Wols Photographs

Arts & Photography

MEHRING, Christine

Photography & Video

Harvard Art Museums

Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colorful and playful abstract artworks Palermo in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank “Blinky” Palermo. This handsome book―a historical and critical study of Palermo’s painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuys’s now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977―explores his significance for postwar and abstract art.
Christine Mehring notes that over the course of Palermo’s brief career he created five concurrent but distinct bodies of work: objects, cloth-pictures, wall-paintings, metal-pictures, and collaborative projects, primarily with his friend and colleague Gerhard Richter. Mehring shows how each of these groups demonstrates Palermo’s efforts to lead German art out of its international isolation and to transform modernist painting into historically resonant abstraction by incorporating artifice, humor, period colors, and play.

Blinky Palermo: Abstraction of an Era

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers--among them Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl--in an extraordinary conversation on the nature of art in the industrial age. Aiming to rethink the form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped the world today. Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition, is The Museum of Modern Art's first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938, and offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth century's most influential experiment in artistic education. Organized in collaboration with the three major Bauhaus collections in Germany (the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Klassic Stiftung Weimar), Bauhaus 1919-1933 examines the extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school's products, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater and costume design, painting and sculpture. Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have rarely if ever been seen or published outside Germany. Featuring approximately 400 color plates, richly complemented by documentary images, Bauhaus 1919-1933 includes two overarching essays by the exhibition's curators, Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, that present new perspectives on the Bauhaus. Shorter essays by more than 20 leading scholars apply contemporary viewpoints to 30 key Bauhaus objects, and an illustrated narrative chronology provides a dynamic glimpse of the Bauhaus' lived history.

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

Foster, Hal

Lupton, Ellen

Mertins, Detlef

Kinchin, Juliet

Huyssen, Andreas

Potts, Alex

Dickerman, Leah

Bergdoll, Barry

Nisbet, Peter

Buchloh, Benjamin

Jennings, Michael

De Michelis, Marco

Doherty, Brigid

Haxthausen, Charles

Paret, Monty

Schwarz, Frederic

Smith, T’ai

Reference

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Book by Lee, Pamela, Mehring, Christine, Schwartz, Dieter, Schneegass, Christian, Vicnius, Julie

Drawing Is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection

Lee, Pamela

Harvard University Art Museums

Schwartz, Dieter

Schneegass, Christian

Vicnius, Julie

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harvard Univ Art Museum

From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. The Allure of Matter offers the first serious consideration of these ground-breaking material explorations, coining the term Material Art to describe works that place “matter” itself as the primary vehicle of investigation and expression. The book contains four ground-breaking essays, profiles of twenty-five artists, and corresponding color images.

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China

Hung, Wu

Cacchione, Orianna

Smith, Trevor

Smart Museum Of Art, The University Of C

This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning’s exhibition Shared Eye, presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in Shared Eye defy easy categorization: they include collage, painting, photography, and sculpture. The seriality of the installation also nods to the artist’s history with the moving image. Throughout the 1990s, Benning created an extraordinary body of experimental video work, improvising with materials at hand and a toy camera. More than two decades later, in Shared Eye we see the handmade aesthetic, grainy imagery, and durational logic of Benning’s early videos take on different forms to correspond to our current moment. The catalog documents the exhibition in full color, and it features an interview between the artist and Julie Ault, essays by John Corbett and Christine Mehring, and an introduction by the Renaissance Society’s executive director, Solveig Øvstebø, and Elena Filipovic, director of Kunsthalle Basel. These texts provide illuminating framework for the exhibition and key insights into how Benning pushes the limits of abstraction in response to our present political climate.

Sadie Benning: Shared Eye

Filipovic, Elena

Corbett, John

Øvstebø, Solveig

Renaissance Society

German-French artist Wols (Wolfgang Schulze -- 1913-1915) rose to fame in the post- 1945 Euopean art scene as the founder of Informel (or 'gestural abstraction') painting. His photography has previously been presented as studies for his art. Here they are presented as seminal works on their own. The portraits, fashion photographs, still lifes are accompanied by an essay on various printings, bibliography and translation of The Photography of Wolfgang Schultz, a 1932 text by Dutch cultural critic, H. van Loon. (Harvard University Art Museums)

Harvard university Art Museums

Published on the occasion of Richter's major exhibition at the Tate, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is the first and most complete overview of one of the greatest artistic achievements of our times. Where previous monographs have focused on a single genre within the artist's vast output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half-century of activity, including photo-paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs. It therefore stands as the definitive portrait of Richter's colossal accomplishment to date. Alongside his celebrated abstractions, early black-and-white paintings and the photorealist depictions of candles, skulls and clouds that have become indisputable icons of modern painting, Panorama includes nearly 30 new paintings made over the past ten years, extensive comparative works, studio photographs, archival images and a substantial interview with the artist conducted by Nicholas Serota. This landmark publication is a fitting tribute to one of the world's most celebrated living artists. Born in Dresden, East Germany, in 1932, Gerhard Richter migrated to West Germany in 1961, settling in Düsseldorf, where he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy, and where he held his first solo exhibition in 1963. Over the course of that decade, Richter helped to liberate painting from the legacy of Socialist Realism (in Eastern Germany) and Abstract Expressionism (in Western Germany and throughout Europe). He has exhibited internationally for the last five decades, with retrospectives in New York, Paris and Düsseldorf. He lives and works in Cologne.

Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective

Borchardt-Hume, Achim

Haidu, Rachel

Brill, Dorothée

Morineau, Camille

D.A.P./Tate

This major retrospective volume on thecelebrated contemporary German artist is akaleidoscopic sampling of Thomas SchÃ¼tte sexploration of the perversity and pleasure ofmodern life. Organized around the themes of models, monuments, andmemorials key subjects in SchÃ¼tte s art this volume offers acomprehensive selection of work from the late 1970s to todayby an artist considered a key figure of his generation. SchÃ¼tte sinstallations, sculptures, prints, drawings, and watercolorsoften take contradictory forms, and his art may seem to depictalien worlds. Yet his focus is everyday life, whose basicconstituents natural, cultural, political he revises, using abroad range of materials and colors, while asking questionsabout the place of art in society. SchÃ¼tte has long engagedwith many of the traditional genres of sculpture the recliningfemale figure and the commemorative portrait bust, forexample yet the results are utterly unconventional. A deeplycontrarian spirit informs his approach, resulting in atransformation of standard and formulaic modes into singularstatements that reflect on history, politics, social space, andcollective experience. Together the works in this bookcomprise an impressive career marked by constant changeand innovation.

Thomas Schutte: Hindsight

Cook, Lynne

Curtis, Penelope

Individual Artists

Prestel Pub

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