A.R. Penck. Peinture - Système - Monde

 

The modern Museum d’Art of the Town of Paris presents an ambitious retrospective on the work of Ralf Winkler, whose pseudo more current is A.R. Penck. Paintings, sculptures, but also texts, synthesize the topic of predilection of the ̱artist: how to communicate in our world confronted with division, contradictions?

About Carl Andre

Critical Texts Since 1965

Carl Andre is one of the most significant and influential artists of his generation. Alongside contemporaries such as Robert Morris and Donald Judd, his radically minimalist sculpture and poetry has fundamentally shifted the definitions and boundaries of art. Spanning four decades, this book charts the gradual evolution of consensus about the meaning of his art.

Absalon

 

The Israeli artist Absalon (1964-1993) was fascinated by spaces, which he reworked in systematic and successive ways with questions around essential human activities and basic geometric forms being his points of departure.

Abstract America: New Painting - Saatchi Gallery

 

The twentieth anniversary of the Saatchi Gallery was celebrated in 2005 with 'The Triumph of Painting', a landmark exhibition. This book accompanying the exhibition, makes the disparate currents of the painting coherent. It is devoted to the new American abstract painters, few of whom appeared in the original 'Triumph of Painting' book.

Abstract Expressionism

 

Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the years immediately following the Second World War and quickly became one of the most powerful and influential movements in the history of modern art.

Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art

Selections from the Collection

More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different from one another...

Action Abstraction

Pollock, De Koonig, And America Art, 1940-1976

The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day.

Action Painting Jackson Pollock

 

In-depth survey of one of the most important art movements of the twentieth century and its founder, Jackson Pollock.

Actions: What You Can Do With the City

 

This publication will explore how the design of contemporary cities can be described and informed by four key human actions: gardening, recycling, playing, walking.

Ad Reinhardt: Last Paintings

 

The paintings of the American artist, Ad Reinhardt were from the start defined by their clear geometrical forms. ­Reinhardt, who before his training as a painter had received a degree in art history, rejected any kind of fusion between art and life or any mystification of painting.