Jack Bankowsky Bücher

Pop Life versammelt spektakuläre Werke von einigen der bekanntesten Künstler der jüngeren Kunstgeschichte. Kalkuliert für die Medien inszeniert, wurde ihr materieller Erfolg demonstrativ mit den Mitteln einer kommerzialisierten Gesellschaft angestrebt. Ausgehend von Andy Warhol analysiert Pop Life Strategien und Inszenierungen von Erfolg in der Kunst. Das Buch erzählt vom Kult des Künstlers, von der Celebrity-Kultur und von der Präzision, mit der die künstlerischen Werke sich mit diesen Verfahren und Arbeitsweisen des Markts beschäftigen. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und profunden Aufsätzen zur anhaltenden Faszination Pop ist dieses Buch so unterhaltsam und provozierend wie die Kunst, die es vorstellt. Standardwerk über Kunst und Kommerz Vermarktungsstrategien der Pop-Künstler Außergewöhnliche Covergestaltung Künstlerauswahl: Ashley Bickerton, Maurizio Catellan, Tracey Emin, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Andrea Fraser, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Takashi Murakami, Peter Nagy, Richard Prince, Pruitt Early, David Robbins, Reena Spaulings, Sturtevant, Gavin Turk, Piotr Uklanski, Meyer Vaisman, Andy Warhol Texte Jack Bankowsky, Nicholas Cullinan, Alison M. Gingeras, Annabelle Görgen-Lammers, Daniel Koep, Scott Rothkopf, Catherine Wood Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart 12. Februar bis 9. Mai 2010

In the late 70s the consistently figural and empathetic representations of everyday subjects by Katharina Fritsch (born 1960), Jeff Koons (born 1955) and Charles Ray (born 1953) attracted a great deal of attention. This publication traces the parallel developments in the three sculptors' work.

The first overview on Erna Rosenstein, surrealist, poet and creator of mesmerizing dreamscapes in painting and assemblage A New York Times critics' pick Best Art Books 2021 This is the first ever English-language monograph on the vast and complex oeuvre of Erna Rosenstein (1913-2003), a prolific artist whose varied output was informed by her experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. Released on the occasion of the eponymous, upcoming exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, and edited and with a text by exhibition curator Alison Gingeras, this book serves as an introduction to Rosenstein and her story. Alongside an extensive plates section, poems by Rosenstein are included in the book, as well as a special insert reproducing a fairy tale authored and illustrated by the artist. Art historian Dorota Jarecka has also contributed an essay, and the book additionally includes Rosenstein's own narrative testimony of the war in Poland.

A look at the dark, symbolic work of Polish painter Aleksandra Waliszewska alongside historical artworks that influence her. Painter Aleksandra Waliszewska creates densely narrative, art historically saturated oil and gouache paintings. Waliszewska's pictorial universe is populated by supernatural characters and dark themes: devils, vampires, satanic creatures, possessed girls, apocalyptic scenes, bloodthirsty zombies, and other incarnations of the living dead. These characters are situated in dystopian urban landscapes, lost highways, deserted suburbs, gloomy housing estates, swamps, and other sites associated with the Eastern European landscape. Drawing from the specifically Slavic histories of the Upiór (the living dead), Waliszewska claims her artistic and conceptual descendance from premodern art and Symbolist works of the late 19th and early 20th century from Nordic, Baltic, and Eastern European regions. The Dark Arts presents a dense visual narrative, reproducing over a hundred images of Waliszewska's in juxtaposition with dozens of historical paintings and sculptures. Shifting away from the dominant figures of French and Austrian artists, this revisionist look at Symbolism through an Eastern and Baltic lens will introduce a wider audience to a rich and relatively understudied field of visual culture.