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From the First World War to the Cold War, the sexual revolution to the Velvet Revolution, communism to capitalism, the 20th Century was marked by sweeping historical events and changes. In the Face of History brings together 22 of the greatest photographers of this period, whose works collectively map out a century of European experience. Published to accompany a major new exhibition at The Barbican, In the Face of History charts the history of European photography from 1900 to the present day, and features early masters such as Eugène Atget, André Kertész and Josef Sudek, alongside well-known figures such as Brassaï, Robert Doisneau and Wolfgang Tillmans. The book also includes less publicised photographers from the former Eastern bloc, with many works reproduced for the first time. All of the photographers are distinguished by a closeness to their subject matter, and some of them depict these subjects during times of great conflict. André Kertész carried his camera to the front as a conscript in the Austro Hungarian army, and documented the harsh realities of life as a soldier in the Great War. Henryk Ross was the official photographer of the Lodz ghetto in Poland in the Second World War, but also produced a series of clandestine and shocking images of life inside. In the Face of History also features photographers who have depicted the subtler currents of social and cultural change. Brassaï depicted the 'secret Paris' of the 1930s, with its brothels and drinking dens, while Christer Strömholm photographed a community of transsexuals in the same city two decades later. Similarly, contemporary photographers such as Jitka Hanzlová and Wolfgang Tillmans throw light on changes taking place in Europe in the era of globalisation. In the Face of History includes texts by the curators Kate Bush and Mark Sladen, an essay by the eminent photography historian and curator Martin Harrison, and texts on the individual photographers by a range of leading writers and commentators.

European Photographers in the 20th Century

In the Face of History

Lotte Johnson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Zadie Smith

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Toyin Ojih Odutola

Barbican Centre for Arts and Conferences

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New Images of Man : an Exhibition

Aftermath France, 1945-54

Andrew Crozier

The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain, 1935-55

A Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost: the Neo-romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55 (Exhibition)

Jane Alison

"This multi-disciplinary and cross-generational project explores the central importance of the house within surrealism and its legacies. It brings the first surrealists together with contemporary artists, film-makers and architects. Through a strategy of accumulation and poetic contamination, each informs the other."--Back cover.

The Surreal House

A survey of contemporary architecture and urban development showcases the most influential works of sixty seminal and rising architects, in a volume that is complemented by essays on how their contributions have reflected the industry's efforts throughout the past half century. Original.

Experiment and Utopia in Architecture

Future City

Focusing on the last quarter of the nineteenth century, The Wilde Years features Oscar Wilde as a central, catalytic figure linking two artistic capitals, London and Paris. Wilde is presented as a multi-faceted artist, whose major achievement was language, with which he contributed to the development of artistic and cultural movements of his age. In his lifetime, Wilde was praised as a poet, writer, and, in particular, playwright, but this publication throws new light on his lesser-known work as an art critic, journalist and progressive political thinker. The book is a tribute to the man who, in his own words, 'stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.' Celebrated for his wit and flamboyant personality, Oscar Wilde was a central figure in the artistic worlds of fin-de-siecle London and Paris. He was a poet, playwright, art critic and, above all, he was known as a virtuoso 'conversationalist.' Furthermore, the extremity of his fate - imprisonment following his trials in 1895 for homosexual activities - made his name unforgettable as a 'martyr' of the time.

Oscar Wilde and His Times

The Wilde Years

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Van Gogh in England

Marina Wallace

Martin Kemp

Joanne Bernstein

Seduced is a provocative and ambitious survey of representations of sex across cultures from ancient times to the modern day. Featuring such diverse works as Roman marbles, Japanese woodcuts, Indian manuscripts, Renaissance and Baroque paintings, nineteenth-century photographs and contemporary videos, this fascinating book reveals how art with a sexual content has been collected, openly displayed, concealed or prohibited over time. It provokes us to question the lines drawn between art and pornography and to examine our own boundaries of acceptability and censorship. This is the first major study of the visual representation of sex and changing attitudes towards explicit imagery throughout history. It includes works spanning 2000 years by over 70 artists, among them Rembrandt, Kitagawa Utamaro, J.M.W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jeff Koons.

Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now

Seduced

Abrams

Includes interviews with various artists.710:2 : Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.

Tokyo-London

Jam #2

Last Romantics : the Romantic Tradition in British Art, Burne- Jones to Stanley Spencer (Exhibition)

Mary Anne Stevens

Examines the treatment of imaginative figure subjects in British art from the decline of Pre-Raphaelitism to the rise of Neo-Romanticism.

The Romantic Tradition in British Art, Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer

The Last Romantics

Centro Cultural de Belém

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Carlos Basualdo

Bronx Museum of the Arts

"This major exhibition revisits a seminal moment in Brazilian culture between 1967 and 1972, examining the Tropicalist era as a true force in popular culture ... The movement took its name from an installation created in 1967 by artist Hélio Oiticica ..."--p. 9.

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