Lee Ufan

Author : Hirshhorn Museum
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588346889

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Lee Ufan by Hirshhorn Museum Pdf

The beautiful companion volume to Lee Ufan's largest site-specific outdoor sculpture project in the U.S. In fall 2019, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden debuted 10 new specially commissioned outdoor sculptures from celebrated Korean artist Lee Ufan. This book accompanies the expansive installation, which features sculptures from the artist's signature and continuing "Relatum" series and marks the first exhibition of Lee's work in the nation's capital. For the first time in the Hirshhorn Museum's 44-year history, its 4.3-acre outdoor plaza will be devoted entirely to the work of a single artist, and this book is a beautiful commemoration or keepsake of that event. Lee is a founder of the late 1960s artistic movement Mono-ha, or "School of Things," so his artwork represents an encounter between the viewer, the materials, and the site. The sculptures in this installation and book reflect this: all of the sculptures respond to the museum's unique architecture and continue Lee's iconic practice of placing contrasting materials, such as stainless steel plates and boulders, in dialogue with one another to heighten awareness of the world. The book features more than 100 color illustrations, including preliminary sketches, photographs of the artist selecting materials for the work, images of the installation process, shots of installed sculptures, details of installed sculptures, and more. Accompanying these powerful images are a foreword, essays, artist interview, and short captions that highlight how the works are rooted in contemplation and sensation rather than static representation. Lee Ufan: Open Dimension offers readers an intimate look at the work, artistic process, and impact of one of the pioneering figures of postwar art.

Author : U-hwan Yi,Alexandra Munroe,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0892074183

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Lee Ufan by U-hwan Yi,Alexandra Munroe,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Pdf

"The first North American museum retrospective devoted to artist, philosopher, and poet Lee Ufan (b. 1936, Korea), Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity charts Lee's creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical language that has radicalized and expanded the possibilities for sculpture and painting. Deeply versed in modern philosophy, Lee is an influential writer on aesthetics and contemporary art and is recognized as the key theorist of Mono-ha, an antiformalist, materials-based art movement that developed in Tokyo in the late 1960s."--Book jacket.

Author : U-hwan Yi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060590794

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The Art of Encounter by U-hwan Yi Pdf

Text assembled from writings by Lee Ufan published in catalogues, magazines and newspapers between 1967 and 2003.

Author : Linda Patricia Cleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320549438

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Day of the Artist by Linda Patricia Cleary Pdf

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!

Author : Mika Yoshitake
Publisher : Blum & Poe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Japanese
ISBN : 0966350324

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Requiem for the Sun by Mika Yoshitake Pdf

Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha is the most comprehensive study in English to date on the postwar Japanese movement Mono-ha (School of Things), and examines the group's practice in Tokyo between 1968-1972 at the height of the nation's political upheaval against the US-Japan Security Treaty, anti-Vietnam War protests and its oil crisis. The Mono-ha artists--who included Noburu Sekine, Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga and Koji Enokura--all distinguished themselves through an aesthetic detachment that, instead of "creating" things, strove instead to "rearrange" them into artworks that interacted with the spaces around them. While sharing certain traits with the Land Art and Minimalism movements that were taking place in the United States, and the Arte Povera movement in Italy, Mono-ha was ultimately a rejection of the Euro-American avant-garde and is now synonymous with the beginnings of contemporary art in Japan.

Author : Michel Enrici,Ukai Satoshi
Publisher : Actes Sud Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art, Korean
ISBN : 2330019092

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Lee Ufan by Michel Enrici,Ukai Satoshi Pdf

Lee Ufan is a major figure of contemporary art. In 2011, his exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, demonstrated the universal character of his creations. Born in Korea, he initially worked on poetry and philosophy. He went on to produce his first works in Japan before his reputation developed internationally. His classical training inspires universalism and artistic movements engendering form, space, and natural and human creations. His radical work, with its minimalist movement, seems directed at the music of the spheres rather than the murmuring of the world. He is never far from the headlines, and his sovereign work appears as an antidote to our image- saturated civilisation. This original monograph, the first published in French, brings together Lee Ufans complete iconography, as well as biographical documents. In an exclusive interview with Michel Enrici, for the first time he revealed details of his childhood and looks at how his career developed from cultural specificity to universality, while covering his moral, intellectual, and aesthetic positions. There is also a theoretical article analysing the critical and philosophical response to Lee Ufans work over four decades.

Author : Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art Moderne
ISBN : 386521634X

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Lee Ufan by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe Pdf

South Korean-born artist Lee Ufan, who came to prominence in the late-1960s as part of the Japanese Mono-ha (Object School) group, has consistently focused on challenging the delineations between sculpture and painting. This gives his work many stylistic affinities with American Minimalism: "Relatum-Kiss" (1986), for example, is a floor piece consisting of two stones resting on Carl Andre-esque iron plates. Ufan's theoretical writings are also a significant part of his oeuvre; they refer heavily to philosophy--which he studied in Tokyo before co-founding Mono-ha. "It is difficult to say what is perfect or what is balanced, but the movement of vision in relation to similarity and difference is endless," he has written, in a characteristic meditation on aesthetics. Ufan has been exhibiting his work internationally since the early 70s. This monograph places him in context with his peers, and engages in a socio-historical examination of his theoretical writing.

Author : Joan Kee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0816679878

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Contemporary Korean Art by Joan Kee Pdf

A crucial artistic movement of twentieth-century Korea, Tansaekhwa (monochromatic painting) also became one of its most famous and successful. In this full-color, richly illustrated account--the first of its kind in English--Joan Kee provides a fresh interpretation of the movement's emergence and meaning that sheds new light on the history of abstraction, twentieth-century Asian art, and contemporary art in general.

Author : Thomas R. H. Havens
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824830113

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Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts by Thomas R. H. Havens Pdf

Radicals and Realists is the first book in any language to discuss Japan’s avant-garde artists, their work, and the historical environment in which they produced it during the two most creative decades of the twentieth century, the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the artists were radicals, rebelling against existing canons and established authority. Yet at the same time they were realists in choosing concrete materials, sounds, and themes from everyday life for their art and in gradually adopting tactics of protest or resistance through accommodation rather than confrontation. Whatever the means of expression, the production of art was never devoid of historical context or political implication. Focusing on the nonverbal genres of painting, sculpture, dance choreography, and music composition, this work shows that generational and political differences, not artistic doctrines, largely account for the divergent stances artists took vis-a-vis modernism, the international arts community, Japan’s ties to the United States, and the alliance of corporate and bureaucratic interests that solidified in Japan during the 1960s. After surveying censorship and arts policy during the American occupation of Japan (1945–1952), the narrative divides into two chronological sections dealing with the 1950s and 1960s, bisected by the rise of an artistic underground in Shinjuku and the security treaty crisis of May 1960. The first section treats Japanese artists who studied abroad as well as the vast and varied experiments in each of the nonverbal avant-garde arts that took place within Japan during the 1950s, after long years of artistic insularity and near-stasis throughout war and occupation. Chief among the intellectuals who stimulated experimentation were the art critic Takiguchi Shuzo, the painter Okamoto Taro, and the businessman-painter Yoshihara Jiro. The second section addresses the multifront assault on formalism (confusingly known as "anti-art") led by visual artists nationwide. Likewise, composers of both Western-style and contemporary Japanese-style music increasingly chose everyday themes from folk music and the premodern musical repertoire for their new presentations. Avant-garde print makers, sculptors, and choreographers similarly moved beyond the modern—and modernism—in their work. A later chapter examines the artistic apex of the postwar period: Osaka’s 1970 world exposition, where more avant-garde music, painting, sculpture, and dance were on display than at any other point in Japan’s history, before or since. Radicals and Realists is based on extensive archival research; numerous concerts, performances, and exhibits; and exclusive interviews with more than fifty leading choreographers, composers, painters, sculptors, and critics active during those two innovative decades. Its accessible prose and lucid analysis recommend it to a wide readership, including those interested in modern Japanese art and culture as well as the history of the postwar years.

Author : Helaine Posner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033017281

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Anish Kapoor by Helaine Posner Pdf

Author : Joan Kee
Publisher : Blum & Poe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Painting, Abstract
ISBN : 0966350391

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From All Sides by Joan Kee Pdf

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction', September 13-November 8, 2014, Blum & Poe"--Page 167.

Author : Laura Mott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0989186490

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Landlord Colors by Laura Mott Pdf

"Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality reconsiders periods of economic and social collapse through the lens of artistic innovations and material-driven narratives. It examines five art scenes generated during heightened periods of upheaval: America’s Detroit from the 1967 rebellion to the present; the cultural climate of the Italian avant-garde during the 1960s-1980s; authoritarian-ruled South Korea of the 1970s; Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s to the present; and contemporary Greece since the financial crisis of 2009. Featuring more than sixty artists, Landlord Colors is a landmark exhibition, publication, and public art and performance series. While the project unearths microhistories and vernaculars specific to place, it also examines a powerful global dialogue communicated through materiality. Landlord Colors discovers textured and unexpected relationships between these artists whose investigations share themes of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and resistance." -- Cranbrook Art Museum website

Author : Sophie Walker
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UCSD:31822044003770

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The Japanese Garden by Sophie Walker Pdf

An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden. The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie Walker brings fresh insight to this subject, exploring the Japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens, ranging from ancient Shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary Zen designs. Leading artists, architects, and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays.

Author : Susanna Ferrell
Publisher : Delmonico Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 1942884982

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Ink Dreams by Susanna Ferrell Pdf

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection"--

Author : Stéphane Aquin
Publisher : Smithsonian Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588346414

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Sean Scully by Stéphane Aquin Pdf

"An exhibition catalog for Sean Scully's Landline"--