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Donald Baechler by Donald Baechler,Tony Shafrazi Gallery Pdf
This book exhibits work by acclaimed painter Donald Baechler (b. 1956), as recently shown in the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York. In a series of large paintings known as the Black Flowers, Baechler's painterly grandeur comes to life in these energetic and expressive depictions of almost silhouetted still lives. Deceptively rudimentary, these works in fact have a great deal of precedence in American art, as the forward by critic Carter Ratcliff illustrates.
Donald Baechler. XL+XS. Catalogo della mostra (Isernia, 16 ottobre-1 dicembre 2009). Ediz. italiana e inglese by Donald Baechler Pdf
"Donald Baechler è nato ad Hartford, Connecticut, nel 1956. Stessa generazione di Keith Haring (1958), Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960) e Jeff Koons (1955), appena più giovane delle altre star della pittura americana negli anni Ottanta: David Salle (1952), Julian Schnabel (1951), Robert Longo (1953). Giovanissimo protagonista nel decennio forse più vivo e fecondo, Baechler supera l'enfasi degli esordi e adotta senza peraltro variare troppo uno schema figurativo che lo rende riconoscibile tra mille. Baechler è sedotto dalla banalità di un soggetto che può reiterarsi all'infinito eppure rinnovarsi a suo piacimento. Inventa il suo personale universo iconografico; i soggetti sono interpretati in visioni astratte, come il globo, sintetico e appena abbozzato, quasi 'uno scheletro' o meglio 'lo scheletro del mondo'." Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
Mapplethorpe and the Flower by Derek Conrad Murray Pdf
Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs – and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations.
One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!
New York City is the undisputed centre of the North American art world, and its public art is one of the most evident signs of its cultural wealth. For more than 30 years, Creative Time has been an avatar of public art in the city, working to engage art and the environment, artists and the public.
The early paintings and collages on paper gathered in this volume represent the genesis of Donald Baechler's (born 1956) iconic vocabulary of symbols and techniques throughout the 1980s, when he rose to international renown. His subjects are recognizable the world over--flowers, faces, houses, globes and other familiar objects take center stage.
"The history of Broadway has been written before, but never better....The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heaven, neon lit and open all night....The only thing wrong with this book is it isn't longer." —NEWSWEEK Nik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls "The Heart of the World." producing a book that is a resplendent pageant of New York's high-and low-life. Among the characters we meet are a golden-tongued cab driver who calls himself a "collector of farces"; a pickpocket with the terrifying gift of impersonating his marks; a heartbreakingly beautiful Dominican tranvestite named Lush Life; strippers; pseudo-prophets; and a disgraced political veteran of the days when the graft was still honest. Conducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet, this is a bebop odyssey along the Great White Way that reaches in implication far beyond the streets of New York to document the ever-evolving mixtures that make up America itself. "A lovely, bracing book, full to bursting with juicy, tasty, rancid life. While making its bawdy way through crowded spaces ... it also travels through modern times ... wondrous." —USA TODAY
