Joel-Peter Witkin: Vanitas 9788087164723

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Название: Joel-Peter Witkin: Vanitas
Перевод названия: Отто М. Урбан: Джоель-Петер Уиткин. Тщеславие
ISBN: 9788087164723
Издательство: Arbor Vitae
Классификация: ISBN-10: 8087164725
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 164
Вес: 0.71 кг.
Дата издания: 31.10.2012
Язык: English
Размер: 1.78 cms H x 25.91 cms L x 22.10 cms W
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Joel-Peter Witkin: Vanitas offers a concise survey of one of the most controversial photographers alive. Since the late 1970s, Witkins black-and-white portraits and still-lifes of hermaphrodites, body parts, severed heads, mutilations and similar themes have inevitably provided shock fodder to the religious right, while seeming to evoke an easy relationship to ideas of decadence and morbidity. For Witkin, the goal is simple: I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. Witkins photographs offer up examples of lifes extremities as unblinking confrontations with mortality, whose power derives not merely from their content but from the keen compositional instincts governing that content. Witkins gift for still life and his use of religious motifs such as crucifixion and sainthood have been nourished by his appreciation of the likes of Francisco Goya, Odilon Redon and Hieronymus Bosch, whose examples he has translated for the concerns of the present. Witkins photographs have made a colossal impact upon contemporary culture, influencing artists such as the Chapman Brothers and Erwin Olaf, musicians such as Diamanda Galas and Trent Reznor, and the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, among many others. Vanitas provides a cross-section of the artists work from the 1970s to the present. In addition to photographs, it includes many lesser-known drawings and paintings, as well as Witkins most recent, previously unpublished photographs. A bilingual (English/Czech) text by the art historian Otto M. Urban summarizes the development of Witkins life and work.
Joel-Peter Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1939, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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