Author: Kishin Shinoyama
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Balthus (1908-2001) is one of the truly enigmatic personalities among the painters of the 20th century. This extraordinary illustrated volume is devoted to the early masterpieces and is published on the occasion of Balthus' centenary in February 2008.
Haus Des Malers : Balthus Im Grand Chalet
Author: Kishin Shinoyama
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Balthus (1908-2001) is one of the truly enigmatic personalities among the painters of the 20th century. This extraordinary illustrated volume is devoted to the early masterpieces and is published on the occasion of Balthus' centenary in February 2008.
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Balthus (1908-2001) is one of the truly enigmatic personalities among the painters of the 20th century. This extraordinary illustrated volume is devoted to the early masterpieces and is published on the occasion of Balthus' centenary in February 2008.
Books on Japan in Western Languages Recently Acquired by the National Diet Library
Author: Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man
Author: Kishin Shinoyama
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847868699
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970. The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown. In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese "everyman." In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends. Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act. With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847868699
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime--and often shocking--visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970. The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown. In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese "everyman." In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends. Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act. With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.
Conversations with I.M. Pei
Author: I. M. Pei
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"This volume presents this master architect in a profoundly personal manner, touching on the influences he gathered in the gardens and cities of his native China, his studies under the great masters of modernism at America's most prestigious universities, and his ascent to the top of his profession in the United States and internationally. Complete with a colorplate section showing Pei's works, a selection of his drawings, and a catalog of his oeuvre, this volume offers a view of a truly extraordinary man. Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key is as valuable a resource for the general reader as it is for architects and students."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"This volume presents this master architect in a profoundly personal manner, touching on the influences he gathered in the gardens and cities of his native China, his studies under the great masters of modernism at America's most prestigious universities, and his ascent to the top of his profession in the United States and internationally. Complete with a colorplate section showing Pei's works, a selection of his drawings, and a catalog of his oeuvre, this volume offers a view of a truly extraordinary man. Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key is as valuable a resource for the general reader as it is for architects and students."--BOOK JACKET.
The Acharnians
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734064104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Acharnians by Aristophanes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734064104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Acharnians by Aristophanes
Alderdene
Author: Norris Paul
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
City of Glass
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786821710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own. As the familiar territory of the noir detective genre gives way to something altogether more disturbing, Quinn becomes consumed by his mission, and begins to lose his grip on reality.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786821710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own. As the familiar territory of the noir detective genre gives way to something altogether more disturbing, Quinn becomes consumed by his mission, and begins to lose his grip on reality.
The Essential Joseph Beuys
Author: Alain Borer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500092672
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celebrates the forty-year oeuvre of one of the most important and influential visual artists of the postwar era Subject to passionate controversy during his lifetime, the work of Joseph Beuys is now considered one of the most significant and influential contributions to twentieth-century fine arts. The Essential Joseph Beuys locates the artist’s oeuvre as he saw it: part of a larger, philosophically based practice emphasizing direct democracy, free access to education, and the restructuring of society to meet ecological requirements. A total of 152 works from Beuys’s many fields of activity—drawings and watercolors, prints and multiples, sculptures and objects, spaces and happenings—arranged in chronological order demonstrate the artist’s formal versatility, creative richness, and conceptual depth. The peculiar poetry of the materials Beuys used—felt, grease, honey, wax, copper, and sulfur—emerges along with the gentle melancholy that suffuses the work. Alain Borer analyzes the world of Beuys’s thoughts and imagination with special reference to the artist’s written and spoken statements. This survey is an essential introduction to the work and conceptual world of Joseph Beuys that will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century art.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500092672
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celebrates the forty-year oeuvre of one of the most important and influential visual artists of the postwar era Subject to passionate controversy during his lifetime, the work of Joseph Beuys is now considered one of the most significant and influential contributions to twentieth-century fine arts. The Essential Joseph Beuys locates the artist’s oeuvre as he saw it: part of a larger, philosophically based practice emphasizing direct democracy, free access to education, and the restructuring of society to meet ecological requirements. A total of 152 works from Beuys’s many fields of activity—drawings and watercolors, prints and multiples, sculptures and objects, spaces and happenings—arranged in chronological order demonstrate the artist’s formal versatility, creative richness, and conceptual depth. The peculiar poetry of the materials Beuys used—felt, grease, honey, wax, copper, and sulfur—emerges along with the gentle melancholy that suffuses the work. Alain Borer analyzes the world of Beuys’s thoughts and imagination with special reference to the artist’s written and spoken statements. This survey is an essential introduction to the work and conceptual world of Joseph Beuys that will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century art.
Typologies of Industrial Buildings
Author: Bernd Becher
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262025652
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An encyclopedic collection of all known Becher industrial studies, arranged by building type.
Publisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262025652
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An encyclopedic collection of all known Becher industrial studies, arranged by building type.
Joseph Beuys, Das Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
Author: Susanne Willisch
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : de
Pages : 404
Book Description
In 1984 Joseph Beuys assembled his monumental The End of the 20th Century in Haus der Kunst in Munich: 44 basalt blocks with conical sections drilled out of them, the resulting "stoppers" slotted back into place using a bed of felt and clay. He arranged the blocks to create an animated vibrant formation that charged the entire room with meaning. The relocation of the work to the new Munich Pinakothek der Moderne set an almost impossible challenge for conservators, not least owing to the fiery debate whether an aeuvre an artist had himself laid out could be touched in the first place. But in the end, they succeeded: a key late 20th-century artwork was given a new location and none of its suggestive powers had been forfeited in the process.
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : de
Pages : 404
Book Description
In 1984 Joseph Beuys assembled his monumental The End of the 20th Century in Haus der Kunst in Munich: 44 basalt blocks with conical sections drilled out of them, the resulting "stoppers" slotted back into place using a bed of felt and clay. He arranged the blocks to create an animated vibrant formation that charged the entire room with meaning. The relocation of the work to the new Munich Pinakothek der Moderne set an almost impossible challenge for conservators, not least owing to the fiery debate whether an aeuvre an artist had himself laid out could be touched in the first place. But in the end, they succeeded: a key late 20th-century artwork was given a new location and none of its suggestive powers had been forfeited in the process.