Мистецтво

Surrealists appeared in the aftermath of World War I with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins. This refusal to integrate into the bourgeois society was also a leitmotiv of Dada artists, and André Breton asserted that Dada does not produce perspective. Surrealism emerged amidst such feeling. Surrealists and Dada artists often changed from one movement to another. They were united by their superior intellectualism and the common goal to break free from the norm. Describing the Surrealists with their aversive resistance to the system, the author brings a new approach which strives to be relative and truthful. Provocation and cultural revolution: aren’t Surrealists after all just a direct product of creative individualism in this unsettled period?

About the author
Nathalia Brodskaïa is a curator at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. As an author, she has published monographs on Rousseau, Renoir, Derain, Vlaminck, Vallotton and Van Dongen and books on the Fauves and Naive Art. Nathalia Brodskaïa is currently working on a study of French painters at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.

This beautifully illustrated new volume on the Surrealist movement uncovers the influence magic, myth and the occult had on its development.

Like no other 20th-century movement, Surrealism was keenly inspired by tropes of magic, myth and the occult. In their engagement with the irrational and the unconscious, numerous of its members looked to magic as a poetic and deeply philosophical discourse, related to both arcane knowledge and individual self-empowerment. In their works, they heavily drew on esoteric symbols and cultivated the image of the artist as a magician, visionary, and alchemist. This catalog explores the myriad ways, in which magic and the occult informed the development of the Surrealist movement in international perspective, from the “metaphysical paintings” of Giorgio de Chirico through to works of the post-war period. Lavishly illustrated, it combines longer research essays with focused chapter introductions, all penned by leading scholars in the field.

Amongst the many fascinating artists included in the volume are Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Enrico Donati, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Roland Penrose, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, and Remedios Varo.

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The Visual Encyclopaedia series provide up to 300 beautiful photographic and artwork images, illustrating subjects of perennial cultural interest. Images are accompanied by narrative providing background, brief criticism, and details on relevant museums, brief biographies and time lines

Присвячена творчості одного з найвидатніших дизайнерів ювелірних прикрас 20 століття.

Сюзанна Белперрон була одним із найталановитіших і найвпливовіших дизайнерів ювелірних прикрас 20 століття. Натхненні відкриттям її особистих архівів у 2007 році, автори цієї книги створили перший том, присвячений життю та творчості цього відомого паризького ювеліра. У 1919 році Бельперрон працював модельєром і дизайнером Жермен Буавен. Вона зробила величезний внесок в успіх Maison Rene Boivin, але в 1932 році вирішила покинути компанію. Саме зі своїм колегою Бернардом Герцом, відомим торговцем дорогоцінним камінням і перлами, Белперрон вперше знайшла свободу відмовитися від традиційного дизайну та виробництва ювелірних виробів. Захоплюючись кольоровими каменями, незалежно від їх вартості, вона створювала надзвичайно інноваційні твори, на відміну від стандартних творінь того часу, які були переважно незграбними та оправленими в платину. Її прикраси були настільки оригінальними, що вона ніколи не підписувала свої вироби, натомість наполягаючи на тому, що «мій стиль — це мій підпис». Дійсно, авангардний стиль Бельперрон обожнювався «модниками» її часу.

Її роботи часто з’являлися в Harper's Bazaar і Vogue, а серед її клієнтів були більшість європейських королівських осіб і аристократів, а також банкіри, модельєри, інтелектуали та американські кінозірки. Відомо, що герцог Віндзорський, Ротшильди, Ельза Скіапареллі, Ніна Річчі, Колетт, Малет Стівенс, Ганна Вальска та Гарі Купер часто відвідували паризьку майстерню Бельперрона. Сьогодні Бельперрон часто імітують, і відсутність підпису на її роботах може ускладнити їх ідентифікацію та датування. Тому відкриття її особистих архівів мало величезне значення і зробило цю публікацію важливим довідником для ентузіастів Сюзанни Бельперрон і ювелірних виробів загалом.

Сільві Рауле, випускниця історії, графічний дизайнер і журналіст, співпрацювала з такими журналами, як «Beaux-Arts», «L'Objet d' art», «Harper s Bazaar» і «Vogue». Вона є автором кількох книг: «Bijoux Art Deco» (1984), «Van Cleef & Arpels» (1986, 1997), «Bijoux des annees 1940-1950» (1987), «Salon indien» (1996) і «Cristal de roche» (1999). Рухомий рідкісним ентузіазмом до ювелірних виробів, Олів’є Баруан навчався в Луврі та увійшов у світ професійного мистецтва в 1987 році, коли йому було всього 17 років. У 2001 році він також став спеціалістом із антикварних ювелірних виробів. Зачарований мистецтвом та особистістю Сюзанни Бельперрон, він придбав увесь її особистий архів у 2007 році. Його знання Сюзанни Бельперрон і майже щоденна перевірка її книги замовлень дозволяють йому без двозначності відстежувати її оригінальні роботи, деякі з яких помилково приписували іншим ювелірам, а також виключати вироби, які досі помилково вважалися створеними нею.

This first monograph on the street artist Swoon is a crash course on the incredible range of her diverse artistic practices.

Filled with brilliant color photographs, the book brings reader to streets around the world to see her life-size prints and paper cutouts that transform as natural elements slowly erode and destroy them. It travels across the waters to include striking images from her most recent projects, Swimming Cities, which show a team of craftsmen and collaborators scavenging junk to create makeshift steamships that are part floating artwork, part performance, and part experiments in communal living. And it brings readers inside her art collective, Toyshop, which orchestrates organic public theater that includes everything from street parties to public demonstrations.

Woven together seamlessly, and accompanied by essays from fellow artists and famed gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch, this book showcases the work of one of the art world’s brightest stars.

Symbols of a deeper reality

"A book like the rooms of an imaginary museum." - La Libre Belgique, Brussels

"To clothe the idea in perceptible form," proposed the poet Jean Moréas in his 1886 Manifesto of Symbolism.

It was in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, that Symbolist painting was born. It plunged headlong into the cultural space opened up by the poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé and by the operas of Wagner. Symbolist painters sought not to represent appearances but to express "the Idea," and the imaginary therefore plays an important part in their work. "Dream" was their credo; they execrated, with a fanatical hatred, impressionism, realism, naturalism, and the scientistic. The main principle of Symbolism, that of "correspondences," was to attain harmony between all the different arts, or even to realise the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) that Wagner had dreamt of creating.

What we rediscover today, after a period of neglect, is this: Symbolist painting is essential to our understanding of modern art, not only because it spread across the world like wildfire, creating disciples from Russia to the United States, from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, but because it was the source of a series of mutations without which modern art would not be what it is.

The author:

Michael Gibson is an art critic, art historian, anthropologist, writer, independent scholar and philosopher (currently editor in chief of UNESCO's World Heritage Review) who has been writing on art over the past forty years for numerous publications, including the International Herald Tribune. He has published numerous books, including studies of Bruegel, Gauguin, Duchamp and Calder.

The editor:

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.

Emotional intelligence. A synthesis of form and feeling

First applied to the poems of Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine in 1886, the term symbolist was soon applied to the visual arts where a realistic depiction of the natural world gave way to imaginary dream scenes of psychological, sexual, and mystical content.

Symbolism was a broad international phenomenon but particularly present in France, where painters such as Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon turned their backs on realism, naturalism, and impressionism to populate their canvases with esoteric, often erotic, visions. In place of Monet s light-suffused landscapes or the frank working-class subjects of Courbet, the Symbolists turned to figures from literature, the Bible, and Greek mythology to express experiences of love, fear, anguish, death, sexual awakening, and unrequited desire.

With featured work from Edward Burne-Jones, Puvis de Chavannes, Gustav Klimt, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon and many more, this book introduces Symbolism s great reach, intensity, and influence.

About the series

Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre series features:

- approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions
- a detailed illustrated introduction plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural and social events that took place during that period
- a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each of which is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and with an interpretation of
the respective work, plus a portrait and brief biography of the artist

‘Я отримала електронного листа, в якому мені повідомляли, що все скінчено. Я не знала, як відповісти. Це було так, ніби це було не для мене. Воно закінчувалося словами: «Бережи себе». Я сприйняла цю рекомендацію буквально. Я попросила сто дві жінки, обрані за їхню професію, інтерпретувати листа з точки зору їхньої професійної майстерності. Проаналізувати його, прокоментувати, зіграти, станцювати, заспівати. Розібрати. Висушити. Зрозуміти за мене. Відповісти за мене. Це був спосіб приділити час розриву стосунків. У своєму власному темпі. Спосіб подбати про себе..’

Ця чудово оформлена книга супроводжувала виставку Софі Калле у Французькому павільйоні на Венеційській бієнале 2007 року. Вона складається з трьох книг – одного основного тому, двох менших усередині нього – та чотирьох супровідних DVD-дисків.

Включає 107 інтерпретацій від низки успішних жінок-професіоналок, від провідних акторок та танцівниць до фізиків, психоаналітиків та юристів.

Про автора:

Софі Калле (нар. 1953) – всесвітньо відома художниця, чиї суперечливі роботи часто поєднують концептуальне мистецтво та обмеження, подібні до Уліпо, методи дослідження та розграбування автобіографії. Її роботи були представлені, серед іншого, у Музеї сучасного мистецтва в Нью-Йорку, Музеї американського мистецтва Вітні, Музеї мистецтв Карнегі, Музеї образотворчих мистецтв у Бостоні, галереї Хейворд та Музеї сучасного мистецтва в Чикаго. Вона живе та працює в Парижі.

Today, the most clever brand communication is self-promulgating.

Anyone currently working in brand communication is facing fundamental yet compelling challenges. In an age in which we are flooded with information, consumers are becoming more critical and discerning. They are deploying ever finer filters so that only the most relevant pieces of information ever reach them. Because of this development, traditional brand and advertising messages are far less likely to be seen.

Taken by Surprise is a collection of communication measures that are sophisticated and relevant enough to overcome these hurdles. They include limited special edition products and signature collaborations between brands, artists, and designers such as those between Julian Schnabel and Maybach, Issey Miyake and Dyson, Sagmeister and Levi’s, Olafur Eliasson and BMW, Jonathan Meese and Staehlemuehle, Terry Richardson and Colette as well as other innovative work by the likes of Damien Hirst, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, David Lynch, Geoff McFetridge, and Pharrell Williams.

These are the tales of an extraordinary journey: from the small towns of Sweden to the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia. A journey where children make friends with abandoned robots... in a world where dinosaurs roam freely.

These are the Tales from the Loop.

Stories told in both words and haunting illustrations, Tales from the Loop captures a not-too-distant reality that is both haunting and imminent: addressing the many ways developing technology and nature can create havoc and wonder in our world... and the hope we might still find in that future. 

About the Author:

Simon Stålenhag (b. 1984) is the internationally acclaimed author, concept designer and artist behind Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood. His highly imaginative images and stories depicting illusive sci-fi phenomena in mundane, hyper-realistic Scandinavian and American landscapes have made Stålenhag one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the world. Tales from the Loop was ranked one of the "10 Best Dystopias" by The Guardian, along with such works as Franz Kafka's The Trial and Andrew Niccol's Gattaca.

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For 'Tales of the Brothers Grimm' thirty-six celebrated and lesserknown of the unsanitized fairy tales collected by the illustrious brothers were carefully chosen by artist Natalie Frank, re-interpret- ed in seventy-five gouache and chalk pastel drawings, and cast in a Surrealist dreamscape. This will be the largest collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales ever illustrated by a fine artist. Frank’s irreverent palette, sophisticated use of color, and inventive depiction of these dark, far from storybook narratives, capture the original stories with a contemporary and unflinching eye. Each of the tales opens with a handdrawn title page, is framed by a unique border, and small drawings punctuate each story, all in the tradition of classic fairy tale editions.

The foremost Grimm scholar, Jack Zipes, introduces the book and contextualizes these stories and drawings within a history of the Brothers Grimm, its illustrations, and the tradition of the fairy tale. A complex and unique world of the imagination emerges from the pairing of these tales with Frank’s drawings, assembled by the celebrated designer, Marian Bantjes. Additional texts include a conversation between the artist and director Julie Taymor, as well as essays by Feminist art historian Linda Nochlin and curator Claire Gilman. This book marks Frank’s exhibitions of drawings based on the Brothers Grimm at The Drawing Center, New York, and Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, in 2015.

From classicism to comedy, Kubrick to the Coen Brothers, this practical and instructive guide offers a straightforward approach to film in an accessible format: a perfect read for novices and experts alike. A fresh, engaging, and beautifully illustrated volume, Talk About Cinema is the ideal companion for those looking to gain a deeper understanding of cinema today. The main genres of contemporary cinema are clearly defined and exemplified, and chapters on major dates, turning points, and "firsts" since the turn of the twentieth century allow the reader to contextualize different cinematic movements. From Postmodernism and Expressionism to Teen Movies, Westerns, and Science Fiction, all the major trends and styles of recent times are explored and provide a detailed picture of the contemporary cinematic landscape. The portraits of thirty eminent contemporary filmmakers offer valuable insight into the creative and stylistic processes of some of the greatest names in world cinema, while a chapter on twenty seminal works from the last century details those films that have proved inspirational in shaping cinema as we know it today, such as The Twilight Zone, Scarface, and Night of the Living Dead. Hundreds of screenshots and original photographs of legendary actors and directors on set and on screen provide snapshots of their glamorous world, and an easy-to-use glossary ensures that the reader is never overwhelmed by jargon. If you want to understand and discuss film-related topics, Talk About Cinema effortlessly synthesizes a wealth of pertinent facts and ideas into a fun, didactic, and readable volume.

The tango is not a dance but an obsession. Erotic and passionate, haunting and melancholy, it involves not only the body but also the soul.

How did a dance born in the slums of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires remain spectacularly alive for more than a hundred years to become an international cult? Tango! tells the rags-to-riches story of this extraordinary dance, drawing on the expertise of four well-known tango authorities.

• Simon Collier traces the tango’s roots in Buenos Aires and discusses its earliest dancers and musicians.
• Artemis Cooper recounts the astonishing upsurge of tangomania in Europe and North America before the First World War.
• The Golden Age of the tango in Argentina, from 1920 to 1950, is covered by Maria Susana Azzi.
• Richard Martin tackles the question of the tango and machismo, and discusses the immensely popular tango shows of recent years.

Illustrated with more than 250 photographs and including the sensational colour photography of Ken Haas, this book will delight tango enthusiasts, students of dance and all those who are fascinated by this seemingly unstoppable phenomenon.

Contains a book and 4 CDs. Tango is smouldering intimacy - the resonance of passion and melancholy expressed in movement. When Tango was born in the middle of the 19th century, cultures mingled in Argentina and Uruguay and musical styles were mixed. Since then, it has been embraced by people all over the world. The vivid photography in this book captures the sounds, beats and sizzling encounters so typical for this internationally popular music. "Tango" classics on four CDs paired with beautiful images invite the listener to dance into the heart of South America.

110 илл.

Современное искусство не существует без концепции, его эстетическая сторона порой даже уходит на второй план, уступая место идее. Художник Таня Баданина один из самых по­настоящему современных и актуальных авторов, многогранная философия ее произведений не нарушила эстетики образа. Примиряя смысл с формой, все, что ни делает Татьяна, воссоздает ли картину неба, рисует ли рай, любое творчество уподобляет акту божественного творения. В книге о Тане Баданиной – инсталляции, живопись, опыты конструирования одежды, современные жанры и вечные темы. Механизм познания рая и счастья творить откроется каждому читателю.