Joana Vasconcelos has become one the most respected and sought-after artists of the 21st century. Her forte is using non-traditional materials, and particularly textiles, to create monumental and expansive works that intrigue, inspire and entertain the viewer. She first rose to acclaim when her chandelier decorated with tampons was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2005, and has since had solo exhibitions at Versailles and Manchester Art Gallery. She aims to re-present and subvert every-day objects, often manipulating scale and form, and is specially interested in the role of women and objects associated with them. This book focuses on her extraordinary works in textiles, and highlights in particular her 'Valkyries' series, vibrant patchwork extravaganzas that weave together knitting and crochet with silk, velvets, recycled clothes and industrially produced textiles embellished with Portuguese tassels, crystals and beads. Essays by Enrique Juncosa and Crispin Sartwell offer thoughtful and in-depth overviews of her work and its development over the past fourteen years. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements  Contamination  Valkyries  Trafaria Praia  Outdoor  Animals  Classical  Fashion  Body Landscapes  Domestic  Intimate Fragments  Music  Time Machines  'The Soft Machine', Enrique Juncosa  'Beauty and Reconciliation in the Art of Joana Vasconcelos', Crispin Sartwell  Selected Biography  Selected Biography  List of Works

Joana Vasconcelos: Material World /anglais

Arts & Photography

Juncosa, Enrique

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

The fight for women's rights worldwide has been one of the great power struggles of the twentieth century, and its graphic expression has been central to this battle. Suffragettes to She-Devils captures the excitement of women's revolutionary campaigns and movements from the vibrant visual identity of the militant suffragettes, through the humour and sniping of the cartoons of Women's Lib in the sixties, to the virtual-reality explorations of end-of-the-century cyberfeminists. It studies the developing role of graphics and related media in the struggle for women's liberation, focusing on the way women have used graphics as a tool for their empowerment - finding a voice through visual or graphic means.

Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond

GOLDIN, Nan

Costa, Guido

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

Anne Madden is one of Ireland's foremost painters to have emerged since the 1950s. Of Irish and Anglo-Chilean origin, she spent her first years in Chile before coming to Ireland and England with her parents. In 1958 she moved to the south of France, where she exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including Rosc '84 in Ireland and at the Paris Biennale where she represented Ireland. This lavish and unique monograph, published to accompany the in-depth retrospective exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in summer 2007, covers Anne Madden's entire artistic career from the 1950s to the present. It features some of her most important paintings: Self Portrait, 1950; her early series of works inspired by the landscape of the Burren, such as Clare Land, 1967; and her series of Megaliths, Monoliths and Doorways, which are, in the late art critic Dorothy Walker's words, like 'giant forms emerging from the darkness of pre-history'. With a foreword by Enrique Juncosa, Direc

Anne Madden

MAHON, Derek

Sweeney, Karen

Scala Publishers

Bay of Flags & Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Dedalus Press

Anne Tallentire: This, and Other Things: 1999 - 2010

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Romuald Hazoumé (born 1962), one of Africa's leading visual artists, has worked with many media throughout his career, but it is for his assemblage-masks that he is best known. These masks consist of discarded oil cans ubiquitous objects in Benin, which Hazoumé repositions to resemble faces. The use of oil cans implicitly criticizes the presence of multinational oil companies in west Africa.

Romuald Hazoumé (IRISH MUSEUM OF)

Magnin, André

Kissane, Seán

Konatè, Yacouba

Houghton, Gerard

Kounellis / Repères 118: Kounellis

GALERIE LELONG

Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture: Paintings from the Daros Collection

Bois, Yve-Alain

Krauss, Rosalind E.

RICHARDSON, Brenda

Marshall, Richard D.

Amilus, Inc.

Reviewing a 2006 exhibition of the Berlin-based artist Thomas Scheibitz's work in The New York Times, Roberta Smith wrote, "Stylish and cool, the work... continues to violate the borders between abstraction and representation, painting and sculpture, art and other visual culture. His sculptures resemble architectural models or fragments of logos; his paintings are vaguely figurative. Both seem derived from some outside source, and display a flexible faith in form's infinite allusiveness and consequent ability to inspire free-form reverie." This volume presents Scheibitz's pictorial archive, compiled from a vast range of pictures found in newspapers, magazines, films and cartoons, as well as our collective memory. In making this material available, Scheibitz gives readers a tool to draw many conclusions about his artistic methods in painting and sculpture.

Thomas Scheibitz: About 90 Elements

Thomas, Rachael

Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín

Lomax, Jenni

Richter Verlag

Joana Vasconcelos (born 1971) is perhaps the most prominent Portuguese artist of her generation, internationally known for her participation in the 2005 Venice Biennale and her exhibition at the Palace of Versailles in 2010. Vasconcelos uses a range of unusual materials in her work, from household appliances to tiles, fabric, medicines, toilets, pots, plastic cutlery, electric lights and much more, to create sculptures and installations that stand out for their large scale, colorfulness and exuberance, and which draw inspiration from her country’s popular culture and from current theoretical debates in contemporary art about viewer participation. A comprehensive midcareer survey, Joana Vasconcelos: I’m Your Mirror brings together 30 of the artist’s sculptures and installations, including new works devised for the artist’s exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao, and texts that delve into the artist’s oeuvre.

Joana Vasconcelos: I'm Your Mirror (Libros de Autor)

Peixoto, José

Conde, Idalina

La Fábrica

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