Author: Deborah WyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Antoni Tàpies in Print
Author: Deborah WyeAntoni Tàpies: Political Biography
Author: Antoni TàpiesPublisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783960984191
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An extensive survey of Antoni Tàpies' work, revisiting the period the Catalan artist lived under Franco's dictatorship, between 1946 and 1977. In works that occupy a unique midground between painting and sculpture, Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) fused the material vocabulary of Arte Povera and the gestural energy of Abstract Expressionism with the mystical sensibility of Iberian Catholicism. Tàpies showed a preference for an austere palate and unconventional materials reflecting the limited resources of his political environment. He spent three decades of his long productive career in Barcelona, where he lived and died, under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. In that time, Tàpies confronted many of the paradoxes a creative artist faces under an authoritarian and anti-intellectual regime. In painting, sculpture, writing and other mediums, his work existed in conversation with the currents of contemporary art in the West while within the strictures of an oppressive state. Antoni Tàpies: Political Biography illuminates the artist's responses to the conditions of his native Catalonia, reproducing documents such as letters, manifestoes and samples of the media reception Tàpies generated over the years alongside reproductions of works from across his career. Texts by artists, curators and critics discussing Tàpies and the context of his oeuvre, plus a comparative chronology, are also included.
Antoni Tàpies
Author: Antoni TàpiesWritings/Interviews
Author: Richard SerraPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226748804
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether urban, natural, or architectural, and about the nature of art itself, whether political, decorative, or personal. In interviews with writers including Douglas and Davis Sylvester, he discusses specific installations and offers insights into his approach to the problem each presents. Interviews by Peter Eisenman and Alan Colquhoun elicit Serra's thoughts on the relation of architecture to contemporary sculpture, a primary component in his own work. From essays like "Extended Notes from Sight Point Road" to Serra's extended commentary on the Tilted Arc fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical, and political problems of art.
Antoni Tàpies
Author: Antoni TàpiesPublisher: Buffalo : Albright-Knox Art Gallery
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Tàpies
Author: Antoni TàpiesTàpies
Author: Victoria Combalía DexeusPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Conversations with Antoni Tàpies
Author: Barbara CatoirPublisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791311494
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The author has condensed hundreds of hours of her conversations with Spain's leading contemporary artist, and neatly assembled them in thematic chapters.
Antoni Tàpies
Author: Youssef IshaghpourPublisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Footmarks and handprints, sand, wood, earth, rope, words and letters: Tapies, repertoire is infinite. Miro encouraged him to use forms and materials of every kind, all the more so in an environment devoid of meaning-Spain in the post-war years-in which official reality bore no relation to the situation as it really was. Imperceptibly, true reality asserted its pre-eminence and the expressiveness of increasingly organic materials, endowing his painting with greater materiality than signification. 130 illustrations
Author: Antoni Tàpies