Pierre Restany

Klaus Ottmann

Fire at the Heart of the Void (Art & Knowledge)

Yves Klein

Baldaccini César

César Baldaccini

César

Niki de Saint Phalle: My Art - My Dreams

The paintings and architecture by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser are nothing less than revolutionary with respect to nature and individual creativity. His work is not about silent conformity, but about life itself: each individual, in society and in the environment. With their strong, colorful formal vocabulary, Hundertwasser?s works allow nature its space. Even beyond his artwork, though, the Austrian environmentalist fought for new ideas and ideals. In many conversations, lectures, letters, and manifestos, he formulated his notions?from recycling, the greening of roofs and façades, and the democratization of living space?in order to lend them weight. What seemed like a utopia to his contemporaries is now urgently virulent and surprisingly current. Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Hundertwasser?s death, this attractive book compiles his statements, excerpts from his manifestos, his paintings, examples of his utopian architecture, and his ideas for the future.

Hundertwasser for Future

Mimmo Rotella

dal decollage alla nuova immagine

Rotella

Jef Banc ou la lutte avec l'ange

The Painter-king with the Five Skins : the Power of Art

Hundertwasser

Ian McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a 'secret mission' which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one. The Sweet Tooth audiobook is beautifully narrated by Juliet Stevenson.

The Painter-king with the 5 Skins

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Life and work of the Austrian architect and artist.

The Painter-king with the 5 Skins : the Power of Art

Renzo Piano

Susumu Shingu

Joseph Giovannini

Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to make it move or make sound, and he began using more sophisticated materials for outdoor works. By the time of Expo '70 in Osaka, Shingu had been commissioned to create a piece for the plaza. It contained many of the elements he would use later: parts of it were moved by both wind and water, in some ways harnessing their power but also buffeted by it. His work walks the fine line between complementing nature and being an integral part of it. The pieces, though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt nature's rhythms in their movement. Shingu's sculpture is found around the world, from Japan to France, Italy, and the United States. In addition to creating sculptures, he has written and illustrated several children's books and designed several theater pieces that integrate his sculptures and installations with dramatic stories. All of these endeavors are collected here — along with the artist's comments on many of the sculptures, essays by Pierre Restany and Renzo Piano, and an interview with Joseph Giovannini — in a monograph that provides a complete portrait of Shingu's diverse career.

Message from Nature

Shingu

Jan Cremer

Freddy de Vree

Painter-writer Jan Cremer (Enschede, the Netherlands, 1940) has specialized in graphic art, as well as in painting and sculpture, ever since he started his training at various art institutions. His graphic oeuvre consists of over 250 works which are comprehensively summarized in this book. His work has been shown in more than 200 exhibitions at art galleries and museums since 1958 and is found in all important graphic arts collections in Europe and the United States.

grafiek, 1956-1998

Cremer

Pierre Restany

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