Книги про сучасне мистецтво

Mark Ryden’s Yakalina Secrets – це дивовижна друга частина неймовірної галереї істот художника.

У своїй тихоокеанській північно-західній студії під час ізоляції через COVID-19 Марк Райден розпочав серію своїх культових напівтварин-напівплюшевих створінь, які далі досліджували його благоговіння перед цими істотами, які є провідниками крізь ландшафт невідомого. Фігури на цих картинах не є ані людьми, ані тваринами, вони є духовними сутностями, які створюють міст між людським і тваринним світом, у якому так багато дисгармонії.

Ця книга містить усі оригінальні портрети таємничих і міфічних істот Райдена. Отримана галерея зачарованих персонажів втілює ретельно реалізоване художником поєднання архетипу, кітчу та наративного містицизму.

Mark Ryden’sYakalina Secrets представляють роботи з двох виставок художника, організованих у співпраці з Еммануелем Перротіном і галереєю Kasmin: «Секрети тварин» у Парижі та «Якаліна 9» у Токіо.

Передмова Такаші Муракамі

Про автора:

Поєднуючи теми поп-культури з технікою, що нагадує старих майстрів, Марк Райден створив унікальний стиль, який стирає традиційні межі між високим і низьким мистецтвом. Його роботи вперше привернули увагу в 1990-х роках, коли він започаткував новий жанр живопису, «поп-сюрреалізм», потягнувши за собою безліч послідовників. Райден перевершив початкові сюрреалістичні стратегії, обираючи теми, наповнені культурним відтінком.

A new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium.

While acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Read’s classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art series, academic and artist Simon Morley places the foundation of modern art much earlier than Read, at the emergence of Romanticism and the dawn of the industrial age. Structured loosely chronologically by period, the focus is as much on individual artists as well as movements, with works discussed within a broader context - stylistic, historical, geographical, and gender and ethnic frames - themes that recur throughout the chapters. Generously illustrated, the global and diverse range of artists featured include William Blake, Édouard Manet, Hilma af Klint, Kazimir Malevich, Willem de Kooning, Amrita Sher-Gil, Faith Ringgold, and Kehinde Wiley.

This guide also includes an Appendix in the form of questions the reader might like to ask in relation to the artists and the ideas discussed - in order to reconsider the works from a contemporary perspective.

About the Author:

Simon Morley is a visual artist and Assistant Professor in the College of Arts, Dankook University, Republic of Korea. He has lectured at such museums as Tate, The National Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and Camden Arts Centre, and has contributed to numerous publications including Third Text, World Art, the TLS, The Burlington Magazine, Art Monthly, The Art Newspaper, Contemporary Art and the Independent on Sunday.

Interdisciplinary artist Olaf Breuning depicts the world we live in with a keen sense of irony.

Born in Switzerland and now based in New York, Olaf Breuning works in a variety of media including photography, video, installation, drawing, and painting. Testing the limits of humor and contemporary aesthetics, Breuning’s photo-collages, sculptures, paintings, and comics are simultaneously funny and provocative, absurd and eerie, tragic and fragile. His work provides ironic commentary on the clichés and trappings of our time.

The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, an international cultural center focusing on contemporary photography and visual art, is presenting an Olaf Breuning retrospective in the summer of 2016. This publication accompanies the exhibition. Documenting a cross section of Breuning’s extensive work, it provides a compelling overview of his oeuvre.

Overs!ze представляє найкраще мистецтво інсталяції у великому масштабі по всьому світу.

Дизайнери, скульптори та художники-інсталятори, представлені на цих сторінках, обговорюють такі аспекти, як погода, потік вітру, спосіб монтажу, часові обмеження, бюджети, транспортування твору на місце, використані матеріали та їх довговічність, а також процес вибору місця.

Готові проекти взаємодіють у симбіотичних або контрастних методах із своїм оточенням ретельно контрольованими способами для створення нових просторових значень.

A witty and revealing memoir of the mid-1990s, when high design became art and there was no more exclusive club for high design than MOSS.

For almost twenty years the SoHo design gallery MOSS was the place where design, art, money, and glamour mixed. Murray Moss, the impresario behind the shop, and his partner, Franklin Getchell, were the leading arbiters of good taste and the new — launching the careers of now-established designers such as Studio Job and Maarten Baas while bringing back into fashion eighteenth-century porcelain and Tupperware. By mixing high and low MOSS shifted the design conversation from the galleries of MoMA to a storefront in SoHo. Please Do Not Touch is their witty insider confessions of that exciting time.

Natural storytellers, Moss and Getchell effortlessly weave entertaining and revealing tales that take the reader behind the scenes of MOSS’s famous opening night parties and spectacular projects and partnerships with never-before-seen photographs from their personal archives. A memoir by two legends of modern design, Please Do Not Touch is sure to become a “bible” for cognoscenti and students alike — transporting lovers of modern design back to the time when high design first broke all barriers.

About the Authors:

Murray Moss is the legendary founder of MOSS. He is the recipient of the 2002 Chrysler Design Award and Russel Wright Award. In 2007, he was elected to Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale School of Architecture, Aspen Institute, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the TED conference. Franklin Getchell is Murray Moss’s life partner and was the managing partner of MOSS. He was an award-winning producer and executive for the Children’s Television Network before joining MOSS.

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Пролистать книгу Please Do Not Touch: And Other Things You Couldn't Do at Moss the Design Store That Changed Design

Less a distinct style than the concrete expression of being in a particular era, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, and the role of the artist and artwork.

The movement’s primary provocation was to defy ideas of the artistic canon or “originality” by integrating mass market imagery into their works. Whether advertising slogans, famed Hollywood faces, comic-strip-style characters, or the packaging of consumer products, the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein knowingly reproduced mundane, everyday images from popular culture.

At the same time, Pop Art reduced the role of the individual and challenged the notion of originality by deploying mass production techniques such as screen printing. Like a hall of mirrors, the resulting works came to interrogate both the ideas and desires of contemporary culture, and its state of simulacra, whereby images, substitutes, and representations come to define the experience of “reality.”

In this book, Tilman Osterwold explores the styles, sources, and stars of the Pop Art phenomenon. From Lichtenstein’s comic-book aesthetics to Warhol’s images of Marilyn, it explores how a movement that interrogated the icons of its time came to produce icons of its own.

Sensuous, bold and topical – this volume with its varied illustrations presents the entire spectrum of Jewish ideas about sexuality. In doing so it examines widely-held and contradictory stereotypes, according to which Jewish tradition either supports sexuality or restricts it through stringent regulations.

The popular series and dating shows 'Unorthodox', 'Shtisel' and 'Jewish Matchmaking' cater to a surprising desire for a peek into the intimate life of Jews. Whether their protagonists are ultra-Orthodox, secular or somewhere in between: Pop culture simplifies a topic that has been the subject of profound discourse within the Jewish world ever since the commandment to “be fruitful and multiply.” Rabbis and religious scholars, sex therapists, scientists and artists grapple with traditional ideas and contemporary challenges, and explore Jewish positions on sexuality in all its diversity.

Artists include Judy Chicago, Nicole Eisenman, R. B. Kitaj, Roee Rosen, Gil Yefman, et al.

About the Authors:

Miriam Goldmann works as an exhibition curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Joanne Rosenthal is a freelance curator based in the United Kingdom.
Titia Zoeter is a curator and exhibition maker at the Joods Museum Amsterdam.

Tracing the Iranian-born artist’s personal journey in exile from her native Iran, this book presents Shirin Neshat’s iconic early videos and photographs along with new work making its global debut.

In the 1990s, Shirin Neshat’s startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen video meditations on the culture of the chador in Islamic Iran “the first undoubtable masterpieces of video installation.”

Over the next twenty-five years, Neshat’s work has continued its passionate engagement with ancient and recent Iranian history, extending its reach to the universal experience of living in exile and the human impact of political revolution. This book connects Neshat’s early video and photographic works — including haunting films such as Rapture, 1999 and Tooba, 2002 — to her current projects which focus on the relation of home to exile and dreams such as The Home of My Eyes, 2015, and a new, never-before-seen project, Land of Dreams, 2019. It includes numerous stills from her series, Dreamers, in which she documents the lives of outsiders and exiles in the United States.

This volume also includes essays by prominent Iranian cultural figures as well as an interview with the artist. Neshat has always been a voice for those whose individual freedoms are under attack.

With this monograph, her audience will gain a deeper understanding of Neshat’s own emotional, psychological, and political identities, and how they have helped her create compassionate portraits of the fraught and delicate spaces between attachment and alienation.

STICKERS 2 is the new bible of the adhesive art form — a visual history of fine art and street art in one of its most elemental, accessible, provocative, and ubiquitous forms. -with 16 pages of collectible stickers

Cheap, democratic, easy to ‘tag,’ and not always fast to fade, the sticker has been an ever-present medium — from the New York and London underground punk scenes to skate culture and political expression. Featuring more than 3,000 images of stickers from the global world of street expression — where DIY culture meets music, graffiti, design, and branding — Stickers 2 is a comprehensive record of an art form whose appeal lies in the juxtaposition of transience and significance.

STICKERS 2 illustrates the timeline of this pastime, from counterculture to politics, it’s 2019 chapters include -  Music: Punk Rock to Electronic music, Skateboarding, Streetwear, Graffiti, Fine Art, Political Activism, however Volume 2 goes even further than its predecessor, with chapters on the origins of Surf culture and the BMX bike world.

STICKERS 2 : extravagantly illustrated with more than 3,000 images of sticker graphics, organized by categories and themes, the book includes works by such diverse artists as Tom Sachs, Jenny Holzer,  BANKSY, Neckface, Marilyn Minter, ESPO and Barry McGee; to amateurs who ‘tag’ the streets anonymously. 

With texts from writers from many celebrated walks of life — including Jeffery Deitch, INVADER, C.R.Stecyk, Mark Mothersbaugh, Paul Gorman and Stikman, among many others — Stickers 2 reveals not only the cutting edge of sticker art but also the personal relationships that fine artists, street artists and pedestrians alike share with the medium. 

The is volume boasts an unparalleled collection of 125 removable stickers bound into its back pages. These sheets are by group of artists that is truly extraordinary. The list includes -Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, INVADER, Marylin Minter, Erik Parker, SWOON, FUTURA, Robert Lazzarini, Kenzo Minami, Kostas Seremetis, Kristen Liu-Wong, Anthony Lister, Ron English, Ryan McGuinnes, BAST, D*Face, Shepard Fairey, FAILE, Skullphone, Tara McPherson, Peter Schuyff, Swoon, & James Hyde + more.  

About the Author:

Author DB Burkeman fell in love with stickers at an early age via skateboarding and punk rock, but he made a name for himself DJing between his two homes in London and New York. He threw some of the first UK rave warehouse parties in New York City and in the early 90s he launched the infamous club night NASA. Although his career has been in music, DJing, and doing A&R, his passion has always been art.

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Пролистать книгу Stickers Vol. 2: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. (aka More Stuck-Up Crap)

STICKERS 2 is the new bible of the adhesive art form-a visual history of fine art and street art in one of its most elemental, accessible, provocative, and ubiquitous forms. -with 16 pages of collectible stickers

Through over 3000 images of stickers, the book illustrates the timeline of this pastime, from counterculture to politics, it's chapters include - Music: Punk Rock to Electronic music, Skateboarding, Streetwear, Graffiti, Fine Art, Political Activism, however Volume 2 goes even further than its predecessor, with chapters on the origins of Surf culture and the BMX bike world.

Organized by categories and themes, the book includes works by such diverse artists as Tom Sachs, Jenny Holzer, BANKSY, Neckface, Marilyn Minter, ESPO and Barry McGee; to amateurs who 'tag' the streets anonymously.
With texts from writers from many celebrated walks of life--including Jeffery Deitch, INVADER, C.R.Stecyk, Mark Mothersbaugh, Paul Gorman and Stikman, among many others--Stickers 2 reveals not only the cutting edge of sticker art but also the personal relationships that fine artists, street artists and pedestrians alike share with the medium. The book is beautifully designed by Felice Kolfler.

The is volume boasts an unparalleled collection of 125 removable stickers bound into its back pages. These sheets are by group of artists that is truly extraordinary. The list includes -Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, INVADER, Marylin Minter, Erik Parker, SWOON, FUTURA, Robert Lazzarini, Kenzo Minami, Kostas Seremetis, Kristen Liu-Wong, Anthony Lister, Ron English, Ryan McGuinnes, BAST, D*Face, Shepard Fairey, FAILE, Skullphone, Tara McPherson, Peter Schuyff, Swoon, & James Hyde + more.
"Essential cultural history" - Jeffrey Deitch "A must-have for the discriminating sticker collector" - Ed Templeton

"Every sticker is a memory for someone!" - Maya Hayuk

About the Authors:

Author DB Burkeman fell in love with stickers at an early age via skateboarding and punk rock, but he made a name for himself DJing between his two homes in London and New York. He threw some of the first UK rave warehouse parties in New York City and in the early 90s he launched the infamous club night NASA. Although his career has been in music, DJing, and doing A&R, his passion has always been art.

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Пролистать книгу Stickers Vol. 2: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. (aka More Stuck-Up Crap)

The first major U.S. monograph in ten years on Murakami is the definitive survey of the paintings of one of today’s most influential artists.

Takashi Murakami (b. 1962), one of contemporary art’s most widely recognized exponents, receives a long-awaited critical consideration in this important volume. Accompanying the first retrospective exhibition devoted solely to Murakami’s paintings, this book traces Murakami’s career from his earliest training to his current studio practice.

Where other books address the commercial aspects of Murakami’s work, this is the first serious survey of his work as a painter. Through essays and illustrations — many previously unpublished — it explores the artist’s relationship to the tradition of Japanese painting and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, commercial and high art. New texts address Murakami’s output in the context of postwar Japan, situating the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting, the Tokyo art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. This richly illustrated volume also includes a detailed biography and exhibition history. Takashi Murakami is a true essential for collectors and fans alike.

About the Authors:

Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Pritzker Director and Michael Darling is the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Michael Dylan Foster is associate professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. Chelsea Foxwell is assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Reuben Keehan is curator at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia. Akira Mizuta Lippit is professor and chair at the University of Southern California Dornsife College. Nobuo Tsuji is an independent scholar, author, and authority on Japanese aesthetics.

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Пролистать книгу Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg

What is contemporary art, and how did art come to be what it is today? How can we understand what a work of art means; and can’t just about anything be called art these days?

Contemporary Art Decoded takes ten key questions about contemporary art and uses them to what you’re looking at, how it works, and why it matters. Steering clear of jargon, this book digs deep into the core ideas and concepts behind the art. It features some work you’ll recognise, and some you won’t, from some of the most exciting artists working today, such as Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama and Zanele Muholi.

This book is guaranteed to make your next trip to a gallery more rewarding.

Chapters include:

– What is contemporary art?
– Where did it come from?
– Where do you draw the line?
– Does it matter who makes it?
– Does it have to mean something?
– Can anything be art?
– What about art for art’s sake?
– Has it all been done before?
– Does it have to be so serious?
– What’s next?

Ця легендарна книга була визнана найкращою, найчитабельнішою та найпровокаційнішою розповіддю про сучасне мистецтво, коли-небудь написаною.

У кожному з тематичних розділів Г’юз зберігає свою історію, засновану на історії 20-го століття, демонструючи, як модернізм прагнув описати досвід тієї епохи, і показуючи, що для багатьох ключових напрямів мистецтва це було життєво важливим завданням.

Спосіб, у який Г’юз повертає цю життєву силу та безпосередність через вдало підібраний приклад і влучну фразу, є серцевиною успіху цієї книги.

Про автора:

Роберт Хьюз (1938 – 2012) був австралійським мистецтвознавцем, письменником і продюсером телевізійних документальних фільмів.

A global overview of how contemporary artists incorporate text and the written word into work that speaks to some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century

Digital communication has seen the word as text permeate life in ways that the poets and artists of yesterday could never have imagined. Presenting a history of the word- and book-based art, and examining major areas where the word has dominated artistic practice, this book takes us on a fascinating and richly illustrated global tour of diverse contemporary art forms.

What value can text hold in the sphere of visual art? How is such text different from poetry? Can the poetic itself be visual art, or is text in this context consigned to the realms of gimmick and catchphrase? Looking at the work of a broad range of artists including Bruce Nauman, Julien Breton, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Shirin Neshat and many more, The Word is Art examines each of these questions, contending above all that in the digital age, words have become more important than ever.

With the advent of texting and social media, many predicted the debasement of language, and some have pointed to evidence of this in our so-called ‘post-truth’ culture. Michael Petry demonstrates that, on the contrary, words remain critical, powerful and central to art practice.

About the Author:

Michael Petry is an artist, author and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), London, and Guest Curator for culture agency Futurecity. His latest book, Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition, was also published by Thames & Hudson.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. Installed Words • 2. Three-Dimensional Words • 3. Light • 4. New Media • 5. The Conceptual Word • 6. Social Comment • 7. The Drawn Word • 8. Books • Further Reading

The World of Guweiz: The Art of Gu Zheng Wei слідкує за цифровим художником, який досліджує новий наративний фокус своїх останніх робіт. Цей другий внесок може похвалитися повною, підібраною колекцією мистецтва, кількома покроковими посібниками та ексклюзивним уявленням про світ фрілансу. Дізнайтеся, як Ґувейс розвиває своїх сміливих головних героїв, і підтримуйте їх, беручи участь у його суворих, безжальних вигаданих сценах. Ця приголомшлива книга ідеально підходить для тих, хто прагне вдосконалити візуальне оповідання, одночасно занурюючись у творчу уяву цього всесвітньо відомого художника.

Ця захоплююча друга частина глибше занурюється в творчий процес всесвітньо відомого цифрового художника Гувейза, даючи читачам рідкісну можливість стежити за тим, як він досліджує нову оповідну спрямованість своїх останніх робіт. The World of Guweiz: The Art of Gu Zheng Wei може похвалитися повною колекцією його робіт на сьогоднішній день, при цьому акцентуючи увагу на стилістичному підході до оповідання. На його похмурих та атмосферних сторінках ви знайдете численні покрокові посібники, які демонструють, як використовувати освітлення, колір і композицію для візуальної оповіді, ексклюзивний погляд на світ штатного фрілансера та розширені коментарі щодо його стилістичної еволюції з моменту його першої книги у видавництві 3dtotal. Дізнайтеся, як Гувейс розвиває своїх сміливих головних героїв, і підтримуйте їх, коли вони пересуваються через складні, безжальні умови, які він створив, стикаючись із силами зла, водночас викликаючи трохи хрипу. Ця приголомшлива книга є ідеальним доповненням для тих, хто прагне вдосконалити свої навички візуального оповідання, одночасно занурюючись у захоплюючі вигадані сфери.

Будь ласка, зверніть увагу, що деякі сторінки в книзі надруковані альбомно, щоб якнайкраще показати мистецтво Гувейза. Це означає, що книгу потрібно повернути, щоб переглянути ці сторінки.

Про художника:

Guweiz почав малювати, коли йому було сімнадцять, натхненний підручником з мистецтва аніме на YouTube. Виявивши природну пристрасть до цього жанру, він продовжував вчитися та малювати, і швидко накопичив фанатів свого гострого мистецького стилю. У цій книзі читачі відкриють для себе його мистецьку історію з самого початку, із закулісними подробицями про те, як створювалися деякі з його найпопулярніших творів. Ґувейз розкриває свої секрети перетворення зовнішнього впливу на справді оригінальне цифрове мистецтво, включно з надзвичайно важливою розповіддю, яка виводить малюнок і живопис за межі суто візуального.

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Переглянути відео про книгу The World of Guweiz: The Art of Gu Zheng Wei