Josef Helfenstein - Böcker

Visualizing Hidden Structures in Art and Society In her artistic practice, Andrea Buttner combines art history with social and ethical issues. Since the early 2000s, she has been exploring a wide range of themes such as work, poverty, shame and ca...

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This is the first major exploration of the works of American abstract painter and watercolorist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941), critically acclaimed for her sensitive arrangement of color, form, and texture, and for the philosophical resonance of her art....

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American artist Walter De Maria is associated with Minimal, conceptual, installation, and land art. He is best known for The Lightning Field, 1977, a long-term installation in western New Mexico made up of four hundred pointed stainless steel pole...

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This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompa...

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Eine Gruppe von Knstlern um Henri Matisse und Andr Derain fhrte zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts revolutionre Farbexperimente durch. Der Kunstkritiker Louis Vauxcelles gab ihnen 1905 ihren Namen: Fauves". Ins Deutsche bersetzt bedeutet es so vi...

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At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of artists around Henri Matisse and Andr Derain were carrying out revolutionary colour experiments. The art critic Louis Vauxcelles gave them their name in 1905: the "Fauves". Translated into...

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Der vorliegende Tagungsband enthalt die Referate der siebten Basler Kunstrechtstagung vom 17. Juni 2016. Der erste Teil der Tagung stellte die Thematik der Entwicklung in der Kunst resp. den Umgang mit kunstlerischen Vorbildern ins Zentrum der Dis...

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an Flavin began work with fluorescent light tubes from the early 1960s on; arranged in so-called 'situations', he would then further develop them into series and large-scale installations. The colours and dimensions of the materials he used were p...

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A time of new beginnings In 1969, Franz Gertsch painted Huaa...!which shows a wildly galloping man on horsebackafter a film still from a magazine. Photographs have formed the basis for his work ever since, which he almost always takes himself. The...

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Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the most fascinating in art history. This publication brings Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) encounter with the Cretan-born old master Domni...

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The Cubist Cosmos traces the development of Cubism between 1907 and 1917. The publication reveals the boundless innovative power of the works of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It also shows how the Cubist pictorial language was received and adv...

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As one of the founding figures of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro exerted considerable influence over the movement's other members, such as Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt. This publication focuses on Pissar...

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Revisiting the controversy surrounding the Kunstmuseum Basel's 1982 acquisition of the author's "Asian Sign" painting, this book presents six paintings made between 1980 and 2005, plus works on paper and ceramics from the artist's collec...

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