Download or read book Jos Leonilson written by Cecilia Brunson and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonilson written by Krist Gruijthuijsen and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an intimate figuration to tender, melancholic embroidery: the brief but brilliant career of Leonilson in Europe and Brazil Leonilson (1957-93), also known as José Leonilson, emerged as a seminal figure of the Brazilian contemporary art world in the 1980s. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, where his paintings, drawings and installations were featured in solo and group shows in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, alongside the numerous exhibitions held in Brazil. In 1991, the artist tested positive for HIV. This diagnosis compelled a decisive shift in his career, as Leonilson began to develop his intimate embroideries, a practice he continued until his death in 1993 at the age of 36. Drawn: 1975-1993 is the first comprehensive retrospective of Leonilson's work in Europe and features more than 150 works produced between 1975 and 1993.
Download or read book Leonilson Now and the Opportunities written by Jose Leonilson and published by Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo / Kmec Books. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queering the Subversive Stitch written by Joseph McBrinn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of men's needlework has long been considered a taboo subject. This is the first book ever published to document and critically interrogate a range of needlework made by men. It reveals that since medieval times men have threaded their own needles, stitched and knitted, woven lace, handmade clothes, as well as other kinds of textiles, and generally delighted in the pleasures and possibilities offered by all sorts of needlework. Only since the dawn of the modern age, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, did needlework become closely aligned with new ideologies of the feminine. Since then men's needlework has been read not just as feminising but as queer. In this groundbreaking study Joseph McBrinn argues that needlework by male artists as well as anonymous tailors, sailors, soldiers, convalescents, paupers, prisoners, hobbyists and a multitude of other men and boys deserves to be looked at again. Drawing on a wealth of examples of men's needlework, as well as visual representations of the male needleworker, in museum collections, from artist's papers and archives, in forgotten magazines and specialist publications, popular novels and children's literature, and even in the history of photography, film and television, he surveys and analyses many of the instances in which “needlemen” have contested, resisted and subverted the constrictive ideals of modern masculinity. This audacious, original, carefully researched and often amusing study, demonstrates the significance of needlework by men in understanding their feelings, agency, identity and history.
Download or read book Learning from Madness written by Kaira M. Cabañas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the “art of the insane” that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of art by the mentally ill was actively encouraged by prominent figures in both medicine and art criticism, which led to a much wider appreciation among the curators of major institutions of modern art in Brazil, where pieces are included in important exhibitions and collections. Kaira M. Cabañas shows that at the center of this advocacy stood such significant proponents as psychiatrists Osório César and Nise da Silveira, who championed treatments that included painting and drawing studios; and the art critic Mário Pedrosa, who penned Gestaltist theses on aesthetic response. Cabañas examines the lasting influence of this unique era of Brazilian modernism, and how the afterlife of this “outsider art” continues to raise important questions. How do we respect the experiences of the mad as their work is viewed through the lens of global art? Why is this art reappearing now that definitions of global contemporary art are being contested? Learning from Madness offers an invigorating series of case studies that track the parallels between psychiatric patients’ work in Western Europe and its reception by influential artists there, to an analogous but altogether distinct situation in Brazil.
Download or read book An Atlas of Drawings written by Luis Pérez Oramas and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication approaches MoMA's incomparable drawings collection from a new direction, presenting works not by date but by specific sequences of forms. It suggests that the meaning of a work of art depends not only on its own internal structures but also on relationships to other works.
Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary Drawing written by Kelly Chorpening and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first university-level textbook on the power, condition, and expanse of contemporary fine art drawing A Companion to Contemporary Drawing explores how 20th and 21st century artists have used drawing to understand and comment on the world. Presenting contributions by both theorists and practitioners, this unique textbook considers the place, space, and history of drawing and explores shifts in attitudes towards its practice over the years. Twenty-seven essays discuss how drawing emerges from the mind of the artist to question and reflect upon what they see, feel, and experience. This book discusses key themes in contemporary drawing practice, addresses the working conditions and context of artists, and considers a wide range of personal, social, and political considerations that influence artistic choices. Topics include the politics of eroticism in South American drawing, anti-capitalist drawing from Eastern Europe, drawing and conceptual art, feminist drawing, and exhibitions that have put drawing practices at the centre of contemporary art. This textbook: Demonstrates ways contemporary issues and concerns are addressed through drawing Reveals how drawing is used to make powerful social and political statements Situates works by contemporary practitioners within the context of their historical moment Explores how contemporary art practices utilize drawing as both process and finished artifact Shows how concepts of observation, representation, and audience have changed dramatically in the digital era Establishes drawing as a mode of thought Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series, A Companion to Contemporary Drawing is a valuable text for students of fine art, art history, and curating, and for practitioners working within contemporary fine art practice.
Download or read book Jos Leonilson written by Karen Marta and published by Koenig Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José Leonilson (1957-1993) came of age as an artist during the 80s generation in Brazil. What he shared with this diverse artistic milieu was the so-called 'joy of painting,' rediscovered in the years following the end of Brazil's dictatorship.What separated him from his contemporaries was his personal way of working and his distinct aesthetic centred on raw emotional feelings, introspective musings, and private affairs.Focusing on Leonilson's production as a mature artist, the catalogue will feature approximately fifty paintings, drawings, and intimate embroideries made between the mid -1980s until 1993, when the artist died of AIDS.This short yet prolific period showcases the artist's fully developed language, connecting his oeuvre with contemporary art practices, Brazilian vernacular traditions, and global issues prompted by the AIDS crisis.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, José Leonilson: Empty Man at the Americas Society, New York (27 September 2017 - 3 February 2018).
Download or read book Dark Neighbourhood written by Vanessa Onwuemezi and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invention of Angela Carter written by Edmund Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as vigorously modern and unconventional as anything in her fiction. This is the story of how Angela Carter invented herself - as a new kind of woman and a new kind of writer - and how she came to write such seductive and distinctive masterworks as The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus, and Wise Children. Because its subject so powerfully embodied the spirit of the times, the book also provides a fresh perspective on Britain's social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. It examines such topics as the 1960s counterculture, the social and imaginative conditions of the nuclear age, and the advent of second wave feminism. Author Edmund Gordon has followed in Angela Carter's footsteps - travelling to the places she lived in Britain, Japan, and the USA - to uncover a life rich in adventure and incident. With unrestricted access to her manuscripts, letters, and journals, and informed by interviews with Carter's friends and family, Gordon offers an unrivalled portrait of one of the twentieth century's most dazzlingly original writers. This sharply written narrative will be the definitive biography for years to come.
Download or read book Religion and Contemporary Art written by Ronald R. Bernier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making, exhibiting, and discussion of contemporary art. Featuring essays from both established and emerging scholars, critics, and artists, the book reflects on what might be termed an "accord" between contemporary art and religion. It explores the common strategies contemporary artists employ in the interface between religion and contemporary art practice. It also includes case studies to provide more in-depth treatments of specific artists grappling with themes such as ritual, abstraction, mythology, the body, popular culture, science, liturgy, and social justice, among other themes. It is a must-read resource for working artists, critics, and scholars in this field, and an invitation to new voices "curious" about its promises and possibilities.
Download or read book Ill Feelings written by Alice Hattrick and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intrepid, galvanizing meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive. In 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary nonfiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness.
Download or read book Art of Latin America 1981 2000 written by Germán Rubiano Caballero and published by IDB. This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Contemporary written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MODE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012 COLLECTOR'S EDITION - Editor's Letter: Welcome to the January/February 2012 Collector's Edition of Mode Lifestyle Magazine and welcome to the New Year! The end of 2011 marked another positively eventful year for Mode Lifestyle Magazine with some new faces joining our editorial team and with excitement as we prepare for the shooting of our first feature film "IN THE MODE" in 2012. We are very happy to have added a new section to the magazine, "Teenagers Are Always Right", that will be published from the Mar/April 2012 edition. With expert advice from our new editorial contributors, this section will give teenagers ideas on how to tackle some of the challenges they experience as they approach adulthood. As usual we have our beautiful editorials shot across the globe and also profiles of artists such as Philip Ross Munro and successful entrepreneurs such as Thomas Kramer.Alexander MichaelsPresident & Editor-in-ChiefCONTENTS IN THIS EDITION: -ON THE COVER86 APOCALYPTO: An Editorial shot by the amazing Natasha Kertes - Mayan Theme60 STYLE TRANSFORMATION: It's 2012 - Transform Yourself: Mrs. Maid In Porsche Cayenne80 MODERN ARTISTS THAT CALL VEGAS HOME: Peter Lik105 THOMAS KRAMER: Global Networker, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist113 THE NEW MIAMI: Evolution of A CityREGULARS8 CAST MEMBERS9 EDITOR'S LETTER11 SUBSCRIPTIONSTYLE & FASHION26 ASK LIGIA: A New Exclusive Louis Vuitton30 ON THE RUNWAY: Pret-a-Porter SPRING SUMMER 2012 MODE's Fashion Editor Eleonora Genieve de Gray in Paris60 STYLE TRANSFORMATIONFASHION & FEATURES48 SOME LIKE IT HAUTE64 WE MEET ON THE YACHT-WE MEET IN PARIS: Shot In Paris With Michel Bonini86 APOCALYPTO: An editorial shot across Many Locations Based on Nature and The Mayan Theme. By Natasha Kertes.READER WRITES13 READER FEEDBACK: Readers write in with opinions on life, love and fashionJETS, BOATS & CARS15 ACCESS CUSTOM JETS: A New Handcrafted Personalized Private Jet17 DARTZ PROMOMBRON NAGEL: The World's First Armored Sportback For Yacht OwnersGOING PLACES20 LITTLE PALM ISLAND: The Perfect Exotic Getaway DestinationPROFILES37 ERIN MIA MILCHMAN: South Florida's Party DivaMODE ART80 ART IN LAS VEGAS - PETER LIK: We interview the award winning nature photographer to find out what makes him tick.39 PHILIP ROSS MUNRO: Painter & Underwater Photographer ExtraordinaireFLASH42 THE VENETIAN BALL-PARIS: baroness Maria-Elena de Saint-Didier and Friends Celebrate "Work of The Holy Angels" In StyleCLUBS & NIGHTLIFE109 TOP 20 CLUBS: MODE's List of The Top 20 Nightclubs In The WorldLIFE115 STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT: Girls Night Out In Miami - By Belinda ElkaimHEALTH & BEAUTY117 NATURAL CHILDBIRTH - A DYING FAD: An Interview With Dr. Simion Tsinker
Download or read book The Undercurrents written by Kirsty Bell and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.
Download or read book The Prado Museum Expansion written by Bridget V. Franco and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 2001 to 2007, the world-renowned Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, underwent an ambitious expansion project that reorganized the spatial design of the museum and allowed for additional exhibition space. Coinciding with the completion of this large construction project were a series of celebrations surrounding the 2010 bicentenary of South American independence movements, a clear reminder of the complicated relationship between Spain and its former colonies in Latin America. Inspired by this significant historical moment and with an eye to diversifying its predominantly Spanish-centered permanent collection, the Prado Museum decides to host a competition for a new gallery of Latin American art. The game begins in 2010 as students, assuming the roles of curators, art patrons, living artists, and art dealers, set into motion a series of negotiation sessions that will help the museum decide which artworks to choose for the new gallery. Students will analyze a broad range of artistic movements and styles related to Latin American art from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, in an effort to support the acquisition of paintings that best represent the diverse artistic legacies and historical heritage of the region.
Download or read book The Topological Imagination written by Angus Fletcher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.
