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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A fascinating conversation that offers profound insights into the artistic as well as sociopolitical forces behind Latifa Echakhch's art. Latifa Echakhch studied at the art academies of Grenoble, Paris-Cergy, and Lyon. Now based in Switzerland, Eckakhch is concerned with the concept of culture as well as personal and collective memory in between the poles of social and political debate. Her work often features installations that make use of a wide variety of materials, such as brick and raw earth, which she mixes with ink. This book is part of the new On Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Through them, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world. Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter and bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it. Text in English and French. AUTHORS: Julie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD-Geneve, where she heads the Cultural Development Department. Federica Martini is an art historian and curator and heads the Visual Arts department at EDHEA in Sierre, Switzerland. She is also a visiting scholar at London's University of the Arts. Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA's board. SELLING POINTS: . The conversation offers profound insights into the artistic as well as sociopolitical driving forces behind Latifa Echakhch's art . Latifa Echakhch's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at major venues such as London's Tate Modern, the Swiss Institute in New York, and the Musee d'art contemporain in Lyon . Latifa Echakhch has realised the Swiss Pavilion at the 2022 Biennale Arte in Venice . By women artists for art students: Female artists give personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art . Each volume in the On Words series offers an interview in the artist's native language along with a full English translation 12 colour illustrations In conversation, Moroccan-Swiss artist Latifa Echakhch offers profound insights into the artistic as well as sociopolitical driving forces behind her art. The book is part of the new On Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In this in-depth interview, Silvie Defraoui talks not only about her projects and practice, but also about her experiences with the national and international art scene. Swiss artist Silvie Defraoui, born in 1935, is a pioneer of video art and art education in Switzerland. Beginning in 1975, she worked in collaboration with her husband Cherif Defraoui (19321994). Together they developed the Archives du Futur, a reflection on images, their status, and potential for memory and the future. The two artists also founded the legendary Atelier Medias Mixtes at Geneva's Ecole superieure des Beaux-Arts (now HEAD-Geneve). Since 1995, Defraoui has pursued a practice using various forms of expression, including projection, installation, ceramics, and serigraphy. This book is part of the new On Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Through them, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world. Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter and bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it. Text in English and French. AUTHORS: Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA's board. J ulie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD-Geneve, where she has been the head of the Cultural Development Department since 2018. Federica Martini is an art historian and curator and heads the Visual Arts course at EDHEA in Sierre, Switzerland. She also serves as a visiting scholar at London's University of the Arts. SELLING POINTS: . In the interview, Silvie Defraoui talks about her experiences with the national and international art scene, as well as about her projects and practice . Complements the book Silvie & Cherif Defraoui Archives du Futur (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2021) . By women artists for art students: Female artists give personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art . Each volume in the On Words series offers an interview in the artist's native language along with a full English translation 12 colour illustrations In conversation, Swiss artist Silvie Defraoui talks about her experiences with the national and international art scene, as well as about her projects and practice. The book is part of the new On Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. An interview with artist Renee Levi that investigates the meaning behind her expansive work. Renee Levi is known for her flamboyant, fast, honest, and direct painting. Trained as an architect and visual artist, she often creates monumental, installation-like works, which are always adapted to the spatial context in which they are located. In this interview, Levi talks about the origins of her artistic intention, the place she has conquered in the art world, and her visual language that gradually evolves like a quest for freedom. On Words is a collection of interviews with leading contemporary women artists. In conversation with Julie Enckell Julliard, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter, they speak about the sources from which they draw inspiration, themes in their work, and their view of the world. The series brings together a wide range of viewpoints and adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it. Text in English and German. AUTHORS: Julie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD Geneve, where she heads the Cultural Development Department. Federica Martini is an art historian and Associate Professor at HEAD Geneve, where she directs the MA program CCC Critical Curatorial Cybermedia. Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA's board. SELLING POINTS: . Renee Levi talks about the origin of her artistic intention, her visual language, and her place in the art world . Renee Levi was awarded the Swiss Prix Meret Oppenheim for art in 2002 . In the On Words series, female artists give personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art . Each volume in the series offers an interview in the artist's native language along with a full English translation 8 colour illustrations Renee Levi talks about the origins of her artistic intention, the place she has conquered in the art world, and her visual language that gradually evolves like a quest for freedom. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A compelling collection of interviews that sheds light on many different aspects of Isabelle Cornaro's art and deepens the understanding of the different facets of her work. Isabelle Cornaro, based in Paris and Geneva, holds degrees in art history and visual arts. She has a strong interest in experimental cinema and devotes herself to the narrative, symbolic, and economic origins of things. In her work she assumes an anthropologist-type manner to investigate people's seemingly fixated attachment to emotionally charged, even fetishised objects, creating large stage installations and short movies. This book is part of the new On Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Through them, readers come to understand the sources from which they draw inspiration, the themes in their work, and their view of the world. Edited by Julie Enckell, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter and bringing together a wide range of viewpoints, the On Words series adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it. Text in English and French. AUTHORS: Julie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD-Geneve, where she heads the Cultural Development Department. Federica Martini is an art historian and curator and heads the Visual Arts department at EDHEA in Sierre, Switzerland. She is also a visiting scholar at London's University of the Arts. Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA's board. SELLING POINTS: . The interview sheds light on many different aspects of Cornaro's art and deepens the understanding of the different facets in her work . Isabelle Cornaro's work has been shown at major international art spaces, such as the Musee d'Art moderne and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Sculpture Center in New York . By women artists for art students: Female artists give personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art . Each volume in the On Word series offers an interview in the artist's native language along with a full English translation 12 colour illustrations In conversation, Franco-Swiss artis Isabelle Cornaro speaks about aspects of her art, offering a deeper understanding of the different facets in her work. The book is part of the new On Words series that presents conversations with contemporary women artists. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Artist and filmmaker Pauline Julier works with the moving image as a means of questioning. With her dual education in political sciences and photography, she has developed a unique approach that leads to a visual dialogue between scientific narratives and ways of representing collective knowledge. In this interview, Julier reflects on a series of her cinematic works and installations and explores the transdisciplinary methods and contexts of visual engagement that characterise her artistic practice. On Words is a collection of interviews with leading contemporary women artists. In conversation with Julie Enckell Julliard, Federica Martini, and Sarah Burkhalter, they speak about the sources from which they draw inspiration, themes in their work, and their view of the world. The series brings together a wide range of viewpoints and adds a new narrative to polyphonic art history as told by those who actively shape it. Text in English and French. AUTHORS: Julie Enckell is an art historian and a director at HEAD Geneve, where she heads the Cultural Development Department. Federica Martini is an art historian and Associate Professor at HEAD Geneve, where she directs the MA program CCC Critical Curatorial Cybermedia. Sarah Burkhalter is an art historian and head of the Antenne romande of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Lausanne and a member of SIK-ISEA's board. SELLING POINTS: . Pauline Julier reflects on her key cinematic works and installations and explains her trans-disciplinary methods . Julier was twice a Swiss Art Award laureate, in 2010 and 2021 . In the On Words series, female artists give personal insight into their work, their experiences, and the meaning behind their art . Each volume in the series offers an interview in the artist's native language along with a full English translation 12 colour illustrations In this fully illsutrated volume, Pauline Julier reflects on her key cinematic works and installations and explains her transdisciplinary methods. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Wolfgang Beltracchi is a phenomenon of the international art world. His name is inextricably entwined with one of the greatest upheavals in the global art market. Emulating numerous world-famous artists, he developed and painted new paintings, continued their narrations and biography, and concluded them with a forged signature. His wife Helene Beltracchi then smuggled them onto the art market. Many experts were deceived by Beltracchi's stupendous skill and auctioneers cast many doubts aside in the interests of insatiable market demand, selling the paintings as authentic works by the purported artists. Reading the artistic handwriting of a painting requires an exceptional willingness and ability to be able to empathise and identify with the artist, until you "can feel what the other feels" (Wolfgang Beltracchi). Through extensive discussions with the painter and his wife, the psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer explored this capability that is so pronounced for Beltracchi. In her new book, she places this in relation to the disappearance of Beltracchi's own signature. As with her previous highly successful book about the performance artist Marina Abramovic, Jeannette Fischer has created an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality. AUTHOR: Jeannette Fischer has been practicing for more than 30 years as a Freudian psychoanalyst in Zurich, with a special focus on the topics of violence, power, and powerlessness. She has also curated exhibitions on these topics and produced two film documentaries. SELLING POINTS: . The first book from a psychoanalytical perspective about Wolfgang Beltracchi, painter and legendary art forger . Beltracchi is a unique phenomenon of the international art world and one of its most notorious names . Psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer once again presents an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality . Jeannette Fischer's previous book, Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramovic, is an ongoing sales success since its release in spring 2019 20 colour illustrations The first book from a psychoanalytical perspective about Wolfgang Beltrachi, painter and legendary art forger and one of the international art world's most notorious names, offering an exceptionally insightful portrait of a fascinating artist personality. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In the summer 2015, famous performance artist Marina Abramovic and psychanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramovics house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they took a psychoanalytical perspective for a lengthy exploration of Abramovics biography and art and their interrelation.???Abramovic went into this discussion in hopes of reaching a better understanding of herself, her personality, and her work. Conversations with artists are widely available, she notes, but a chance to use psychoanalysis to put an artists life and work in context is much rarer. The resulting book is neither a therapists report nor a Fischers analysis of Abramovic. Rather, it is a search for understanding conducted by the pair, looking for the structures and dynamics that underlie Abramovics life and art. The dialogues are presented along with Fischers comments on them and images of some of Abramovics performances that are referred to in the discussion. An account of Marina Abramovic's dialogue with psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer, offering an understanding of the underlying structures and dynamics of Abramovic's extraordinary performances. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Le Corbusiers chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp is arguably the most famous modern religious building and a UNESCO world heritage site. It has been photographed by millions of people, including some of the most distinguished architectural photographers. Austrian artist Siegrun Appelt took an entirely new approach to look at the iconic structure, distinct from all her famous predecessors. Appelt focuses with utter concentration on details, creating compositions of highest sensitivity and precision. Her images highlight the places spatial structure and lines, Le Corbusiers ingenious direction of light, as well as surfaces and passages. They can be read as hints to these details and at the same time invite a conclusion from detail to the whole. This publication includes a dialogue between Claudia Kromrei and Otto Kapfinger, in which they investigate the potential of photography to show Le Corbusiers means of expression and discuss the visualisation and perception of material and immaterial elements of this icon of 20th-century architecture. Text in English and German. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. French sculptor Aristide Maillol (18611944) is sometimes referred to as the "Cezanne of sculpture" as he, like Paul Cezanne in painting, paved the way for abstraction. Though Maillol began as a painter, he produced an impressive collection of sculptures, many featuring women, over the course of his career. This book, published in conjunction with a comprehensive Maillol exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zuerich, examines how the male gaze operates in Maillol's art and the changing perceptions of this gaze from the 19th century to today. A photo essay by Franca Candrian contrasts Maillol's Venus au collier with works by modern and contemporary women artists from the Kunsthaus Zuerich's collection. An essay by feminist art historian and curator Catherine McCormack explores the presence of art depicting female nudes in contemporary museums. Supplemented by an introduction by Philippe Buettner, curator of Kunsthaus Zuerich's permanent collection, the book thus offers a fresh and unique view of Maillol and his art. Text in English and German. AUTHOR: Kunsthaus Zuerich is one of Europe's leading art museums and Switzerland's largest art institution. Its permanent collection comprises masterpieces ranging from medieval to contemporary art, with a focus on French Impressionism, Postimpressionism, and classical modernism. SELLING POINTS: . Explores the question of the foundation of 19th and early 20th-century classical-academic artists' male gaze at women, and how we perceive it today against the backdrop of current gender debates . An extraordinary photo essay juxtaposes Maillol's Venus au collier with works by modern and contemporary women artists . With a contribution by feminist art historian and curator Catherine McCormack 52 colour illustrations A timely exploration of perceptions of the male artists gaze through Aristide Maillols sculpture. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. While he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian architectural historian Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. In meandering, impressionistic style, and drawing on their favorite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Nabokov, and T. S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time, and temporalities reverberate across Zumthors oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his attempts at emotional reconstruction by means of building, from architectural interventions in dramatic landscapes to his design for the redevelopment of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which conceived the building on a suitably grand urban scale.This small, beautifully designed book records the conversation between Zumthor and Lending, accompanied by photographs taken by the renowned Swiss architectural photographer Helene Binet. The resulting book is a surprisingly revelatory view of one of the most interesting and restlessly creative architects of our era. Peter Zumthor in dialogue with Mari Lending explores how history, time and temporalities reverberates across his oeuvre, a feeling of history has informed his continuous attempts of emotional reconstruction by means of building. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condizione: Gut. Formateinband: Leinen mit Umschlag / gebundene Ausgabe 157 S. (22 cm) 1. Aufl.; In gutem Zustand. ((Beiliegend Zeitungsartikel zum Erscheinen des Buches)). Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 490 [Stichwörter: Kunstsammler, Kunsthändler, Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Interview].

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Swiss artist duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann's catalogue of models. Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann have been collaborating since 1990, gaining much international recognition as Lang/Baumann (or L/B). Their collaborative work comprises installations, sculptures, murals, and floor paintings, as well as architectural interventions. Models play a key role in their creative process. This book brings together for the first time all the models that L/B have made for the projects they have pursued over 33 years. It thus forms a complete catalogue of their oeuvre to date in miniature format, featuring also those projects that were never developed beyond the model stage. A model can serve three purposes: three-dimensional sketch, test of a concept, or presentation. L/B use all three types. The sketch model is quickly made, fragile, and merely manifests a thought. The working model is used to try to test formal or technical details. The presentation model is made to show the result once the design process is complete, and this is usually elaborately built. Some 120 colour illustrations are supplemented by two essays on iconography in Lang/Baumann's work and on the playful aspect of model making. A conversation with Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann rounds off the book. AUTHORS: Lilia and David Glanzmann are joint directors of Museum Zeughaus Teufen in Switzerland. SELLING POINTS: . An unusual catalogue of renowned Swiss artist duo Lang/Baumann's collaborative work . Presents for the first time the complete models that Lang/Baumann have made for their joint projects since 1990, including the never-realised ones 119 colour, 3 b/w illustrations An unusual catalogue of renowned Swiss artist duo Lang/Baumanns collaborative work. Presents for the first time the complete models that Lang/Baumann have made for their joint projects since 1990, including the never-realised ones. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp (18891943) was a pioneer of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Remarkably versatile and immensely gifted, she produced an oeuvre that encompasses the entire range of the modernist movement, from applied and fine art and dance to architecture, interior design, and teaching.This volume offers a close look at one of Taeuber-Arps most important works, Equlibre. Created in 1931, it marked the beginning of Taeuber-Arps career as an accomplished painter, as she moved away from figuration to focus on shape and color. Circle, square, and rectangle would define her future vocabulary. While in her earlier textiles she had used multiple shades and hues, she now reduced her palette to primary colors alongside black and white, signaling a markedly changed sense of color. The paintings title, assigned after Taeuber-Arps death, emphasizes her constant striving for an ideal balance of color, shape, and indeed all the elements in her paintings. From there, she sets out to explore movement, circles, and spaces, and later gradations and lines. Equilibre, a landmark of Taeuber-Arps oeuvre, looks ahead to her future subject matter, while at the same time referencing her earlier work; this volume helps us understand Equilibre, and, through it, the entirety of Taeuber-Arps career. A concise introduction to Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Equilibre, a key part of her oeuvre in painting and a landmark in Swiss art history. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The work of Japanese-Swiss painter Teruko Yokoi (19242020) is characterised by unflagging creative energy and constant evolution. This book takes an in-depth look at her painting methods and her own vocabulary of abstraction, which was formulated over the course of a long artistic career. Art historian Kuniko Satonobu Spirig, who is also of Japanese origin, analyses and explains cultural and biographical relations in Yokoi's art, as well as the influences of abstract expressionism on her painting technique. Raised in the city of Tsushima on the Japanese island of that name, Yokoi moved to Tokyo in 1949, where she attended the private Joshibi University of Art and Design (Joshibijutsu Daigaku). In 1954, she went to the United States, where she completed her education at the San Francisco Art Institute and with painters Hans Hofmann and Julian E. Levi in New York. There she met artists such as Sam Francis-whom she married in 1959- Mark Rothko, and Kenzo Okada. In this environment, she drew new energy and began to develop her own style of abstraction and to invent her own idiom. In 1962, she moved to Switzerland, where she lived and worked tirelessly in the city of Bern until her death. Text in English and Japanese. AUTHOR: Kuniko Satonobu Spirig is a Japanese-born art historian, journalist, and filmmaker based in Geneva. Abstract art and the work of female artists are the main focus of her work. She produced Teruko Yokoi-Art in the Making, a film documentary on the life and art of Japanese-Swiss painter Teruko Yokoi. SELLING POINTS: . Sheds light on the painting methods and visual vocabulary of Japanese-Swiss painter Teruko Yokoi (19242020) . Analyses and explains cultural and biographical relations in Teruko Yokoi's art . Examines the influences of American abstract expressionism on Teruko Yokoi's painting techniques 36 colour, 6 b/w illustrations Sheds light on the painting methods and visual vocabulary of Japanese-Swiss painter Teruko Yokoi (19242020). Text in English and Japanese. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In the interwar period, the home of art-lovers and collectors Annie and Oskar Mueller-Widmann in Basel was a meeting place for some of the most significant protagonists of modernism, including artists Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The Mueller-Widmanns soon became close friends of the couple and the first and foremost collectors of their works for many years. This volume is the first to publish in English the letters and postcards that Sophie Taeuber-Arp wrote to the Mueller-Widmanns between 1932 and 1943. Her correspondence revolves around her artistic work, exhibitions, and other projects, but also speaks of the private circumstances of the life of an artist in the period leading up to World War II. Preserved in its entirety, the collection is a core testimony to Taeuber-Arp's life and work. Walburga Krupp, a leading expert on the artist and co-curator of the major retrospective Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction at Kunstmuseum Basel, London's Tate Modern, and the MoMA in New York in 202122, has annotated the transcribed and translated letters with insightful commentary and picks up on significant topics of this correspondence in an introductory essay. The book is illustrated with facsimile images of numerous postcards and letters as well as with works by Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hans Arp. AUTHOR: Walburga Krupp is a leading expert on the art and life of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and is co-curator of the major retrospective Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction at the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Tate Modern in London, and at MoMA in New York 2021/2022. The Fondazione Marguerite Arp was established in 1988 by Hans Arp's second wife Marguerite Hagenbach Arp to preserve the estate of Hans Arp as well as the works by Sophie Taeuber-Arp and other artists from her own collection. It is domiciled at Hans and Marguerite Arp's former home and studio in Locarno, Switzerland. SELLING POINTS: . The anticipated English edition of the first-ever book on Sophie Taeuber-Arp's written correspondence with her principal collectors and patrons . Featuring facsimile illustrations of selected letters and postcards . Annotated by the leading expert on the life and work of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 28 colour, 7 b/w illustrations An annotated edition of distinguished Swiss avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp's letters and post cards to her first and most important patrons and collectors, illustrated with facsimiles of these documents and commented by Walburga Krupp, a leading expert on the artist's life and work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Representing vision is a core theme in the art of Markus Raetz (19412020). The imitation of a binocular field of vision, which he chose for Zeemansblik, is as simple as it is convincing. Raetz created some 20 versions of this relief, made of painted and later of polished zinc sheet, in various dimensions. The Dutch term zeemansblik (sailor's view) can be translated as a view of the sea, yet blik in Dutch also means sheet metal. Raetz's wordplay refers objectively to the material and at the same time invites an interpretation of the horizontal fold in the plate as a sea horizon. Light reflections on the curved blank material change with the viewer's moving point of view, suggesting changing weather. A simple, abstract object on the wall thus becomes a seascape without painting, with the longing motif of looking into a blue distance. In this book, art historian Franz Mueller explores the complexity behind the apparent simplicity of Markus Raetz's Zeemansblik, highlighting what makes the relief a landmark of Swiss art. Text in English and German. AUTHOR: Franz Mueller is a scholar of art history working at the Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK-ISEA, where he directs various research projects, such as the catalogue raisonne of Markus Raetz's sculptural work. SELLING POINTS: . Markus Raetz (19412020) is one of the most distinguished contemporary Swiss artists . Zeemansblik is among Markus Raetz's best-known works and exists in around 20 different versions . The book offers insights into the evolution of this landmark of Swiss art . Franz Mueller is a renowned expert on the art of Markus Raetz 40 colour illustrations Art historian Franz Mueller explores the complexity behind the apparent simplicity of Markus Raetzs Zeemansblik, highlighting what makes the relief a landmark of Swiss art. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Since 2007, Switzerland's Federal Office of Culture has honoured the work of renowned designers who exemplify the quality and relevance of Swiss design practice both nationally and internationally. Simply put, the yearly awarded Swiss Grand Prix of Design reflects the best that Switzerland has to offer in this field. The roll call of winners illustrates the country's multifaceted spectrum of design production. In their many and varied ways, they have infused the cultural landscape with fresh ideas and continue to inspire new generations of designers, influencing current design as well as Swiss design history. The 2021 laureates of the Swiss Grand Prix of Design are the graphic designer Julia Born, photographer and art director Peter Knapp, and researcher and lecturer Sarah Owens. This book introduces them through texts, a conversation, a short biography and images from their archives. Text in English, French, German and Italian AUTHOR: The Federal Office of Culture in Bern is part of Switzerland's Federal Department of Home Affairs. Its responsibility is to promote Swiss culture in the fields of literature, performance arts, film, visual arts, and design, and to preserve the country's cultural heritage. SELLING POINTS: . Swiss design in all fields is highly regarded throughout the world . First volume in a new annual series of books on the Swiss Grand Prix of Design, which will be tracing the history and development of contemporary design in Switzerland . As designers rarely produce books of their work, these volumes will bring together a steadily growing collection of illustrated portraits 39 colour, 32 b/w illustrations This book introduces the 2021 laureates of Switzerlands national design prize, the Swiss Grand Award for Design 2021: graphic designer Julia Born, photographer and art director Peter Knapp, and researcher and lecturer Sarah Owens. Text in English, French, German and Italian. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. In the 1920s, German-Swiss artist Paul Klee (18791940) began his long-lasting engagement with polyphonic art - multi-voiced way of painting analogous to music. A relentless experimenter, Klee began these studies while teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau, developed them further during his tenure at the art academy in Duesseldorf, and brought them to conclusion after his return to Switzerland in 1933. In this book, distinguished art historian Oskar Baetschmann explores Klee's seminal painting Ad Parnassum (1932). Painted shortly after the artist's departure from the Bauhaus, it symbolises a new era, also one of Klee's own self-discovery. Baetschmann documents how the artist strove for a connection of music and painting in his colour hues and in the rhythmic movement of coloured dots. Richly illustrated, this book places Klee's polyphonic understanding of art in an art-historical context by using this key work and offers insight into the synesthetic thinking that emerged in the art world during that time. Text in English and German. AUTHOR: Oskar Baetschmann is professor emeritus of early modern art history at University of Bern. He was a member of the Paul Klee Foundation and co-initiator of the Catologue raisonne of the artist published from 1998 to 2004. SELLING POINTS: . A profound study of Paul Klee's painting Ad Parnassum, a key work in the painter's oeuvre . Examines the origins of Klee's search for polyphonic painting analogous to polyphonic music 40 colour illustrations A profound study of Paul Klees painting Ad Parnassum, a key work in the painters oeuvre, examining the origins of Klees search for polyphonic painting analogous to polyphonic music. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Swiss artist Florian Graf conceived his School Models art project for the public space in the city of Zurich. Situated within the playground of a public secondary school, it comprises models of three neighbouring schools, each representing a period of architectural history. Graf's white, limestone sculptures of 1:20 scale are supported by oversized, multicoloured Terazzo toy blocks. Pupils are invited to appropriate their school buildings in entirely new ways, such as seating or as meeting places. The interplay of proportions between oversized blocks and miniature school buildings, as well as the actual school buildings as a backdrop, prompts a re-evaluation of the underlying power dynamics and interpretations that shape educational systems. This book documents a unique public art project that evokes interaction through images and supplementing texts. It illuminates key terms such as education, model, collaboration, and resonance. The book also invites a reflection on the evolution of education and its institutions over time. Text in English and German. AUTHORS: Florian Graf is a Zurich-based Swiss artist, whose art addresses issues of identity and orientation in a transient society characterised by diversity. Yasmin Afschar is a Swiss-Iranian curator and writer based in Zurich and Mainz. SELLING POINTS: . Documents a unique public art project in Zurich . Illuminates key terms such as education, model, collaboration, and resonance . Invites a reflection on the evolution of education and its institutions over time 90 colour illustrations This book documents a unique public art project by Swiss artist Florian Graf that evokes interaction through images and supplementing texts. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Temporality and age are inherent in every object and creature and, depending on ones outlook, may transcend to infinity. But how can we imagine that infinity? What goes beyond it? In his latest movie about architecture, Swiss filmmaker Christoph Schaub sets out on a personal journey through time and space. He starts in his childhood, when his fascination with sacred buildings began, as did his wondering about beginnings and ends. In dialogue with architects Peter Zumthor, Peter Maerkli, and Alvaro Siza, artists James Turell and Cristina Iglesias, and musician Jojo Mayer, Schaub explores the magic of sacred spaces, a term that for him represents much more than just churches.Architecture of Infinity traces spirituality in architecture and fine arts as well as in nature, moving beyond the limits of thought. The lightly floating camera immerses the viewer in somnambulistic images, taking us on a sensual and sensing journey through vast spaces, guiding our eyes towards the star-spangled skys infinity and the depths of the ocean. Past and present, primeval times and light years, we see it all through Schaubs work. Swiss director Christoph Schaub's new film Architecture of Infinity explores the magic of sacred spaces and traces spirituality in architecture and fine arts as well as in nature, featuring architects Peter Zumthor, Peter Maerkli and Alvaro Siza, artists James Turell and Cristina Iglesias, and musician Jojo Mayer. In English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche. Dill transforms the emotions of the writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, into works of paper, wire, horsehair, foil, bronze and music - works that awaken the viewer to the physical intimacy and power of language itself. Lesley Dill Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me features a uniquely inspired group of sculptures and two-dimensional works more than a decade in the making. It is testimony of Dill's ongoing investigation into the significant voices and personas of America's past. For the artist, the American voice grew from early America's obsessions with divinity and deviltry, on fears of the wilderness out there and wilderness inside us. The plates, in colour throughout, are supplemented with essays by Lesley Dill, Brooklyn-based writer Nancy Princenthal, Figge Art Museum's curator Andrew Wallace, and researcher and tribal historian Juaquin Hamilton-Youngbird. The book also features a literary text by writer by Tom Sleigh and a poem by author and poet Ray Young Bear. AUTHOR: The Figge Art Museum, formed as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery in 1925, was given its current name in 2005 on occasion of the opening of its new building designed by British architect David Chipperfield. It is home to an impressive collection of European, American and Spanish Viceregal art, the Grant Wood Archive and works by other American Regionalist artists, an extensive collection of Haitian art, and contemporary works. SELLING POINTS: . Features sixteen new works by American artist Lesley Dill, published in this book for the first time . The majority of the featured works were made expressly for a series of solo exhibitions at Figge Art Museum and other US museums in 202123 and are published here for the first time . Lesley Dill ranks among of the most prominent American artists working at the intersection of language and fine art 97 colour illustrations This new book on American artist Lesley Dill features a uniquely inspired group of sculptures and two-dimensional works from the past ten years. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Bronx-born postminimalist Lawrence Weiner is one of the pioneers of conceptual art, best known for his use of language as an artistic medium. Descriptive rather than prescriptive, Weiners work does not instruct the viewer to perform a particular action or interpret it in any particular, unequivocal way. Rather, it presents the viewer with an infinite number of meanings and possibilities for realization.ATTACHED BY EBB & FLOWis an installation Weiner created for Nivola Museum in Orani, Sardinia, Italy. The title refers to the tides and to Sardinian artist Costantino Nivolas experience of exile and relocation, as well as to the current migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Sentences are translated from English to Italian to local Sardu, using different words and constructs and presented simultaneously to show many various possibilities for interpretation. While things may be lost in translation, Weiner shows, many more can be found. Features language-based installation by Lawrence Weiner, New York-born pioneer of conceptual art, at Museo Nivola in Orani, Sardinia. With an interview with Lawrence Weiner on his art and this project. Text in English and Italian. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. British artist Anthony Craggs sculptures are massive yet lightweight, planted firmly in space without ever seeming static. Starting in many cases from figurative drawings, the dynamic sculptures bear intriguing traces of the processes that created them, from the artists encounter with his chosen material to the inner force that guided their creation. As such, Craggs sculptures reveal the infinite possibilities of form, as they grow upon themselves and evolve in conversation with one another, all while obeying the laws of nature that govern all living organisms. Anthony Cragg: Endless Form features the artists most recent work, exhibited at Nivola Museum in Orani, Sardinia, Italy, with ample illustrations and an essay by British scholar and curator Mark Gisbourne. Features recent work by eminent British sculptor Anthony Cragg on display at Museuo Nivola in Orani, Sardinia. Text in English and Italian. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This book unites the inkjet prints of Uwe Wittwer with the poetry of Juerg Halter. Deserted Boat Drifts Towards the Moon brings artist Uwe Wittwer's watercolours and writer and poet Juerg Halter's lyric together in a multi-layered dialogue. Inspired by Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi's legendary movie Ugetsu Monogatari (Rain Moon Tales, 1953), they intend to trigger a new, imaginary film in the mind of the viewer-reader. It is not a self-contained story they offer. Rather, artist and poet have created a subtle play with hints, fragments, comments, and further narratives. Some of Wittwer's images are illustrative, others refuse a direct reading. Likewise, Halter's short poems in some cases are unambiguous and simple, some are equivocal and elude immediate access. In a poetic-painterly manner, the book explores questions such as what is one's own in the foreign?, when does humanity turn into inhumanity?, or Is comfort to be found in art? Text in English and German. AUTHORS: Juerg Halter is a Bern-based Swiss author, poet, and spoken-word and visual artist. Uwe Wittwer is a Zurich-based Swiss artist. The media he uses includes watercolour, oil painting, inkjet print, and video. SELLING POINTS: . Works on paper by Swiss artist Uwe Wittwer and poems by Swiss writer and poet Juerg Halter in a multi-layered dialogue . Explores in a poetic-painterly manner questions of the individual in the foreign, humanity and inhumanity, and the consolation in art 50 colour illustrations Works on paper by Swiss artist Uwe Wittwer and poems by Swiss writer and poet Juerg Halter in a multi-layered dialogue. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Open House discusses the topic of temporary housing in architecture, art, design and humanitarian aid. The phenomenon of tiny houses fascinates and is currently trending in various media. In times of large migratory movements from poor to rich countries there is also an urgent demand for temporary housing in many places. Eighteen international authors explore the intentions behind such constructions, their underlying principles and the lifestyle they convey. Their contributions reveal how these concepts relate to the very notion of habitat, to space, to pragmatic criteria, as well as to the time in which they are elaborated. Moreover, addresses various issues of individual housing through the featured original installations, and spatial experiments. Open House is published in conjunction with a two-year research project and an open-air exhibition of the same title in Geneva in summer 2022. Book and exhibition comprise around 40 designs by artists, architects, designers, architecture schools and research institutions, as well as humanitarian organisations, such as Andrea Zittel, EPFL Laboratoire ALICE, Global Shelter Cluster, Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich, Jean Prouve, John Armleder, Kengo Kuma, Kerim Seiler, Matti Suuronen, Maurizio Cattelan and Philippe Parreno, the UNHCR, and others. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Simon Lamuniere is a curator based in Geneva and director of the Open House project and exhibition in 2021/22. His previous engagements include the Domaine du Muy (Le Muy, France, 2014-2016), the Neon Parallax (Geneva, 2006-2013), Art Unlimited art fair (Basel, 2000-2011), the 11th Swiss sculpture exhibition Utopics (Biel/Bienne, 2009), the documenta X website (1997), and the Centre pour l'Image contemporaine (Geneva, 1992-2004). SELLING POINTS: . The phenomenon of tiny houses fascinates many people and is currently trending in various media . Large migratory movements from poor to rich countries create an urgent demand for temporary housing in many places . The book offers much needed substantial contribution to an international debate that often is superficial and driven by fantasies and lifestyle trends in rich countries 170 colour illustrations Open House discusses the topic of temporary housing in architecture, art, design and humanitarian aid, featuring work by distinguished international architects and artists, such as Andrea Zittel, Gramazio Kohler Research, Jean Prouve, John Armleder, Kengo Kuma, Kerim Seiler etc. Text in English and French. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (19131985) is far more than just the creator of the iconic fur teacup. In the course of her career she produced a complex, wide-ranging, and enigmatic body of work that has no parallel in modern art. Like an x-ray beam, this book scans Oppenheim's artistic oeuvre, bringing its variety, playfulness, and poetry to the fore. Instead of simply answering the riddles posed by these intriguing works, it maps out the paths that will lead us to still more clues. Simon Baur is a leading expert in the life and art of Meret Oppenheim. The nine new essays featured in this volume are at once scholarly and easy to read. In them, Baur shares the many fascinating insights and interpretations that he has gleaned from his decades-long engagement with Oppenheim's work. The result is an anthology that combines both biographical and thematic aspects and takes us on an exciting journey into the poetic cosmos of a truly great female artist. AUTHOR: Simon Baur is a scholar of art history, writer, and critic based in Basel. He has written, edited, and contributed to numerous books, including catalogues of major Meret Oppenheim exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad. SELLING POINTS: . A new and easy-to-read introduction to the life and work of Meret Oppenheim, one the 20th century's most distinguished female artists . Nine essays explore key elements of Oppenheim's art and shed new light at defining aspects of her life and career . Richly Illustrated with images of key works as well as many private photographs and archival documents 100 colour, 10 b/w illustrations A new introduction to the life and art of German-born Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (19131985), offering fascinating insights into and interpretations of her oeuvre and inviting the reader to an exciting journey into the poetic cosmos of a truly great female artist. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Swiss artist Martin Disler (19491996) was a self-taught painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, as well as a poet. Over the course of his career, his work evolves from clearly recognisable motifs towards the utter disintegration of figures. Especially his later paintings owe their power, as well as their size, to his particular way of working: In a highly physical process, the artist would alternate between applying and removing paint, moulding matter with brushes and knives as well as with his hands and nails until his body merged with the work. The materialisation of Disler's physical thinking, a 'theatre of survival', places him in a fascinating dialogue with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the great expressionist's work. This new monograph, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Kirchner Museum Davos, focuses on the last decade of Disler's career and relates his output from the period to Kirchner's art, thus revealing similarities between the two artists. The essays explore the importance of the human body and its role in the artist's creative process as well as aspects such as movement and dance, gesture, expression, abstraction and figuration. AUTHORS: Carla Burani is an art historian and has been appointed as director of Kirchner Museum Davos in 2019. Beat Wismer is a scholar of art history and has been director of Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf (Germany) 200717 and Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau (Switzerland) 19852007. SELLING POINTS: . Martin Disler (19491996) is one of Switzerland's most significant 20th-century artists whose work gained much international attention and was shown in solo exhibitions during his lifetime at important venues such as London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Vienna's Albertina . This new monograph focuses on Disler's late work, putting it in context with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's art . Accompanies the Theatre of Survival: Martin Disler. The Final Years exhibition at Kirchner Museum Davos (December 2020 until April 2021) 70 colour, 10 b/w illustrations New monograph on distinguished Swiss artist Martin Disler (19491996), putting his later paintings, drawings and sculptures in context with the art of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and exploring aspects of Dislers work such as role of the human body in this creative process. Text in English and German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Unexpected events in the present can in the long term affect our view of both the past and the future. Dealing with this fundamental uncertainty as an artist characterises the work of Silvie Defraoui, born 1935, and also determines her Archives du Futur, the platform for artistic reflection she initiated in 1975 together with her late partner Cherif (193294). This elegant book features some 40 works that Defraoui has created since 1994, using the media of video, painting, neon, and photography. Some of them have been newly created for her major solo exhibition at the MCBA in Lausanne in the spring 2023 and are published in this book for the first time. All of them bear witness to continuous change and impressively illustrate the metamorphosis of the Archives du Futur, which has now been in existence for almost five decades. Laurence Schmidlin's essay offers a new approach to Defraoui's artistic ideas and concepts. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Laurence Schmidlin is an art historian and was appointed director of the Musee d'art du Valais in Sion in 2022. Prior to that she was curator of contemporary art at the MCBA in Lausanne, Switzerland. SELLING POINTS: . First book on Swiss artist Silvie Defraoui's work of the past three decades . Features some 40 artworks created since 1994, some of which are published in this book for the first time ever 80 colour illustrations First book on Swiss artist Silvie Defraouis work of the past three decades. Texts in English, French, German. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The previously unpublished correspondence between Alberto Giacometti and his family. Alberto Giacometti (19011966), one of the most significant figures in 20th-century art, was throughout his life closely attached to his family, and in particular to his parents Giovanni and Annetta Giacometti, in their native Swiss village of Stampa. At least once a week he wrote to his parents to keep them up-to-date on everything important to him, maintaining this routine even when a telephone was installed at their house in the remote Val Bregaglia. Their entire correspondence comprises more than 1,000 letters. For the first time ever, excerpts from this body of documents are now published in this volume. They reveal fascinating insights into this close family relationship and the manifold exchanges about core issues of Alberto's life and work as an artist. The letters tell of his artistic education in Switzerland and the early years in Paris - his studies at the art academy and encounters with the avant-garde, his joining with and later turning away from the Surrealist movement - as well as of his search for a new figuration between 1935 and 1946. Thus, the book provides entirely new knowledge about the evolution and circumstances of one of Modernity's greatest artists. AUTHOR: Casimiro Di Crescenzo is a Venice-based art historian, writer, and curator, and a renowned specialist on Alberto Giacometti and his art. SELLING POINTS: . First publication of Alberto Giacometti's family letters . Features also many of the never-before published replies by Alberto's parents, Giovanni and Annetta Giacometti . Offers fascinating new insights into the personal and artistic evolution of one of Modernity's greatest artists and brings to life the vibrant Paris art scene of the 1920s and 1930s . Illustrated with facsimiles of letters, reproductions of works discussed, and photographs 16 colour, 26 b/w illustrations First publication of Alberto Giacomettis family letters. Offers fascinating new insights into the personal and artistic evolution of one of Modernitys greatest artists and brings to life the vibrant Paris art scene of the 1920s and 1930s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.