Download or read book Mellencamp written by John Mellencamp and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Mellencamp is one if the true Renaissance men of popular music. In the public spotlight for over twenty-five years, with a string of number one hits and multiplatinum records side to his artistic talent that is celebrated in the full-color selection of evocation paintings.Mellencamp began pursuing oil painting in 1988 as a means of further artistic exploration. His first subjects were friends, family, and landscapes reminiscent of the French impressionists, which have since evolved into a personal style of portraiture.Critics have drawn parallels between Mellencamp's work and the dark, shadowy paintings of the German expressionists. Mellencamp believes in art as a means of self-exploration and as an incentive to make people more curious about the world. He has exhibited extensively in the Midwest and the South, and most of his paintings have been purchased for private collections.With seventy-five full-color representations if the artist's favorite paintings, twenty-five black-and-white photographs taken from his personal collection, and an introduction by Billboard magazine's editor-in-chief, Timothy White, Mellencamp: Paintings and Reflections is the perfect gift for any Mellencamp fan or anyone who appreciates fine art. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Download or read book John Mellencamp written by John Mellencamp and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longtime music icon John Mellencamp’s artistic expression has never been limited to song. The acclaimed singer-songwriter John Mellencamp has been an accomplished painter for more than four decades. This definitive survey—curated by Mellencamp himself—of his large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media assemblages documents America’s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with an antiestablishment frown and a rich sense of narrative. “Although we may primarily know Mellencamp as a rock star, one of the highest-selling of all time and a Hall of Famer, he is also a great painter, as this book shows. Not a musician who also paints... No, John legitimately belongs in the modern art pantheon,” says Bob Guccione Jr. in his essay that delineates the connection of Mellencamp’s music and art, both imbued with the earnest voice of America’s heartland.
Download or read book Dubuffet written by Laurent Danchin and published by Pierre Terrail. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a captivating monograph of Jean Dubuffet. It will allow the viewer to enter the complex, intricate and controversial universe of a very engimatic character, still highly mysterious after his death.
Download or read book The Art of Assemblage written by William Chapin Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Assemblage art consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found-objects."--Boundless.
Download or read book The Art of Looking written by Lance Esplund and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury "drip" paintings; Chris Burden's "Shoot" (1971), in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle; Urs Fischer's "You" (2007), a giant hole dug in the floor of a New York gallery; and the conceptual and performance art of today's Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic. The shifts have left the art-viewing public (understandably) perplexed. In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through the last century of art and empowers us to approach and appreciate it with new eyes. Eager to democratize genres that can feel inaccessible, Esplund encourages viewers to trust their own taste, guts, and common sense. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that recent art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who believe that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present.
Download or read book Exhibition of Works written by Contemporaries Gallery (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collage Montage Assemblage written by Norman Laliberté and published by New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collage Assemblage and the Found Object written by Diane Waldman and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912 Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso created the first papiers colles by gluing pieces of oak-grained faux bois wallpaper onto their drawings. In 1917 Marcel Duchamp selected a urinal, signed it R. Mutt, and presented it as an object of art under the title Fountain. In 1919 Kurt Schwitters began gathering scraps of rubbish and assembled them into a series of works that he titled Merz constructions. These acts represent three of the most significant achievements in twentieth-century art. The definitive book on its subject, Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object offers a comprehensive and dynamic history of the mediums that revolutionized our ideas about the nature of art and influenced virtually every major art movement of the twentieth century. Made up of fragments, of debris, of rejected pieces and common artifacts of popular culture, collage and assemblage are arts of protest, of challenge, of exploration. They emphasize the everyday and commonplace over precious materials and refinement; concept and process over end product; the temporary and ephemeral over the lasting. They propose a dislocation in time and space and, by the nature of their makeup, offer multiple layers of meaning. They also furnish a compelling historical record of their time. All these currents are explored by Diane Waldman, deputy director and senior curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In clear and cogent prose, generously illustrated with examples and comparative works, she traces collage, the found object - and the related development, assemblage - from their Cubist beginnings to the present. Waldman moves from the outrageous experiments of the Dadaists in the 1920s to the irreverent debunkings of the 1960s Pop artists to the provocative appropriation art of the 1990s; from the intricate towers and assemblages of the Russian Constructivists early in this century to the surprising piles of materials put together by such midcentury artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and John Chamberlain; from the cerebral and Freudian collages and objects of the Surrealists in the 1920s and 1930s to the probing conundrums posed by the conceptualists of the 1980s and 1990s. A lively book on lively arts, Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object gives us a comprehensive and dynamic view of what are arguably the most important artistic developments of our time.
Download or read book Palimpsests and Middens written by Rosie Hartmann and published by Vistaphilia Press. This book was released on 1917-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palimpsests & Middens - A Midwest Assembler is the culmination of 40+ years of art created by Gary John Gresl of Milwaukee, WI. Gresl's heritage, influences, and wit are viewed through his art. With over 300 images the reader is invited to discover the intricacies of assemblage and installation artworks.In the tradition of great artists, Gresl delivers more than just images. He takes the reader on a journey though time, thought and experience. Included on this journey* Paintings from his early art beginnings* Compositions covering personal growth, art and the art world and other topics that inspire viewers and artists alike.* Poetry * Close-up and detailed views of assemblages including written pieces about the assemblage.* Extensive listings illustrating the path of an artist through reviews, exhibitions, and awards.Pegi Christensen, artist and contributor to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online, in the Preface, describes it as:In this book, Gary unites images of a broad selection of his art, plus selected essays and poetry, compounding the rewards for readers and allows us to see the full development of Gary's art across time.Adding to the richness of the book is the ability to go back and find common items, ideas and themes present themselves. Each reading of this book provides a new view of how Gresl's work weaves in, around or back and forth, just as individual assemblages do.
Download or read book Saul Steinberg s Literary Journeys written by Jessica R. Feldman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Steinberg’s inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century. Although the literary qualities of Steinberg’s work have often been noted in passing, critics and art historians have yet to fathom the specific ways in which Steinberg meant drawing not merely to resemble writing but to be itself a type of literary writing. Jessica R. Feldman's Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys, the first book-length critical study of Steinberg’s art and its relation to literature, explores his complex literary roots, particularly his affinities with modernist aesthetics and iconography. The Steinberg who emerges is an artist of far greater depth than has been previously recognized. Feldman begins her study with a consideration of Steinberg as a reader and writer, including a survey of his personal library. She explores the practice of modernist parody as the strongest affinity between Steinberg and the two authors he repeatedly claimed as his "teachers"—Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce. Studying Steinberg’s art in tandem with readings of selected works by Nabokov and Joyce, Feldman explores fascinating bonds between Steinberg and these writers, from their tastes for parody and popular culture to their status as mythmakers, émigrés, and perpetual wanderers. Further, Feldman relates Steinberg’s uniquely literary art to a host of other authors, including Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Defoe. Generously illustrated with the artist’s work and drawing on invaluable archival material from the Saul Steinberg Foundation, this innovative fusion of literary history and art history allows us to see anew Steinberg’s art.
Download or read book The Not So Still Life written by Susan Landauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Arthur Dove written by Debra Bricker Balken and published by Other Distribution. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights into the transformative work of this visionary modern artist accompany a comprehensive documentation of his paintings and assemblages
Download or read book The Art of Richard Tuttle written by Richard Tuttle and published by San Francisco Museum. This book was released on 2005 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work - one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book-making, sculpture, and design. From his spare yet enigmatic forms of the 1960s to his complex, multifaceted assemblages and installations of more recent years, Tuttle's primary impetus throughout has been to craft unique objects, using everyday, often ephemeral materials, that demand to be confronted on their own terms. The relentless individuality of his aesthetic vision has earned him standing as one of the most provocative and influential artists of his day. This richly illustrated and strikingly designed catalogue, the most authoritative volume ever published on this prolific artist, presents nearly four hundred reproductions of artworks from across his oeuvre and documentary photographs of his creative process. Essays by a distinguished group of writers trace the arc of Tuttle's career from its inception in the 1960s to the present day, addressing topics such as the philosophical underpinnings of his artistic method; his sensitive handling of diverse materials; his lifelong engagement with drawing and its expansion into three-dimensional space; his groundbreaking solo exhibitions and their critical reception in the United States and Europe; his complex play with the conventions of language; and his innovative artist's books, many of which are collaborations with poets.
Download or read book Palimpsests and Middens written by Gary John Gresl and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palimpsests & Middens - A Midwest Assembler is the culmination of 40+ years of art created by Gary John Gresl of Milwaukee, WI. Gresl's heritage, influences, and wit are viewed through his art. With over 300 images the reader is invited to discover the intricacies of assemblage and installation artworks. In the tradition of great artists, Gresl delivers more than just images. He takes the reader on a journey though time, thought and experience. Included on this journey Paintings from his early art beginnings Compositions covering personal growth, art and the art world and other topics that inspire viewers and artists alike. Poetry Close-up and detailed views of assemblages including written pieces about the assemblage. Extensive listings illustrating the path of an artist through reviews, exhibitions, and awards. Pegi Christensen, artist and contributor to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online, in the Preface, describes it as: "In this book, Gary unites images of a broad selection of his art, plus selected essays and poetry, compounding the rewards for readers and allows us to see the full development of Gary's art across time." Adding to the richness of the book is the ability to go back and find common items, ideas and themes present themselves. Each reading of this book provides a new view of how Gresl's work weaves in, around or back and forth, just as individual assemblages do.
Download or read book Exhibition of Paintings written by Dilexi Gallery (Los Angeles) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urs Fischer Beds and Problem Paintings written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urs Fischer’s work explores the genres of classical art history (still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and interiors) at the intersection with everyday life—in cast sculptures and assemblages, paintings, digital montages, spatial installations, mutating or kinetic objects, and texts. This volume includes fifty-five color illustrations from Urs Fischer’s Beds and Problem Paintings show that was exhibited at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles from February 23–April 7, 2012. This was the artist’s first major solo exhibition with the gallery. Beds and Problem Paintings was designed by the artist, and the images within the book include installation photos from the exhibition as well as photographs taken by the artist.
Download or read book Alan Magee written by Alan Magee and published by Forum Gallery, New York. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Barry Lopez and Jonathan Weiner. Foreword by Richard V. West.
