Download or read book Fate and Art written by Magdalena Abakanowicz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magdalena Abakanowicz was born to aristocratic parents in 1930 and raised on their country estate. She came of age against the tumultuous background of World War II and its aftermath. Today she is revered for her uncompromising, individualistic vision developed in her native Poland under the hostile eyes of the repressive Communist regime that was in power for most of her adult life. She has personally witnessed the worst of humanity's instinct for destructive behavior and has made art that unflinchingly presents the human condition. She had, by the 1960s, gained the beginning of an international reputation as a sculptor in soft materials with the creation of monumental environments called Abakans." "She changed sculpture from "object to look at" into "space to experience". Monumental, powerful compositions in bronze or stone, iron or concrete have been created for specific locations and are permanently installed as environments accessible to people." "Magdalena Abakanowicz also draws and paints, has choreographed dances performed by Japanese and Polish youngsters, and has designed Arboreal Architecture - buildings as "vertical gardens" - to be used as part of an extension to the principal axis in the city of Paris." "She has been determined from the very beginning to build her own vision of reality. She has never followed trends, all her creations being dictated by her imagination."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Ann Coxon and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) was a Polish artist who revolutionised the use of woven forms in art. This book reveals her impact on environmental sculpture, as well as her deeply personal interests in natural phenomena and global cultures

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by MICHAEL. MOSKALEWICZ BRENSON (MAGDALENA.) and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition "La Corte del Rey Arturo" (The Court of King Arthur) presented in the Crystal Palace was a project that reflects Abakanowicz's childhood experience in the Polish forests and lakes where, according to her own words, there were strange powers with magical force of the local popular religious festivals. The exhibition catalog combines, in a retrospective way, a review of Abakanowicz' s previous work with the series that she completed for this occasion. This publication includes three essays of the specialists in her work: Mariusz Hermansdorfer, Karoline Hubner and Mary Jane Jacob.

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz Fate and Art written by PAOLA. GRIBAUDO and published by Skira. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illustrated autobiography of the pioneering Polish sculptor, whose organic installations explored the politics of space in presciently fresh ways One of Poland's most famous artists, Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) revolutionized the use of textile as a sculptural medium with the creation of her 1967 Akabansseries consisting of enormous woven structures. In the next two decades of her career, the artist moved more towards representational sculpture, crafting dozens of headless humanoid figures out of wood, burlap and synthetic resin. These figures were then gathered in imposing groups as part of the Crowdsseries, her meditation on public spaces and how human beings occupy them. In addition to her numerous three-dimensional endeavors, which include an arboreal architecture project in Paris, Abakanowicz was a painter and a choreographer. Published at a moment of considerable renewed focus on the artist, this autobiography narrated her groundbreaking career for the first time.

Download or read book The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Joanna Inglot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Magdalena Abakanowicz and published by Oriel Mostyn & Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This book was released on 1996 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Magdalena Abakanowicz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magdalena Abakanowicz is considered by many critics and artists alike to be the foremost artist working with fiber in the world today. That she is now considered a leading sculptor, as well, indicates how far she has come since her innovative, imposing woven "Abakans" of the 1960s led the way for a decade of experimentation by many artists with fiber as a medium for expression or as a medium for the making of art. Her work proved to have the strength to break with the venerable tradition of tapestry going back to the Middle Ages, and to transform radically our expectations of woven objects from being craft to fine art. The occasion of this first comprehensive retrospective of Magdalena Abakanowicz's work marks an important point in the career of the artist. -- From preface.

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz The splendid artist of the 1960 s written by Cornelia Friebe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Art - History of Art, grade: 1,0, , course: Polish Contemporary Art, language: English, abstract: Magdalena Abakanowicz is an extraordinary artist, somebody who ́s scale of work, of different techniques, ways of expression is really grand and widespreaded. It is an artist influenced by a dramatic and often tragic background and lived through different political tensions in Poland, so that also the political, psychological background is important for the understanding of the work of Abakanowicz. In this essay only a short overview can be given, but the spectrum of her work is much more extensive.

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Barbara Rose and published by . This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the horrors of the Warsaw uprising in 1944 to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, she has personally witnessed the worst of humanity's instinct for destructive behavior, and has made art that unflinchingly presents the human condition.

Download or read book Phantom Bodies written by Mark Scala and published by In Collaboration with Frist Ar. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a series of exhibition catalogs on the human body in contemporary art

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Magdalena Abakanowicz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Learning Mind written by Mary Jane Jacob and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learning Mind: Experience Into Art is astonishing in its range of authors, depths of perception, and subjects, gliding elegantly among three thematic clusters, from 'Being of Being an Artist' to 'Making Art and Pedagogy' and, finally, to 'Experiencing Art.' The editors have brilliantly and imaginatively realized the promise of their anthology's tantalizing, terse title."--Moira Roth, author of Traveling Companions/Fractured Worlds "Jacob and Baas have gathered together an exceptional group of some of the most articulate writers about art of this generation, as well as some of the most intelligent, thoughtful, esteemed and socially engaged artists. The Learning Mind invites them to speak from their own experiences with art; what emerges are important biographical moments of insight about the way art is a device for transforming consciousness."--Jennifer Gonzalez, University of California, Santa Cruz

Download or read book Artist File written by Magdalena Abakanowicz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Magdalena Abakanowicz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 30 - June 5, 1993

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Magdalena Abakanowicz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz Writings and Conversations written by Jenny Dally and published by Skira Editore. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose poems, talks, conversations and more from the leading postwar sculptor Spanning her lengthy career, this compendium of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz's (1930-2017) writings is the first to bring together her prose poems, her lectures, correspondence with other artists and interviews (including a previously unpublished interview with art historian Barbara Rose).

Download or read book Magdalena Abakanowicz written by Eleanor Heartney and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 28 - October 28, 2000