto of constructivism in 1920 in Moscow. Bicycle Wheel, of 1913, by Marcel Duchamp, is said to be the first kinetic

These electrifying portraits by acclaimed photographer Alex MacNaughton prove in the most eloquent way that tattoos are more than skin deep.

The centuries-old art of tattooing has become one of the modern world’s most exciting modes of self-expression. Fascinated by the ways body art reflects an individual’s personality, MacNaughton set out to find people whose ornate tattoos tell a story. The result is a wonderfully dynamic collection of portraits that uniquely celebrates the art of tattooing. Each individual is introduced through a full-body, full-page photograph, showcasing the fashion and style which complement the body art. MacNaughton presents gorgeously detailed images of the tattoos themselves, accompanied by personal reflections on the subjects’ choice of tattoos, the stories behind them, and the tattoo artists they admire most. The result is a beautiful, sensitive, and exciting exploration of the world of body art, from one of the most successful photographers of urban life.

This monograph features Jaybo's font designs, logos, record covers and examples of his work as the Art Director of the lifestyle magazine Style and the Family Tunes. Lord of Mess presents the broad spectrum of his new-school style artwork - from very clean-cut graphic design to glaring Hip Hop illustrations and installations. The characters, toys and clothes he has designed as the co-founder and chief designer of the streetwear label Irie Daily are additionally showcased.