By Roger Horrocks
By Roger Horrocks
By Oliviero Toscani
Oliviero Toscani è a tal punto identificato con alcune sue fotografie – quelle che lo hanno reso famoso nel mondo – che si ha ormai il diritto di dire, di una foto con determinate caratteristiche: «Questa è una fotografia alla Toscani». Esattamente come si cube di alcuni artisti, in step with esempio di Andy Warhol – according to citarne uno che Toscani ha incontrato – con le sue immagini pop o di Henri Cartier-Bresson con i suoi “istanti involontari”, anche in questo caso l’uomo è immediatamente riconducibile a una precisa grammatica narrativa. Creativo e sovversivo, allergico alle regole, grande trampoliere della provocazione – «un’opera d’arte che non provoca reazione non è story» – ha misurato il mondo palmo a palmo, facce e storie, paesaggi e sensazioni, con l. a. sua Leica, indolentemente appesa all’estremità del braccio destro, e non si è mai soffermato nel calcolo delle convenienze o delle cose “giuste” da fare. E quando un’immagine cube molto più di mille parole allora si è nell’arte. Perché questo è Oliviero Toscani, un artista irriverente e rivoluzionario che ha fatto della sua vita, e della sua professione, una vicenda a tinte forti. In questa conversazione intensa Toscani si confessa, dall’infanzia al successo planetario, raccontando il mondo according to quello che è. Amato e odiato, temuto e riverito, Toscani non è mai stato un uomo “politicamente corretto”. Un esempio? «Un modo consistent with a ways tornare los angeles nostra società sana e democratica? Distruggere l. a. televisione!» Come dire: chi lo ama lo segua.
dalla Prefazione di Luca Sommi
By Edward S. Cooper
She used to be capable, via smart maneuvering and dogged decision, to accomplish a fee from the Congress for a life-sized statue of the assassinated president—this regardless of the very actual animus opposed to ladies artists at the moment, that is obvious within the heated arguments opposed to granting her the Lincoln commission—arguments spearheaded within the Senate by way of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.
Steeped within the historical past of her time, Vinnie Ream used to be concerned with dozens of senators and congressmen and different strong men—not least of all Generals Sherman and Custer—and her studio on Capitol Hill grew to become a mythical preventing position for plenty of admirers and travelers. Her statue of Lincoln stands within the rotunda of the capitol development; her statue of Admiral Farragut stands in a Washington, D.C. park; different works are in Statuary corridor and numerous museums. this can be an attractive biography of a lively lady artist, and an efficient portrait of Washington, D.C. within the Civil battle era.
By Lynn Donohue,Pamela Hunt
By Nancy Princenthal
Over the process a occupation that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene paintings expected and helped to outline Minimalism, at the same time she battled mental crises and carved out a solitary life within the American Southwest. 'I paint with my again to the world', she claimed; whilst she died at ninety-two, in Taos, New Mexico, it's stated she had no longer learn a newspaper in part a century.
Nancy Princenthal tells her complete tale chronologically from Martin's start in Saskatchewan and her early years as an artist, dwelling in derelict new york transport lofts as neighbour to Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and others in their ilk; to the seven years she stopped portray, simply as her occupation was once setting out; the months she spent roaming the rustic in a pick-up truck; and her final thirty years, in Taos, in an adobe condo she equipped along with her personal palms. Nancy Princenthal has written the fundamental Agnes Martin biography; a must-read for someone attracted to summary portray or the historical past of girls artists in America.
By Annette Rawlings
By Tom Kupsh
In addition to hundreds of thousands of whimsical welded sculptures, Tom each poured so much of his attempt into the Forevertron, the world’s biggest sculpture equipped through a unmarried individual, and within the technique, he found his regulate ego: Dr. Evermor. With the whole participation of Tom and Eleanor Every, Every’s remarkable existence is keenly documented, together with by no means released kin images, sketches, and private stories, generating a close portrait of a special self-taught artist. From a really early age, each accumulated, changed, and resold cast-off business fabric. His paintings as a salvager led him to Alex Jordan Jr., writer of the home at the Rock. while the time is true (and basically Dr. Evermor will recognize while) the well-known, enigmatic scientist will climb the winding staircase of the Forevertron and input its egg-shaped commute chamber, strength up the dynamos and turn at the thrusters, and fly away on a highball to heaven,” propelled by means of an electromagnetic lighting fixtures strength beam. Or so the tale is going. somebody who has hung out on the complex visionary atmosphere created through Tom each has heard a few edition of the Evermor delusion. Lesser identified is the tale at the back of the tale, the interesting background of this exclusive artistic spirit.
By Rute Silva Correia
By Sally Eckhoff
By Sérgio Cabral