Author: Curtis L. CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Images of Death in Contemporary Art
Author: Curtis L. CarterImages of Death in Contemporary Art
Author: Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Images of Death in Contemporary Art
Author: Curtis L. CarterImages of Death in Contemporary Art
Author: The Life and Death of Images
Author: Diarmuid CostelloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty in reaction to its perceived suppression by ethical and political imperatives. Beauty, however, is just one aspect of the aesthetic. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the ways in which aesthetics and ethics are intertwined. In The Life and Death of Images some of the world's leading cultural thinkers engage in dialogue with one another concerning this [beta]new[gamma] aesthetics. In provocative and accessible fashion, they demonstrate its relevance to a range of disciplines including analytic and continental philosophy, art history, theory and practice, cultural history and visual culture, rhetoric and comparative literature.
Images of death in Mexican prints
Author: Mercurio López CasillasPublisher: Editorial Rm
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Over the past two centuries, Mexican culture has kept up a unique dialogue with the fact of death, rather than defying it as most contemporary cultures are wont to do. Today, Mexico even boasts a Museum of Death (in Aguascalientes), filled with Pre-Columbian sculpture and pottery, reproductions of ancient Indian codices depicting human sacrifices, colonial-era artworks, skeletons, artisanþs toys and works by the countless Modern artists who have treated the theme. It is, of course, in Mexicoþs arts that the blend of respect and irreverence for death and the afterlife is made most clear. This is a survey of the subject from pre-Hispanic times to the comic pages of contemporary Mexican newspapers. The book examines the long tradition of representing death and skeleton figures that leads up to Posada, and traces the influence of this great popular engraver in the work of many other twentieth-century artists, including those of the Taller de Gráfica Popular workshop, like Leopoldo Méndez. Readers of this richly illustrated book will also be fascinated by early colonial examples of calaveras, or skeleton caricatures. Images of Death is a colorful and lively deterrent against our habitual inclination to take the Grim Reaper too seriously. For enthusiasts of Mexican folk art, underground comics, tattoo art, the occult and more.
Magritte and Contemporary Art
Author: René MagrittePublisher: Ludion
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Essays by Michel Draguet, Dickram Tashjian, Sara Cochran, Theresa Papanikolas, Thierry de Duve and Stephanie Barron. Introduction by Stephanie Barron.
Memento Mori in Contemporary Art
Author: Taylor WorleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429671059
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the abilities of theological speech to adequately address current attitudes to death. When set within a broader theological context around the thought of death, Bacon’s works invite fresh readings of the New Testament’s narration of the betrayal of Christ, and Beuys’ works can be appreciated for the ways they evoke Resurrection to envision possible futures for Germany in the aftermath of war. Gober’s immaculate sculptures and installations serve to create alternative religious environments, and these places are both evocative of his Roman Catholic upbringing and virtually haunted by the ghosts of his excommunication from that past. Lastly and perhaps most problematically, Hirst has built his brand as an artist from making jokes about death. By opening fresh arenas of dialogue and meaning-making in our society and culture today, the rich humanity of these artworks promises both renewed depths of meaning regarding our exit from this world as well as how we might live well within it for the time that we have. As such, it will be a vital resource for all scholars in Theology, the Visual Arts, Material Religion and Religious Studies.
Vanitas
Author: John B. RavenalPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
With references to the Bible and 17th-century Dutch still-life painting, Vanitas links the works of fourteen contemporary artists to the age-old theme of life's transience. At the same time, it presents these artists in their 20th-century context while exploring the related themes of beauty and death, pleasure and fear, love and loss. The book focuses on contemporary sculpture and installation art using non-traditional forms, materials, and processes. The artists included--from Warsaw, Paris, New York, London, Sao Paulo--are Miroslaw Balka, Chris Boltanski, Willie Cole, Leonardo Drew, Tony Feher, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez, Mona Hatoum, Jim Hodges, Anish Kapoor, Jac Lairner, Zoe Leonard, Gabriel Orozco, Rachel Whiteread, and Yukinori Yanagi.
Author: Natalie Elise Ryan