David Hickey était un critique d'art et culturel américain, célébré pour sa défense passionnée de l'impact du marché libre sur le monde de l'art, souvent en opposition à l'académisme. Ses essais critiques ont exploré des thèmes profonds de beauté et de démocratie, remettant en question le discours artistique conventionnel. La voix distinctive de Hickey et ses arguments provocateurs l'ont positionné comme une force significative dans la critique culturelle contemporaine. Son travail continue de résonner auprès des lecteurs intéressés par l'intersection de l'art, du commerce et des valeurs sociétales.
Emerging artists are utilizing portraiture and self-portraiture to delve into complex identity issues while pushing the boundaries of figurative art. The renewed focus on classical training in representational art is also gaining traction. The Outwin Boochever Competition 2006 showcases fifty-one selected works from over 4,000 entries, highlighting the current strength and relevance of portraiture. This exhibition reflects the National Portrait Gallery's dedication to contemporary art and the diverse narratives of today's Americans.
One of a very few women willing to brave the machismo of New York Abstract Expressionism, Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) today ranks among the best of her generation. And the art market reflects her steady two years ago Christie's sold a 1971 Mitchell canvas for $7 million, the second-highest sale for a female artist. Setting aside matters of gender, Mitchell remains exemplary as an artist able to lay bare each decision of the brush, in long, curving strokes and tangles of paint on often unprimed canvases. Mitchell is as raw and as messy as Jackson Pollock or Cy Twombly, never digressing into prettiness for the sake of art. Published on the occasion of her eponymous late-2008 exhibition at Cheim & Read, Joan Sunflowers presents major paintings alongside a selection of pastels and etchings, which turn on the theme of the sunflower. Begun in 1969, after Mitchell had relocated to the French town of Vétheuil, just outside Paris, these works gathered steam until 1972. Sunflowers includes an essay by noted art historian and critic Dave Hickey, which offers a context for these fraught and beautiful works.
Photographer, designer, and installation artist Barbara Bloom (b. 1951) has built her career out of questioning appearances, exploring the desire for possessions, and commenting on the act of collecting. The Collections of Barbara Bloom, which accompanies a retrospective of the same title at ICP, explores all aspects of her oeuvre, including works from past multi-media installations and newly made pieces, as well as objects from her vast personal archives of ephemera and advertisements. In some cases, Bloom revisits previous installations and adds new elements, resisting the delineation between past and present in her work. She often integrates her photographs with furniture to create compelling scenes, as with the installation Greed (1988) from the ICP collection, comprised of a chair, an empty frame, and her own photograph of a museum gallery showing a guard in a chair. An example of one of her collections is a complete set of Vladimir Nabokovs writings, with all the book covers redesigned by Bloom. This refers not only to herself as collector, and Nabokov as collector (he obsessively collected his own books), but herself as artist. The Collections of Barbara Bloom is an expansion of a project developed as part of Blooms Wexner Art Center Residency Award in 1998.
The bestselling visual biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative, influential artists Andy Warhol "Giant" Size is the definitive document of this remarkable creative force, and a telling look at late twentieth-century pop culture. A must-have for Warhol fans and pop culture enthusiasts, this in-depth and comprehensive overview of Warhol's extraordinary career is packed with more than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork. Dave Hickey's compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution combines with chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders to give special insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his art. It also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world of the 1950s to the 1980s. From the publisher of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volumes 1 - 5.
Working within the strict format of the vertical stripe, Tim Bavington explores methods of designing his paintings, from intuition and chance to architectural systems and bar-coding. In recent years his interest has turned to
David Levinthal, a central figure in the history of American postmodern photography, has staged uncanny tableaux using toys and miniature dioramas for nearly forty years. This publication for the first time assembles the artist's photography on the subject of war. Levinthal's combat-related tableaux constitute a remarkable critique of the ways society experiences conflict through its portrayal. His groundbreaking project "Hitler Moves East" (1975–77), a series of imagined scenes from World War II's Russian front, first established his reputation, becoming a touchstone for the iconoclastic generation of American photographers that includes artists like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince.The book has a beautifully designed canvas hardcover with silkscreen print and a dust jacket
Essays on Beauty and Other Matters: 30th Anniversary Edition
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The book features a collection of essays that explore the concept of beauty in art, combining four original essays with newly discovered writings. Celebrated by artists and critiqued by some, it addresses the significance of beauty during the AIDS crisis, reflecting on its role amidst death and decay. Hickey's insights on the "therapeutic institution" and his unique perspectives on various artists and cultural figures highlight his influence as a prominent arts writer. The afterword adds depth by contextualizing his work within the challenges of his time.
When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out -- he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which nearly killed him. A Hickey went on to develop a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted no-nonsense voice commenting on the worlds of art and culture. Perfect Wave brings together essays on a wide range of subjects from throughout Hickey's career, displaying his breadth of interest and powerful insight into what makes art work, or not, and why we care.
Photographer David Levinthal's most recent series, History, is a culmination of his work over the last three-and-a-half decades. Like his previous bodies of work--the most well-known of which include Hitler Moves East (1975--77), Modern Romance (1984--86), The Wild West (1987--89), and Barbie (1998--99)--History speaks to the way in which popular imagery infiltrates memory, imagination, and identity. The exhibition at George Eastman House will be the first time that History is presented to the public. To make his work, Levinthal (American, b. 1949) begins by finding vintage figurines and play sets through his now long-established network of toy sellers and collectors, and then creates elaborate scenes based on events in history, especially as they are depicted in visual culture. Levinthal then photographs his scenes and creates large, history-painting-sized inkjet prints. The compositions are reminiscent of famous images from art history, television, and movies, but are not exact replicas. Instead, they are imaginative re-creations that paraphrase their source material. This increases the scenarios' semblance of realism, in that the viewer interprets them as moments near the time of the iconic pictures, but it also introduces a note of disjuncture to the scenes--George Eastman Museum
