Kunstnere, kunstmonografier

Saltholm og maleren Theodor Philipsen (1840-1920) hænger uløseligt sammen. I næsten 4 årtier malede Philipsen på Saltholm.Bogens forfatter har besøgt malestederne og foreviget et stort antal motiver, som der ser ud idag: Samme sted, samme årstid, samme vinkel, samme belysning. Med godt 200 illustrationer, giver bogen et indblik i Saltholm dengang og nu. Stik mod al logik er meget som for hundred år siden. Kun godt 10 km.fra Københavns Rådhusplads findes der den dag idag uberørt natur, hvor der bor mennesker hele året uden ferskvand og indlagt strøm.Mag. art. Finn Terman Frederiksen har skrevet et kapitel til bogen, som en kunsthistorisk introduktion til Theodor Philipsens Saltholmmaleri.

BOGEN om kunstneren Anne-Birthe Hove (1951-2012). Hun var en af Grønlands mest originale og anerkendte billedkunstnere i både ind- og udland. Anne-Birthe Hove arbejdede med mange medier og materialer – men først og sidst står hun tilbage som grafiker. Hun var en kunstner, der hele tiden udfordrede sig selv. Og dermed sit publikum. Denne bog er et tilbageblik på et kunstnerliv og en stor kunstnerisk produktivitet. Med bidrag fra mennesker, der stod Anne-Birthe Hove nær, professionelt og personligt – og ikke mindst gengivelser af en lang række af hendes værker. Tekst på dansk og grønlandsk. En smuk og gedigen bog med foliepræg på forside og ryg og ilagt kassette.

Det er en helt ny måde at fortælle byens nyere historie: Gennem karikaturtegninger. Aarhus fik en flyvende start i det nye årtusinde, og med de mange planer, projekter og beslutninger, kunne man let tabe pusten: Nu staves byen igen Aarhus, og vi fik Kunstmuseet AROS, en ny havneby, Det Nye Universitetshospital, nye bykvarterer, et udvidet Musikhus, Moesgård Museum, Marselistunnelen og meget mere. En del er realiseret, mere er på vej, og resten ligger i læ og venter på, at finanskrisen driver over. Det kan være svært at huske, men Rasmus Sand Høyer fastholdt i en årrække i JP Aarhus begivenhederne med sine morsomme tegninger af det aarhusianske univers. Det er hverdagskunst, der både masserer hukommelsen og kalder smilet frem. I samarbejde med kunstneren bringes ca. 125 af hans bedste tegninger, og historien om Randers-drengen Rasmus, der er smilets tegner i smilets by, fortælles.

Elsa Nielsen fødtes d. 21. september 1923. Som barnebarn af den berømte maler Lauritz Tuxen tilbragte hun sin barndoms bedste somre i familiens hus ´Villa Dagminne´ på Skagen i det sagnomspundne kunstnermiljø.Lige efter skolen begyndte hun at tegne på Glyptoteket med Viggo Brandt som lærer. Herefter kom hun ind på Erik Clemmesens tegneskole, og senere på Kunstakademiet i København på Vilhelm Lundstrøms malerskole. Elsa Nielsen har gennem tiden udstillet sine værker talrige steder i Danmark og i udlandet. Hun har modtaget adskillige legater og æresbevisninger, herunder den fineste, Eckersbergmedaillen, som hun modtog i 1985. Bogen afsluttes med en biografi over Elsa Nielsens liv, som hun delte med den kendte grafiker Palle Nielsen.Uddrag fra kunstneren Bodil Kaalunds forord: Denne bog er blevet til for at opsummere et efterhånden langt kunstnerlivs resultater, frembragt med stædig fordybelse og med daglig forundring over tingenes skønhed som igangsættende faktor. Men det var også en fornøjelse at trække en kunstner frem, som ikke har anstrengt sig for at følge ”moden” eller ”trenden”, men kun koncentreret sig om dette ene: at se. Iagttage, næsten indtil en ekstase, og give det sete udtryk i en kunstnerisk disciplin.Et forsøg på at vise en kunstner der nok udadtil har virket høfligt stille og tilbagetrukket, men indadtil foldet sig ud med en vedholdende temperamentsfuld alvor. Temperamentet bliver dagligt brugt på ”det, der trænger sig på”. Lyset i nogle glas, eller frugternes overdådighed kunne fængsle. I årevis. ”Det kunne ikke være anderledes” sagt med kunstnerens egne ord. Gipshovedet blev en besættelse, og nu, senere, blomsterne og deres stængler, pigerne og deres lange halse. Håret, der vikler sig ud af kunsthistoriens mesterværker hos Leonardo eller Botticelli, forener sig med træernes bladhang og springbalsaminens frøstand og bliver en del af Elsa Nielsens univers.Indhold: Forord af Bodil Kaalund - Bent Irve: Nænsomhed og dybde – Peter Michael Hornung: Når det at tegne ikke kan være anderledes – Torben Weirup: Det uudslukkelige – Biografi – Billedfortegnelse.Se også bogen om hendes mand: "Palle Nielsen - Temaer i hans værk" (EAN 9788772459615)

Ansigter bryder frem af bivoks. Byer forgrener sig i ukendte verdener. Kroppe spirer, bliver til svampe, gror til med muslingeskaller. Bjørneklo, døde bier og medicinemballage blander sig med polystyren, bronze, gips og ler i de vildtvoksende kunstværker. Verden, som vi kender den, ophæves og sættes sammen på ny.Emil Westman Hertz (1978-2016) arbejdede som billedhugger, tegner, grafiker og fotograf. Ubesværet flettede han de forskellige udtryksformer ind og ud mellem hinanden til levende og bevægelige værker, vævet sammen i et univers af febervildelser og forestillingsverdener og båret af en stærk fortællekraft.Emil Westman Hertz. Altid forandret præsenterer den kompromisløse kunstner og hans særegne metoder og strategier. Med afsæt i blandt andet kunsthistorie, antropologi, økokritik og shamanisme tegner bogens forfattere for første gang et samlende billede af et altid foranderligt kunstnerskab.

Mie Olise Kjærgaard erobrer et kunstnerisk territorium, som er dybt forbundet med ideen om macho-kunstneren: ekspressivt, figurativt maleri i store formater. Hendes flere meter store lærreder er komponeret med en stormfuld penselføring, som emmer af vildskab og kraft. Æstetikken er ikke feminin i nogen traditionel forstand – tværtimod – hendes projekt synes nærmere at være at erobre nyt territorium for det kvindelige. At udvide billedet af feminint råderum i retning af et vildt, energisk felt, som hun overbevisende bemestrer og gør til sit eget. I sit maleri digter hun en ny historie for kvinder. En historie som taler direkte ind i vor tid, hvor en ny generation af kvinder tager mikrofonen og insisterer på en plads i den offentlige samtale. Netop fordi hun er maler, formår Mie Olise Kjærgård at bringe historien ud i et abstrakt rum, som også taler ud over sin tid. Hendes billeder er absolut nutidige, men foregår samtidig i en parallel ikke-tid, som er maleriets. Et abstrakt malerisk rum, hvor vikingeskibe, tennisketchere og fabeldyr vikles ind i hendes historie om den nye kvinde.

This kaleidoscopic exhibition catalog celebrates Lichtenstein's multifaceted career-from his iconic achievements in the Pop Art movement and beyond. Published to mark the centennial of Lichtenstein's birth, this retrospective volume is brimming with brilliant reproductions that highlight the entirety of the artist's oeuvre. It features the acclaimed works that helped establish 1960s pop art-panels inspired by comic strips and advertising, which send up societal stereotypes. It looks at his pioneering use of painted benday dots and carefully drawn and in-filled brushstrokes, his interiors and landscapes, re-stagings of still lifes, his expansion into sculpture and ceramics, and works that pay homage to famous artists such as Picasso, Monet, and Van Gogh. Throughout this magnificent catalog readers will come to appreciate not only Lichtenstein's vibrant and dynamic use of color, line, and texture, but also how his continuing confrontation with the visual language of popular culture and consumerism continues to resonate today.

Julian Schnabel macht Kunst aus dem Leben und findet seine Materialien in der Struktur des Alltags. Er verwendet zerbrochene Teller als unpraktischen Bildgrund, malt auf Samt, Planen von Marktständen und Armeefahrzeugen, Kabuki-Theaterkulissen oder dem Boden eines Boxrings - Oberflächen, die ihre jeweils eigene Geschichte in das Bild mit einbringen. Der Erfolg kam für Schnabel über Nacht mit seiner ersten New Yorker Einzelausstellung im Jahr 1979 und seitdem ist sein Name ein Synonym für die Rückkehr der totgesagten Gattung der Malerei in die zeitgenössische Kunst. Dabei hat er in einer Vielzahl von Medien gearbeitet: Seine Skulpturen erweitern die malerischen Formen der Bilder als grob gehauene, scheinbar abgenutzte Artefakte in den Raum. Als Regisseur von preisgekrönten Kinofilmen portraitiert er Künstler wie Basquiat, van Gogh und andere subtil-heroische Figuren. Und er baut seinen eigenen Traum von einem venezianischen Palast mitten in New York. "Ich möchte, dass mein Leben in meinem Werk steckt, komprimiert in meiner Malerei wie ein Auto in einer Schrottpresse. Sonst wäre meine Arbeit nur irgendwelches Zeugs", sagt Julian Schnabel. Diese Dringlichkeit zieht sich durch sein Schaffen, ganz gleich, welche Mittel oder Medien der Künstler wählt. Jetzt als unlimitierte Ausgabe erhältlich, stellt diese TASCHEN-Monografie die ganze Palette von Schnabels Arbeiten vor. Das Buch wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Künstler geschaffen. Die Texte steuern Freunde, Kuratoren und Kunsthistoriker bei, mit denen Schnabel schon zuvor an Projekten gearbeitet hat: Laurie Anderson zeichnet ein vertrauliches Porträt des Künstlers; Éric de Chassey widmet sich den Gemälden, Bonnie Clearwater den Skulpturen und Max Hollein der ortsspezifischen Arbeit; Donatien Grau schreibt über den Palazzo Chupi, das vom Künstler selbst entworfene Haus im New Yorker West Village; der Schriftsteller Daniel Kehlmann taucht in das filmische Werk ein. Mit diesen Texten und hochwertigen Werkabbildungen macht das Buch Schnabels Kunst auf eine direkte Weise erlebbar, wie es sonst nur in der persönlichen Begegnung mit den Werken möglich ist.

Two decades of intricately layered works on paper from an artist known for his contemporary still lifesComprising 100 works on paper, Drawings: 2003-2023 is the most expansive collection of Jonas Wood's artistic practice to date. This body of work traces the artist's trajectory back to his early days in Los Angeles, where he worked alongside painter Laura Owens and sculptor Matt Johnson. It was during this formative period that Wood's distinct visual language began to take shape: a language that would come to define his mature practice. Drawing played a central role in Wood's process, serving as both preparatory sketches for his collages and paintings, as well as independent works of art in their own right. At the core of Wood's prolific output lies a deep appreciation for the handmade--a reverence reflected in his engagement with found photographs, manual projectors and half-erased pencil sketches. Although rendered in a flattened perspective, the resulting tableaux are deeply layered, revealing traces of the artist's hand, miscellaneous references and the transformative nature of various artistic media. The comprehensive catalog features an essay by Douglas Fogle and a conversation between Laura Owens and the artist.The Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood (born 1977) creates paintings, drawings and prints, which mostly comprise intricate still lifes and interior domestic scenes. Throughout his compositions, the artist draws from art history, memory, and the people, objects and interiors that comprise his life. His work is boldly colored, detailed and graphic, and often features basketballs, ceramics and lush plants.

"Camo, by photographer Thandiwe Muriu, is the first publication to chronicle the work of this international artist, celebrating the vibrant portraits she creates that combine cultural textiles and beauty ideologies. Muriu takes us on a colorful, reflective journey through her world as a woman living in modern Kenya as she reinterprets contemporary African portraiture." --

Ende der 1910er-Jahre legte der dänische Illustrator Kay Nielsen letzte Hand an seine Illustrationen zu Tausendundeine Nacht. Seine Bilder gelten heute als Meisterwerke der Jugendstilillustration: Sie bersten vor satten Blau- und Rottönen und Blattgold, und sie beschwören den ganzen Zauber dieser legendären Sammlung persischer Volksmärchen herauf, die zwischen dem 8. und 13. Jahrhundert zusammengetragen wurden. Aufgrund finanzieller Engpässe in den Nachkriegsjahren nahm der Verlag dann aber Abstand von diesem Projekt, und die atemberaubenden Bilder in Tusche und Wasserfarben zu diesem Klassiker des Weltkulturerbes blieben zunächst vierzig Jahre lang unter Verschluss. Die Illustrationen, die nur ein einziges Mal in einem längst vergriffenen Buch veröffentlicht worden waren, wurden erst kurz vor Nielsens Tod 1957 der Vergessenheit entrissen und befinden sich heute in der Grunwald Center Collection im Hammer Museum von Los Angeles sowie in zwei Privatsammlungen. Unsere Publikation ist eine einzigartige Zusammenstellung von Kunstdrucken und bestechend schönen Illustrationen, direkt von Nielsens Original-Aquarellen reproduziert - dem einzigen noch vollständig erhaltenen Satz. Das Buch enthält Beschreibungen aller Bilder und drei illustrierte Essays zur Entstehung der Serie, zum Ursprung von Nielsens einmaliger Bildwelt und zur Geschichte der Erzählungen. Zusätzlich enthält es viele unveröffentlichte oder nur selten zu sehende Illustrationen sowie komplexe Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnungen, die Nielsen einst für die ursprüngliche Publikation vorgesehen hatte.

A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner.The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century known as the Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic in English history. It is rich with political events, outstanding protagonists, battles and campaigns, and culminates in the defeat of Richard III, brutally killed at the battle of Bosworth in 1485, and the rise to the throne of the House of Tudor.Since first being inspired by a visit to Bosworth battlefield over 25 years ago, renowned historical illustrator Graham Turner has built a worldwide reputation for his renderings of this colourful and intense era. This new study contains a unique and comprehensive collection of his paintings and drawings, which provide meticulously researched details of arms, armour and settings, while at the same time bringing to life the human stories behind the turbulent events. Fully illustrated with artwork and prints prized by historians and collectors for their dramatic and atmospheric compositions, The Wars of the Roses is an unmissable visual tour which showcases the technical, contextual and human facets of one of England's most dramatic historical periods.

Der Katalog betrachtet anhand von 89 Werken das OEuvre Eduardo Chillidas und zeigt seine künstlerische Entwicklung und Formensprache auf. Neben seinen Skulpturen und einige öffentlichen Arbeiten liegt der Fokus vor allem auf den hängenden Papierarbeiten des Künstlers - den "Gravitationen". Der in San Sebastián geborene baskische Künstler gilt als Meister der abstrakten Skulptur und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Bildhauern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bekannt geworden ist er als Bildhauer der Monumentalplastik im öffentlichen Raum. Seine tonnenschweren Stahlskulpturen prägen öffentliche Plätze, Landschaften und Parks.Text: Ignacio Chillida, Mikel Chillida, Sir Peter Murray CBE, Florian Steininger.

New edition of the Lowry in the popular Masterpieces of Art series.Renowned for his paintings of the industrial towns of North West England, Lancashire born Lowry had a distinctive and enchanting style, depicting the everyday life of the world around him. In association with The Lowry, which houses over 400 of Lowry’s works, this exceptional book portrays a selection of his paintings, sketches and other works, with subjects gleaned from urban landscapes teeming with his iconic ‘matchstick men’ to haunting unpopulated scenes. Often neglected by the elite of the art world his work has received much greater recognition in recent years.

"This book should be seen as a diary filled with writings, poetry, cut-outs, collages, photographs, and drawings printed on the stationary papers which keep the memory of my journeys." Marina Abramovic Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world's most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic's daring and utterly original body of work. An artist's notebooks are arguably the most authentic means of understanding her process, techniques, and impulses. And, for a performance artist, a rare, permanent record of how she develops her craft. Compiled over the course of four decades on stationery from various hotels, and other temporary residences, this collection of Marina Abramovic's original drawings, collages, poetry, writings, cut-outs, photographs and doodles offers glimpses of a brilliant mind in constant motion. Beautifully produced and packaged, it takes readers on a journey through Abramovic's thoughts-and traces the evolution of the most fruitful phase of her career. "My home was everywhere I went because my home was my own body." With the archival material elegantly reproduced in their original size on high-quality paper, this collection offers Abramovic's enormous fanbase unprecedented access to her creative process.

A new artist’s book, created by Gerhard Richter, that explores abstraction and chance in art and writing“The 100 Abstract Pictures shown here originated about five years ago, when I poured enamel paints on a fifty-by-fifty centimeter glass plate. The paints then flowed into one another without completely mixing. Thus they produced countless ephemeral abstract pictures, which I captured in photographs. These pictures are juxtaposed in the book with text formations that were generated at random.” —Gerhard Richter, 2023 With a career spanning more than sixty years, the renowned painter Gerhard Richter is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Debuting alongside Richter's first exhibition at David Zwirner, featuring new abstract works created between 2016 and 2022, this book celebrates his continued dedication to experimentation and innovation. An artwork of its own, this intimate volume inspires both close looking and a beautiful interpretation of abstraction.

"Corita Kent, formerly Sister Mary Corita, is known for her exuberant, colorful serigraphs and her teaching, as evidenced in her lively art classes. As a Catholic nun from 1936 until 1968, Corita lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community in Los Angeles. She taught lettering and layout, image finding, and art structure for 20 years in Immaculate Heart College's art department. There, she screened multiple films simultaneously, hosted guest thinkers including Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and John Cage, and guided the making of large-scale collaborative projects with students. Corita regularly took her students out for looking sessions at a used car lot or an art exhibition. While constantly looking and discovering visually, Corita shot thousands of 35 mm slides documenting references, the IHC milieu and the art department processes. For Corita, the vernacular environs of advertising, supermarkets and the city's media landscape were a source of inspiration and raw material. Her slide collection encompasses a wide range of subjects: cookies, coke bottles, toys, presents,experiments, projects, Mary's Day celebrations stemming from Corita's classroom, flowers, magazines, seeds, puppets, visits with Charles and Ray Eames, street signs, trade fairs, folk art, boxes, billboards and kites. Drawing from the Corita Art Center's vast slide collection, Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us embodies Corita's philosophy of looking"

Louis Vuitton, the global luxury fashion house, and world-famous artist Yayoi Kusama partner again, and in the storied history of the brand’s epic collaborations with artists, this is the most ambitious to date.In this important volume about this powerhouse collaboration, artwork by trailblazing artist Yayoi Kusama is featured alongside the groundbreaking fashion collection she designed with Louis Vuitton, and is organized around the seminal artistic themes that inspired the project.Edited by Ferdinando Verdi and Isabel Venero, the volume includes contributions from renowned experts in both fashion and art, including writer Jo-Ann Furniss who explores the collaboration, designer Marc Jacobs who initiated the house’s relationship with Kusama, and curators Mika Yoshitake and Philip Larratt-Smith, both of whom have organized important exhibitions on the artist’s work. And Hans Ulrich Obrist, the renowned curator and Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, London, Hans Ulrich Obrist talks with longtime Kusama expert Akira Tatehata.  In the spirit of this iconic partnership and with a nod to the popular fascination with Kusama, the book includes musings from some of the most important contemporary artists and musicians working today—including Arca, Katherine Bradford, Anne Imhoff, Ryan McNamara, Raúl de Nieves, Ryan Trecartin, Nora Turato, and Jacolby Satterwhite—talking about Kusama’s impact and her extraordinary ability to build fantastical worlds through her signature polka dots and mirror balls, which are joyful representations of her deeply thoughtful philosophy about art and the universe.

The artist's most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiat-artist and art world provocateur-took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity. In this important volume, devoted to an exhibition at the Brant Foundation in their newly opened Manhattan outpost featuring the artist's key works, Basquiat's art returns to its East Village roots, contextualized for the first time in decades in the very neighborhood that served as one of his greatest inspirations. Dieter Buchhart, noted Basquiat scholar and curator, brings together one hundred of the artist's most important works, focusing on the best examples of the many subjects that informed Basquiat's work, from jazz, anatomy, sports figures, comics, classical literature, the African diaspora, and art history. The exhibition partially restages three of the artist's critical early shows, including an exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings of heads at Robert Miller Gallery; his most important canvases from Gagosian Gallery's 1982 show in Los Angeles; and Basquiat's solo show at Fun Gallery in the East Village. Buchhart also considers in-depth the artist's so-called stretcher bar paintings, in which the normally hidden wooden supports for stretched canvases are exposed, works that have yet to be explored at length by scholars. In so doing, Buchhart offers a critical assessment of the enduring importance and legacy of the artist's work. (c) Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

Mørke og død spiller en central rolle i Rose Ekens nye kunstmonografi Shrine, der samler hendes arbejde fra de seneste fem år. En smadret lysekrone, glaserede urner, dildoer, tarotkort og visne blomster. De seneste fem år har kunstner Rose Ekens motiver ændret karakter. De farverige, keramiske installationer er erstattet af sorte elementer og en stemning af forfald. En udvikling der er tæt forbundet med de globale kriser og begivenheder i Ekens eget liv.“Vi bærer alle sammen på et mørke, hvad enten det er personligt funderet eller en konsekvens at ydre omstændigheder. Men de mørke tanker er et tabu, der bliver gemt væk og undertrykt. På et tidspunkt bliver vi nødt til at vælge mellem at fare vild i smerten eller få styrke fra såret,” siger Rose Eken.Heavy metal og heksekunstRose Ekens arbejde med de mørke hjørner af kulturen - fra smukke, giftige planter til buster med heavy metal-hoveder, heksekunst og sort magi - tager afsæt i Ekens egen forbindelse til musik som goth og black metal.”I en tid med internetdrevet monokultur er det vigtigt at åbne op for mørket – ar, traumer, sorg, frygt, død og endda ondskab. Temaer der er vigtige, hvis vi vil erkende os selv. Jeg har forsøgt at skabe et rum for mørket og døden,” siger Rose Eken.Kunstnermonografien Shrine er en gennemgang af Rose Ekens værker fra 2018 til 2022 suppleret af essays af kunstkritiker og kunsthistoriker Maria Kjær Themsen samt den britiske kunstkritiker og forfatter Jonathan Griffin og PhD i filosofi Heine Hansen.Om Rose EkenKunstner Rose Eken (f. 1976) har udstillet flere steder i USA, Europa og Danmark. Hun er uddannet fra Royal College of Art i London i 2003, og er i dag repræsenteret af V1 Gallery i København og Charlotte Fogh Gallery i Aarhus. Fere af Rose Ekens hovedværker indgår i samlinger på bl.a. Vejen Kunstmuseum, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Museum CLAY og ARoS Kunstmuseum.Papir: 170 gr. Galerie Art Gloss, 120 g. Munken Polar Rough

"'I was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person,' Robert Glèuck, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of 'the new narrative,' recently told the Paris Review, in which a section of About Ed has appeared. About Ed is Glèuck's portrait of the artist Ed Aulerich-Sugai, his sometime lover, met in the seventies in San Francisco, when gay life emerged unabashedly from the closet. 'I wanted to find in Ed something to latch on to that was outside my egotism and fear, my threadbare relation to the world-a leap through Ed into lyric time,' Glèuck has said, and in this book that is both 'a novel and my version of an AIDS memoir' he wanted to capture the full range of his feelings for Ed: 'estranged from Ed, bored by him, moved by him.' It is a book about the life they lived together-art and writing and family and sex and death-and, composed over many decades, it is also a book about how the past continues to change in memory and to charge the present. 'What is the right question to ask about a life?' Glèuck asks, describing About Ed as a 'collaborative project,' since 'Ed helped me write this book.' Ed gave him 'notes to fashion a chapter about the day he was diagnosed so I could describe his experience from the inside,' and 'after Ed died, Daniel, Ed's partner, lent me Ed's dream journals.... He started writing them in 1970, the year that we met. We both used his journals, not as puzzles to solve the truth of a self but as a commons producing images that we harvested for paintings and poems. And fifty years later, there I was reading and copying out and running away from his dreams. Are they a condensed version of Ed? Shorthand? Distillation? Is he knowable and unknowable in the same degree sleeping or waking?' About Ed is a challenging and beautiful book by one of America's finest and most adventurous writers"

From bestselling author Johanna Basford, a charming, pocket-sized coloring book that invites artists to create satisfying and simple masterpiecesWe don’t always have a whole afternoon or even an hour to dedicate to our creative practice. Small Victories is the perfect book for when you want to pick up a pencil and complete a coloring page in a single sitting. Colorists will find pages with multiple individual drawings, from which they can select a few and color, along with little vignettes and smaller motifs that can be completed in a single coloring session—all featuring Johanna Basford’s trademark whimsical illustrations and flights of fantasy.The perfect coloring book to flex your creative muscle, while also guaranteeing more of those feel good vibes you get on completion of a project!

This book contains a representative selection of the work of some of the best ceramic artists in the world. The 25 featured artists explain, in their own words, the creative processes behind their work, what inspires them, the strategies they use to stay fresh and creative, what distinguishes their work from that of other ceramic artists and how they achieve this. Through examples of their most personal creations -objects capable of affecting us emotionally, surprising us and making us think-, the artists reveal important details about their ceramic creations: how it was made, how it was shaped, which glaze and engobe coating they used to give the clay color and texture, the firing temperature of the kiln and the type of kiln chosen. The reader is provided with an illuminating glimpse into each artist's unique creative world, where they point out the defining features of their work and reveal some of the secrets that characterize their artistic processes. Paragons of exploration, risk and versatility, the extraordinary artists highlighted in this book rediscover thousand-year-old traditions, reinvent perspectives, transcend boundaries, tell stories and rebel from conventional expectations, creating in the process an exhilarating space where art, clay, water, air and fire meet and, ultimately, inspire. CERAMISTS INCLUDED. ARGELIA: Nathalie Doyen (Belgium). BELGIUM: Ann VanHoey. CHINA: Wan Liya. FRANCE: Monsieur Cailloux. GERMANY: Monika Debus. INDIA: Madhvi Subrahmanian. IRLAND: Nuala O'Donovan. ITALY: Paola Paronetto. JAPAN: Shozo Michikawa, Kaori Kurihara (now France), Yuko Nishikawa (now USA). MEXICO: Gustavo Pérez. NETHERLANDS: Cecil Kemperink. NIGERIA: Ngozi Omeje Ezema. POLAND: Monika Patuszynska. SPAIN: Ícaro Maiterena, Xabier Montsalvaje, María Oriza, Myriam Jiménez Huertas, Ana Felipe, Roger Coll. UK: Alice Walton, Nicholas Lees. USA: Lauren Nauman, Godeleine de Rosamel.

Få kunstnere har oplevet samme bratte fald fra superstjerne til kunsthistorisk prygelknabe som Carl Bloch (1834-1890). Efter sin død blev han skrevet ud af kunsthistorien og hans billeder sat på magasin. Men uden for museerne vandt Blochs virtuose teknik og forførende fortællinger fortsat nye tilhængere.I Carl Bloch – Forført gives en række bud på, hvordan Bloch har formået at fastholde et bredt publikum ved at tale direkte til de store menneskelige følelser, kropsligt og psykologisk. Hvad formede fænomenet Carl Bloch, og hvordan forstår vi ham i dag? I denne bog revurderer både forskere og et nutidigt, kritisk publikum Carl Blochs komplekse livsværk: fra de religiøse billeder, komiske genremotiver og opbyggelige skæbnefortællinger til de Rembrandt-inspirerede raderinger og de suveræne portrætter af det moderne livs kvinder.

Philip Guston paintings?particularly the liberated and instinctual forms of his late work?continue to exert a powerful influence on younger generations of contemporary painters. His daughter, Musa Mayer, manages the estate of Philip Guston and is president of The Guston Foundation. She has curated exhibitions of Guston's work and written books including the memoir Night Studio, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988. In 2022 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that more than two hundred Guston works from her collection would be gifted to the museum.

Popular artist Gretel Lusky welcomes readers into her fantastical world in this high-quality art book.This is an artist who loves fantasy and all things magical: fairies, mermaids, mythical creatures, knights, and more. She creates characters that are colorful yet mysterious and places that feel otherworldly, always pretty yet sometimes bordering on unsettling. Gretel fans will love delving into the story of her creative early years, discovering why she chose art as a career, and following her development timeline. She presents two exclusive galleries of art - one with a fantasy focus, based around maritime creatures and witches, and another that celebrates the beauty of sketchbooking. The artist has written chapters on her creative process, which aspiring and established artists will equally enjoy, and created a section on "Embracing The Mess," discussing the techniques of letting go of perfectionism, listening to your body, and staying motivated as an artist. With tools and materials covered in detail too, plus in-depth tutorials for readers to follow along with, this Art Of title is packed with incredible insight and joyous art, appealing to existing fans of Gretel as well as newcomers to her work.

Fryd Frydendahl (f. 1984) har etableret sig som en af det 21. århundredes mest væsentlige danske fotografiske billedkunstnere. Salad Days er en samling af omtrent 150 portrætter Frydendahl har taget i perioden 2012 til 2022. Den visuelle spændvidde rækker fra det kunstneriske og eksperimenterende til det kommercielle og søger at udviske grænserne herimellem. Gennem bogens forløb illustreres hendes faglige udvikling, og man oplever som læser samspillet og konnotationerne mellem Frydendahls tidligere arbejde og nye fotos produceret til bogen i 2022. Derved står bogen ligeledes som et portræt af Frydendahl som fotograf. Portrætterne ledsages af et perspektiverende essay skrevet af Elizabeth Renstrøm, tidligere Senior Photo Editor på The New Yorker. I stort omfang har fotografierne optrådt i andre sammenhænge, hvorfor bogen også indeholder et appendiks, hvor læseren kan følge værkernes oprindelse. De fotograferede er både kendte, ukendte og fotografen selv. Frydendahl bryder konventionerne for traditionelt portrætbaseret fotografi og har en særlig evne til at blotlægge en rejse for beskueren ind i et intimt rum, hvor skel mellem sociale- og kulturelle klasser, landegrænser og det fremmed udviskes. Et rum, hvor man møder universelle emner som sorg, ensomhed, identitet, venskab og familiebånd. Portrætterne rummer skrøbelighed, entusiasme, uskyldighed, naivitet, skønhed og akavethed. Frydendahl inddrager sig selv, sin familie og venner i sit arbejde, hvilket skaber både følsomme og vedkommende billeder med en distinkt signatur og potent visuel poesi. Hendes tilgang er intuitiv og nærværende. Hun er uadskillelig fra sine billeder. Forbindelsen til den fotograferede er altafgørende, hvilket gør, at man som beskuer mærker hendes billeder. Bogens titel henviser til det tidspunkt, hvor livet peaker. Til den tid, hvor du formodes at nå dit højdepunkt, men spekulerer på, om det virkelig er det. Det handler ikke om teenagere og unge. Nogle mennesker når deres højdepunkt før teenageårene, mens det kulminerer for andre langt senere hen i livet. Salad Days beskriver den naivitet og akavethed, der er forbundet med ikke at vide alt endnu – uanfægtet alder.Bogen bevæger sig i grænselandet mellem kunstfotografi, dokumentarisme og kommercielle fotos og søger at gøre op med prædefinerede opfattelser af fotografiet som medie og kunstform. Her udforskes, hvad portrættet er og kan. Salad Days cementerer den høje kunstneriske og faglige kvalitet, der har kendetegnet Frydendahls virke i mere end et årti, og som gør, at hendes arbejde appellerer til både foto- og kunstkendere, men også i bred forstand til den alment kulturinteresserede.

KarenBlixen er omdrejningspunktet i denne fortælling om kærlighed oglivsskæbne. I cirkler omkring hende bevæger sig syv mænd, som hverisær beretter om voldsomme og afgørende hændelser i derestilværelse, ofte med det erotiske som et gennemgåendetræk.Romanens syv fortællere er:WilhelmDinesen: Far til Karen. En rastløs og modig soldat.ThomasDinesen: Blixens bror, en nær og loyal ven.Denys FinchHatton: Hendes store kærlighed.Farah Aden: Blixenshushovmester i Afrika.Thorkild Bjørnvig: Digter og KarenBlixens nære ven.Otto Casparsson: En svensk tjener ogvagabond.Mortende Coninck: Den rige købmandssøn fra fortællingen ”EtFamilieselskab i Helsingør”.p { line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; background: transparent }

Dennis Scholl uses repetition. Though he does not always paint the same picture, he repeatedly returns to the same point. The terrain he passes through could be a dream landscape from a night twenty years ago. 'Landscape' is suggestive of nature, but the reality portrayed here seems fake. It is more of a park, in which nature has been replicated. And Scholl is not alone here. There are others whom he encounters over and over. But they are no ordinary passers-by; their faces seem like masks - indeed, some of them do wear masks. Are these creatures without expression? My impression is that there are certain arrangements in place within this loose community. Few things are self-evident here. For the most part, there seems to be more of a skirting around the edges of what is directly obvious. The fingers I would use to point at it would need to have more digits than I have on my hand. (Hans-Christian Dany)