SITE: Architecture as Art: Essays by Pierre Restany and Bruno Zevi

Arts & Photography

Restany, Pierre

Bruno Zevi & SITE

Architecture

St.Martin's Press

Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to make it move or make sound, and he began using more sophisticated materials for outdoor works. By the time of Expo '70 in Osaka, Shingu had been commissioned to create a piece for the plaza. It contained many of the elements he would use later: parts of it were moved by both wind and water, in some ways harnessing their power but also buffeted by it. His work walks the fine line between complementing nature and being an integral part of it. The pieces, though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt nature's rhythms in their movement.Shingu's sculpture is found around the world, from Japan to France, Italy, and the United States. In addition to creating sculptures, he has written and illustrated several children's books and designed several theater pieces that integrate his sculptures and installations with dramatic stories. All of these endeavors are collected here — along with the artist's comments on many of the sculptures, essays by Pierre Restany and Renzo Piano, and an interview with Joseph Giovannini — in a monograph that provides a complete portrait of Shingu's diverse career.

Shingu: Message from Nature

Giovannini, Joseph

Piano. Renzo

Shingu, Susumu

Individual Artists

Abbeville Press

A study of the work of Latin American artist Fernando Botero features his characteristic paintings of rotund figures, and critical analysis of his artistic evolution, style, and technique

Botero (English and French Edition)

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Text: English, French (translation)

Yves Klein

H.N. Abrams

Restany's groundbreaking, exegetic study show show the myth of fire was the culmination of the artist's quest for the immaterial. The visionary French conceptual artist and "painter of the Void" Yves Klein (1928–1962) was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual.

Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void (Art & Knowledge)

History & Criticism

Spring Publications

Arman, 1955-1991: A Retrospective

Arman

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Arman 1955-1991: A Retrospective, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Greene, Alison De Lima

271 pages, illustrated throughout. This Catalogue Raisonne of G.H. Rothe's mezzotints has been divided into the following categories: Dance, Horses, Still Life, Landscapes, Figurative. The images within each section have been listed in chronological order, according to published dates.

G.H. Rothe : Master of the Mezzotint

Hammer Publ.

Translated by Andrea Loselle. With an introduction by Klaus Ottmann. RESTANY's groundbreaking, exegetic study show show the myth of fire was the culmination of the artist's quest for the immaterial. The visionary French conceptual artist and "painter of the Void" Yves Klein (1928-1962) was an artist with a keen philosophical mind, yet deeply spiritual.

Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void (Journal of Contemporary Art Editions, 1)

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Friedrich Stowasser (1928, Vienna - 2000, New Zealand), better known by the name of Friedrich Hundertwasser, was a painter, thinker, and architect, or rather an “architecture doctor,” as he declared in his manifesto of January 24, 1990. With his tremendous love of nature, he is one of the pioneers of humanist and environmentalist architecture, which attempted to reconcile creativity and ecology. His creations are organic and full of imagination. Yet, Hundertwasser was more radical in his philosophy. As expressed in his remarkable eco-artistic manifestos, and works of art (paintings, posters, stamps and flags), his message remains profoundly and viscerally ecological. His pictorial work, characterised by an organic abundance of forms and by the brilliance of its colours remains unique and full of hope. Reuniting for the first time the analysis of Hundertwasser’s work by Pierre Restany with numerous texts written by Hundertwasser himself, this books offers a global vision of the work and art of this prolific artist.

Hundertwasser (Temporis)

Hundertwasser, Friedensreich

Parkstone Press

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