hatje cantz publishers october 2013 (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. This handsome new book by Paul McCarthy (born 1945) highlights a major new work that refers to both the physical and the mental space of artistic creativity. 'The Box' is McCarthy's reflection on the phenomenon of the artist's studio. As inconspicuous as any other plain moving box from the outside, the interior of the work reveals a striking, barely comprehensible diversity of things that inhabit this intimate and ever-changing incubator for artistic ideas. First, McCarthy constructed a model of a barn-like space in Pasadena, California, which served as his studio during the 1970s. Turned on its side 90 degrees, along with its approximately 3,000 objects--from a bulky steel cabinet to a pencil--the work compels a disorienting shift of perception in the viewer, which is impressively extended into the tactile quality of the book and its abundance of images. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. Architecturally, Burma is both a melting pot and a museum. Boasting a wealth of influences from all of the countries that surround it--India, China, Laos, Thailand, Bhutan, Laos--Burma has also preserved many key examples of religious architectural styles no longer extant in their countries of origin, most famously in Pagan, the country's capital in the ninth to twelfth centuries. Alongside the pagodas of Pagan, Burma's architectural jewel is probably the Shwe Dagon pagoda in Rangoon, a magnificent social hub in the city's center that has also been the site of much political turmoil. During colonial rule, many extraordinary Victorian civic buildings were erected, especially in Rangoon and Mandalay; throughout the country, Buddhist monasteries and villages also offer many fascinating varieties of architecture. Despite a few recent instances of architectural modernization, Burma remains largely an open-air museum, whose buildings embody and chronicle centuries of dynastic squabble and migration of cultural influences. (Such quarrels frequently resulted in new rulers packing up entire palaces and other structures and transporting these by elephant to establish a new seat of government or capital elsewhere.) Authored by Lorie Karnath, President of the Explorer's Club in New York, 'Architecture in Burma' is the first serious overview of the astounding architectural treasures of this long-isolated country.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. This handsome new book by Paul McCarthy (born 1945) highlights a major new work that refers to both the physical and the mental space of artistic creativity. 'The Box' is McCarthy's reflection on the phenomenon of the artist's studio. As inconspicuous as any other plain moving box from the outside, the interior of the work reveals a striking, barely comprehensible diversity of things that inhabit this intimate and ever-changing incubator for artistic ideas. First, McCarthy constructed a model of a barn-like space in Pasadena, California, which served as his studio during the 1970s. Turned on its side 90 degrees, along with its approximately 3,000 objects--from a bulky steel cabinet to a pencil--the work compels a disorienting shift of perception in the viewer, which is impressively extended into the tactile quality of the book and its abundance of images. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!!.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. In 1936, an ornithologist called James Bond released the definitive taxonomy of birds found in the Caribbean, titled 'Birds of the West Indies.' Ian Fleming, an active bird watcher living in Jamaica, subsequently appropriated the name for his novel's lead character. This co-opting of names was the first in a series of substitutions that would become central to the construction of the James Bond narrative. In a meticulous and comprehensive dissection of the Bond films, artist Taryn Simon inventoried women, weapons and vehicles, constant elements in the films between 1962 and 2012. The contents of these categories function as essential accessories to the narrative's myth of the seductive, powerful and invincible western male. Maintaining the illusion the narrative relies upon--an ageless Bond, state-of-the-art weaponry, herculean vehicles and desirable women--requires constant replacements, and a contract exists between Bond and the viewer, which binds the narrative to that set of expectations. Continually satisfying those obligations allowed Bond to become a ubiquitous brand, a signifier to be activated with each subsequent novel and film. In 'Birds of the West Indies,' Simon presents a visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy, through which she examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition.Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her photographs and writing have been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012); Tate Modern, London (2011); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2011); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007) and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003). In 2011 her work was included in the 54th Venice Biennale. Light rubbing on outer, clear acetate dust jacket; otherwise, very nice, clean, tight copy free of any marks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. In 1936, an ornithologist called James Bond released the definitive taxonomy of birds found in the Caribbean, titled 'Birds of the West Indies.' Ian Fleming, an active bird watcher living in Jamaica, subsequently appropriated the name for his novel's lead character. This co-opting of names was the first in a series of substitutions that would become central to the construction of the James Bond narrative. In a meticulous and comprehensive dissection of the Bond films, artist Taryn Simon inventoried women, weapons and vehicles, constant elements in the films between 1962 and 2012. The contents of these categories function as essential accessories to the narrative's myth of the seductive, powerful and invincible western male. Maintaining the illusion the narrative relies upon--an ageless Bond, state-of-the-art weaponry, herculean vehicles and desirable women--requires constant replacements, and a contract exists between Bond and the viewer, which binds the narrative to that set of expectations. Continually satisfying those obligations allowed Bond to become a ubiquitous brand, a signifier to be activated with each subsequent novel and film. In 'Birds of the West Indies,' Simon presents a visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy, through which she examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition.Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her photographs and writing have been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012); Tate Modern, London (2011); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2011); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007) and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003). In 2011 her work was included in the 54th Venice Biennale. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!! wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein (born 1948) has enjoyed longstanding notoriety for his cross-media depictions of wounded children. Updating an artistic tradition of transgressed childhood innocence (Goya, Messerschmidt) with the visceral brutality of Viennese Actionism, Helnwein's hyperrealistic paintings--as well as his photographs, multimedia works and performances--are truly confrontational, insofar as they permit the viewer no complacency and no escape. His subjects are most often children, usually depicted in a menacingly cold, shadowy light, who are very clearly in emotional or physical pain (or both). Like his near-contemporary Anselm Kiefer, Helnwein has also broached the topic of the Holocaust, mostly famously in his painting 'Epiphany I,' in which a group of SS officers surround a mother and child. The question Helnwein's works dare to pose is: how can such 'adult' violence befall such fragile and unworldly creatures? The most substantial Helnwein overview yet published, this volume marks the artist's 65th birthday, and presents all stages of his artistic development, from landmark works of photorealism such as 'Peinlich' ('Embarrassing') from 1971 to 1982's 'Self-Portrait' ('Blackout'), which achieved fame worldwide as a Scorpions album cover, to more recent works such as the disturbing series 'Disasters of War,' which focuses on severely injured children and teens. Shrink wrapped - never opened.