Andy Warhol

Klaus Honnef

A commentary on the life and work of Andy Warhol, celebrated American artist.

Commerce Into Art

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987

Neue Wilde - Between tradition and innovation - Seventies as a laboratory - German art - American art - Cultural supermarket - Power of photography.

Contemporary Art

Christiane Fricke

Manfred Schneckenburger

Karl Ruhrberg

Explores the various styles and movements of twentieth-century art, covering painting, sculpture, and related artifacts, as well as new media, and photography; discusses the interrelations between the disciplines; and includes color and black-and-white illustrations.

Art of the 20th Century: Painting

Toto Frima has created a seemingly endless series of photographic portraits, each using a technique known as instant photography. Portraits in an SX 70 format, which later become 50 x 60 prints, were taken in one of the largest studios of the Polaroid company. These photographs all share a single theme: they are all portraits of quite young women, who seem to show hardly any signs of ageing over the period in which the photographs were taken. The women are often sparsely dressed or nude, sometimes a close-up of a female face is presented, sometimes a simple torso. The further back in time one goes, the greater the number of fragmentary photographs. But what remains evident is that women form the only theme of all the photographs.

Toto Frima

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter's work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming presence of digital images, he shows us the unsurpassed impact and intensity of painting. A definitive introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time spanning not only his entire career, but also 50 years of cultural, economic, and political events.

Gerhard Richter

Claus Clément

Jutta Moster-Hoos

In 1982, Horst Janssen (born 1929) published a pamphlet titled Horst Janssen as Braggart X: A Quixotry, a polemic attacking his contemporaries via drawings, collages and writings. This catalogue juxtaposes his works with those of Hans Baldung Grien, Allen Jones, Friedrich Meckseper and Konrad Klapheck.

flegeleien und verneigungen

Horst Janssen als angeber X

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources and products as well as the banal...

Pop Art

Michael Ruetz

Heinz Hajek-Halke

This large-format monograph is the first extensive review of the work of Heinz Hajek-Halke, an unrecognized pioneer of early twentieth-century experimental photography. Hajek-Halke surmounted the purely documentary nature of the medium in the turbulent 1920s to develop a variety of aesthetically challenging photo-manipulation and montage techniques. He used these methods not only in excellent compositions made for their own sake, but also in commissioned advertising work, which can now be understood as innovative forerunners of today's altered photography and web design. "Artist, Anarchist" encompasses all the creative phases of Hajek-Halke's career--his nude photography, his photo-montages, picture stories, the images of small animals with which he kept his nose down during the war, and his late abstract Lichtgrafiken, or light graphics. Reproductions of his vintage prints and an abundance of other material, including photo collages, magazine advertisements, dust jackets for books and graphic designs make this a rich introduction and a valuable reference.

Artist, Anarchist : with Essays

Martin Munkacsi

F. C. Gundlach

Munkacsis images have been brought together to combine pictures from all his artistic phases, and several photographs and bodies of work that have not been seen since their initial magazine publication. Includes Munkacsi portraits of Hollywood stars such as Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Russell and Marlene Dietrich and private snapshots showing Munkacsi at work and at leisure

Gabriele Honnef-Harling

deutsche Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert : Galerie der Hauptstadt Prag, 18. Juni bis 28. September 2003, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, 19. November bis 16. Februar 2004, Moskauer Haus der Fotografie, 15. März bis zum 15. April 2004, Museum Bochum, 8. Mai bis 24. Juli 2004

Von Körpern und anderen Dingen

A critical observer of American society Andy Warhol (1928–1987) is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings (Campbell and Brillo series), as well as their fascination for sensational journalism. In 1963 Warhol founded his Factory in New York, literally a manufactory of ideas and work, which influenced film in the 1960s, published the influential magazine Interview in the late 1970s, and also produced Warhol's own artwork: Warhol conceived the idea, and a worker in his factory carried it out. The work remained (consciously) unsigned—a fact which nevertheless did nothing to diminish Warhol's reputation. He once complained that rich New Yorkers would willingly hang his Electric Chain in their living rooms—as long as its colours co-ordinated with the wallpaper and draperies. About the Series: Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features: a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions a concise biography

Warhol

An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves our attention before we even open one of its stunningly illustrated and argued twin volumes. For what Ingo Walther and his international team have done is to make sense of this most explosive of artistic centuries. Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisite disciplines for modern artists, constantly questioning both the technical and thematic definitions of their work? The infinite laboratory of experiment that the visual arts have become over the last decades highlights not only the inherent potential for human creativity and representation, but also shows the way individuals and groups have responded to the huge social, political and technological changes of this most turbulent of times. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, your art book purchases can stop once you buy this. Warning: it will not fit on your coffee table!

Art of the 20th Century: Sculpture

Axel Hütte

Veit Loers

Unter dem lapidaren Titel Landschaft legt er in seinem neuesten Band eine Sammlung von grösstenteils farbigen Landschaftsaufnahmen vor, die in de letzten Jahren auf Reisen. besser fotografischen Expeditionen ...

Axel Hütte, Landschaft

Originating in England in the mid 1950s, Pop Art developed its full potential in the USA in the 1960s. It substitutes the everyday for the splendid; mass-produced articles are assigned the same importance as one-offs; the difference between high culture and popular culture is swept away. Media and advertising are among the preferred contents of Pop Art, which celebrates the consumer society in its own witty fashion. The enthusiasm generated by Pop Art since the first works were exhibited has never died down -- it is greater today than ever before. Book jacket.

André Rival

Andre Rival, at home in both Paris and Berlin, has created a fascinating project out of a relatively simple idea: 100 women taking photographs of themselves. The outcome is both startling and impressive. It is an expression of contemporary female identity - self-aware, distinctive and thoroughly positive, in a series of nude photographs that inexorably capture and hold our attention, revealing at the same time the artist's highly creative approach to the medium of photography and to the individual selves of the women portrayed. The author describes his project in this way: "We are inundated with pictures of women in the media. Ordinarily, the pictures we see seek to achieve a kind of 'sameness' based on unwritten ideals of beauty; physical perfection, total fitness become the determining factors. These images of women, provoked as they are by the media industry, awakened in me the urge to confront both that industry and myself with something else. I chose to set aside my own ways of thinking and do a series of 100 women in which it was not I who would put together the photographs, but the women themselves. For this purpose, I gave them each a shutter-switch and left the room. That represented the beginning of the attempt to enable the women to become photographic subjects rather than objects; they were left to decide on their own which personal image of themselves they wanted to convey. The conditions were the same for all of the women: the same lighting, the same white background and the same unchanged camera position. It was essential to fix the location of the camera, so that the women did not perceive themselves as being pursued by an 'observer'; instead, they were able to establish distance and camera angle themselves with the aid of a video screen that showed them each camera exposure as a still photo."

100 Women

Self-images

HA Schult

Thomas Höpker

Eva Windmöller

Fetisch Auto

The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.

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