The book explores the interplay between California's counterculture movement and the art scene, highlighting how each shaped the other. It delves into the vibrant artistic expressions emerging from this era, revealing the cultural shifts and social dynamics that fueled creativity. Through various art forms, the narrative illustrates the profound impact of countercultural ideals on artistic innovation and vice versa, offering insights into a transformative period in American history.
KAWS ist einer der bekanntesten zeitgenössischen Künstler, dessen Einfluss weit über die Kunstwelt hinausgeht, in Mode, Musik und Popkultur. Begonnen als Graffiti-Künstler in den 1990er Jahren, umfasst sein Werk Malerei, Skulptur, Zeichnung, Produktdesign und Augmented Reality. Dieses reich illustrierte Buch bietet eine umfassende Studie über sein Leben und Schaffen.
Helen Frankenthaler: Drawing within Nature documents an exhibition of
Frankenthaler s sumptuous paintings from the early to mid-1990s, many shown in
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A fascinating look at artistic experiments with televisual forms.Following the integration of television into the fabric of American life in the 1950s, experimental artists of the 1960s began to appropriate this novel medium toward new aesthetic and political ends. As Erica Levin details in The Channeled Image , groundbreaking artists like Carolee Schneemann, Bruce Conner, Stan VanDerBeek, and Aldo Tambellini developed a new formal language that foregrounded television’s mediation of a social order defined by the interests of the state, capital, and cultural elites. The resulting works introduced immersive projection environments, live screening events, videographic distortion, and televised happenings, among other forms. For Levin, “the channeled image” names a constellation of practices that mimic, simulate, or disrupt the appearance of televised images. This formal experimentation influenced new modes of installation, which took shape as multi-channel displays and mobile or split-screen projections, or in some cases, experimental work produced for broadcast. Above all, this book asks how artistic experimentation with televisual forms was shaped by events that challenged television broadcasters’ claims to authority, events that set the stage for struggles over how access to the airwaves would be negotiated in the future.
Während seiner ganzen Laufbahn als Künstler, Filmemacher, Leiter seiner Factory, Bandmanager, Magazinverleger und Fernsehunternehmer verwischte Andy Warhol ganz bewusst die Grenze zwischen Kunst und Kommerz und stellte die eigentlichen Werte der Kunst infrage, indem er behauptete: 'Ein gutes Geschäft ist die beste Kunst'. Andy Warhol Enterprises untersucht Warhols komplexes und facettenreiches Verhältnis zum Kommerz sowohl in seiner Arbeit als auch in seinem Leben — von seiner sehr erfolgreichen Karriere als Werbegrafiker bis hin zu seiner Rolle als bedeutender kultureller Trendsetter in den 1980er-Jahren. Die Publikation beinhaltet Essays namhafter Wissenschaftler wie Thomas Crow sowie ein Interview mit Vincent Fremont, einem von Warhols vertrautesten Mitarbeitern. Fremont war Studiomanager und Vizepräsident von Andy Warhol Enterprises und beleuchtet die Aspekte von Warhols kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit der Konsumgesellschaft. Ausstellung: Indianapolis Museum of Art 10.10.2010–2.1.2011
Thomas Crow's analysis of the art of the 1960s remains as fresh as ever as he expertly follows the broad range of artists working in Europe and America in the stormy years of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture. At a time when visual artists sought a variety of responses to the turmoil of the public sphere and struggled to have an impact on a world preoccupied with social crisis, Crow explores the relationship of politics to art, and shows how the rhetoric of one often informed - or subverted - the other. He also traces the emergence of a new aesthetic climate that challenged established notions of content, style, medium and audience.
Jasper Johns to Jeff Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is the first large-scale exhibition of the Broads' achievement, presenting more than 100 works of art from these two significant collections. The show highlights American artists whose paintings, sculptures, and photographs the Broads have acquired in depth, among them Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, and Cy Twombly, Johns, Koons, and the Los Angeles artists John Baldessari, Sharon Lockhart, Charles Ray, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Therrien. German artists such as George Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer are also represented. Together, these works form an invaluable record of the artistic achievements of the past forty years.This catalogue, published in conjunction with the exhibition, illustrates the objects in the exhibition as well as several related works from the Broad collections. The accompanying texts include an interview with Eli and Edythe Broad by exhibition curators Stephanie Barron and Lynn Zelevansky, as well as essays by art historians Thomas Crow, Sabine Eckmann, Joanne Heyler, and Pepe Karmel, which place the works in critical and historical context.
