Emma Dexter Bücher

Das Frida Kahlo-Werkverzeichnis der Tate Modern, erstellt anläßlich der großen Kahlo-Retrospektive im vergangenen Jahr, ist mit über 150 farbigen Abbildungen, einem illustrierten Glossar der immer wiederkehrenden Kahlo'schen Bildmotive, reichhaltigem Photomaterial und Textbeiträgen namhafter Autoren innerhalb kürzester Zeit zu einer Art Kahlo-Nachschlagewerk auf höchstem optischen Niveau geworden. Das öffentliche Interesse an Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), deren dramatisches Leben Gegenstand zahlloser Biographien war und sogar Hollywood auf den Plan rief, hat die ernsthafte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk mehr und mehr in den Hintergrund treten lassen. Die große Hamburger Kahlo-Ausstellung in diesem Sommer und unser Buch bieten eine ausgezeichnete Gelegenheit, sich wieder intensiv mit Frida Kahlos Kunst zu beschäftigen.

A global survey of drawing today featuring over 100 contemporary artists Vitamin D offers a fresh and pioneering overview of the current state and underlying significance of drawing as an artistic medium. It highlights the originality and innovation with which contemporary artists in the genre - from across the world and in a vast variety of contexts - experiment with a diversity of styles and statements. Vitamin D features the work of 109 contemporary artists, selected by some of the world's foremost critics and curators for their unique outlook. It is in itself an artistic compilation of the endless possibilities that drawing offers an artist from any background. This book is a captivating composition of examples of the evolution of drawing in the twenty-first century. It reveals the energy of contemporary drawing, in a subtle presentation of the richness and versatility of the medium. With several pages dedicated to images of each artist's work and a deeply analytical parallel text, Vitamin D is at once a detailed reference book for art world aficianados and an absorbing introduction for newcomers to the scene. Highly informative and aesthetically stimulating, this book is an essential work in its own right, through its exposition of just how fundamental an artistic medium drawing continues to be.

Best known for her colossal sculptural projects, for over 5 decades Barlow has employed a distinctive vocabulary of inexpensive materials such as plywood, cardboard, plaster, rubber, cement, fabric and paint.