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Günter Brus
MACBA, 2005
In the late 1950s, at the very start of his career, Günter Brus developed a style very close to that of Abstract Expressionism. By 1964 he had become involved with the Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries (alongside Hermann Nitsch and Otto Mhl) and began to stage one-man performances centering on ritual and social catharsis. In these performances, conserved in the form of sketches, photographs and film, the artist used his body as material and medium to denounce the social, political and religious taboos of Western society. During the 1970s Brus' work became more sinister, embodied in the dark, neurotic drawings of that stage of his career. These drawings, first in black and white and later in color, explored illustration, symbolism, and the aesthetics of cruelty, while maintaining their focus on the human body as a primary protagonist. For the past three decades, Brus has concentrated on the creation of 'poem-pictures', literature and theatrical stage design. This publication presents the most personal and significant examples of the artist's work.
English - 304 Pages - 17.8 cm x 2.5 cm x 21 cm - 1 Kg
ISBN:9788496540194
Whitney Chadwick, Joe Lucchesi
Chameleon California, 2000
Amazons in the Drawing Room presents a comprehensive and definitive analysis of the life and art of Romaine Brooks, reproducing for the first time in color thirty-four of the forty nudes and portraits she painted, as well as thirty-seven automatic pen-and-ink drawings. The first female painter since Artemisia Gentileschi in the seventeenth century to portray an ideal of heroic femininity, Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), like her contemporary Gwen John, shaped an image of the androgynous New Woman for the twentieth century. Amazons in the Drawing Room, published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition of Brooks's work--the first since 1971--opening at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in June 2000, provides a fresh context to view Brooks's haunting and compelling art. Whitney Chadwick's overview of Brooks's life and artistic focus and Joe Luchesi's examination of Brooks's portraits and photographs of Russian dancer Ida Rubenstein bring into sharp focus the complex artistic, literary, and political influences that shaped Brooks's sensibility and approach to portraiture.
English - 128 Pages - 24.8 cm x 1.3 cm x 26 cm - 0.5 Kg
ISBN:9780520225657
Galina Leontyeva, Karl Pavlovich Bri͡ullov
Parkstone Aurora, 1997
Karl Bryullov was a Russian painter. Bryullov was a representative of the styles of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. He combined technical proficiency and classical academic training with a Romantic spontaneity to create some of the loveliest examples of Russian art of that period. This is an interesting study of the Russian painter Karl Briullov (1799-1852) known for his panoramic canvases (especially 'The Last Day of Pompeii'). Introduction by Leontyeva; includes biographical chronology. Over 80 Color & b/w Illustrations.
English - 160 Pages - 27.9 cm x 33 cm - 1.2 Kg
ISBN:9781859952986
Richard Heyd
Ides et Calendes, 1954
Maurice Brianchon est un peintre français, né le 11 janvier 1899 à Fresnay-sur-Sarthe et mort le 1er mars 1979 à Paris. Il est connu comme l’un des peintres de la réalité poétique.
French - 132 Pages - 29.5 cm x 2.5 cm x 22.5 cm - 1 Kg
ISBN:9782825800867
Jean Clair, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Steven A. Nash, Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Antoine Terrasse, Felix Baumann
Kunsthaus Zürich, 1985
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. Color and B/w reproductions. Exhibition catalogue, text in German.
German - 354 Pages - 28 cm x 28 cm - 2.3 Kg
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