Diane Waldman Knihy

In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art - that movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art. This apotheosis of banal, everyday objects simultaneously constituted a criticism of the traditional elitist understanding of art. Almost alone among artists, Lichtenstein pursued the question of how an image becomes a work of art. Wholly in keeping with the spirit of the Classical Modern, he held that it was not the rank of the picture's subject that lends the picture its artistic character, but rather the artist's formal treatment of it. To Lichtenstein, however, this position seemed far too broad to be seriously pursued. Developed in the early 60s, Lichtenstein's grid technique, with its allusion to the mass-production of graphic art, allowed the painter to give vent to his own artistic scepticism. In the 60s and 70s, Lichtenstein expanded his formal repertoire of techniques for creating distance and irony by means of an idiosyncratic process of abstraction and especially by his use of his numerous art quotations.

Featuring more than 100 works, including Baselitz's paintings, wood sculptures and engravings, this monograph offers a view of his oeuvre, as well as an insight into the subtle changes that have come to his work as he has matured

Published to coincide with a major exhibition to tour both the US and Europe, this volume offers a survey of Kelly's paintings, sculptures, works on paper and photographs. The catalogue spans five decades, beginning in the late 1940s.

Ohne nostalgischen Ton und mit großer Begeisterung erinnert sich der heute weit über achtzigjährige Künstler an sein Leben, seine Arbeit und Begegnungen mit Lehrern und Künstlerkollegen, so an Max Beckmann, Brancusi, Léger und Vantongerloo, den er zeitweise wöchentlich in Paris besuchte, um ihm beim Malen zuzusehen. Mittelpunkt des Buches ist eine Reihe von übermalten und collagierten Postkarten aus den Jahren 1949 - 1984, die er erstmals aus seinem Archiv zur Veröffentlichung freigibt. Anhand dieser „Erinnerungen“ erörtert er sein künstlerisches Credo und seine Entwicklung als ein „künstlerisches Manifest“. Er spricht über sein Interesse an Architektur, über Maler, die ihn beeinflusst haben bis hin zu seinem Entwurf für das World Trade Center. Ellsworth Kelly, born 1923 in Birth Newburgh, NY, USA. Lives and works in upstate New York. Hans Ulrich Obrist, born in 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland. Lives and works in London. Es ist die positive Haltung des großen Einzelgängers in der Kunst der letzten 70 Jahre, die das kleine Buch zu einer großen Lesereise macht.

Enzo Cucchi was a key member of the Italian transavanguardia movement in the eighties which was part of a larger neo-expressionist trend. This catalog celebrates the work of a man who is among the most recognizable Italian artists on the contemporary scene. Collected here are over 100 paintings and drawings from the late seventies to today and held in major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York, the Beaubourg in Paris, the Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst in Humlebæk, and the Stedelijk in Amsterdam (among many others). They offer a highly detailed overview of Cucchi from his official debut on the international art scene onwards, allowing an appreciation of the extraordinary variety and richness of his work.

Encompasses all the artist's early works, including authoritative notes and commentary