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“raphael suter”

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  • Irène Zurkinden: Love, Life

    by Quinn Latimer, Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer, Florian Illies, Rebecca Eigen, Reto Thüring, Raphael Suter, Studio Marie Lusa, Irène Zurkinden ...
    A unique insight into the work of Irène Zurkinden – with sketchbooks published for the very first timeAccompanying the exhibition of the same name, this book offers a fascinating insight into the multifaceted work of Irène Zurkinden. Over more than five decades, the artist created intimate, powerful, and uncompromisingly expressive works that continue to captivate today. The beautifully designed ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

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    by Keith Aspley ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Surrealism was a broad movement, which attracted many adherents. It was organized and quite strictly disciplined, at least until the death of its leader, André Breton, in 1966. As a consequence, its membership was in a constant state of flux: persons were constantly being admitted and excluded, and often the latter continued to regard themselves as Surrealists. The wide-ranging nature of the ... Read more

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  • René Magritte

    by Patricia Allmer ...
    Series Book 92 - Critical Lives
    The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magritte’s witty and provocative work inspired generations of later artists, from Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns. In this illuminating new biography, Patricia Allmer radically repositions Magritte’s work in relation to its historical and cultural circumstances. Allmer explores the ... Read more

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  • Expressionism and Film

    by Rudolf Kurtz ...
    Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern media history. Written with analytical brilliance and historical vision by a well-known contemporary of the expressionist movement, it captures Expressionism at the time of its impending conclusion—as an intersection of world view, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Destruction of Art

    Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution

    by Dario Gamboni ...
    In January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo’s David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally-ill artist. With each incident, artists and intellectuals must confront the unsettling dynamic between destruction and art. Renowned art historian Dario Gamboni is the first to tackle this weighty issue in depth, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance

    Art as Experiment

    by Herbert Molderings ...
    Translated by John Brogden ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard Stoppages (1913-1914), a work that uses chance as an artistic medium, we see how far Duchamp subverted scientism ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Encounters from Dada till Today

    by Hans Richter, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ...
    Translated by Christopher Middleton ...
    In English for the first time: The pioneering Dadaist’s insights and remembrances of a lifetime working side-by-side with the leading modern artists of the twentieth century.Painter, filmmaker, writer, and teacher Hans Richter (1888–1976) was at the center of some of the most important movements in modernism, including Expressionism, Dadaism, Constructivism, and Surrealism. In contrast to the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Composed Theatre

    Aesthetics, Practices, Processes

    Edited by David Roesner, Matthias Rebstock ...
    A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Traveling in Place

    A History of Armchair Travel

    by Bernd Stiegler ...
    Translated by Peter Filkins ...
    Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required—the luxury of ... Read more

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  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

    by Marnin Young ...
    The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Cubism and Abstract Art

    by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1936, in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century, and which had an impact on every major form of art.Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Marking Modern Movement

    Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic

    by Susan Funkenstein ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Imagine yourself in Weimar Germany: you are visually inundated with depictions of dance. Perusing a women’s magazine, you find photograph after photograph of leggy revue starlets, clad in sequins and feathers, coquettishly smiling at you. When you attend an art exhibition, you encounter Otto Dix’s six-foot-tall triptych Metropolis, featuring Charleston dancers in the latest luxurious fashions, or ... Read more

    $28.79 USD