Bøger af Helen Hirsch

Two Bauhaus masters and their impressive contributions to the art of textile design. Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983) and the prominent Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888-1967) were Bauhaus teachers who met in the experimental field during their time at the Bauhaus in Weimar. This volume takes a look at the artistic pairing and assembles in picturesque detail their impressive contributions to Swiss textile art. Few people are aware that Itten made an in-depth study of textile design. Accordingly, this book invites readers to rediscover him as a textile designer in conjunction with Stölzl, who has a place in art history as a "classic of textile art." Both artists left Nazi Germany in the 1930s and explored innovations in ornamental and textile forms. Their work revived textile art in Switzerland with new ways of inventing forms and ornamentation and helped establish a network of modern Swiss textile art.

Gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts in London entstanden, erscheint der Zirkus mit seiner Manege als eine Art Gegenwelt zum Alltag. Die bewusste Inszenierung von schönem Schein und atemberaubender Akrobatik lösten immer schon große Faszination aus. Zugleich ist diese Welt der Illusionen mit gesellschaftlichen Kontroversen und Kritik behaftet, denen sich internationale Künstler:innen und führende Expert:innen widmen.In der Welt des Zirkus war ein Bewusstsein für ethische Haltungen gegenüber Mensch und Tier lange Zeit schlichtweg nicht existent. Diskriminierung, Stigmatisierung und Unterdrückung standen auf der Tagesordnung, wie z.B. die kommerzielle Zurschaustellung der sog. "Freaks of nature" zeigt. Mit einschlägigen Essays und Werken internationaler, zeitgenössischer Künstler:innen bietet der Band den Ausgangspunkt für künstlerische, kulturhistorische, tierethische sowie rassismuskritische Untersuchungen und hinterfragt aktuelle gesellschaftliche Strukturen.KÜNSTLER:INNENKathryn Andrews | Miriam Bäckström | Istvan Balogh | Beni Bischof | Mona Broschár | Barbara Breitenfellner | Michael Dannenmann | Zilla Leutenegger | Dieter Meier | Yves Netzhammer | Tal R | Augustin Rebetez | Boris Rebetez | Ugo Rondinone | Niklaus Rüegg | Francisco Sierra | Norbert Tadeusz | William Wegman u. a.

Marguerite Saegesser (1922-2011) achieved fame in the US, her adopted country for many years, where her prints and paintings were repeatedly shown in group and solo exhibitions in California and New York over a period of two decades. In her native Switzerland, however, the artist and her multifaceted oeuvre are yet to be discovered. This book fills this gap, featuring Saegesser's art with a special focus on the monotype, a printing technique developed in the 17th century and producing only a single original at a time. It also demonstrates how Saegesser, who initially studied sculpture in Lausanne, found her artistic destiny in America. Key to her evolution was San Francisco's lively art scene of the late 1970s, and in particular the painter Sam Francis, an outstanding representative of action painting and abstract expressionism, who became her friend and precursor. His fascination with the monotype quickly transferred to Saegesser, who soon achieved mastery in it and made a significant contribution to the revival of the historic technique.