Luca Beatrice Bücher

Music and art have gone together at least as long as there's been singing in church, but "Sound & Vision" opens in 1967, when the covers of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Peter Blake) and "The Velvet Underground and Nico" (Andy Warhol) announced that musical collaboration with Pop artists was here to stay. It moves on to the artist-muse relationship, with attention to Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, who lead to Punk, New Wave and the artists of the East Village. In the 1980s, art-school musicians like the Talking Heads and Sonic Youth fused the primitive energies of rock with the intellectual refinements of art school, emerging with a unified aesthetic just as videos were raising the importance of the visual. Today, videos and art of all kinds continue to create and influence the market for music, and collaborations are thriving, from schoolmates Damien Hirst and Blur to partners Bjork and Matthew Barney and ur-hipsters Beck and Marcel Dzama. "Sound & Vision" observes the fertile mixing of photography, painting, music and video, a node of interdisciplinary connections that has slowly become a major influence in the historical development of both pop music and visual arts. Includes works from Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel, Raymond Pettibon, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley and Matthew Barney, among others.

Vivienne Westwood ist eine Ikone des Modedesigns. Dieses Buch ist die erste Retrospektive auf ihr einzigartiges Werk. Die Anfänge von Westwoods Karriere reichen drei Jahrzehnte zurück, in die Gründungszeit des Punk. Heute leitet sie ein etabliertes Modehaus, das Victoria and Albert Museum in London ehrte sie jüngst mit einer großen Werkschau, die ab Februar 2006 im NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft in Düsseldorf zu sehen sein wird. Claire Wilcox, ausgewiesene Expertin in zeitgenössischem Modedesign, stellt Westwoods ebenso schillerndes wie stilprägendes Werk vor. Ausführliche Bildstrecken demonstrieren die Entwicklung von Westwoods Ideen und Techniken von der Punk-Bewegung bis heute. Die Fotografien dieses Bandes wurden von Vivienne Westwood selbst ausgewählt. Sie zeigen also ihren eigenen Blick auf die Höhepunkte ihres Oeuvres, das seit nunmehr drei Jahrzehnten immer wieder spektakulär auf Innovation und Abwechslung setzt.

The artwork features iconographic elements that reflect the complexities of urban life and the rapid pace of contemporary existence. Through vivid imagery and thoughtful symbolism, the paintings explore themes of modernity, connectivity, and the often chaotic nature of city living. Each piece invites viewers to contemplate their relationship with the urban environment and the relentless movement of society.

La musica che ascoltiamo rivela i tempi in cui viviamo, e su questa teoria si basa il viaggio affascinante di Luca Beatrice nella storia del nostro paese. Attraverso una canzone per ogni anno, o quasi, dai Sessanta a oggi, l'autore costruisce una narrazione della vita sentimentale degli italiani. Con il cambiamento della società, degli equilibri economici e dei valori, muta anche il modo di vivere e raccontare le storie d'amore. Si parte dagli anni del boom economico, dove relazioni clandestine si celano dietro famiglie modello, come in “Cielo in una stanza”, per passare agli anni Settanta con Guccini e “Eskimo”, che esplora un nuovo rapporto di coppia, fino alla solitudine femminile di Ornella Vanoni in “Appuntamento”. Negli anni Ottanta, Luca Carboni esprime il desiderio di libertà e passione, mentre nei Novanta l'indie rock degli Afterhours dà voce a trentenni inquieti. Il rap provocatorio di Fabri Fibra e l'estetica hipster degli anni Dieci, con il romanticismo dei Thegiornalisti, completano il quadro. Nomi come Endrigo, Celentano, Gaber, e molti altri, arricchiscono questo canzoniere d'amore. Beatrice si mette in gioco, ripercorrendo la sua educazione sentimentale e l'evoluzione delle relazioni nel tempo, accompagnandoci in un'indimenticabile scoperta della colonna sonora dei nostri amori.

One of the most versatile and unorthodox people on the Italian art scene, Corrado Levi has turned his contacts with different generations of artists and intellectuals into an art that is deeply committed and ethical, at once light and ironic. A follower of architects Franco Albini and Carlo Mollino, writers Karl Kraus and Erik Satie, and artists of the arte povera , transavanguardia , and graffiti movements, Levi here is presented as artist, critic, theorist, and, above all, free thinker.