Thames Hudson | ISBN:0500238960 | File Type: PDF, 208 pages | File size: 74.Mb | Sep. 17th, 2012
Art Criticism and Art Theory: Personal Reflections on Art by Today s Leading Artists Behind the closed door of the contemporary artist s studio is a hidden world of images those artworks from the distant or near past that have animated troubled consoled or inspired the artists of today This book reveals that hidden world presenting an intimate guide to the imaginations of today s leading practitioners through the works they love best Artworks ranging from the fifteenth to the mid twentieth centuries are featured often supplemented by reproductions of work by the selecting artists Intimate and evocative the stories speak of the challenges provocations revelations and delights that can be found when one artist looks closely at the work of another Some artist contributors provide unusual perspectives on familiar figures from art history including Thomas Demand on aolo Uccello Miroslaw Balka on Michelangelo Vik Muniz on eter a Rubens Ji o Sarmento on Eugene Delacroix Joan Fontcuberta on Louis Daguerre and Eija Liisa Ahtila on ablo icasso Others select lesser known artists from Jean Marc Bustamante on ieter Saenredam Francesco Clemente on Henry Fuseli and Tomma Abts on It o Jakuch u to Erwin Wurm on o Gernes Do Ho Suh on Kim Keong Hui and John Bock on Armand Schthess
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