Eleanor Heartney Bücher

Gut verständliche Einführung in die Kunstrichtung.

Kunst & ... -- Popkultur -- Alltagsobjekt -- Abstraktion -- Gegenständlichkeit -- Narration -- Zeit -- Natur und Technik -- Deformation -- Körper -- Identität -- Spiritualität -- Globalisierung -- Architektur -- ihre Institurionen -- Politik -- Publikum

Dale Chihuly's work is showcased through a stunning collection of his site-specific glass installations, highlighting architectural commissions and exhibitions over four decades. This large-format publication delves into his intricate designs across various settings, including walls, ceilings, and fountains. The exploration spans iconic locations from Venice to Jerusalem, offering unique insights into Chihuly's creative inspirations and the global impact of his art. The book captures the essence of his transformative approach to integrating glass into architectural spaces.

Neo-expressionism - The anti-aesthetes - Postmodern feminism - Postmodern multiculturalism - Commodity critics

The book presents an in-depth exploration of Halim Flower's artistic vision, highlighting his innovative contributions to contemporary art. Featuring insights from prominent scholars, it examines the themes and influences that shape his work, showcasing his rise as a significant figure in the art world.

Offering a radical rewriting of the history of contemporary art from a feminist perspective, four distinguished authors explore the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft and ecofeminism in ways that reveal the debt these important genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. The painters, sculptors and performance artists featured here have shaped ideas now dominating the art world: the vulnerability of the environment, the rise of activist art, the challenge to the reign of high technology (including digital culture), and the development of a new language of abstraction. Having demolished the linear narrative of modernism, the privileging of a white male ethnocentric vision, the division of high and low art and the separation of art from larger social issues, feminist artists laid the groundwork for the globalised, multi-media, postmodern art world of today. Illustrated with a spread of work from the last sixty years (and including contextual discussion of earlier practitioners), this book makes a compelling case for placing feminist art and artists at the heart of contemporary art.

Outside Itself is a self-replicating, site-specific sculptural installation shaped by viewer-inspired data created by Federico Diaz for the 54th Venice Biennale. It is an interactive, mathematically-programmed, robotically-produced and light-responsive installation that grows and morphs as a life force onto itself. Viewers of all ages and nationalities will influence the sculpture¿s ultimate form in this work of ¿Light¿ and ¿Nations¿.

Art & Today is an innovative and extensive survey of international contemporary art from the 1980s to the present. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented in this comprehensive overview - some emerging, some mid-career, and others long established. Each of the book's sixteen chapters address recurring and relevant themes as diverse as "Art & Popular Culture," "Art & Its Institutions," and "Art & Globalism," rather than follow a strict chronological, geographical, or stylistic structure. Lively and up-to-date, Art & Today explores an era in which art defies simple categorization. The result is a surprising and original yet clear and reasoned perspective on contemporary art that breaks from prescribed classifications to offer a survey as expansive as the art it describes. For instance, in the chapter "Art & the Body," one might find performance discussed alongside figurative painting, sculpture and photography alongside video, and North American artists alongside Asian artists. The chapter "Art and Globalism" discusses artists whose nationality, generation, and medium are as diverse as those of Alan Sekula, Michal Rovner, Cildo Meireles, Manuel Ocampo, Chen Zhen, and Andreas Gursky. Internationally renowned art critic and scholar Eleanor Heartney is respected for her clear language and pragmatic approach to contemporary art. Her straightforward, engaging descriptions and explanations will appeal to both experts and newcomers alike, and will serve as an invaluable resource for years to come.