Download or read book Franz Gertsch Silvia written by Norberto Gramaccini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result, the portrait Silvia by Franz Gertsch is assembled not only through the linguistic form of the description but also through a visual process in the act of reading itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Franz Gertsch R schegg written by Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath and published by Scheidegger and Spiess. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swiss artist Franz Gertsch, born 1930, is one of the most important exponents of photorealism worldwide. Yet unlike many of his fellow artists, he takes liberties when translating a photograph into one of his large-format paintings or prints, thus animating his depictions of human faces or landscapes. Rüschegg, created in 1988, represents a landmark in Gertsch's oeuvre. It is both his first attempt in woodcut for a landscape, and his first large-format work in that genre. Abandoning painting for nearly a decade as of 1986, he developed a special woodcut technique. Having worked in portraiture almost exclusively for many years, Gertsch now begins his exploration of nature. Starting from a view of his garden in the Swiss village of Rüschegg, Gertsch singles out some of its elements, such as a footpath, rocks, shrubs and trees, grass and leaves, taking them as individual motifs first for woodcuts and later for monumental 'portraits' of such pieces of nature. Thus, Rüschegg also stands for Gertsch's movement away from the representation of humans to that of nature, just as it links his later work with the landscape studies of his early years
Download or read book The Invisible Dragon written by Dave Hickey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty—and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging. With this revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, The Invisible Dragon aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism that, in Hickey’s view, denies the real pleasures that draw us to art in the first place. Deploying the artworks of Warhol, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Mapplethorpe and the writings of Ruskin, Shakespeare, Deleuze, and Foucault, Hickey takes on museum culture, arid academicism, sclerotic politics, and more—all in the service of making readers rethink the nature of art. A new introduction provides a context for earlier essays—what Hickey calls his "intellectual temper tantrums." A new essay, "American Beauty," concludes the volume with a historical argument that is a rousing paean to the inherently democratic nature of attention to beauty. Written with a verve that is all too rare in serious criticism, this expanded and refurbished edition of The Invisible Dragon will be sure to captivate a new generation of readers, provoking the passionate reactions that are the hallmark of great criticism.
Download or read book Fabrice Gygi written by Fabrice Gygi and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Lionel Bovier. Text by Irene Hofmann, Jean-Charles Massera, John Miller.
Download or read book Polyfocal Allover written by Tobia Bezzola and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 50 years as a leading figure of Photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (b. 1930, Switzerland) has created lively, expansive portraits of charismatic youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and painstaking detail. Polyfocal Allover surveys paintings from 1970 to 1982 and woodcut prints from 1979 to 2019, reflecting a vision in which all that lies within the frame is given equivalent value. The essays, interviews and conversations in this publication bring further definition to the lives and landscapes that Gertsch renders with virtuosic precision.
Download or read book Franz Gertsch written by Tobia Bezzola and published by Kerber Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although centred on Franz Gertsch's most recent Four Seasons cycle which was completed only in 2011, this catalogue also looks back on his paintings, prints and drawings of the past thirty years.Gertsch ranks among Switzerland's most important contemporary artists. His hyperrealistic paintings that invariably turn on the theme of reality as also the woodcuts that are remarkable in terms of both format and technique are both visually and conceptually challenging. Taking photographs as his starting point, his works follow their own immanent logic in which the purity of the material is part of the programme.This title has been published on the occasion of the exhibition Franz Gertsch - Seasons: Works from 1983 to 2011, 10 June to 18 September 2011, Kunsthaus Zürich.
Download or read book Gerhard Richter written by Gerhard Richter and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ohne Farbe stellt eine zentrale Werkgruppe im Schaffen von Gerhard Richter vor: Bilder, die ohne das eigentliche Material des Malers - die Farbe - auskommen. Die (Nicht-)Farben Schwarzweiß und Grau ziehen sich durch das gesamte Werk von Gerhard Richter: Das faszinierend weite Spektrum dieser Malerei ohne Farbe reicht zeitlich von den frühen sechziger Jahren bis heute, inhaltlich von den gegenständlichen, sich auf Schwarzweißfotos beziehenden Bildern bis zu vollkommen abstrakten Arbeiten. Grautöne genügen dem führenden Maler unserer Zeit, traditionelle Genres wie Historie, Porträts, Landschaften und Stillleben zu verhandeln und in grauen Schlierenbildern beziehungsweise Vermalungen, monochrom grauen Farbfeldbildern oder Spiegeln Grundfragen der Malerei nachzugehen. Es ergibt sich ein Querschnitt, der alles einschließt, was Malerei heute bedeuten kann - und dabei paradoxerweise im konsequenten Verzicht auf Farbe das Innerste der Malerei thematisiert. Ausstellung: museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf 22.1.-8.5.2005
Download or read book Franz Gertsch written by Franz Gertsch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Franz Gertsch written by Franz Gertsch and published by Kerber Verlag. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swiss painter Franz Gertsch (born 1930) has developed his photorealistic style over the last four decades. At the heart of this new monograph are his woodcuts: gigantic, enlarged monochrome images of leaves or flowing water that capture only a fraction of a second through a painstaking printmaking process.
Download or read book Art of the 20th Century written by Karl Ruhrberg and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2000 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Photorealism in the Digital Age written by Louis K. Meisel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This luxurious volume—the fourth in a series by Louis K. Meisel—is a comprehensive documentation of 21st-century Photorealism, one of the most popular art movements since the late 1960s. Photorealists work painstakingly from photographs to create startlingly realistic paintings, and where they once used film for gathering information, they now rely on digital technology, which has vastly expanded the amount of detail that can be captured. In these visual marvels they bring insights to vernacular subjects—cars, cityscapes, portraits—and make the commonplace uncommon. Illustrating the book with more than 850 works created since 2000, Meisel covers every major Photorealist still active (including Ralph Goings, Richard Estes, Tom Blackwell, Richard McLean, and John Salt) as well as remarkable newcomers. For the first time he also includes Verist sculptors such as John De Andrea and Duane Hanson.
Download or read book Franz Gertsch written by Alexandra Barcal and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally famous Swiss artist Franz Gertsch will celebrate his 90th birthday in 2020. The Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, which has a long-standing relationship with the artist and which is one of the most important presentation locations for his printed works, is celebrating the occasion with an exhibition and a lavishly illustrated jubilee publication. In addition to his portraits, which are now counted among the icons of Swiss art, Gertsch is famous for his captivating landscapes. Less well known, however, are his outstanding early works, created in the 1940s to 1950s, and it is on these that the volume focuses. In consultation with Gertsch himself, curators chose a number of themes from his own collection and the holdings of the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich. The resulting book pays brilliant homage to a legendary artist and his storied career.
Download or read book Car Fetish written by Roland Wetzel and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the automobile as a source of inspiratio for the art of the last 100 years. Starting with the futurists, who saw in the car's beastly roar and thrilling, dangerous speed a new ideal of beauty, this visual study provides an overview of the most powerful and culturally important artworks inspired by the car. Among them are examples of Pop Art by the Nouveaux Realistes, with Jean Tinguely known as a major Formula 1 fan These are presented through the themes of Traffic Withdrawal and Escape and a Fascination with Accident.
Download or read book Taner Ceylan written by Taner Ceylan and published by Damiani. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known for his provocative realist paintings, Taner Ceylan (born 1967) began his Lost Paintings Series as a contemporary exploration of the Orientalist gaze. Upsetting both Western and Eastern master narratives, the Lost Paintings Series presents Eastern figures in a fascinating navigation of history, power and narrative. "Esma Sultan," Ceylan's depiction of an eighteenth-century Ottoman princess renowned for her cruel disposition, draws on the empowering mythology of passionate, ruthless and assertive womanhood that characterizes accounts of her life. In other works, an Ottoman man gazes defiantly, cigarette in hand; a pair of male lovers give a chaste farewell; a veiled woman stands before Courbet's "L'Origine du monde." Ceylan assembles a cast of lost characters and voices that embody the many silenced by both Orientalist and official nationalist histories. The book is published on the occasion of Ceylan's exhibition The Lost Paintings Series at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.
Download or read book Topographies written by Monica Ursina Jäger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Franz Gertsch The Seventies written by Kathleen Bühler and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A time of new beginnings In 1969, Franz Gertsch painted Huaa...!-which shows a wildly galloping man on horseback-after a film still from a magazine. Photographs have formed the basis for his work ever since, which he almost always takes himself. They include snapshots of the young Gertsch family, pictures from a trip to the South of France, photos of his encounters with Luciano Castelli and his dazzling circle of friends, and portraits of Patti Smith. This publication shows key works from the seventies, both in full views and with details in original size. Zeroing in on these almost abstract-looking details reveals the vibrant quality of the painting with its shimmering surfaces. FRANZ GERTSCH (b. 1930) celebrated his 90th birthday in 2020. With his participation in the documenta in Kassel in 1972 he rose to international fame as a Swiss Photorealist. The paintings in this book were done during this decisive creative phase. Exhibition An exhibition by the Museum Franz Gertsch in cooperation with the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz FRANZ GERTSCH (*1930) celebrated his 90th birthday in 2020. With his participation in the documenta in Kassel in 1972 he rose to international fame as a Swiss Photorealist. The paintings in this book were done during this decisive creative phase.
