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Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals

Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas Myths Mortals Book PDF

Author : Marlene Dumas
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701997

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The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery. Myths & Mortals documents a selection of new paintings—debuted in the spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York—ranging from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly human. The smaller-scale paintings—referred to by the artist as “erotic landscapes”—present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips, nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is the artist’s uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture. Alongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza (2016). Myths & Mortals is accompanied by new scholarship on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.

Omega S Eyes. Marlene Dumas on Edvard Munch

Dumas Marlene,Edvard Munch,Trine Otte Bak Nielsen
Omega S Eyes Marlene Dumas on Edvard Munch Book PDF

Author : Dumas Marlene,Edvard Munch,Trine Otte Bak Nielsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8293560223

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Omega S Eyes. Marlene Dumas on Edvard Munch by Dumas Marlene,Edvard Munch,Trine Otte Bak Nielsen Pdf

This original volume juxtaposes the work of two artists: the South African-born, Netherlands-based painter Marlene Dumas (b. 1953) and the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Organized by Dumas, the project stems from her longstanding, personal connection to the works of Munch. The book focuses particularly on Munch's 1908-9 series of lithographs titled Alpha and Omega and on a new series of works by Dumas titled Venus et Adonis. Both series deal with themes of innocence, sexuality, loneliness, anxiety, and death, and each is structured around a love story. Through this book, Dumas shows us how she perceives Munch not simply as an emotional expressionist, but rather as an intelligent artist thoughtfully reflecting on human conditions in general. 00Exhibition: Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway (29.09.2018 ? 13.01.2019).

Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall

Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas Against the Wall Book PDF

Author : Marlene Dumas
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1941701000

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Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall by Marlene Dumas Pdf

Described by Deborah Solomon in a New York Times profile as “one of contemporary art’s most compelling painters,” Marlene Dumas has continuously explored the complex range of human emotions, often probing questions of gender, race, sexuality, and economic inequality through her dramatic and at times haunting figural compositions. Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Against the Wall, Dumas’s first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalogue—which sold out shortly after publication—has been reprinted to coincide with the artist’s 2014–2015 European retrospective exhibition The Image as Burden, organized by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Throughout her career, the internationally renowned artist has continually created lyrically charged compositions that eulogize the frailties of the human body, probing issues of love and melancholy. At times her subjects are more topical, merging socio-political themes with personal experience and art-historical antecedents to reflect unique perspectives on the most salient and controversial issues facing contemporary society. The large-scale works included in Against the Wall are primarily based on media imagery and newspaper clippings documenting the conflict between Israel and Palestine, exploring the tension between the photographic documentation of reality and the constructed, imaginary space of painting. The Wall, the painting that began the series, at first appears to present a scene at the Western Wall (also known as the Wailing Wall), an important site of religious pilgrimage located in Jerusalem. However, this work is based upon a photograph from a newspaper that portrayed a group of Orthodox Jews on their way to pray at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem. Through her delicate treatment of every scene, Dumas destabilizes preconceived notions about what, in fact, is being pictured—engaging the often ambiguous nature of ideas like truth or justice. “In a sense they are my first landscape paintings,” Dumas further notes in the catalogue, “or should I say ‘territory paintings.’ That is why they are so big.” The somber color plates reproduced in the publication are given context by Dumas’s own musings, a text framed as a letter to David Zwirner in which she tries to tell him “about the ‘why’ ” of this powerful series.

Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas,Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum,Tate Modern (Gallery)
Marlene Dumas Book PDF

Author : Marlene Dumas,Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum,Tate Modern (Gallery)
Publisher : Tate Gallery Publication
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 1938922549

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Marlene Dumas by Marlene Dumas,Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum,Tate Modern (Gallery) Pdf

Issued in connection with an exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 6 September 2014-4 January 2015; Tate Modern, London, 5 February-10 May 2015; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 30 May-13 September 2015.

Portrait of a Young Painter

Mary Kay Vaughan
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Author : Mary Kay Vaughan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376125

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Portrait of a Young Painter by Mary Kay Vaughan Pdf

In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that culminated in the student protests of 1968. Rendering Zúñiga's coming of age on the margins of formal politics, Vaughan depicts midcentury Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity, state largesse, and a vibrant, transnationally-informed public life that produced a multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism of convention. In an analysis encompassing the mass media, schools, politics, family, sexuality, neighborhoods, and friendships, she subtly invokes theories of discourse, phenomenology, and affect to examine the formation of Zúñiga's persona in the decades leading up to 1968. By discussing the influences that shaped his worldview, she historicizes the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new perspectives on the events of 1968.

Flying Too Close to the Sun

Diane Fortenberry,Rebecca Morrill
Flying Too Close to the Sun Book PDF

Author : Diane Fortenberry,Rebecca Morrill
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822043986363

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Flying Too Close to the Sun by Diane Fortenberry,Rebecca Morrill Pdf

The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 years From the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, Classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source of cultural inspiration. The struggles of heroes, both triumphant and tragic, with gods, monsters, and fate, exert a particular grip on our imagination. Visual artists have long expressed and reworked these foundational stories. This is the first book to unite myth-inspired artworks by ancient, modern, and contemporary artists, from Botticelli and Caravaggio to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.

The Troll Inside You

Ármann Jakobsson
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Author : Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781947447004

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The Troll Inside You by Ármann Jakobsson Pdf

What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say "troll"? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them? The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage with the larger topic of paranormal experiences in the medieval North. The texts under study are from 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century Iceland. The focus of the book is on the ways in which paranormal experiences are related and defined in these texts and how those definitions have framed and continue to frame scholarly interpretations of the paranormal. The book is partitioned into numerous brief chapters, each with its own theme. In each case the author is not least concerned with how the paranormal functions within medieval society and in the minds of the individuals who encounter and experience it and go on to narrate these experiences through intermediaries. The author connects the paranormal encounter closely with fears and these fears are intertwined with various aspects of the human experience including gender, family ties, and death. The Troll Inside You hovers over the boundaries of scholarship and literature. Its aim is to prick and provoke but above all to challenge its audience to reconsider some of their preconceived ideas about the medieval past.

Miriam Cahn: Me As Happening

Gaëtane Verna
Miriam Cahn Me As Happening Book PDF

Author : Gaëtane Verna
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3775752110

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Miriam Cahn: Me As Happening by Gaëtane Verna Pdf

A co-produced publication released on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING, organized by The Power Plant, and presented initially at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, was the Swiss artist's first solo exhibition both in North America and Denmark. The publication documents an expansive constellation of Miriam Cahn's multidisciplinary work, presented for the first time in Canada and Denmark as part of the eponymous exhibition, Miriam Cahn: ME AS HAPPENING. This exhibition was organized by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, presented initially at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, from 7 October 2020-4 April 2021, then at The Power Plant, from 2 October 2021-2 January 2022.

Sweet Nothings

Marlene Dumas
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Author : Marlene Dumas
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1938922832

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Sweet Nothings by Marlene Dumas Pdf

"First published 1998, in coproduction of Marlene Dumas."

Major Dudes

Barney Hoskyns
Major Dudes Book PDF

Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781468316285

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A “thoughtful, loving, and thorough portrait” of the pioneering musicians behind Steely Dan, featuring interviews, essays, reviews and more (PopMatters). At its core, Steely Dan is a creative marriage between guitarist Donald Fagen and keyboardist Walter Becker. It recorded several of the cleverest and best-produced albums of the 1970s, making them one of the most successful bands to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Major Dudes collects some of the smartest and most revealing interviews Becker and Fagen have ever given, along with intelligent reviews of—and commentary on—their extraordinary songs. Compiled by leading music critic Barney Hoskyns, Major Dudes features contributions from the likes of Sylvie Simmons, Fred Schruers, and the late Robert Palmer; plus rare interviews and reviews of Steely Dan’s early albums from Disc, Melody Maker, and Rolling Stone. With an introduction by Hoskyns and an obituary for Walter Becker by David Cavanagh, Major Dudes is essential reading for any rock afficionado.

Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades

Suzanne Jackson,Tiffany E. Barber,Melanee C. Harvey,julia elizabeth neal
Suzanne Jackson Five Decades Book PDF

Author : Suzanne Jackson,Tiffany E. Barber,Melanee C. Harvey,julia elizabeth neal
Publisher : Telfair Museum
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : African American art
ISBN : 0933075219

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Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades by Suzanne Jackson,Tiffany E. Barber,Melanee C. Harvey,julia elizabeth neal Pdf

Painter of vibrant assemblages and champion of African American art, Suzanne Jackson receives her first monograph Published on the occasion of the first full-career survey of Savannah-based artist Suzanne Jackson (born 1944) at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, Five Decades illuminates a career that spans more than 50 years, across painting, drawing, theatre, costume design, dance, printmaking and sculpture. The book presents a unique selection of Jackson's artworks and explicates their relationships to identity, community, the natural world and the human body. In addition to featuring new photo documentation and archival images, the book includes essays that contextualize Jackson's practice through the lenses of ecowomanism, materiality, an ethics of care and African American retentions. Five Decades complicates canonical and exclusionary narratives and timelines, opening up Jackson's work to new generations of artists, thinkers and doers to find inspiration in the singular contributions one person can make to collective culture.

The Vertigo Years

Philipp Blom
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Author : Philipp Blom
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465020294

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The Vertigo Years by Philipp Blom Pdf

Examines how changes from the Industrial Revolution prior to World War I brought about radical transformation in society, changes in education, and massive migration in population that led to one of the bloodiest events in history.

Agaat

Marlene VanNiekerk
Agaat Book PDF

Author : Marlene VanNiekerk
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458760395

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Agaat by Marlene VanNiekerk Pdf

Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. In 1950s South Africa, life for white farmers was full of promise - young and newly married, Milla raised a son and created her own farm out of a swathe of Cape mountainside with Agaat by her side. By the 1990s, Milla's family has fallen apart, the country she knew is on the brink of huge change, and all she has left are memories and her proud, contrary, yet affectionate guardian. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.

Triomf

Marlene Van Niekerk
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Author : Marlene Van Niekerk
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468302226

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Triomf by Marlene Van Niekerk Pdf

“A scatologocial black satire . . . Triomf may be the signal Afrikaans novel of the 1990s . . . A daring, vicious and hilarious flight of imagination” (The Washington Post). This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called “black spot,” they await with trepidation their country’s first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah’s Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances. “South Africa as you’ve never seen it: a tale of incest and white trash. Funny, feisty, ferociously clever.” —Gillian Slovo, author of Ten Days “A world-class tragicomic novel, the kind of book that stabs at your heart while it has you rolling on the floor.” —The New York Times Book Review

Carnal Crimes

Constance Backhouse
Carnal Crimes Book PDF

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1552211789

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A powerful book by one of Canada's leading legal historians on sexual assault.