So Much Longing in So Little Space

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473555469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch’s painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist, experiencing the world through art and its influence on his own writing. As co-curator of a major new exhibition of Munch's work in Oslo, Knausgaard visits the landscapes that inspired him, and speaks with contemporary artists, including Vanessa Baird and Anselm Kiefer. Bringing together art history, biography and memoir, and drawing on ideas of truth, originality and memory, So Much Longing in So Little Space is a brilliant and personal examination of the legacy of one of the world’s most iconic painters, and a meditation on art itself.

Thought Economics

Author: Vikas Shah
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789292670
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Including conversations with world leaders, Nobel prizewinners, business leaders, artists and Olympians, Vikas Shah quizzes the minds that matter on the big questions that concern us all.

Tate Modern Artists

Author: Neal Brown
Publisher: Tate
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
Tracey Emin first came to public attention in the early 1990s and has gone on to achieve a level of visibility unparalleled for an artist in recent times. Her use of intensely personal, everyday materials gives her work an intimate quality, combining avant-garde ideas with traditions of craft. Employing a variety of media that have included installation, film and video, prints and drawings, neon, fabric and artists' books, Emin has built up a formidable body of work whilst maintaining a distinctive artistic vision that is all her own.

The Dialectics of Art

Author: John Molyneux
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642592137
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
To the question of &lquo;what is art?&rquo;, it is often simply responded that art is whatever is produced by the artist. For John Molyneux, this clearly circular answer is deeply unsatisfying. In a tour de force spanning renaissance Italy and the Dutch Republic to contemporary leading figures, The Dialectics of Art instead approaches its subject matter as a distinct field of creative human labour that emerges alongside and in opposition to the alienation and commodification brought about by capitalism. The pieces and individuals Molyneux examines — from Michelangelo’s Slaves to Rembrandts Jewish Bride to the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock – are presented as embodying the social contradictions of their times, giving art an inherently political relevance. In its relationship of creative and dialectical tension to prevailing social relationships and norms, such art points beyond the existing order of things, hinting at a potential future society not based on alienated labour in which creative production becomes the property and practice of all.

Tracey Emin - a Fortnight of Tears

Author: Tracey Emin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910844359
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description

Strangeland

Author: Tracey Emin
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 1444719874
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this. 'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind. 'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' Marie Claire

Tracey Emin

Author: Tracey Emin
Publisher: Hayward Pub
ISBN: 9781853322938
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Tracey Emin is one of Great Britain's best-known and most controversial artists. This catalogue accompanies the first major survey exhibition of Tracey Emin's work at the Hayward Gallery in London since her rise to prominence in the 1990s. Bringing together suites of works from across the artist's career emphasising the diversity of her dynamic practice, the exhibition spotlights her achievements in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, painting, text-based works, photographs, video and performance. The book is conceived and produced in close collaboration with the artist and designed by Graphic Thought Facility, London. The exhibition shows at Hayward Gallery, London, 18 May - 29 August 2011

Munch Revisited

Author: Rosemarie E. Pahlke
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
In her penetrating new study, Na’ama Rokem observes that prose writing—more than poetry, drama, or other genres—came to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practice—that is, a practice that creates meaning. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prose emerges in competition with other existing practices, specifically, the practice of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, Rokem examines the ways in which Zionist authors put prose to use, both as a concept and as a literary mode. Writing prose enables these authors to grapple with historical, political, and spatial transformations and to understand the interrelatedness of all of these changes.

Tracey Emin

Author: Jonathan Jones
Publisher: Art File
ISBN: 9781786277084
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working today. From some of her previously unpublished early works from the 1980s, through the period of the "Young British Artists" when she first found international fame, and up to her very latest works - many also published here for the first time - The Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones brings together Tracey Emin's complete career into one concise and essential volume.

One Thousand Drawings

Author: Tracey Emin
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 2114

Book Description
Edited by the artist herself from an archive of work stretching back to the beginning of her career, this is at once a collection of Tracey Emin's works on paper, an exposae of her life as an artist, and a collectible artifact in its own right.