Meriden, Leach Franco Janis

Автор: Mink Janis
Название: Duchamp (Basic Art)
ISBN: 3836534320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836534321
Издательство: Taschen
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Цена: 1992.00 р.
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Описание: Readymade man
Changing the course of 20th-century art

When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist's Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment that continue to reverberate to the present day.

Duchamp made a career out of challenging our notions of what art is and, in the process, opened our minds to hitherto unknown possibilities. After an oblique version of Cubism in his early career, the artist made his name with Nude Descending a Staircase (1912), a groundbreaking blend of abstraction, Cubism, and Futurism, with a controversially mechanical titular nude. Around the same time, Duchamp began his forays into the now-iconic "readymades" - seemingly random found objects which Duchamp would present as art, including Bicycle Wheel (1913), Bottle Rack (1914), and a snow shovel, labeled Prelude to a Broken Arm (1915).

Duchamp went on to cause even further apoplexy among traditionalists with outrages such as L.H.O.O.Q. (1919), in which he presented a cheap copy of da Vinci's Mona Lisa with a mustache and beard penciled on and, for good measure, the auditory pun of the title (which, when read aloud in French, sounds like "Elle a chaud au cul" - "She has a hot ass").

This book distills all the daring and the scandal of Duchamp"s art into one essential overview which introduces not only one pioneering creative but also a critical moment in Western art. It is here, amid the assaults on Old Masters and the fractured poetry of found objects, that the art world first transitioned from "retinal" experiences to what would evolve into conceptual practice.

About the series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:

• a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
• a concise biography
• approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Автор: Hendrickson Janis
Название: Lichtenstein (Basic Art)
ISBN: 3836532077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836532075
Издательство: Taschen
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Цена: 1992.00 р.
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Описание: Meet the pioneer of Pop art in this introduction to Roy Lichtenstein, whose high-impact cartoon-based images exploded onto the art scene at the end of the 1950s and transformed the notion of fine art forever. Appropriating the form and content of mass media, Lichtenstein reveled in American consumer culture while elevating it for critique at...

Автор: Winehouse Janis
Название: Loving Amy: A Mother`s Story
ISBN: 1250078490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250078490
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 3310.00 р.
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Amy was one of those rare people who made an impact . . . She was a bundle of emotions, at times adorable and at times unbearable. . . . Amy s passing did not follow a clear line. It was jumbled, and her life was unfinished not life s natural order at all. She left no answers, only questions, and in the years since her death I ve found myself trying to make sense of the frayed ends of her extraordinary existence.

Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young, aged just twenty-seven. With a worldwide fan base and millions of record sales to her name, she should have had the world at her feet. Yet in the years prior to her death, she battled with addiction and was frequently the subject of lurid tabloid headlines.

Amy s mother, Janis, knew her in a way that no one else did. In this warm, poignant, and at times heartbreaking memoir, she tells the full story of the daughter she loved so much. As the world watched the rise of a superstar, then the free fall of an addict to her tragic death, Janis simply saw her Amy: the daughter she d given birth to, the girl she d raised and stood by despite her unruly behavior, the girl whose body she was forced to identify two days after her death and the girl she s grieved for every day since.

Including rare photographs and extracts from Amy s childhood journals, "Loving Amy" offers a new and intimate perspective on the life and untimely death of a musical icon."