Eran Shakine

Author: Jürgen B. Tesch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783777427133
Category : Painting
Languages : de
Pages : 0

Book Description
The drawings of Israeli artist Eran Shakine may look carefree and casual, but their message is serious: Muslims, Christians, and Jews share a history. They are linked through Abraham's sons Ishmael, an ancestor of the Muslims, and Isaac, an ancestor of the Jews, as well as through Jesus, born a Jew. As Shakine demonstrates in this new collection of his work, Muslims, Christians, and Jews have a great deal in common. Eran Shakine: Knocking on Heaven's Door presents new large-format oilstick drawings depicting Muslims, Christians, and Jews as an indistinguishable trio involved in actions that are both profound and humorous. In doing so, he reveals both the diversity and the similarity of the three and offers his own highly individual view of these world religions. Shakine's work argues that though they may have many differences, they share one thought: when they knock at heaven's door, they all hope to find the love of God. The result is a moving, sometimes witty, and always powerful collection of drawings that speak to many conflicts in the world today.

Eran Shakine

Author: Eran Shakine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783777430690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Israeli artist Eran Shakine is known for his cryptic, minimal drawings, especially the myriad permutations of his primary motif the Graffiti Girl, which he has painted, drawn, sprayed, and shaped for over a decade now. This publication explores for the first time all the facets of the Graffiti Girl and examines the artist?s unique relationship with this defining motif in his career.0Whether Eran Shakine found the Graffiti Girl or she found him is difficult to say. While listening to records, Shakine used to doodle on old magazines, and soon found that his scribbles began to assume the outline of a faceless girl. She followed him out onto the street as urban art and soon appeared in galleries in painted and sculptural form as well, often depicted in small moments of happiness?from walking the dog or riding a skateboard to experiencing her first kiss. An undefined, reduced form who is ceaselessly changing shape, the Graffiti Girl transcends class, cultural, and religious borders, and offers viewers an icon in defiance of today?s troubled cultural moment.

Abe Frajndlich

Author: Jürgen B. Tesch
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 9783777434681
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The American photographer Abe Frajndlich has close connections with New York. He describes the city as his muse and repeatedly records it and its people in haunting photographs. This volume shows selected, highly personal images which are very different from the ubiquitous postcards and poster views.0Abe Frajndlich (*1946, Frankfurt am Main) is known internationally for his portraits of famous people such as Jack Lemmon and Stephen Hawking. Since moving to New York in 1984 the city itself has been one of his principal subjects. He is fascinated by its radiance and watches spellbound how it changes and reinvents itself on a daily basis. The result is a multi-faceted picture: the black-and-white photographs are sometimes perceptive, sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes witty or quirky? but they are always a declaration of love to New York.

Yael Bartana

Author: Shelley Harten
Publisher: DCV
ISBN: 9783969120361
Category : Installations (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
She Is Hope. She Is the Leader. She Is the Messiah. She Is History. She Is Fake. The video artist Yael Bartana (b. Kfar Yehezkel, Israel, 1970; lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin) makes work that explores the visual language of identity and the politics of commemoration. The critical scrutiny of collective expectations of political or religious salvation is a central concern in her art. In the video installation Malka Germania--Hebrew for "Queen Germany"--Bartana creates alternative realities from the German-Jewish past and present that bring scenes of the collective unconscious to light. The publication follows the epiphany of Malka Germania, a female redeemer figure, in five chapters whose layout is modeled on that of the Talmud, the central text in Rabbinical Judaism. This organization reflects the polyphonic complexity, rich nuance, and ambivalence that the work casts into visuals and underscores that there is no simple answer. The book includes an interview with the artist and contributions by Sami Berdugo, Christina von Braun, Michael Brenner, Max Czollek, and others. It is published on occasion of the exhibition Yael Bartana--Redemption Now at the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Heinrich Knopf

Author: Jürgen Tesch
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 9783777434667
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The artist Heinrich Knopf (*1949) lives in Munich and at Lake Garda. Even in his youth he focused in the transformation of iron, one of the oldest materials used in art. His sculptures radiate lightness and movement and invite the viewer to a playful relationship with ever-changing angles. Heinrich Knopf gives the heaviness we initially associate with iron as a material an almost flowing dynamism. The forms of his works are abstracted and derived from the constant movement of water, which remains a source of fascination for him. Filigree and flooded with light -apparently hovering - his works evoke perspectives which perplex. In large-format illustrations and detail shots the publication provides an overview of his creative work and allows the viewer to study the works and their forms at leisure.

Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture

Author: Birgit Bergmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642224644
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking countries during the period between the legal and political emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century and their persecution in Nazi Germany. It highlights the important role Jewish mathematicians played in all areas of mathematical culture during the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic, and recalls their emigration, flight or death after 1933.

Mischa Kuball

Author: Gregor H. Lersch
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 3956794966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Reflections on Mischa Kuball's site-specific light and sound installation, res·o·nant, at the Jewish Museum Berlin. In this book, writers and artists consider conceptual artist Mischa Kuball's site-specific light and sound installation, res·o·nant, on view at the Jewish Museum Berlin from November 2017 to August 2019. The contributors echo, shed light on, and reflect on Kuball's creation of a resonant space in and outside the museum space. Contributors Christoph Asendorf, Juan Atkins, Horst Bredekamp, Diedrich Diederichsen, Kathrin Dreckmann, Shelley Harten, Norman Kleeblatt, Alexander Kluge, Daniel Libeskind, Gregor H. Lersch, Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, W.J. T. Mitchell, Hans Ulrich Reck, Richard Sennett, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner, John C. Welchman, Alena Williams

Obedience

Author: Peter Greenaway
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
ISBN: 9783735601315
Category : Art, German
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The story of the Patriarch Abraham, who is prepared to sacrifice his son on God's command, is one of the Bible's most controversial episodes and is interpreted differently by Judaism, Christianity and Islam.The iconic and controversial British filmmaker Peter Greenaway and the multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke, approach this theme artistically by combining painting, sculpture and ritual object with film, sound installation and projection in an exhibition for the Jewish Museum Berlin.This colourful artist's book, with an accompanying volume of texts, supplements and illustrates the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael told in the exhibition.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Obedience: An Installation in 15 Rooms by Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway at the Jewish Museum, Berlin, 22 May - 13 September 2015.

Deadly Medicine

Author: Susan D. Bachrach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
A catalog to accompany an exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the subject of the Nazi eugenics program.

The Bad Ballads

Author: W. S Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752405457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558

Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Bad Ballads by W.S Gilbert