In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today's Leading Artists - Hardcover

Grant, Simon; Abts, Tomma

 
9780500238967: In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today's Leading Artists
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0500238960 ISBN 13: 9780500238967
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Behind the closed door of the contemporary artist s studio is a hidden worldof images those artworks from the distant or near past that have animated,troubled, consoled, or inspired the artists of today. This book reveals thathidden world, presenting an intimate guide to the imaginations of today sleading practitioners through the works they love best. Artworks rangingfrom the fifteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries are featured, often supplementedby reproductions of work by the selecting artists.Intimate and evocative, the stories speak of the challenges, provocations,revelations, and delights that can be found when one artist looks closely at thework of another. Some artist-contributors provide unusual perspectives onfamiliar figures from art history including Thomas Demand on Paolo Uccello,Miroslaw Balka on Michelangelo, Vik Muniz on Peter Paul Rubens, JuliãoSarmento on Eugene Delacroix, Joan Fontcuberta on Louis Daguerre, and Eija-Liisa Ahtila on Pablo Picasso. Others select lesser-known artists, from Jean-MarcBustamante on Pieter Saenredam, Francesco Clemente on Henry Fuseli, andTomma Abts on It¯o Jakuch¯u to Erwin Wurm on Poul Gernes, Do Ho Suh onKim Keong-Hui, and John Bock on Armand Schulthess.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simon Grant is a writer and art historian, and has been the editor of Tate Etc. magazine since 2004. His writings on art include catalogue essays on Paul Nash, Keith Tyson and Tacita Dean, and articles for the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, the Independent on Sunday, Parkett and The Burlington Magazine.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500238960
ISBN 13 
9780500238967
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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