Jean Clair Bücher

Kein Gemütszustand interessiert die westliche Kultur schon so lange wie die Melancholie. Traditionell als Ursache für seelisches Leiden und Wahnsinn verstanden, galt sie zugleich nach der Temperamentenlehre als typisch für Helden und Genies. Selbst heute, als Depression medizinisch-wissenschaftlichen Paradigmen unterworfen, lässt sie sich nicht vollständig erklären. Die mit der künstlerischen Darstellung der Melancholie verbundene Ikonografie ist entsprechend variantenreich. Der vorliegende Band bietet mit annähernd 300 Arbeiten, von der attischen Stele bis zu zeitgenössischen Werken, einen breit gefächerten Überblick der mannigfaltigen Erscheinungsbilder und belegt dabei die tiefe Prägung des europäischen Geniebegriffs durch die „Saturnische Krankheit“. Die vorgestellten Künstler (Auswahl): Arnold Böcklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucas Cranach, Eugène Delacroix, Otto Dix, Albrecht Dürer, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Francisco de Goya, Nicholas Hilliard, Edward Hopper, Anselm Kiefer, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Ron Mueck, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Nicolas Poussin, Auguste Rodin, Jean-Antoine Watteau Ausstellungen: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris 10.10.2005-16.1.2006 · Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 17.2.-7.5.2006

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One of the most significant and least studied aspects of Picasso's art is his link with the Italian art tradition, which has never been clearly documented. This catalogue accompanying an exhibition in February 1998 at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, reveals the importance of the Italian experience for the best-known artist of the 20th century. Essays by renowned art historians cover topics ranging from the photographic sources of Picasso's Italianate images, to his work in relation to Eric Satie, and the remarkable painting The Parade. Notes, sketches, drawings and graphic works as well as the greatest masterpieces of painting and photography, etchings and engravings and theatre design are given as evidence of the close relationship between the Renaissance, Classicism, Mannerism, Italian culture and Picasso's art.

This catalogue which accompanies an exhibition opening in February 1998 at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, reveals the importance of the Italian experience for Pablo Picasso. The catalogue includes colour illustrations of all the works exhibited in the exhibition.

The role of art in the rise of totalitarian ideologies is the focus of an international group of scholars and curators whose goal - unlike other publications on the period - is not to expose the ties between art and power, but to go to the heart of that power : biology. By focusing on the period s fascination with biology, they compare two impacted areas: the arts, where the idea of metamorphosis produced an aesthetic revival; and politics, where the struggle to bring about a eugenic and racist renewal had unprecedented consequences for society. Highlighting the enormous stylistic diversity and sociopolitical complexity of the times, this thematically-driven publication takes the form of a story in nine episodes. The complexity is reflected in the works of the artists who dealt with dramatic upheavals according to their personal convictions, fears, hopes or disappointments. Richly illustrated with works by, notably, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, August Sander, Alexander Rodchenko, Lisette Model, Jean Arp, Jackson Pollock, Walker Evans and Diego Rivera

Ouvrage publié sous la direction de Jean Clair à l'occasion de l'exposition "Vienne, 1880-1938: naissance d'un siècle" présentée en 1986 au Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris): vie artistique et intellectuelle (arts plastiques, arts décoratifs, architecture, littérature, cinéma, musique, sciences humaines...); notices biographiques; glossaire; bibliographie

Rayon : Art Editeur : Gallimard Date de parution : 2005 Description : In-4, 192 pages, broché remplié, occasion, très bon état. Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les commandes sont adressées sous enveloppes bulles. Photos supplémentaires de l'ouvrage sur simple demande. Réponses aux questions dans les 12h00. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. Merci. Référence catalogue 65291. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks