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The art of Andy Warhol continues to hold surprises for even the seasoned Warhol admirer. The best works from one of the world's largest private collections of Warhol paintings are published here for the first time in book form. Beginning with whimsical paintings from the pre-Pop period, this selection of over 100 works spans the full breadth of Warhol's spectacular career, up until his last project: The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci. More than 200 illustrations, many in full color, give a comprehensive overview of the many facets in the work of the "pope of Pop art."

Of particular interest is a little-known series of "Paintings for Children," published here for the first time. These delightful pictures of ships, planes, robots, and toys were hung just three feet from the floor when first shown in 1983.

A concise biography, richly illustrated with many color plates; quotations from Warhol about art and about himself, as essay on Warhol and the American Dream by David Bourdon; a memoir by art historian and critic Pierre Restany; an interview from 1963 by G.R. Swenson and the last one with Paul Taylor in 1987; as well as a chronology and a detailed and updated bibliography contribute to this fascinating, colorful book.

Throughout his career as an artist, filmmaker, director of the Factory, band manager, magazine publisher, and television entrepreneur, Andy Warhol intentionally blurred the line between art and commerce, calling into question the very values of art by claiming, “Good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol Enterprises examines Warhol's complex and multifaceted relationship with commerce in both his work and his life - from his highly successful career as a commercial artist to his reign as a major cultural trendsetter in the eighties. The catalogue features essays by prominent scholars such as Thomas Crow, as well as an interview with Vincent Fremont, one of Warhol’s close associates, in which he illuminates aspects of Warhol’s critical examination of consumer society.

Following a successful career as a commercial graphic designer, in the early sixties, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) decided to move on to work as a freelance artist. His focus, however, remained on the world of consumption and mass production. This publication illuminates Warhol’s crucial early years—from 1961 to 1964—as a painter and draftsman. During this period, he gradually replaced his individual pictorial language with already medialized (and thus collective) image material as well as the mechanical production of pictures, thus calling into question some of modernity’s fundamental categories. This volume examines this process based on numerous examples, such as the famous Campbell’s Soup Cans and Dollar Bills, the Elvis and Liz series, the Death & Disaster pictures, and the Flowers cycle from 1964. Concentration on the drawings and paintings of the early years demonstrates the far-reaching significance of this oeuvre for art history.

Instant Andy. Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.” - Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos, many of them never seen before.

Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé, Debbie Harry are included alongside images of Warhol’s entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol’s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.

The author

Richard B. Woodward is a New York-based art critic who contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. His journalism has appeared in numerous publications, from The Atlantic, Bookforum, Film Comment, The American Scholar, and The New Yorker to Vanity Fair, Interview, and Vogue. His essays on art and photography have been featured in more than 20 monographs and museum catalogues.

The editor

Reuel Golden graduated in politics from the University of Sussex, UK, and is the former editor of the British Journal of Photography. He has edited various titles for TASCHEN including The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty, Harry Benson: The Beatles, Age of Innocence: Football in the 1970s, and the New York and London editions of the Portrait of a City series.

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О книге Andy Warhol. Polaroids

AndyWarhol. Polaroids – расскажет вам историю «Мгновенного» Andy, как его называли. До того, как появился современный Инстаграмм, «фото в моменте» делал Уорхол.

«Я хочу запомнить, где я был каждую минуту своей жизни. Вот зачем я снимаю. Это дневник воспоминаний», - так говорил известный фотограф.

Энди Уорхол

Энди Уорхолбыл не устающим летописцем своей жизни. Всегда носил с собой камеру Polaroids с конца 1950-х годов, и аж до смерти в 1987 году. Он собрал большую коллекцию быстрых фото друзей, влюбленных, меценатов, знаменитостей, неизвестных, художников, модельеров и конечно, себя.

Книга AndyWarhol. Polaroidsсоздана в тесном общении с фондом Энди Уорхола и имеет на свих страницах сотни фотографий, многие из которых никогда ранее не публиковались.Портреты таких известных личностей, как Мик Джаггер, Альфред Хичкок, Джек Николсон, Ив Сен

Лоран, Пеле, Дебби Гарри. Вместе со снимкамиближайшего окружения Уорхола и его публичной жизни. А также, пейзажи и натюрморты, от кукол из капусты, до легендарных суповых банок.

Фотографии Polaroids, часто сырые и импровизируемые вошли в историю, как эпоха Уорхола. Как сегодняшний Instagram захватывает нашу жизнь, эти фото – способ заглянуть в жизнь и мир великого маэстро поп-арта и гиганта модернизма.

Автор

Ричард Б. Вудворд - искусствовед из Нью-Йорка, регулярно вносящий вклад в Уолл-стрит

Журнал и Нью-Йорк Таймс. Его журналистские работы появлялись в многочисленных публикациях из Atlantic, Bookforum. Как комментарии к фильмам «Американский ученый» и «Ярмарка тщеславия» от NewYorker, в интервью в журнале Vogue. Его эссе об искусстве и фотографии были представлены в более чем 20 монографиях и музейных каталогах.

Редактор

Руил Голден окончил политический факультет Университета Сассекса в Великобритании и является бывшим редактором Британского Журнала Фотографии. Он редактировал различные издания для TASCHEN, включая The Rolling Стоунс, Ее Величество, Гарри Бенсон: Битлз, Эпоха невинности: футбол в 1970-х годах, Нью-йоркские и лондонские издания серии «Портрет города».

Throughout his career, Andy Warhol easily crossed the boundaries between fine art and graphic design; in fact, he made no distinction between art and advertising.

Posters were a natural medium for this talented artist, and he was much in demand to promote some of the most renowned celebrities, causes, and brands of his time.

This richly illustrated book catalogs all of Warhol's posters commissioned for a specific purpose and features original artwork. Arranged chronologically, they present a fascinating array of subjects, including cultural events, musicians, political campaigns, and iconic brands. Each of the posters is exquisitely reproduced, including some with multiple variations, and accompanied by informative texts and comparative illustrations.

The author's introductory essay offers a brief history of poster art and contextualises Warhol's output against masters of the form such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Keith Haring. Seen in their entirety, these posters - bearing all the hallmarks of the artist's finest work - both reflect and reveal the cultural zeitgeist that drove Warhol's innovative practice.

Посмотреть избранные развороты книги Andy Warhol: The Complete commissioned Posters 1964-1987

Überblick über das Gesamtwerk von Giuseppe Arcimboldo, der als Schöpfer fantastischer Porträts einer der extravagantesten und zugleich rätselhaftesten Maler der Kunstgeschichte ist.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593), der für seine verblüffenden Porträts gefeierte Künstler der italienischen Spätrenaissance, bleibt – der Bekanntheit seines Namens zum Trotz – bis heute geheimnisvoll. Sein Ruhm gründet sich vornehmlich auf seine einzigartige Serie von Jahreszeitenbildnissen, die aus Pflanzen und Früchten komponiert sind. Hoch verehrt im Leben, gerät Arcimboldo nach seinem Tod schnell in Vergessenheit, bis er im frühen 20. Jahrhundert als einer der Wegbereiter moderner Kunst wiederentdeckt wird.
Der Band erschließt die ganze Spannweite seines Schaffens einschließlich der weniger bekannten Facetten und ermöglicht – eingebettet in das kulturhistorische Umfeld der Zeit – ein vertieftes Verständnis seines Werkes: Neben den berühmten Komposit- und Umkehrköpfen werden etwa Arcimboldos künstlerische Anfänge in seiner Geburtsstadt Mailand und vor allem auch seine 25-jährige Tätigkeit als Hofmaler der Habsburger Kaiser Maximilian II. und Rudolf II. ausführlich beschrieben. Auch die Naturstudien Arcimboldos, die ebenfalls auf die ungewöhnliche Verknüpfung von Natur, Wissenschaft und Kunst in seinem Werk verweisen, werden vorgestellt.

The most comprehensive volume devoted to the life and work of pioneering African American artist Robert Colescott, accompanying the largest traveling exhibition of his work ever mounted.

Robert Colescott (1925-2009) was a trailblazing artist, whose august career was as unique as his singular artistic style. Known for figurative satirical paintings that exposed the ugly ironies of race in America from the 1970s through the late 1990s, his work was profoundly influential to the generations of artists that have followed him, such as Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Henry Taylor, among many others.

This volume surveys the entirety of Colescott's body of work, with contributions by more than ten curators and writers, including a substantive essay by the show's cocurator, the renowned Lowery Stokes Sims. It provides a detailed stylistic analysis of his politically inflected oeuvre, focusing on Colescott's own consideration of his work in the context of the grand traditions of European painting and contemporary polemic. In addition, the book features reminiscences and thought pieces by a variety of family, friends, students, curators, dealers, and scholars on his work as well as a selection of writings by the artist himself. Relying on previously unpublished transcripts of lectures, reviews, and archival materials provided by institutions and individuals, the book will provide a fuller story of the artist's life and career.

About the Authors:

Raphaela Platow is the Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Lowery Stokes Sims is a dedicated advocate for diversity and inclusion in the art world. She is an independant curator after working for the Museum of Arts and Design, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matthew Weseley is an independent art historian. He is currently working on an academic monograph on the work of Robert Colescott.

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Пролистать книгу Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

About the Author
Victor Arwas is an acknowledged authority on the fine and decorative arts of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In over twenty published books he has explored aspects of various movements, and written exhibition catalogues and monographs on individual artists and groups. Several of his books are the standard works on their subject. He is a lifelong collector of paintings, graphics, books, sculpture and objets d'art, and has exhibited and promoted exhibitions at his Editions Graphiques gallery in London as well as in Japan and the United States. He lectures and broadcasts widely.

In this fascinating book, art historian James Hamilton examines the work and life of the illustrator Arthur Rackham.

Rackham’s illustrations for works such as Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice in Wonderland and A Midsummer Night’s Dream have attained the classic status of the writings themselves – indeed, in some cases, they have become synonymous with them. Rackham himself, however, has previously remained a shadowy figure.

As well as featuring exquisite illustrations and sketches, extracts from Rackham’s correspondence and insightful commentary from James Hamilton shed new light on this much-collected illustrator.

About the Author:

James Hamilton is Curator at the University of Birmingham, and has worked at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, Portsmouth and Wakefield City Art Galleries, the Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield and as a Director of the Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group. He organised a seminal Arthur Rackham exhibition at Sheffield, Bristol and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1979/80 and has written biographies of J. M. W. Turner and William Heath Robinson.

- A fascinating insight into the personality, career and work of one of the world’s most collectable illustrators
- Filled with enchanting pictures and authoritative text

Arthur Rackham was a Victorian-born illustrator and artist who influenced much of the book and commercial illustration of the first half of the 20th Century. 

The impish detail of his hundreds of drawings brought humour and dark detail to the fairy stories and classic tales which were popular at the time, from Washington Irving to the Brothers Grimm, Peter Pan to his exquisite work on the Alice in Wonderland. His water-colour work and the graceful power of his ink and line work influenced the Golden Age illustrators of the 1920s, through to the pulps of Weird Tales, and the comic books of today. 

Arthur Rackham: Masterpieces of Art is a celebration of this industrious and lively artist.

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

The outsider inside. From the streets to the galleries: the artist who turned the institution upside down

From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug overdose at 27. The subject of a feature film by fellow artist Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. This book explores his short but prolific career.

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

The present publication is dedicated to the expressive self-portraits by Jean-Michel Basquiat and covers his lifelong intensive study of the self. In Basquiat’s œuvre the self-portrait, one of the major subjects of art history, occupies a central position that has not been examined to date.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition to some 50 specific portraits of himself, we can also see his series of likenesses of African-American men as concealed reproductions of the artist. Not least because Basquiat, who was affected himself by everyday racism, identified with his heroes, saints and martyrs as he portrayed them. Thus his major topics from identity, discrimination and prejudice to capitalism, the market and oppression are all to be found in these key works.

Basquiat first came to prominence when he collaborated with Al Diaz to spray-paint enigmatic statements under the pseudonym SAMO©. He went on to work on collages, Xerox art, postcards, performances, and music before establishing his reputation as one of the most important painters of his generation.

Accompanying a major exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, this book opens with introductory essays from the curators, which place his practice in a wider art historical context and look at his career through the lens of performance. Six thematic chapters offer new research, with essays from poet Christian Campbell on SAMO©; curator Carlo McCormick on New York / New Wave; writer Glenn O’Brien on the downtown scene; academic Jordana Moore Saggese on Basquiat’s relationship to film and television; and music scholar Francesco Martinelli on Basquiat’s obsession with jazz.

This insightful new survey also features extended captions, rare archival material, and extensive photography, demonstrating how Basquiat’s legacy remains more powerful and relevant than ever today.

About the Author:

Dieter Buchhart is an art critic for Kunstforum International and the author of Keith Haring: The Political Line

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Пролистать книгу Basquiat: Boom for Real