Manuela Ammer Bücher

Die Frauenfiguren von Margit Palme verkörpern den Kampf gegen patriarchale Strukturen und zeigen sich in dynamischen, oft provokanten Posen. Seit über sechzig Jahren nutzt die Künstlerin die Technik der Aquatinta-Radierung, um ihre Visionen zu verwirklichen. Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über ihr Werk und enthält Beiträge von renommierten Autorinnen, Kunsthistorikerinnen und Künstlerinnen, die sich mit feministischer Forschung beschäftigen. Die Vielfalt der Perspektiven bereichert die Auseinandersetzung mit Palmes Kunst und deren gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung.

Die stillen Hallen der Museen sind Vergangenheit. Stattdessen tönt und lärmt es, denn Künstler agieren heute ganz selbstverständlich mit dem Klang der Welt. Die einstige Hegemonie des Visuellen ist mittlerweile durch ein Wechselspiel von Bild und Ton ersetzt. Vor dem kulturhistorischen Hintergrund der visuellen Musik im abstrakten Film der 1920er Jahre und den Intermedia-Entwicklungen seit den späten 1950er Jahren zeigt die Publikation das veränderte tönende Bild einer zeitgenössischen Kunst, die die unterschiedlichsten Spielarten und Fragestellungen von Sound & Vision zu ihrem Thema und Instrumentarium gemacht hat. See this Sound präsentiert und diskutiert unterschiedliche Positionen, Ansätze und Umsetzungen zeitgenössischer Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft. Die aufgezeigten Bezugsfelder reichen von der Popkultur bis zur Wahrnehmungstheorie und Medientechnologie.

Wherever we go, we are surrounded by moving images. In art as in daily life, they have long since developed a life "beyond the cinema," scuttling the conventions of dark auditoriums for images projected onto walls, staged in specially-designed environments, and aggregated in multiples. Beyond Cinema centers around approximately 25 important film and video works, primarily the major installations of the 1990s, including the ravishing projections of Pipilotti Rist, the existentialist image of the body put forward by Bruce Nauman, the psychologically charged filmic spaces of Eija-Liisa Ahtila and the highly conceptual installations of Rodney Graham. Each elaborates on notions of the projected image that were developed in the 1960s, and groundbreaking works from Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham and Valie Export are presented to contextualize investigations of identity and body image, film cooperatives, representations of time and other topics.

The Swiss company Baloise has a reputation among art experts, but not just as an insurance and financial services company. With its programs that support art, its collaborations with museums, and the renowned Baloise Art Prize for young artists, which is awarded at Art Basel, the company has had a lasting effect on the development of contemporary art. Less well-known up to now is the fact that, parallel to the company's activities, it has also built a first-class art collection, which dates back to the mid-twentieth century. Since turning to contemporary art in the 1990s, the company has collected the works of notable artists. With a focus on photography and works on paper from the 1960s onward, some of the artists represented in the collection are Miriam Cahn, Simon Denny, Katharina Fritsch, Bruce Nauman, and Jeff Wall. Baloise Art is the first publication to provide a broader audience with an overview of the collection. Informative texts by prestigious authors accompany the artworks.

How artists from Hans Arp to Mike Kelley have employed animal motifs to diverse ends Within the visual arts, animals--as pets, in zoos or farms, or as stuffed animals--have evoked an array of thematic matter: sex, hunger and affection; family and gender relations; socialization and domestication; and the enduring impact of colonial history. Aided by numerous critical essays, The Animal Withinexplores the popular appeal of animals in art to interrogate structures of violence and domination. As a motif, the animal serves as a powerful starting point for arriving at a materialist understanding of art and life, and not merely in a figurative sense--bones, skins, hides and feathers prominently feature in these artworks. Artists include: Hans Arp, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Mike Kelley, Maria Lassnig, Ulrike Müller, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Mel Ramos, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle and Carolee Schneemann.