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Author: Mark Haworth-Booth Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300123752 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 236
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“This is the most scholarly, accessible, and exciting writing on Lee Miller to date.” ---Anthony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives Lee Miller (1907--1977) was one of the most remarkable photographic artists of the 20th century. She created Surrealist-inspired photographs of haunting originality, portraits of genius, and daring war photographs. This unprecedented book brings together all of Miller’s major vintage prints for the first time, including sensational works never before published, rare and revealing drawings, selections from Miller’s writings as a war correspondent for Vogue magazine, and an extraordinary collage from 1937. Miller performed with unique success on both sides of the camera. A renowned beauty, she began her career being photographed as a fashion and fine art model by such luminaries as Arnold Genthe and Edward Steichen, stunning examples of which are included in this book. Miller moved to Paris in 1928, determined to take up photography; there she became the apprentice, collaborator, and muse of Man Ray. In the 1930s and ’40s, Miller shot remarkable portraits of such iconic figures as Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Turning her Surrealist eye to unexpected photographic subjects, she earned major commissions from American and European fashion magazines and also became a respected photo-journalist. Miller’s startling images of the Dachau concentration camp are among the most powerful records of the Holocaust. Published in conjunction with the centenary of Miller’s birth, this beautifully designed and produced book is an essential survey of this fascinating woman’s life and career.
Author: Mark Haworth-Booth Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300123752 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 236
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“This is the most scholarly, accessible, and exciting writing on Lee Miller to date.” ---Anthony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives Lee Miller (1907--1977) was one of the most remarkable photographic artists of the 20th century. She created Surrealist-inspired photographs of haunting originality, portraits of genius, and daring war photographs. This unprecedented book brings together all of Miller’s major vintage prints for the first time, including sensational works never before published, rare and revealing drawings, selections from Miller’s writings as a war correspondent for Vogue magazine, and an extraordinary collage from 1937. Miller performed with unique success on both sides of the camera. A renowned beauty, she began her career being photographed as a fashion and fine art model by such luminaries as Arnold Genthe and Edward Steichen, stunning examples of which are included in this book. Miller moved to Paris in 1928, determined to take up photography; there she became the apprentice, collaborator, and muse of Man Ray. In the 1930s and ’40s, Miller shot remarkable portraits of such iconic figures as Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Turning her Surrealist eye to unexpected photographic subjects, she earned major commissions from American and European fashion magazines and also became a respected photo-journalist. Miller’s startling images of the Dachau concentration camp are among the most powerful records of the Holocaust. Published in conjunction with the centenary of Miller’s birth, this beautifully designed and produced book is an essential survey of this fascinating woman’s life and career.
Author: Liz Rideal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 128
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"Mirror Mirror explores the history and function of the self-portrait in the work of forty women artists, from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers works in all media, from oil painting to photography, from woodcut to ceramic sculpture, and includes self-portraits from such major artists as Mary Beale, Gwen John and Dame Barbara Hepworth; as well as lesser-known figures such as the Zinkeisen sisters, Madame Yevonde and Lee Miller. There are also portraits by women artists known primarily for their work in other media - including the self-portrait relief by Susie Cooper." "The works themselves appear chronologically, and include full biographical details of the artists. They are supported by essays from two leading art historians in this academic field: Whitney Chadwick, who discusses ideas of style and technique, including the artists' exploration of their own identity, and Frances Borzello, who presents the historical background and artistic context to the illustrated works."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Roland Penrose Publisher: ISBN: Category : Artists' books Languages : en Pages :
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Photos from the British surrealist Penrose's travels, during 1938, from Greece through to Romania. This book is a facsimile of the book he made, upon his return to England, to document his trip-in part, a response to his fear that the cultures he had visited would soon disappear. Included with the photographs are texts from his travelogue, with type styles changing with each new thought.
Author: Patricia Allmer Publisher: ISBN: 9780719085475 Category : Photography, Artistic Languages : en Pages : 255
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Lee Miller: Photography, surrealism, and beyond offers a major new critical discussion of the work of one of the most significant twentieth-century photographers. Applying art-theoretical analyses and insights afforded by previously unseen material in archives and collections, Patricia Allmer undertakes revisionary readings of many of Miller's works, including Portrait of Space, Severed Breast from Radical Mastectomy and the famous series of war photographs produced for Vogue. At the same time she sheds new light on Miller's relations with surrealist groups and American avant-gardes, on her experiences in Paris, Egypt and World War II Europe and on her critically neglected post-war activities. Above all, Lee Miller: Photography, surrealism, and beyond focuses critical attention on the works themselves. As a result it will be of great interest to students and scholars of twentieth-century photography, modernism and surrealism.
Author: Pepe Karmel Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art ISBN: 9780870700378 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 288
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Published to accompany the exhibition Jackson Pollock held the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1 November 1998 to 2 February 1999.
Author: Diane Neumaier Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813534541 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 360
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Photography possesses a powerful ability to bear witness, aid remembrance, shape, and even alter recollection. In Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art, the general editor, Diane Neumaier, and twenty-three contributors offer a rigorous examination of the medium's role in late Soviet unofficial art. Focusing on the period between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, they explore artists' unusually inventive and resourceful uses of photography within a highly developed Soviet dissident culture. During this time, lack of high-quality photographic materials, complimented by tremendous creative impulses, prompted artists to explore experimental photo-processes such as camera and darkroom manipulations, photomontage, and hand-coloring. Photography also took on a provocative array of forms including photo installation, artist-made samizdat (self-published) books, photo-realist painting, and many other surprising applications of the flexible medium. Beyond Memory shows how innovative conceptual moves and approaches to form and content-echoes of Soviet society's coded communication and a Russian sense of absurdity-were common in the Soviet cultural underground. Collectively, the works in this anthology demonstrate how late-Soviet artists employed irony and invention to make positive use of difficult circumstances. In the process, the volume illuminates the multiple characters of photography itself and highlights the leading role that the medium has come to play in the international art world today. Beyond Memory stands on its own as a rigorous examination of photography's place in late Soviet unofficial art, while also serving as a supplement to the traveling exhibition of the same title.
Author: Joanna Moorhead Publisher: Virago Press ISBN: 9780349008790 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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« In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today.Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and Leonora's death in 2011, sometimes staying for months at a time and subsequently travelling around Britain and through Europe in search of the loose ends of her tale.They spent days talking and reading together, drinking tea and tequila, going for walks and to parties and eating take away pizzas or dining out in her local restaurants as Leonora told Joanna the wild and amazing truth about a life that had taken her from the suffocating existence of a debutante in London via war-torn France with her lover, Max Ernst, to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City.Leonora was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s, a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s and a woman whose reputation will survive not only as a muse but as a novelist and a great artist. This book is the extraordinary story of Leonora Carrington's life, and of the friendship between two women, related by blood but previously unknown to one another, whose encounters were to change both their lives. »-- Site de l'éditeur.
Author: Dawn Ades Publisher: Gallery of Scotland Editions ISBN: 9781906270971 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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Résumé en 4ème de couverture: "The essays, written by leading scholars such as Dawn Ades and Elizabeth Cowling, provide an insight into the way that four key collections of surrealist art were formed and the motivations behind their creation. It is not surprising that the ways in which surrealist art has been collected display many of the idiosyncratic passions of Surrealism itself. The four collections shown in this book -- those formed by Roland Penrose (1900-84), Edward James (1907-84), Gabrielle Keiller (1908-95) and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch (who have been collecting Surrealism since the 1970s) -- have different origins, trajectories, and historical contexts and come out of different creative urges. When these four collections are brought together, they create a many-faceted glimpse of the 'marvellous', which André Breton, the chief theorist of the movement, defined in his first surrealist manifesto of 1924 as follows: 'The marvellous is always beautiful, anything marvellous is beautiful, in fact only the marvellous is beautiful.'"
Author: Florian Rodari Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 186
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The discovery of the pasted paper technique was a revolution in painting as important for the twentieth century as the discovery of perspective had been in the days of the Renaissance. The astonishment which greeted the sudden appearance of the pasted paper in the field of classical figuration and the speed with which it spread between 1912, the year of its "revelation" to Braque and Picasso, and 1925, when it began to be widely accepted, is eloquent proof that the pasted paper revolution was one of the crucial phases of modernity in art. The practice of borrowing elements from reality -- manufactured items, quotations from printed illustrations, discarded scraps, and even bits of waste -- and including them, just as they are, in works of art, helped significantly to transform prevailing modes of feeling and thinking. Whether it was conceived as a weapon or as an object of fancy, the real material played a tangible role from now on in the viewer's perception of the work. It spoke simultaneously to his mind and to his sense fo touch; it brought art and life closer together. The radical nature of the pasted paper revolution, disrupting the traditional system of pictorial representation, was not at once recognized by art historians. Poets were quicker to discern its significance (first Apollinaire, then Breton, Aragon, Tzara, and Jean Paulhan). But the diversity of uses to which it was put by the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century vouches for the richness, aptness and necessity of this novel technique.
Author: Mark Haworth-Booth
Author: Mark Haworth-Booth
Author: Liz Rideal
Author: Roland Penrose
Author: Sarah Howgate
Author: Patricia Allmer
Author: Pepe Karmel
Author: Diane Neumaier
Author: Joanna Moorhead
Author: Dawn Ades
Author: Florian Rodari