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Fear, desperation, and death. Painting as an act of self-liberation

For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch’s paintings, "The Scream" (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-and certainly one of the most expressive.

The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: "In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify to myself my own relation to life..." Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly identified with any single movement, he is deemed a pioneer of Expressionism.

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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

Psychodrama. The reverberating power of an Expressionist icon

Take in the dark, compelling visions of Edvard Munch, artist of lurid colors, strange distortions, and a haunting Mona Lisa for modernity: The Scream. This essential introduction surveys Munch’s staggering capacity for psychodrama and the echo of his artistic wail through the work of Andy Warhol, Martin Kippenberger, Tracey Emin, Marlene Dumas, and beyond.

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863–1944) created Mona Lisa for our times. The shriek of his iconic figure reverberates around the world, its echo resounding in the work of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Martin Kippenberger, Marlene Dumas, and Tracey Emin.

This introductory book surveys Munch’s staggering capacity for psychodrama in The Scream and beyond. With rich illustration, it looks at the lurid, dark, and deeply modern visions that made up the artist’s response to relationships and emotions. These compelling images, regarded by the artist himself as a means of “free confession,” remain as magnetic today as they were on the brink of modernism.

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 illustrations with explanatory captions

The catalogue for the exhibition 'On Translation: Museum Reinterprets Projects by Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942)' showcases his ongoing series 'On Translation.' This series was begun in 1995 and addresses the concept of translation in contemporary society. This catalog features the collection of works and installations that make up the series

The first book to focus on the big new global trend in graffiti and street art, written by a leading pioneer of lasting walls on a gigantic scale

In its early days, illegal graffiti and street art were of necessity modest in scale, hastily created in hours or even minutes, and destroyed just as quickly by authorities, vandals or the elements. Now, however, graffiti writers and street artists are able to take their work to an entirely new level, creating carefully planned, permanent works that cover entire buildings and add a new visual dimension to the world's cities.

Claudia Walde, better known as the record-breaking street muralist MadC, has selected more than 200 of the best XXL works and profiled nearly 30 artists who pioneered this trend. Working in dangerous conditions, often hundreds of metres above the ground, yet always keenly aware of the view from street level, these new street muralists are as fearless and technically skilled as they are creatively brilliant. This is a thrilling, super-sized, international celebration of one of the most visible new art movements on the streets of our cities.

Contents List:

Introduction • Illustrated artist profiles A–I • Mixed Murals (6pp foldout section) • Illustrated artist profiles K–S • Collaborations (6pp foldout section) • Illustrated artist profiles S–V • World map of murals, photo credits, author biography, acknowledgments

About the Author:

Claudia Walde, aka MadC, is a world-renowned graffiti artist, muralist, designer and writer. She was born in Bautzen, Germany, and is most known for her large-scale, outdoor artistic paintings. MadC painted her first graffiti piece in 1996, being 16 years old. She studied at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and Central Saint Martins College in London. MadC carries a master's degree in graphic design. She is the author of Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art.

The exhibition aims to show different aspects of this art form. It will begin with the very traditional and anonymous work of the Soninke women of Mauritania. This is followed by the paintings in dots of clay on a red ground by the Thai artist Sakarin Krue-On. In the Olive Tree Patio there will be a vertical ivy garden designed by Jeronimo Hagerman, which will also be visible from inside the temporary exhibition area, where it will share the space with examples of street art: the graffiti by UTRcrew, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and by Operation Art Core, from Singapore. The show continues with the work of artists who generally intervene in public places, such as the German muralist Lothar Gotz and the Spanish duo Eltono and Nuria. These serve as a transition towards other examples of present-day mural art, such as the works by Brian Rea, Ludovica Gioscia and Paul Morrison. Artists include: Cooperative Feminine de Djajibine Gandega Djida (Mauritan), Lothar Gotz (Germany), Scope One (Singapore), UTR Crew (Bugs36 i Dream83) (Bosnia Erzegobina), Jeronimo Hagerman (Mexico), Sakarin Krue-On (Thiland), Brian Rea (USA), Nuria + eltono (Spain and France), Paul Morrison (UK), Ludovica Gioscia (Italy), and Jacob Dahlgren (Sweden).

Known primarily as a great painter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) was also one of the best draftsmen of the 17th century. Although his devotional paintings seem to have been created effortlessly, they are the result of careful thought and study, a process that comes alive in the preparatory drawings. Murillo used a variety of techniques, favoring pen and ink and brown wash and red-and-black chalk. Like painters schooled in Italian Renaissance practice, the Spaniard developed his paintings in stages, starting with sketches of the full composition and then focusing on details that posed specific problems. Occasionally, Murillo used drawings as a medium for original compositions; these are highly finished pieces, usually enhanced by the use of wash and unmistakably stamped with the artist's personality.

This sumptuous book is a thoroughly revised edition of the 1976 publication Murillo & His Drawings. Twenty sheets have been added to the catalogue of authentic works, the bibliography has been brought up to date, and the entries have been revised.

As a carrier of human cultural information, the museum is a global cultural facility, which evolves into new functions and forms during the endless social development and gradually develops into a multi-functional cultural complex. The age of traditional collecting and exhibiting functions has passed by; the contemporary museum architecture needs to meet more requirements.

The book selects excellent competition entries and design proposals for art museums, science museums, history museums and local complex museums all over the world since 2007. The rich materials will present the readers a complete design process and reveal current museum development tendency, which have positive guidance and reference for museum design practitioners.

Museums are the mental park of cities. In the long period of social development they have been assembled with multi-functions and become an indispensable part of a city. Then as the complex of culture - how do they perfectly combine the architectural design and cultural contents together? In this book are selected 45 excellent projects of museum display all over the world. The book comprehensively introduces every key point of museum display design to the readers, including space division, internal structure, the use of materials, decorative elements and etc. We believe it would serve as a practical reference for the readers and provide them some brand new design inspirations.

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Following the highly acclaimed Wisdom, Andrew Zuckerman now turns his unique photographic perspective to music. This new book includes fifty eminent musicians - artists, composers, producers, and performers from rock, rap, dance, soul, R&B, classical, country, reggae, pop, jazz, world, and more - who have made an impact on their genre, contributed to the larger conversation, and have a unique perspective on life.

Each musician is photographed and interviewed on film about the process of making music, the power of music, and the experience of writing, producing, and performing. The group includes emerging artists, as well as legends from a variety of genres, and together, they create a distinctive understanding of the universal language of music.

Music features new portraits of and interviews with Laurie Anderson, Fiona Apple, Afrika Bambaataa, Clint Black, Dave Brubeck, Common, Billy Corgan, David Crosby, Ani DiFranco, Danny Elfman, Ben Gibbard, Philip Glass, Herbie Hancock, Karen O, Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Ziggy Marley, Ozzy Osbourne, Yoko Ono, Itzhak Perlman, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Ravi Shankar, John Williams, and several other international music icons.

Watch the trailer here: https://musicthebook.com/trailer.php

135 illustrations

"f music be the food of love, play on" (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night).
Music is not only a pleasure for the ear; it is the echo of the heartbeat, breath and desire. Professor Döpp revisits music as the catalyst for dance, love and sex. From the music sheet to dance and through instruments, music is the expression of our profound desires and most violent passions. The text revisits the history of music and art from the dances of the first men to belly dancing though to pop and electronic music. Music and Eros takes us on a time-travelling journey to discover the interaction of music and sex.

From the most explosive lyrics and chart-busting albums and singles to the greatest compositions and pivotal performances this is an overview of each moment's impact on modern music, on popular culture, and on rock evolution. At once critical analysis of these seminal moments, and glorious celebration of 100 years of popular music. Some moments are legendary - the spectacular explosion of punk in 1977, the genius of John Lennon's songwriting. Others are more subtle - groundbreaking productions that inspired decades of imitators, the first use of the MOOG synthesizer, the untimely death of an icon or the first breakdance. Each moment is placed in its historic, cultural and musical context creating an intelligent, accessible guide to a century of popular music from around the world.

A sumptuously illustrated and richly detailed catalogue of enormous appeal to anyone interested in fashion, lifestyle, the history of costume and applied arts Thanks to a prestigious private collection, this book explains how from this moment on the clothing of men, women and children acquired a social, cultural and economic importance it had never had before in the history of the Western world and in what terms, from the Napoleonic era onwards, we may rightly talk about Fashion in the sense as we understand it today. From 1800 onwards dress evolved year after year reflecting historical and political events, industrial advances and technical development, influences of the arts and culture, and the taste of the rich and powerful.

150 color illustrations

The rediscovery of one of the most important painters of the Russian avant-garde, in the first comprehensive presentation.

Russian avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962) left behind an extensive, diverse body of work. Starting out as a painter inspired by the folklore and art of her country, she produced colorful, strongly ornamental paintings. Her religious paintings based on icons were highly controversial. During her Moscow period, she began to work with cubism, giving the Russian avant-garde a significant push toward linking the traditional and the modern. Reading her letters and notes, one becomes aware of this non-conformist’s frequently biting, ironic tone.

In 1917 she settled in Paris permanently. There, she designed costumes and sets for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. In exile, however, the artist fell on hard times.

This publication illuminates the details of Goncharova’s life and work, and finally acknowledges the importance of this unconventional artist’s oeuvre, which, to this day, has not yet been properly recognized in her own country

A priceless record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, climate change and tourism

The lower valley of the Omo, at the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, remains one of the wildest places in Africa. Over the course of numerous voyages to this forgotten land, Hans Silvester became fascinated by the beauty of the Surma and Mursi tribes, who share a taste for body painting and extravagant decorations borrowed from nature.

In this region of East Africa, the rivers that run through the dry savannahs are home to abundant flowers, papyrus and wild fruit trees, and this luxuriance becomes an invitation to creativity and spectacle. Within hand’s reach, a multitude of plants inspire fanciful and ephemeral self-decoration, and the Omo tribes react spontaneously: a leaf, root, seed pod or flower is quickly transformed into an accessory.

People create caps from tufts of grass or they ornament themselves with banana leaves or a stem laden with flowers. These decorations are embellished with butterfly wings, buffalo horns, boar’s teeth, colourful feathers and the like, and are further enhanced by body painting with pigments made from powdered stone, plants, berries and river mud.