A unique exhibition in a book, presenting challenging art that deals with the place and function of autobiography in the contemporary world.Art Works: An exciting new series celebrating the vitality and diversity of art in the twenty-first century. Not only is money central to our daily existence, it also controls the very way societies organize themselves. It's small wonder then that artists engage with this most powerful of social forces and address the many ways it impacts on our lives. Arranged into themed "rooms," the book reflects a wide variety of artistic attitudes and practices. Some artists depict or use real money directly in their work, while others explore its more abstract aspects, such as the way it circulates around the globe. Some make highly expensive objects from valuable materials or produce sculptural copies of luxury goods; others go in the opposite direction, toward the amateurish and the handmade, to question the idea of monetary value. Some present art as a usable consumer product like any other, making work that is almost indistinguishable from furniture or architecture, while others produce art about the business of buying and selling commodities, including the commodity of art itself. All of the artists in this book use art to figure out the complicated ways in which money functions in the world of getting and spending. All of them help us understand the world in which we live. 200 illustrations, 180 in color.

Art Works: Money

Arts & Photography

Paul Mattick

Katy Siegel

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Drinkers and Orange Eaters, this book is a full catalogue raisonné of the two series, which date from 1981-1982. The catalogue includes full plate images of the 27 paintings that comprise this body of work, as well as select detail images. Accompanying the reproductions is the essay "Oranges and Apples" by Katy Siegel, historical studio images, and a complete annotated catalogue of all works. In the Drinkers and Orange Eaters, Baselitz reacts to the work of his German Expressionist predecessors - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Emil Nolde, among others-paying homage to his artistic forefathers while simultaneously establishing distance from them. Championed as a leading exponent of German Neo-Expressionist painting, Baselitz displays a newfound freedom from ideological pressures with these works. Baselitz explains, "The '80s helped me to rearrange everything; I was able to set up a whole range of ideas and experiences anew, which meant I was able to break everything down so I could make something out of it again." These two series are regarded as some of Baselitz's most expressive and vividly colorful works, emphasizing the physicality of paint and gestural brushstrokes. Baselitz said of this series, "I was boxing with both hands, so to speak," using form, style and color to shatter traditional assumptions. The Drinkers and Orange Eaters represent a critical time in history and an evolving ideology of liberation.

Georg Baselitz: Drinkers & Orange Eaters

Skarstedt Gallery

Ten Americans: After Paul Klee

Fabienne Eggelhöfer

Elsa Smithgall

Elke Seibert

Kai-Inga Dost

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