Flavia Frigeri Bücher

Frauen sind seit jeher als »Kunstobjekte« beliebt, als Kunstschaffende werden sie jedoch oftmals noch immer unterschätzt. Zwar müssen Frauen in der Kunst heutzutage nicht mehr anonym bleiben oder männliche Künstlernamen annehmen, doch noch 1989 gingen die Guerilla Girls in New York auf die Straße und fragten: »Do women have to be naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum?« In diesem Buch untersucht Flavia Frigeri Leben und Werk von über 50 herausragenden Künstlerinnen in unterschiedlichen Kunstbereichen vom 16.Jahrhundert bis heute. Dazu gehören Persönlichkeiten wie Artemisia Gentileschi, Georgia O’Keefe, Louise Bourgeois und viele andere.

Small, smart, essential - an accessible introduction to the Pop Art movement, offering a new perspective on canonical works and highlighting its international reach.

The practice of London-based artist Alex Hoda (*1980 in Canterbury) has evolved significantly from his initial figurative groupings of deformed, post-apocalyptic creatures, finished in his signature materials of latex and rubber. His most recent sculpture refers to our ability to arrive at a false premise by misinterpreting what is in front of us. Hoda's writhing metal forms, at once suggestive and impenetrable, ask us to consider whether a biased or predetermined reading occurs when interpreting abstract sculpture. In his current practice, he also uses a technique of automatism to challenge the viewer's approach to figurative sculpture. These works recall a surrealist agenda, one that is summed up by Max Ernst's desire for “the viewer to witness the emergence of the work”; what the viewer's sub-conscious brings to the sculpture ultimately determines its reading.

"Swiss-born artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) created some of the most innovative works of the twentieth century - in media as varied as oil paint, watercolour, etching, pencil, ink, and pastel. Uniquely among his contemporaries, he combined the machine aesthetic of modernism with lyrical, organic elements, arriving at a visual language entirely his own. Although he moved freely between media and from figuration to abstraction, Klee's works remain instantly recognisable, often characterised by a playfulness and wit that can sharpen to biting satire on occasion." -- Back cover.