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Book Erotic Art by Living Artists

Download or read book Erotic Art by Living Artists written by Constance Smith and published by Artnetwork Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of Erotic Artists

Download or read book Dictionary of Erotic Artists written by Eugene C. Burt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This alphabetically arranged dictionary of artists known to have produced works depicting sexual imagery profiles the artists from ancient times to the present. Each entry offers biographical information, including the artist's name and any variants, birth and death dates, geographic focus, a description of the artist's media, training and the nature of their artistic output"--Provided by publisher.

Book Pygoya

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  • Author : Rodney E. J. Chang
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2005-10-03
  • ISBN : 9781419621680
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Pygoya written by Rodney E. J. Chang and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2005-10-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning tale of art, breaking the rules, and a creative spirit that can't be contained, no matter what. In 1625, tribal rebel Leila defies the priests of her community by chiseling artwork in a secret cave. When she's found out, she's put to fiery death by lava, but her spirit lives on, encased in a volcanic stone that transforms everyone who touches it. Carried by a Spanish conquistador, taken to Salem around the time of the witch trials, the rock is finally brought to Maine. But when Leila encounters a modern-day toddler named Anthony, she decides to become his art teacher, following him into his adulthood and transforming him into Pygoya, a digital painter of mysterious black rocks. What is their incredible shared destiny, and can it free them both? Panoramic, mythical and absolutely magic, this is an unforgettable examination of how certain people at certain times are destined to move the world with their art.

Book Nature Morte

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  • Author : Michael Petry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Nature Morte written by Michael Petry and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought-provoking and richly visual, Nature Morte brings together, for the first time, the poignant, provocative re-imaginings of the traditional still life by over 180 international contemporary artists. This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the 21st century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previously synonymous with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters. Michael Petry's careful selection celebrates works by emerging and established artists alike, from all over the globe, including John Currin, Elmgreen & Dragset, Robert Gober, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Peyton, Marc Quinn, Gerhard Richter, Sam Taylor-Wood and Ai Wei Wei. Short and compelling introductions begin each chapter and are followed by dramatic, visually led spreads that pair each work with a perceptive reading of its significance to the still-life tradition. Petry's engaging, provocative text reveals how contemporary practitioners are revisiting the major motifs of the still life and translating them for the modern world. Petry explores the timeless themes of life, death and the irrevocable passing of time in these new works for our modern world; artworks that invite us to pause and reconsider what it means to be human.

Book Art and Laughter

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  • Author : Sheri Klein
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2006-11-22
  • ISBN : 0857724630
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book Art and Laughter written by Sheri Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour. Encouraging laughter in the hallowed space of the gallery, Sheri Klein praises the contemporary artist as 'clown' - often overlooked in favour of the role of artist as 'serious' commentator - and takes us on a tour of the comic work of Red Grooms, Cary Leibowitz, 'The Hairy Who', Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, William Wegman, Vik Muniz and many more. She seeks out those rare smiles in art - from the Mona Lisa onwards - and highlights too the pleasures of the cute, the camp and the downright kitsch.

Book Radical Eroticism

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  • Author : Rachel Middleman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2018-01-16
  • ISBN : 0520294580
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Radical Eroticism written by Rachel Middleman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, the fascination with erotic art generated a wave of exhibitions and critical discussion on sexual freedom, visual pleasure, and the nude in contemporary art. Radical Eroticism examines the importance of women’s contributions in fundamentally reconfiguring representations of sexuality across several areas of advanced art—performance, pop, postminimalism, and beyond. This study shows that erotic art made by women was integral to the profound changes that took place in American art during the sixties, from the crumbling of modernist aesthetics and the expanding field of art practice to the emergence of the feminist art movement. Artists Carolee Schneemann, Martha Edelheit, Marjorie Strider, Hannah Wilke, and Anita Steckel created works that exemplify these innovative approaches to the erotic, exploring female sexual subjectivities and destabilizing assumptions about gender. Rachel Middleman reveals these artists’ radical interventions in both aesthetic conventions and social norms.

Book Contemporary Erotic Drawing

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  • Author : Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Conn.)
  • Publisher : Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Contemporary Erotic Drawing written by Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Conn.) and published by Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog to accompany exhibition at DiverseWorks, Texas, January 28 to March 5, 2005 and Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, May 1 to August 7, 2005.

Book The Gift

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  • Author : Lewis Hyde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Gift written by Lewis Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the 'commerce of the creative spirit' functions in the lives of artists and in culture as a whole.

Book Encyclopedia of Living Artists

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Living Artists written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venus Betrayed

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  • Author : Julia Frey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781789141603
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Venus Betrayed written by Julia Frey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvelous, beautifully illustrated."--Wall Street Journal Édouard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, at once a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in conflicting desires. From the 1880s until the advent of World War II, using styles from academic to pointillist to Nabi to Fauve, Vuillard's abundant paintings revealed his turmoil of love and hatred: models pose beside a plaster torso cast from the Venus of Milo, women appear without faces, anxiety radiates from many masterpieces--while other works were left unfinished for months or years. Drawing on insights and images from Vuillard's still unpublished diaries, Julia Frey takes us into Vuillard's private world of cabarets, experimental theaters, holiday resorts, and intimate boudoirs, showing how his art reflects his fraught personal relations and his artistic struggles. Frey highlights many of his finest works, from his famous intimate interior scenes to book illustrations and poster designs, and she examines his complex relationships with iconic friends like Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Felix Vallotton, as well as with the women he loved--his mother and sister, penniless models, and rich men's wives.

Book Erotic Art by Living Artists

Download or read book Erotic Art by Living Artists written by and published by Artnetworks. This book was released on 1988 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely paintings with some photos and sculpture. Some imaginative work, quite a lot of paint-by-the-numbers stuff. A little x-rated, much H-rated (Holstein). Cloth edition $39.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Encyclopedia of Living Artists

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Living Artists written by Constance Franklin and published by Artnetwork Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Artist

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  • Author : Ernest William Watson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 646 pages

Download or read book American Artist written by Ernest William Watson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Milestones of Art  The Collection

Download or read book Milestones of Art The Collection written by Willi Bloess and published by StormFront Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new partnership between comic-book publisher and German artist Willi Bloess look to fuse the two worlds with a series of biography comics featuring the lives and legacies of some of Western Civilizations most influential artists featuring Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. The series is titled "The Milestones of Art."

Book Milestones of Art  Frida Kahlo  Viva Mexico

Download or read book Milestones of Art Frida Kahlo Viva Mexico written by Willi Bloess and published by StormFront Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frida Kahlo called herself "Daughter of the Mexican Revolution.” At the age of 18 she had a terrible traffic accident with the result of great pains for the remaining 28 years of her life. She created around 70 self-portraits. She painted when she felt sick and had to lay in bed. When she felt good, she preferred to live an exciting life. But while her husband, Diego Riviera, amidst the Mexican macho society, could live his immorality in public, she had to arrange her dates with other men covertly.

Book Wet

    Wet

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  • Author : Mira Schor
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780822319153
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Wet written by Mira Schor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor's writing has been widely read over the past fifteen years in Artforum, Art Journal, Heresies, and M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a journal she coedited. Collected here, these essays challenge established hierarchies of the art world of the 1980s and 1990s and document the intellectual and artistic development that have marked Schor's own progress as a critic. Bridging the gap between art practice, artwork, and critical theory, Wet includes some of Schor's most influential essays that have made a significant contribution to debates over essentialism. Articles range from discussions of contemporary women artists Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and the Guerrilla Girls, to "Figure/Ground," an examination of utopian modernism's fear of the "goo" of painting and femininity. From the provocative "Representations of the Penis," which suggests novel readings of familiar images of masculinity and introduces new ones, to "Appropriated Sexuality," a trenchant analysis of David Salle's depiction of women, Wet is a fascinating and informative collection. Complemented by over twenty illustrations, the essays in Wet reveal Schor's remarkable ability to see and to make others see art in a radically new light.

Book The Art of Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Bryan
  • Publisher : White Lion Publishing
  • Release : 2019-06-06
  • ISBN : 0711240329
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book The Art of Love written by Kate Bryan and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Love tells the stories of the most fascinating couples of the art world – uncovering the passionate, challenging and loving relationships behind some the world's greatest works of art. Kate Bryan (broadcaster, writer and curator) delves into the complex world of artistic relationships, exploring the nuanced ways in which art and love can share the same space. When two married artists collaborate, do they ever get a moment off? What happens when love fades and two artists, known by one moniker, part? When a couple work independently, how do they manage jealousy and competition? In this book, you’ll meet love in all its glorious and complicated forms, including unlikely couples with conflicting philosophies (Yayoi Kusama & Joseph Cornell); unconventional marriages that prove love has many guises (Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera); couples who suffered from intense, public burnout (Marina Abramovic & Ulay); soul mates who found safety in each other (Ethel Mars & Maud Hunt Squire); and bitter rivalries that weren't built to last (Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg). Through evocative stories and beautiful illustrations, Kate tells of the formation, and sometimes breakdown, of each romance – documenting their highs and lows and revealing just how powerful love can be in the creative process. Whether long-lasting, peaceful collaborations, or short-lived tumultuous affairs, The Art of Love, opens the door on some of the greatest love stories of the twentieth century.