Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura
Author: Anita Haldemann
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3791358901

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Featuring more than four decades of Leiko Ikemura's work in nearly every medium, this book presents an artist who fuses together Eastern and Western cultures. Luminous, large-scale paintings, fantastical, chimerical sculpture, girlish warriors, and Amazon goddesses--Leiko Ikemura's artistic output is as diverse as it is prolific. In this book that gathers together drawings, monotypes, paintings, and sculpture, Ikemura's unique talent for fusing Eastern and Western art is profoundly evident. In her work, Ikemura explores themes of hybridity, cross-culturalism, sexuality, and death. She works at the intersection of abstraction and figuration, shifting fluidly between media, and imbuing her pieces with raw energy and emotion. Ikemura's exotic landscapes emerge from tempera-like washes. Her terra-cotta and bronze sculpture is both feminine and timeless and her unique pictorial language manifests itself in landscapes and figures that summon a sense of loss. Whether she's celebrating the power of the female form or exploring a misty dreamscape, Ikemura achieves a unique synthesis of cultures, traditions, and perceptions in everything she creates.

Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura
Author: Leiko Ikemura
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Art, Japanese
ISBN: 9783863358099

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The Museum of East Asian Art Cologne juxtaposes works by Leiko Ikemura with outstanding pieces of Chinese and Japanese art from its collection.

Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura
Author: Wim Wenders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9783775745697

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"Don't make things; let them happen, instead," is one of the basic principles underlying the oeuvre of the Berlin-based, Japanese-born artist Leiko Ikemura. In her vividly gestural, vital, disturbing, and sometimes magical paintings the artist tells of the dreams, struggles, and conflicts of human life. Nature and the world of things permeate each other in her works, just as influences of Western and Eastern cultural spheres blend in her art. The unique synthesis of two cultures visible in Leiko Ikemura's work is the foundation for her international reputation as one of the most prominent Japanese artists of the present day.

A27 - Atelier Haus

A27 - Atelier Haus
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2013
Genre:
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Jil Sander

Jil Sander
Author: Matthias Wagner
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Design
ISBN: 3791357514

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Published in a book for the first time: Jil Sander, one of the most influential fashion designers of her generation! Jil Sander is known for designing well sculptured, high quality clothes in subdued colors. This comprehensive book presents her work from the late 1960s to 2014. Challenging the styles of flamboyant femininity, her collections delighted the fashion world with their purity. She proposed a modernity which did away with senseless ornaments, while dynamizing the individual. This lavishly illustrated book will showcase the ingenuity and creative power of a designer who aimed at underlining a person's personality. More than 150 illustrations present the Jil Sander vision which had a huge impact not only on fashion, but on product design, advertising campaigns, and store architecture as well.

Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura
Author: Leiko Ikemura
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1999*
Genre:
ISBN:

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Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley
Author: Connie H. Choi
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-02-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3791354302

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Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley’s bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist’s various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work—which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists—such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye—who are reworking art history and questioning its depictions of people of color. Co-published with the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the major touring retrospective, this volume surveys Wiley’s career from 2001 to the present. It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem’s streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet, and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps. Also included is a generous selection from Wiley’s ongoing World Stage project; several of his enormous Down paintings; striking male portrait busts in bronze; and examples from the artist’s new series of stained glass windows. Accompanying the illustrations are essays that introduce readers to the arc of Wiley’s career, its critical reception, and ongoing evolution.

Illuminance

Illuminance
Author: Rinko Kawauchi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography, Artistic
ISBN: 9781597111447

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In 2001, Rinko Kawauchi launched her career with the simultaneous publication of three astonishing photobooksUtatane, Hanabi, and Hanakofirmly establishing her as one of the most innovative newcomers to contemporary photography, not just in Japan, but across the globe. In the years that followed, she published other notable monographs, including Aila (2004), The Eyes, the Ears (2005), and Semear (2007). And now, ten years after her precipitous entry onto the international stage, Aperture is delighted to publish Illuminance, the latest volume of Kawauchis work and the first to be published outside of Japan. Kawauchis work has frequently been lauded for its nuanced palette and offhand compositional mastery, as well as her ability to incite wonder via careful attention to tiny gestures and the incidental details of her everyday environment. In Illuminance, Kawauchi continues her exploration of the extraordinary in the mundane, drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly inadvertent, fractal-like organization of the natural world into formal patterns. This impressive compilation of previously unpublished images is proof of Kawauchis unparalleled, unique sensibility and her on-going appeal to the lovers of photography.

Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman
Author: Ingrid Schaffner
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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This volume presents a survey of the works of American illustrator Maira Kalman (b. 1949). Kalman's works illuminate contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and unique sense of humor. This book was published to accompany the traveling of her paintings, drawings, embroideries, sketchbooks and photographs. Kalman also offers commentary on her life as an artist, collector, observer, traveler, and maker of lists.

Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1983
Genre:
ISBN:

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