Jeremy Lewison Bücher

Minimalistische Körper, sinnliche Formen Die sinnlichen, üppigen Formen im Werk des britischen Bildhauers Henry Moore (1889-1986) sind das Zeichen seines unverwechselbaren Stils. Oft menschliche oder menschenähnliche Formen darstellend – insbesondere weibliche – brachten Moores Skulpturen mit ihrem abstrakten Stil eine markante Art des Modernismus in die bildende Kunst. Seine gegossenen Bronzeskulpturen und aus Marmor gemeißelten Werke zieren die Gärten und Galerien der besten Museen der Welt und haben ihm eine treue Anhängerschaft eingebracht. Besonders beliebt sind seine zahlreichen Darstellungen von Mutter und Kind.

J. M. William Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) und Cy Twombly (1928-2011) zählen zu den bedeutendsten Malern der letzten 150 Jahre. Sie galten jeweils als radikale Künstler, erweiterten die zu ihren Zeiten gültigen Grenzen der Malerei und waren zunächst umstritten. Der Band konzentriert sich auf das Spätwerk der Maler - Arbeiten von besonderer Leichtigkeit und Intensität, da die Ansprüche an Oberfläche und Vollendung sich mit der Gelassenheit des Alters wandeln. Die Künstler betrachten für sie zentrale Themen mit Abstand erneut, wobei ein klares Bewusstsein der eigenen Sterblichkeit ihr Schaffen durchzieht. Der Band stellt die Modernität von Turner und Monet in den Vordergrund und demonstriert gleichzeitig die starke Anziehungskraft, die klassizistische Tendenzen auf Twomblys Spätwerk ausüben. Betrachtet wird auch das keinesfalls Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts erloschene Interesse an der Romantik und am Erhabenen. Ausstellungen: Moderna Museet, Stockholm 8.10.2011-15.1.2012 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 11.2.-28.5.2012 Tate, Liverpool 22.6.-28.10.2012

Accompanying a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, this book explores the life and work of renowned feminist artist Alice Neel, 1900-1948.

Karl Weskchke came to Enland as a German prisoner of war and has stayed here ever since. This book tells the story of Weschke's life, from his beginnings as a street child, his war experiences, the gradual humanising process he underwent in the POW camps, and his artistic development.

Alice Neel, Uptown' explores Neel's interest in the extraordinary diversity of twentieth century New York City and the people amongst whom she lived. The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely-published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Harlem. Other figures include neighbors and acquaintances, such as a ballet dancer; a young art student; a taxi driver; a traveling businessman; a local boy (Georgie Arce) who ran errands for Neel and who sat for her on several occasions; and other children and their families

"This new Tate Gallery Companion, a beautifully produced record of the collections of one of the world's great art museums, is illustrated with more than 300 full-colour reproductions accompanied by a comprehensive commentary. Each of the thirty-four sections is introduced by a brief illustrated essay followed by individual discussion of up to five major works reproduced in large format. Written by Simon Wilson, Head of the Tate Gallery Education Department, the lively and approachable text covers five centuries of British and foreign art. It treats the present as continuous with the past, giving equal attention to the work of the historic old masters, to that of the established masters of the modern era and to the more controversial achievements of the most recent generation of artists."--Publisher's description.

Traces the history of Abstract Expressionism, and examines its political implications and the cultural context in which it developed

Jackson Pollock was one of the most innovative painters of the 20th century. While Picasso and Braque's Cubism shattered the tradition of single, fixed-point perspective, and Matisse broke with the notion of naturalistic color, Pollock abandoned the tradition of easel painting and executed his paintings on the floor, some on a monumental scale. He developed a way of working in which he poured, dripped, or splashed the paint onto the canvas, allowing the pull of gravity to play a full part in the execution of the work. Walking around the painting, at times standing on it, Pollock became immersed in the act of painting. The source of his art, he claimed, was the unconscious. Pollock's radical approach to abstract painting was underscored, however by a residual interest in the future which, until recently has consistently been ignored in interpreting the celebrated dripped paintings. In examining the nature of Pollock's painting, Jeremy Lewison discusses Pollock's rivalry with Picasso, the impact of Jung, the meanings embedded within the works, the context in which they were seen, and the mythology which surrounds his persona. This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to one of the most challenging and influential artists of the 20th century.