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Henry Leutwyler: International Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum
Henry Leutwyler
Steidl, 2023
English - 256 Pages - 21 x 27 cm - 1,3 Kg
ISBN: 9783969991466
Henry Leutwyler
Steidl, 2023
This book is Henry Leutwyler's (born 1961) meticulous photographic record of the treasures of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva. In his trademark style, Leutwyler does not merely document objects but creates portraits of them, conjuring their past lives and imbuing the inanimate with character. Leutwyler sifted through the nearly 30,000 objects in the museum, shaping a selection that conveys the vital functions of the Red Cross: to provide humanitarian protection and emergency aid, particularly for the poor and underprivileged. Leutwyler shows us objects famously symbolic of the Red Cross (first-aid kits, uniforms, armbands), confronting various finds (amputation saws, a cannonball) as well as the unexpectedly beautiful: delicate beaded flowers made by a prisoner of war. His focus is on the details of objects, their imperfections, decay and often the damage they have endured: evocative of the people who put them to real humanitarian use.
English - 256 Pages - 21 x 27 cm - 1,3 Kg
ISBN: 9783969991466
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Une histoire intime de l’art: Yvon Lambert, une collection, une donation, un lieu
Alain Lombard, Béatrice Salmon, Yvon Lambert
Dilecta, 2023
Alain Lombard, Béatrice Salmon, Yvon Lambert
Dilecta, 2023
Au-delà d’une « belle collection », dont l’intérêt historique majeur légitimait que le Centre national des arts plastiques en accepte la donation, c’est une collection des plus originales et intimes qui s’offre à la vue de tous, une « succession d’émotions » acquise durant près de soixante-dix ans par un homme passionné et audacieux, à l’écoute des soubresauts de l’histoire de son temps. La Donation Yvon Lambert reflète cette clairvoyance du galeriste qui introduisit auprès d’un public français plusieurs générations d’artistes qui seraient certainement restés méconnus dans l’Hexagone sans son intervention. C’est pourquoi elle constitue un enrichissement exceptionnel pour les collections publiques françaises tant en quantité qu’en qualité. La volonté du collectionneur de partager « sa seule fortune » s’incarne également par l’ouverture au public en 2000 d’un lieu dédié dans sa Provence natale, à Avignon, et la mise en œuvre d’une proposition culturelle singulière dont la fonction sociale est clairement revendiquée.
Français - 438 Pages - 23 x 4 x 29 cm - 2.2 Kg
ISBN: 9782373721591
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Homes for Collectors: Interiors of Art and Design Lovers
Thijs Demeulemeester, Jan Verlinde
Lannoo Publishers, 2022
ISBN 9789401486125
Thijs Demeulemeester, Jan Verlinde
Lannoo Publishers, 2022
Collectors design their homes with their prized objects in mind. In this book 20 art and design collectors open the doors to their homes, many for the first time. You will be amazed at what you'll see: from a Giacometti sculpture to a garbage bag by Gustav Metzger, from an iconic Eames lounge chair to the Living Tower by Verner Panton. This successor to the successful book Homes for Nomads (9789401477437) offers pages and pages of inspiration for all those who love beautiful and real-life interiors, and who perhaps live with, and love, their own collections.
English - 224 Pages - 23 x 28 cm - 1.4 KgISBN 9789401486125
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Le livre des symboles : réflexions sur des images archétypales
Marguerite de Cerval
Taschen, 2010
ISBN 9783836525749
Marguerite de Cerval
Taschen, 2010
Cette encyclopédie dévoile le sens caché des symboles visuels d’époques, de lieux et de cultures divers. Du soleil aux baleines en passant par la main de l’homme, plus de 800 images sont accompagnées d’un éclairage érudit sur l’histoire du symbole, ses significations et ses associations psychiques, afin de fournir au lecteur un ouvrage de référence précieux et passionnant pour une interprétation plus réfléchie de la vie, de l’art et de la spiritualité.
ISBN 9783836525749
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Afterlives, recovering the lost stories of looted art
Alexander Darsie
Yale University Press, 2022
ISBN: 9780300250701
Alexander Darsie
Yale University Press, 2022
By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books had been seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have traumatic, layered histories. This book traces the biographies of these objects—including paintings, sculpture, and Judaica—their rescue in the aftermath of the war, and their afterlives in museums and private collections and in our cultural understanding. In examining how this history affects the way we view these works, scholars discuss the moral and aesthetic implications of maintaining the association between the works and their place within the brutality of the Holocaust—or, conversely, the implications of ignoring this history.
Afterlives offers a thought-provoking investigation of the unique ability of art and artifacts to bear witness to historical events. With rarely seen archival photographs and with contributions by the contemporary artists Maria Eichhorn, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez, and Lisa Oppenheim, this catalogue illuminates the study of a difficult and still-urgent subject, with many parallels to today’s crises of art in war.
ISBN: 9780300250701
