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Leonhart Fuchs : le nouvel herbier
Werner Dressendörfer
Taschen, 2022
En concevant ce guide de 1543 plantes, le botaniste pionnier Leonhart Fuchs a créé un chef-d’œuvre en matière de botanique et d’édition de livre à l’époque de la Renaissance. Cette nouvelle réédition par TASCHEN a été réalisée à partir de l’original possédé par Fuchs lui-même, mis en couleurs à la main, qui comprend plus de 500 illustrations dont le premier inventaire des espèce végétales du Nouveau Monde comme le maïs, le cactus et le tabac, et un essai abordant l’histoire et le pouvoir des plantes médicinales.
Français - 892 Pages - 23 x 37 cm - 5 kgISBN: 9783836587655
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
Hannelore Fischer
Hirmer, 2022
This sentence, as topical today as it was almost one hundred years ago, is the creed of a great artist. Käthe Kollwitz achieved worldwide respect with her drawings, printed graphics, and sculptures even during her lifetime.
With her great cycles of graphic works Ein Weberaufstand (A Weaver’s Revolt) and Bauernkrieg (The Peasants’ War), Kollwitz demonstrated her remarkable skills as a graphic artist at an early age. From the start of her career, her etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts were included in the collections of renowned art institutes. Her fame as an artist grew steadily and she eventually became the first woman appointed professor by the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1919.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this monograph offers an extensive overview of the life and work of one of the most important German artists of Classic Modernism.
ISBN: 9783777430799
Roni Horn
Steidl, 2022
“Remembered Words” is the title of a series of watercolor paintings Roni Horn created in 2013 and 2014. An important part of Horn’s work revolves around language. In this series she remembers words and pairs them with dots, adding the words to the dots like footnotes or captions, creating a kind of personal, even autobiographical dictionary. The combination of the dots—which are sometimes properly arranged in color-coordinated rows, on other drawings random and overlapping, wild and out of control—with the words creates unexpected relations and meanings, endless strings of associations, absurd and beautiful at the same time.
English - 342 Pages - 24 x 32.3 cm - 2.5 kgISBN: 9783869309965
Elizabeth Tchoungui
Editions du Chêne, 2021
Oh! AfricArt est une invitation à découvrir la création contemporaine foisonnante d'une Afrique riche de sa pluralité : du quotidien de villes tentaculaires aux paysages en perpétuelle évolution, en passant par le poids de l'héritage colonial et postcolonial, ainsi que les questions de genre, de sexualité et d'identité. Des fiches explicatives, accompagnées d'une présentation des techniques employées, forment un ensemble éclectique d'oeuvres qui se font le reflet des inspirations et des revendications portées par ces artistes vivants et nés, pour la plupart, sur le continent. Oh! AfricArt dresse le panorama fascinant d'une création contemporaine particulièrement dynamique, porte-parole d'une réalité et d'une époque. Il donne à voir, et à lire, un continent en mouvement, qui écrit ses propres récits ; un acteur majeur de la scène artistique mondiale de demain.
Français - 223 Pages - 22,7 x 3 x 28,8 cm - 1.5 kgISBN : 9782812321016