Keith Coventry - Hardcover

 
9783775742931: Keith Coventry
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 377574293X ISBN 13: 9783775742931
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

With this publication, Keith Coventry (*1958, Burnley, Great Britain) presents an overview of his oeuvre from its beginnings in the early 1990s to the present day, shedding light on his exploration of the legacy of modernism and post-modernism. In his series Junk Paintings (2012), for example, a new visual vocabulary containing elements of the famous McDonald’s logo shifts into focus, blending with Minimalism and Pop Art. In the white Pure Junk Paintings (2015/16) he continues his work with these formal elements, but using new materials: wood, muslin, beeswax, glass, and gesso lend the paintings a sculptural presence. The same is true of the series Golden Arches (2016), for which parts of the McDonald’s logo were cast in bronze and heavily gold plated, contrasting a cheap, mass produced commodity with materials representing permanence, craft, and value. In Coventry’s art the consumer world and mass production encounter an aesthetic characterized by beauty and timelessness.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Bracewell is the author of many books, including England is Mine. He is a regular contributor to Frieze and The Burlington Magazine.

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Consumer critique in gold. Overview of the British artist's focus on modernism and postmodernism over the past three decades.
With this publication, Keith Coventry (*1958, Burnley, Great Britain) presents an overview of his oeuvre from its beginnings in the early 1990s to the present day, shedding light on his exploration of the legacy of modernism and post-modernism. In his series Junk Paintings (2012), for example, a new visual vocabulary containing elements of the famous McDonald's logo shifts into focus, blending with Minimalism and Pop Art. In the white Pure Junk Paintings (2015/16) he continues his work with these formal elements, but using new materials: wood, muslin, beeswax, glass, and gesso lend the paintings a sculptural presence. The same is true of the series Golden Arches (2016), for which parts of the McDonald's logo were cast in bronze and heavily gold plated, contrasting a cheap, mass produced commodity with materials representing permanence, craft, and value. In Coventry's art the consumer world and mass production encounter an aesthetic characterized by beauty and timelessness.

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Verlag
Hatje Cantz Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
377574293X
ISBN 13 
9783775742931
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
Diederichsen Diedrich, Bracewell Michael
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