Christoph Grunenberg Bücher

Prestel, Mnchen, 2014. 297 S. mit Abb., 29 cm, Pbd., quart - neuwertig, original verlagsfrisch verschweit / Anlsslich der Ausstellung Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette - Picasso und das Modell, Kunsthalle Bremen, 22. Februar - 22. Juni 2014-

1944 tritt Pablo Picasso der kommunistischen Partei Frankreichs bei und bleibt ihr bis zu seinem Tod verbunden. Obwohl er als Aushängeschild der Partei gilt, ist sein politisches Denken stark von seinem Streben nach Frieden und Freiheit geprägt. In dieser Zeit entstehen seine berühmten Darstellungen der weißen Taube, die zum globalen Friedenssymbol wird, während die Welt mit den Nachwirkungen zweier Weltkriege und bevorstehenden Konflikten wie dem Korea- und Vietnamkrieg konfrontiert ist. Diese Publikation untersucht Picasso als politisch und sozial engagierten Künstler und betrachtet ihn nicht als isolierten Giganten der modernen Kunst, sondern als „Historienmaler“ in der marxistischen Tradition. Sie beleuchtet seine Schlüsselwerke von 1944 bis zu seinem Tod, darunter „Leichenhaus“, „Krieg und Frieden“ und „Raub der Sabinerinnen“, sowie eine Serie von Stillleben mit Totenköpfen. Rund 50 Gemälde, 100 Zeichnungen und zahlreiche Dokumente erzählen ein bisher vernachlässigtes, aber zentrales Kapitel in Picassos Leben. Ergänzt wird die Darstellung durch Briefauszüge und Schriften, die neue Einblicke in sein politisches Engagement bieten. Die Ausstellung „PICASSO. FRIEDEN UND FREIHEIT“ fand in der Albertina in Wien vom 22. September 2010 bis 16. Januar 2011 statt.

With the title "20/20 Vision: The Collection Remixed", the Kunsthalle Bremen presents a radical new look at its collection for the first time in nearly ten years. Using bold colours on the walls, an elaborate staging and an entirely new arrangement of the works on display, the exhibition allows surprising new aesthetic experiences. Descriptions of all works on display provide in-depth information, some of which are findings from the very latest research. Several works have not been seen in public in decades. The installation will also present for the first time a number of recent acquisitions, donations, and permanent loans. Works of art created after 1945 will also be given a greater presence. Exhibition: Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (staring 06.06.2020).

The 1961 film Last Year in Marienbad broke with traditional structures of time, location, and causality like no other film before it. The director, Alain Resnais, played with an artistic language in which the style itself became the content. In doing so, he defined an appreciation of art that has extended into the present day: Nouvelle Vague. The catalogue examines the influence of the film on the fine arts, on Pop culture and fashion, garnering international approaches from the beginning of the twentieth century through to the present.

The Belgian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker René Magritte (1898–1967) was one of the leading figures in the Surrealist movement, producing some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. His trademark flat, inexpressive manner, combining apparently mundane, everyday scenes with elements of the fantastic or erotic, created a disturbing, dreamlike atmosphere that is all his own. He remained faithful to Surrealism throughout his career and developed a vocabulary of symbols—floating rocks, bowler-hatted men carrying umbrellas, incongruous nudes, concealed or shrouded faces—that is among the most recognizable in modern painting. This book explores the full scope of Magritte’s work through the format of an A to Z, fully illustrated in color, with entries written by a range of international scholars. The entries under the letter A alone—Absence, Abstraction, Appropriation, Anonymity, Artifice, Automatism, and Automatic Writing—show how this approach reveals and explores the themes and motivations in this most enigmatic artist’s work.

Born in Liverpool in 1949, Tony Cragg is one of a group of young British sculptors who came to the fore in the early 1980s and went on to achieve significant international acclaim. This book includes sculptures, drawings, and graphic works by Cragg. He is constantly weaving new ideas into his work, a creative urge that is closely linked to his use of a wide variety of materials. His explorations in new materials continue -- most recently, a body of work in carbon fiber/Teflar. An anthology of quotations from Cragg's own writings and others elucidate the relationships between concept, form, and material in his work. Tony Cragg lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.