During the past several decades, contemporary artists have asked critical questions about the way in which history is constructed through images, particularly those that are disseminated by the mass media. As the media has increasingly assumed the role of historiographer, there is a danger of losing the diversity of our historical narratives. Add to this the globalization of our culture, and we are faced with a potential dulling of our collective historical awareness. In Questioning History, editors Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg and Flip Bool focus on different ways in which contemporary visual artists, photographers and filmmakers have constructed historical narratives through images and offer a selection of essays that examine artists' innovative challenges to prevailing historical narratives.

Questioning History: Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art: Reflect No.7

Arts & Photography

Gierstberg, Frits

Bool, Flip

van der Stok, Frank

History & Criticism

nai010 publishers

Most people are familiar with the imposing bronze statue in Rotterdam's city center. Known as The Destroyed City, it is considered worldwide to be one of the most impressive monuments to the victims of World War II. It is so well known that, unusually for a statue on a public space, many people even know the name of its creator: Zadkine. But who was Zadkine? And what else did he do? This book provides a comprehensive overview of the work of this Parisian master of modernism, who, with his fellow artists like Picasso, Brancusi, and Lipchitz, transformed the face of Western sculpture forever. Zadkine's capacity for continually reinventing himself and developing new forms and shapes in response to the changing world around him marks him out as one of the greatest artists of his day. The book focuses particularly on Zadkine's bond with the Netherlands, where his collectors and those who commissioned his work often counted as his friends. Text in English and Dutch.

Zadkine: By the Sea (Dutch and English Edition)

Chabert, Noelle

Corbett, Cathy

Gautherin, Véronique

Hoekstra, Feico

Teeuwisse, Jan

Thissen, Siebe

Individual Artists

Uitgeverij Waanders & De Kunst

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