Bøger om Modernisme

Welche Effekte die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Bereichen Provenienzforschung und Kunst- und Kulturgutschutzrecht haben können, zeigt dieser Band exemplarisch. Der Bogen der kunsthistorischen Beiträge spannt sich dabei von Kulturgütern aus kolonialen Kontexten über NS-Raubgut und Fragen des Kulturgutentzugs in der SBZ und DDR bis hin zu methodologischen Fragestellungen. Die juristischen Aufsätze setzen sich mit Grundfragen des Kunst- und Kulturgutschutzrechts auseinander, etwa mit den zivilrechtlichen Implikationen des neuen Kulturgutschutzgesetzes, normwissenschaftlichen Implikationen der Forderung nach "gerechten und fairen Lösungen" gemäß der Washingtoner Prinzipien zum Umgang mit nationalsozialistischer Raubkunst und schließlich juristischer Reaktionen auf Entwicklungen der Bildwissenschaften.

2013 wurde infolge einer Beschlagnahme der "Schwabinger Kunstfund" in den Blick der Weltöffentlichkeit katapultiert und damit der Kunsthändler Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895-1956), bei dessen Sohn Cornelius (1935-2014) sich die Werke befunden hatten. Eine Taskforce wurde gegründet, um die Herkunft der Werke aufzuklären, welche man wegen Gurlitts Tätigkeit während des Nationalsozialismus als "Raubkunst" verdächtigte. 2014 tauchten weitere Werke aus dem Besitz Gurlitts auf. Im Fokus der Provenienzrecherche zum Kunstfund stand stets die zügige Aufklärung der Herkunft einzelner Werke, nicht jedoch die Grundlagenforschung. Im Zuge der komplexen Recherchen und des Umgangs mit dem heterogenen schriftlichen Nachlass ergaben sich jedoch zahlreiche weiterführende und für die Provenienzforschung wichtige Erkenntnisse, die hier in einer Auswahl vorgestellt werden.

This revelatory examination of the Surrealist master updates prevailing theories about Magritte's life and beliefs, and offers a surprising new assessment of an artist who strived for anonymity rather than fame. Throughout his career, Magritte subverted expectations about artists in the world by disguising himself as an unremarkable member of the bourgeoisie. While the public mined his work for symbolism and deep meaning, the truth is, that with Magritte, what you see is what you get. What readers will get with this gorgeous volume is a deeply engaging overview of Magritte's entire career, and an eloquent argument that his Surrealist masterpieces were simply an extension of the Romantic tradition. Chronologically arranged, this volume features fullpage reproductions of thirty-five works, each paired with a concise text that highlights its significance in Magritte's catalog. In addition to greatest hits, such as Time Transfixed , 1938; The Treachery of Images , 1929; and The Lov ers, 1928, the inclusion of several lesser-known works provides an overview of the range and character of Magritte's art. Readers will become acquainted with the main figures in the artist's life, including relatives, colleagues, rivals, and they will see how Magritte's relationships with collectors and dealers led to the production of particular works, as well as how his theories about painting evolved over the years. Across this compact but utterly satisfying book, Magritte's exquisite use of color, his grasp of collage and composition, and his superb gifts for invention and mood are luminously and thrillingly in evidence.

Modernism is the most defining architectural expression of the 20th century - a movement that transformed built environments around the world in an unprecedented way. Many of these buildings are in need of repair now or their original function is no longer needed. This publication in cooperation with Docomomo explores strategies of rehabilitating works of this era. Architects and art historians discuss challenges in the preservation of Modernist buildings. 24 best-practice examples are highlighted, illustrating various approaches to restoration. Among them, there are unknown gems such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon or the stunning house that Juan O'Gorman built for his father in Mexico - interventions guided by respect for the authenticity of the architecture and based on substantial research.

The most important criteria for good art is having something worthwhile and meaningful to say! Of course just what is worthwhile to say is open to some interpretation, but what is certain is that bad art never has anything worthwhile to say.Related to this is that what is worthwhile and meaningful to say must be said in a form that is aesthetically delightful and complex, but not too complicated. I am working always with the light ! From dead to life! Pure matter to bring to life through specific perceptual effects. For me as an artist, a great challenge. I want to raise not only my work in the center. The surroundings and environment of my beholders should become a part in my artwork. All these details have to give a contribution to the totality of the artwork.

A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic historian.

A Pocket-Sized Short Biography of Winslow Homer in an Elegant Hardcover Edition

Published to accompany the exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe opening at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2014, this catalogue considerably advances the scholarship and understanding of an influential yet little-known twentieth- century artistic movement. As part of the first comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States, this publication examines the historical sweep of Futurism from its inception with F.T. Marinetti's manifesto in 1909 through the movement's demise at the end of World War II. Presenting over 300 works created between 1909 and 1944, by artists, writers, designers and composers such as Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Fortunato Depero, Gerardo Dottori, Marinetti, Ivo Pannaggi, Rosa Rosà, Luigi Russolo, Tato and many others, this publication encompasses not only painting and sculpture, but also architecture, design, ceramics, fashion, film, photography, advertising, free-form poetry, publications, music, theater and performance. A wealth of scholarly essays discuss Italian Futurism's diverse themes and incarnations.

Born from her curated exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work in Paris, biographer Annie-Cohen Solal's prizewinning Picasso the Foreigner presents a bold new understanding of the artist's tempestuous relationship with his adopted homeland: France.Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the police. Amidst political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in what would become an extensive case file. Though he soon became the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica as a visceral statement against fascism in 1937 was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist.Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-understudied archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Cohen-Solal reveals how, in a period encompassing the brutality of World War I, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. He chose the south over the north, the provinces over the capital, and craftspeople over academicians, while simultaneously achieving widespread fame. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he enriched and dynamized its culture like few other figures in the country's history. This book, for the first time, explains how.Includes color images

Arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century, James Joyce's Ulysses remains as much of a shocking and redemptive testament to the human condition as it was when it was first conceived in 1914. Following the events of a single day in Dublin and the experiences of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses' ceaseless verbal and formal inventiveness and its astonishing wide-ranging allusions continue to have a profound influence on contemporary culture. A new, annotated students' edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, using the original 1922 text, now the preferred text of Joyce's masterwork, this annotated Student Edition includes extensive notes, line numbers and an introduction by world-renowned Joycean scholar, Andrew Gibson.

"Mary Crovatt Hambidge (1885-1973) was an aspiring actress and a professional whistler on Broadway when she met Canadian-born Jay Hambidge (1867-1924), an artist, illustrator, and scholar. Their relationship would prove to be both a romantic and an artistic partnership. Jay Hambidge formulated his own artistic concept, known as Dynamic Symmetry, which stipulated that the compositional rules found in nature's symmetry should be applied to the creation of art. Mary Hambidge pioneered new techniques of weaving and dyeing fabric that merged Greek methods with Appalachian weaving and spinning traditions. The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, formed during the mid-1930s, provides an artists' community situated on six hundred rural acres in the north Georgia mountains where hundreds of visual artists, writers, potters, composers, dancers, and other artists have pursued their crafts. Dynamic Design details Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge's cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural history. Virginia Gardner Troy illustrates how Jay and Mary were important independently and collectively, providing a wider understanding of their lives within the larger context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and design. They were from two different worlds, nearly a generation apart in age, and only together for ten years, but their lives intertwined at a pivotal moment in their development. They shared parallel goals to establish a place where they could integrate the arts and crafts around the principles of Dynamic Symmetry. Troy explores how this dynamic duo's ideas and artistic expressions have resonated with admirers throughout the decades and reflect the trends and complexities of American culture through various waves of cosmopolitanism, utopianism, nationalism, and isolationism. The Hambidges' prolific partnership and forward-thinking vision continue to aid and inspire generations of aspiring artists and artisans"--

Sir John Craig Eaton had Eaton Hall built in 1937 on a 700-acre plot in King City, Ontario. The history of this landmark will explore the famous local men who built the Canadian castle, the local stones that made it, and the local people who lived there and have felt its influence.

Four artists who are today relatively or almost entirely unknown - Marian Dale Scott, Fritz Brandtner, Henry Eveleigh, and Gordon Webber - nevertheless played a part in the aesthetic upheavals that led to abstraction in 1940s Montreal. This book reinstates the oeuvres of these forgotten protagonists in the narrative of abstract art.

1955 wurden vierundsiebzig Gipsobjekte, die Skulpturen von Edgar Degas (1834-1917) zeigen, in die alte Gießerei Valsuani inParis gebracht, um dort erst 2004 wieder entdeckt zu werden. Diese Arbeiten werden nun zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht, wobei neue dokumentarische und wissenschaftliche Beweise für ihre Datierung vorgelegt werden, nachdem der Zustand der Wachsformen von Degas zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes eingehend untersucht worden war. Technische und dokumentarische Beweise belegen nun, dass die Hälfte der seriellen "Hébrard"-Bronzen von Degas, die sich heute in Museen und Privatsammlungen auf der ganzen Welt befinden, in den 1950er- und 1960er-Jahren in der Gießerei Valsuani produziert wurden - lange Zeit nach der Schließung der Gießerei Hébrard 1935/1936. Jedes der nun gereinigten vierundsiebzig Gipsobjekte von Degas ist in diesem wissenschaftlichen Werkverzeichnis ganzseitig in Farbe abgebildet.

Founded in 1670, Charleston is among the oldest cities in the nation and site of some of the most pivotal events in American history. Explore the city and discover the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon where South Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1788. Visit beautiful Rainbow Row and learn the true history of this most iconic of Charleston sites. Tour the city's oldest church edifice at St. Michael's Church, which first opened for services in 1761. Join historian and author Christopher Byrd Downey for a guided tour of nearly one hundred historic Charleston sites tailor-made for the history lover.

An unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen von Landschaft werden in diesem Band Fragen ihrer Identifizierung, Konstruktion und Ausprägung angesprochen. Dabei kommt Landschaft gleichsam als Archiv medial vermittelter und in sie eingeschriebener Handlungen, Werte und Bedeutungen und diese aufschließender Wahrnehmungsweisen in den Blick. Derart als Umwelt in weitestem Sinne verstanden, konkretisiert sie sich sowohl als Siedlungs- und wirtschaftlicher Funktions- und Produktionsraum als auch als Daseinsform von Biodiversität. Die Landschaft korrespondiert dieser Sichtweise als Ort einer gestalteten, der menschlichen Erbauung dienenden Natur. Die Beiträge überwinden den scheinbaren Gegensatz zwischen Natur und Kultur und werden der Komplexität von Landschaft gerecht.

Architecture after God A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon to the soaring towers of the modern metropolis, and sets the bright hopes of early modernism against the shadows of gathering war. Dealing in structural metaphor, utopian aspiration, and geopolitical ambition, Dugdale exposes the inexorable architectural implications of the event described by Nietzsche as the death of God. The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics. Critical reappraisal of early modernism Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum New volume in the Exploring Architecture series