Jenny Saville
Author: Jenny Saville
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2 October - 18 December 1999.
Lanterna Rally
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Jenny Saville
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Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780847827572
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Featuring commentary by historian and art critic Simon Schama, this monograph features Jenny Saville's entire artistic output to date.
Closed Contact
Author: Jenny Saville
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After having observed the operations of reconstructive surgery and aesthetic surgery, acclaimed figurative painter Jenny Saville was eager to express the violence and anesthetized pain of this experience in her own work. She and fashion photographer Glenn Luchford thus began an artistic collaboration that captures the full range of color, tonality, and topography of live flesh, in large photographic tableaux that portray Saville's own body. Distortions confront and coerce the viewer into an examination of his or her own body and the grotesqueries and beauties inherent within; the images likewise recall biological specimens preserved, disembodied, and disfigured. The collusion of the art and fashion worlds has produced many hybrids in recent years, yet none perhaps none as intensely striking as this series.
Rembrandt's Universe
Author: Gary Schwartz
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Published: 2014-10-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500093863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Rembrandt's Venice' covers Rembrandt's art and life - his work as an artist, his family, friends and patrons, and his place in European culture. It is intended for art lovers, art students and museum-goers.
Willem de Kooning
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Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0847843912
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This catalogue of an exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York, highlights the critical three-year period, 1983–1985, in the last decade of de Kooning’s long career, during which he radically transformed his style. The paintings in this catalogue were selected by John Elderfield, curator of the widely acclaimed, full-scale retrospective of de Kooning’s work held at MoMA in 2011–12. Of the works of this period, Elderfield observed: "De Kooning truly reinvented himself in these extraordinary canvases.…They remain not only spatially complex, but also extremely physical pictures, both visually open and densely embodied." Elderfield’s essay discusses ten themes in de Kooning’s work specific to these paintings. The book also includes texts by five painters reflecting on de Kooning’s late works.
Egon Schiele - Jenny Saville
Author: Oskar Bätschmann
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783775738514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This catalogue brings together the work of seminal Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) and young British artist Jenny Saville for the first time. Revealed is the stylistic and thematic proximity of the body-landscapes and portraits by the two young "stars". The paint ings and drawings of both artists lend the human body an insistent corporeality, which is rendered in every detail. In Schiele's self-portraits, usually small-format works, the pose, the accentuated view from below, and gestural style give the images a visual impact equal to the forceful punch of Saville's giant formats.
Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now
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Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0847869075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A legendary painting by Rembrandt forms the centerpiece of this exploration of self-portraits by leading artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Published to commemorate an exhibition presented by Gagosian in partnership with English Heritage, this stunning volume centers on Rembrandt's masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665), from the collection of Kenwood House in London. The painting is considered to be Rembrandt's greatest late self-portrait and is accompanied here by examples of the genre from leading artists of the past one hundred years. These include works by Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, and Pablo Picasso, as well as contemporary artists such as Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Rudolf Stingel, among others. Also featured is a new work by Jenny Saville, created in response to Rembrandt's masterpiece. Full-color plates of the works, generous details, and installation views of the exhibition accompany an expansive essay by art historian David Freedberg that provides a close look at the self-portraits created by Rembrandt throughout his life and considers the role of the Dutch master as the precursor of all modern painting.
The Rembrandt Book
Author: Gary Schwartz
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Published: 2006-11-08
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rembrandt was an esteemed artist in his own time as well as in the present.
Gregory Crewdson: Alone Street
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Publisher: Aperture
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781597115131
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist's obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson's unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, "all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson's scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots." In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.
Paint Made Flesh
Author: Mark Scala
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Paint Made Flesh examines the ways in which European and American painters have used oil paint and the human body to convey enduring human vulnerabilities, among them anxieties about desire, appearance, illness, aging, war, and death. In the tradition of great figure painting stretching back to Rembrandt and Titian, the 34 artists in the exhibition, working in the years since World War II, exploit oil paint's visual and tactile properties to mirror those of the body, while exploring the body's capacity to reflect the soul.Drawn from private and public collections and arranged by chronology and nationality, the 43 paintings in the exhibition reflect a wide range of styles. Strong colors and vigorous brushwork associated with German expressionism give crude life to figures by artists ranging from the San Francisco Bay area painters to a younger generation, including Markus Lüpertz and Susan Rothenberg. Candid depictions of flesh by British painters Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud suggest psychological pain at the margins of society, while paint as skin betrays the inner feelings of Jenny Saville's swollen females.
