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Icons of the desert : early aboriginal paintings from Papunya

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This publication is an exhibition catalog produced by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for a show featuring forty-nine "dot-paintings" produced by Aboriginal artists from the settlement of Panpunya. Dot-painting has become an art instantly associated with Aboriginal Australia. In the more than thirty-five years since the advent of this movement, Papunya works have been widely exhibited and acquired by private collectors and museums in Australia, and increasingly abroad. This is the first book to focus on the founding expressions of Papunya art. It examines their origins in the paintings produced in Papunya in the Western Desert during the years 1971 to 1973, after the Sydney schoolteacher Geoffrey Bardon provided Aboriginal men with art materials and encouraged them to paint on Masonite, against the wishes of Australian government officials. These paintings claim a unique status. Only around six hundred were made. They are also the first painted works to transfer the designs of desert ceremonial imagery to a permanent surface. The book is illustrated with full-color plates of the forty-nine exhibited works by such great artists as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri. In addition, it features numerous color figures of comparative works and documentary photographs of the original artists at work, some never before published, and a chronological catalog documenting the works’ history and iconography.

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Tatlin's tower

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The plans for the gigantic Monument to the Third International were completed in 1920 by Vladimir Tatlin, the Russian painter and visionary designer who was a key figure of Russian constructivism. Planned as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern in Petrograd, it was to be made from industrial materials—iron, glass, and steel—as a towering symbol of modernity. Because of the political turmoil and housing shortages in Russia after the 1917 Revolution, the building was never constructed, but it remains a celebrated icon of revolutionary art. In this insightful book, the author investigates the sources and symbolism of Tatlin’s Tower and considers not only its significance but also the broader role of allegory in abstraction and as an expression of man’s highest aspirations.

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La sculpture à Paris. 1905-1914, moment de tous les possibles

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Autour de 1900, Paris rassemble une nouvelle génération de sculpteurs consciente de vivre l’aube d’une nouvelle ère et cherchant un langage pour cet avenir encore indécis. Paris est aussi un milieu intellectuel traversé de nouvelles idées qui stimulent les débats esthétiques et renouvellent nombre de questions : autonomie par rapport à la peinture, détour par le passé, relation à l’espace et au temps. Des penseurs comme Bergson, James, Nietzsche et Simmel, en substituant des notions comme l’intuition et la mouvance à la raison et à la permanence, fécondent la création plastique. Des sculpteurs aux sensibilités en apparence incompatibles apparaissent finalement comme formant un ensemble cohérent dans ce contexte.

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UAM : Union des artistes modernes

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Présentation de l'histoire de ce mouvement artistique créé en 1929 pour promouvoir les arts décoratifs, notamment à partir des expositions organisées entre 1930 et 1937. La deuxième partie propose 70 biographies d'artistes ayant marqué le mouvement : René Herbst, Hélène Henry, Gustave Miklos ou encore Jean Prouvé et Charlotte Alix.

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UAM : une aventure moderne

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L'Union des Artistes Modernes est vaste mouvement regroupant des architectes, des artistes décorateurs, des créateurs de mobilier, mais aussi des peintres, des sculpteurs, des photographes, des créateurs de tissus et de bijoux, des graphistes et des affichistes... Fondée en 1929 sous la forme d'une association française ouverte aux créateurs internationaux, il aura comporté plus de 170 membres jusqu'à sa dissolution en 1958. Les artistes français comme Fernand Léger, Sonia Delaunay, Raoul Dufy, Henri Laurens pour la peinture, Francis Jourdain, Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Chareau, pour le design, Mallet-Stevens, Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Lurçat, mais aussi Lods, Zehrfuss ou Emile Aillaud pour l'architecture, Hélène Henry pour le textile, Jean Carlu pour le graphisme...tous sont des membres éminents de l'UAM dont la liste couvre tous les champs de la création. Rassemblées de manière inédite sous forme de « périod room » leurs œuvres offrent un large panorama de la création sur près de cinquante ans et donnent à voir l'évolution de l'idée « moderne ».

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20 + years of Witte de With

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Since its inception in 1990, Witte de With has exhibited some 300 artists and, through its publications, lecture programs and participation in events such as the Venice Biennale and the Shanghai World Expo, the center continues to shape international discourse on art and its institutions. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, Witte de With Publishers presents a survey celebrating these achievements.

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Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability

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This publication focuses the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of sustainability through the lens of postwar and contemporary art. Also representing the fields of design, architecture and technology, Examples to Follow! highlights works ranging from objects made from recycled products to a floating island where clean water can be made by physical activity. The list of international artists includes Joseph Beuys, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Richard Box, Ines Doujak, Adib Fricke, Klara Hobza, Lukas Feireiss, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Josef Hack, Henrik Håkansson, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Christoph Keller, and others.

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The more I draw

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In the wake of Abstract Expressionism, exponents of drawing found the limits of their art blown wide open. Beuys and Twombly provide two instances of this freedom, and The More I Draw opens its assessment with works by both artists. Fifty artists participate in this overview, among them Ryoko Aoki, Silvia Bächli, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, David Shrigley, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Jorinde Voigt and many others.

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Serpentine lines : Max von Moos, André Thomkins, Aldo Walker, Max Ernst

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The snake as an ambivalent symbol and the serpentine line as form and medium are part of the culture of Surrealism. They link Jackson Pollock to Max Ernst. The focus of the work of Max von Moos is human existence under threat, and the motif of the snake is encountered repeatedly in his painting. In the generation after him , André Thomkins and Aldo Walker, who were familiar with his oeuvre, worked with the form of the snake redeemed as a freely curving line. Paul Klee described the serpentine line as an active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal.

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Piranesi: The complete etchings

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is most known for his terrifyingly original series of etchings of labyrinthine and megalomaniac prisons, Carceri d'Invenzione. In his own day, he was most celebrated for his Vedute, 137 etchings of ancient and modern Rome; so renowned were these startling and dramatic chiaroscuro images, imbued with Piranesi's romantic feeling for archaeological ruins, that they formed the mental picture of Rome for generations after. Indeed, Piranesi could be said to have shaped a whole strain of contemporary architecture, as well as the wider visualization of antiquity itself. In our time, he has had a direct influence on writers such as Borges and Kafka and on filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Peter Greenaway.