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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Lund Humphries Publishers, 2018
Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist. This is the first book to present a full account of Adnan’s fascinating life and work, using the drama of her biography, the complexity of her identity, and the cosmopolitan nature of her experience to illuminate the many layers and dimensions of her paintings and their progress over several crucial decades.
Adnan came relatively late to painting - her first images were created in the late-1950s in response to the Californian landscape. Her vocabulary of lines, shapes and colours changed little over time, and yet there are huge variations in mood, texture, composition and material. Similarly, there is a balance between understanding her paintings as pure abstractions, emulating the shape of thought, and seeing them for the actual landscapes of the many places Adnan loved, embraced and responded to.
Tackling the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
ISBN 9781848222663
Lotte Johnson
Yale University Press, 2022
Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book traces six decades of the feminist icon’s diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression through Schneemann’s experimental early paintings, sculptural assemblages and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and groundbreaking multi-media installations. Contributors shed new light on Schneemann’s work, which addressed urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war. An artist who was concerned with the precarious lived experience of both humans and animals, this book positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative and inspiring artists in recent years.
English - 352 Pages - 21 x 28 cm - 1.8 KgISBN 9780300260649
Markus Müller, Margrit Bernard
Hirmer, 2022
It is a widely held view that Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) entered a renewed creative period alongside each new muse in his life. But this volume does not discuss Picasso’s biography or stylistic phases; rather, it pays tribute to the women who left their mark on his life. Picasso: The Women of His Life explores these women’s entire lives and creative work, not just the years they spent at the famous artist’s side. Müller and Bernard sketch the lives of ten women, including Picasso’s mother—with whom he was very close, and whose maiden name he chose as his professional name—his wives, and his many lovers. When he wanted to marry the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, she warned him that he would remain married to painting throughout his life. They separated in 1935 because of his young muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was soon deposed by Dora Maar. Following various separations, these women disappeared from Picasso’s canvases, but they did not vanish entirely. This book pays tribute to them all.
English - 192 Pages - 18 x 20 cm – 1.1 KgISBN 9783777437262
Katy Hessel
Michel Lafon, 2022
"En octobre 2015, alors que j'assistais à une rétrospective artistique majeure à Londres, j'eus une révélation. En regardant autour de moi, je réalisai qu'aucune oeuvre d'une femme artiste n'était exposée. Me vint alors cette question : pouvais-je nommer vingt noms de femmes artistes sans y réfléchir ? La réponse était non. Avais-je exclusivement étudié l'histoire de l'art à travers un prisme masculin ? La réponse était oui. " Combien de femmes artistes connaissez-vous ? Qui " fait " l'histoire de l'art ? Est-ce que les femmes étaient reconnues en tant qu'artistes avant le XXe siècle ? Qu'est-ce que le baroque au bout du compte ? Découvrez la flamboyante Sofonisba Anguissola à la Renaissance, l'œuvre radicale de l'Américaine Harriet Powers au XIXe siècle et l'artiste qui a réellement initié le mouvement du ready-made incarné par Marcel Duchamp.
Explorez l'âge d'or néerlandais, le travail étonnant des artistes d'après-guerre en Amérique latine, et les femmes qui ont impulsé l'art en 2020. Des Cornouailles jusqu'à Manhattan en passant par le Nigeria et le Japon, voici l'histoire de l'art comme elle n'a jamais été racontée auparavant. Suivant un ordre chronologique mais sans adopter la grille de lecture occidentale des mouvements artistiques et événements politiques, L'Histoire de l'art sans les hommes redéfinit les canons traditionnels en mettant en lumière l'œuvre d'artistes exceptionnelles qui ont repoussé les frontières et osé défier une pratique artistique dominée par les hommes.
ISBN 9782749951386
Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond
Karma Books, 2021
Flamboyante mais secrète, Martine de Béhague (1870-1939) est l’une des personnalités les plus intrigantes de son temps. Durant cinquante ans, cette amie des poètes, des musiciens et des artistes sillonne les océans sur son yacht Le Nirvana et acquiert les plus beaux objets, livres, œuvres d’art de tous les temps et de toutes les cultures. Simple collectionneuse ? Non, mais une âme en quête de perfection et d’idéal à travers la beauté du monde.
Français - 240 Pages - 20 x 29 cm - 1.3 KgISBN 9782080239471