During the course of the past thirty years, video art has blossomed well beyond the expectations of its early practioners and theorists. Born as a critique of television and a medium at odds with traditional pictorial forms, at its inception video was filled with an utopian promise that lead artists to belive in a true democratization of art. Today it has reached a pinnacle of technical sophistication and aesthetic importance that was only dreamed of in the 1960s when the accessibility of the Portapak camera seemed to allow limitless creative possibilities. Tony Oursler stands as a major figure within the evolution of the medium, poised at the crucial turning point when the television monitor could no longer contain video's still developing potential. With a keen understanding of its technical intricacies, as well as its limitations as a time-based form, Oursler began to paint in moving images a broad picture of how visual technologies influence -even modify- our social and psychological selves. 

 

Tony Oursler

Elizabeth Janus, Gloria Moure

360pp./ 21.5x26cm./ 280il./ Clothbound

ISBN:
9788434309197
9788434309203
Castellano
English

53.00€
 

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Starting from the profane material of everyday culture, Polke interprets images of reality rather than reality itself, satirizes tendencies in contemporary painting, questions the role of the artist as author, breaks down the trivial visual worlds of media photography, and always, but always, takes off on the most magnificient flights of imagination. This publication is the most complete monograph on the artist to date, and includes a number of works never before published.
Sigmar Polke was born is East Germany in 1941 and studied at the State Academy of Art in Dusseldorf. He first achieved recognition in 1963 when he began working in a witty and irreverent style he termed Capitalist Realism- often considered a more complex and political cousin to Anglo-American Pop Art.
He has continued to create innovative and aesthetically impressive works through the present day. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at such major institutions as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Walker Arts Center; and, in 1999, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has been the recipient of the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, the Erasmus award, and the Carnegie award. He lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

 

Sigmar Polke

Gloria Moure

328pp./ 21.5x26cm./ 180il./ Hardcover

ISBN:
9788434309883
9788434309890
9788434311305
Castellano
English
Deutsch

60.00€
 

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Juliao Sarmento

Louise Neri

264pp./ 21.5x26cm./ 192il./ Hardcover

ISBN:
9788434309906
9788434309913
Castellano
English

53.00€
 

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