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The first major American publication on this important contemporary sculptor. Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space. This book—the first major American publication on Kapoor's work—surveys his work since 1979, with a focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s. With more than ninety color images of these ambitious and complex works, three original essays, an extended interview with Kapoor, and selections from his sketchbooks, this book confirms Anish Kapoor's place as one of the most remarkable sculptors working today. Kapoor's work has evolved into an abstract and perceptually complex elaboration of the sculptural object as at once monumental and evanescent, physical and ethereal—as in his famous Cloud Gate (2004) in Chicago's Millennium Park. The works in Anish Kapoor include such striking works as Past, Present, Future (2006), 1000 Names (1979-1980) and When I Am Pregnant (1992). This book, which accompanies an exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, offers American readers a long-overdue opportunity to consider the extraordinary clarity, subtlety, and power of Kapoor's art.

An exclusive look at the late work of one of the most influential and enigmatic painters, whose late-career paintings are virtually unknown to the public and many are published here for the first time. číst celé

Als Marcel Duchamp 1913/14 seine Ready-Mades erfand, ahnte niemand, welchen Einfluss dies auf die zeitgenössische Kunst haben würde. Reale Gegenstände auf dem „leeren Thron“ der künstlerischen Schöpfung stellten die Rolle des Künstlers und die Bedingungen des Kunsturteils in Frage. Der Band „Re-Object“ präsentiert Marcel Duchamp sowie Gerhard Merz, Damien Hirst und Jeff Koons, die sich markant mit diesem Thema auseinandersetzen. Im Gegensatz dazu beleuchtet der Band „Mythos“ die Werke von Douglas Gordon, Matthew Barney und Cy Twombly in Verbindung mit Joseph Beuys. Jeder Band enthält zwei Essays, die das Thema aus historischer Perspektive und im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunstentwicklungen einführen. „Re-Object“ zeigt aktuelle Positionen, bei denen das Objekt sowohl Ausgangspunkt als auch Fokus ist, während „Mythos“ eine verwandte, jedoch entgegengesetzte künstlerische Strategie präsentiert. Die Kataloge sind reich illustriert mit Fotos der Werke und großen Bildern der Installationen im Kunsthaus Bregenz. Sie dokumentieren, wie die ausgewählten Künstler den Themen „Objekt“ oder „Mythos“ zugeordnet werden können. Biografien sowie Ausstellungs- und Bibliografien runden die Erkundung zweier bedeutender Strömungen der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts ab.

Accompanying an exhibition at BASTIAN, London, this striking publication presents works by the German-born American artist Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), produced at the end of the Second World War and immediately afterwards.

Traces the history of Abstract Expressionism, and examines its political implications and the cultural context in which it developed

This carefully culled portfolio of 14 paintings, meticulously reproduced and documented, spans 60 years--from the time of the master's arrival in America to the late 80s. Readers will find rare examples of de Kooning's earliest works juxtaposed with a cityscape from the 1950s, canvases from the important period of his arrival in Easthampton, and abstract landscapes of the 70s and 80s. David Anfam's essay traces de Kooning's intriguing relationship to water, invoking the work of Heraclitus, Yeats, Melville and Frost in conjuring the sense of fluidity that characterized both his urban and rural work. Anfam also puzzles over the enigma of a man who lived perpetually beside the ocean--the book opens with a photograph of him striding across the beach in Easthampton in 1968--but never learned to swim.

Renowned for his evocative and highly-charged imagery, British artist Christopher Le Brun's new work builds upon a wide cultural literacy, from Virgil and Tennyson to William Walton. Following his appearance in many international group exhibitions - such as the influential Zeitgeist exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (1982) - Le Brun became recognised as one of the leading young European painters, and is currently the President of the Royal Academy, London. Accompanying a solo exhibition at Friedman Benda, New York (11 September-18 October 2014), New Paintings shows an abundance of energy and Le Brun's renewed pleasure in colour and light. Alongside full-colour illustrations, this volume includes a personal response by artist and writer Edmund de Waal, and an introduction by art historian David Anfam that places the work within the tradition of late twentieth and early twenty-first century modern painting.

An astute, beautifully illustrated examination of the recently restored touchstone of modern art Jackson Pollock’s major early work Mural (1943) was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for the entrance hall of her East 61st Street New York residence. Mural-sized, though not actually a mural—the work is painted on a six-meter-long canvas, not directly onto the wall—this vast, frieze-like panorama would be hugely influential in twentieth-century American art. In Jackson Pollock's Mural: Energy Made Visible, David Anfam explores the painting and its impact by way of the different themes it incorporates, including the imagery of action and process, the big picture, the “gothic,” the body, dance, and Romanticism, relating them to art historical precedents, Abstract Expressionism, Pollock’s psychology, and the context of American art and culture in the pre- and postwar years. This analysis is accompanied by reproductions of Pollock’s work as well as imagery from the period that sheds light on the artist’s development. Gifted to the University of Iowa Museum of Art in 1948, Mural has rarely traveled, and it is now the focus of a traveling exhibition curated by Anfam. This accompanying volume offers crucial analysis and historical background on one of Pollock’s most significant works.

First published to accompany the exhibition, John Golding: Pure Colour Sensation at Piano Nobile gallery, this fully colour illustrated catalogue showcases fifteen years of exceptional paintings by John Golding from the 1970s and 1980s with an introductory essay by acclaimed art historian and curator Dr David Anfam.

The first international publication dedicated to the Polish painter, graphic designer, poster artist, and sculptor. Fangor received scholarships from the Institute for Contemporary Art in Washington, DC (1962) and the Ford Foundation in West Berlin (1964-65). In 1965-66, he taught at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, and from 1966-83, he led classes at Farleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J. in the United States. In 1967-68, he conducted guest lectures at the Faculty of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1970, he created sets for the Martha Graham Dance Company. In 1978, he received the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award, and in 2003, he was awarded The Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland Award.