Andreas Beyer Libri

Gender interventions and formal innovations in female portraiture, through works by Kahlo, Sherman, Neel, Dumas, Peyton and more This superbly conceived publication looks at nine women artists whose careers were devoted primarily to portraiture, analyzing both the work they produced and the unique ways in which each artist captured her subjects’ likenesses and the spaces they inhabited.These artists represent the development of modernist art since 1870; each has made significant contributions to art history as they complicate long-held notions of the gaze and explore the relationship between the self, the subject and the artist.Close-Up examines women painters and photographers who are known primarily for self-portraiture, such as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman; it also looks at female artists who depicted the daily lives of women and children in a creative environment that was largely disinterested in such subjects, such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Lotte Laserstein. Still other women―Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas and Elizabeth Peyton―embrace familiarity completely and depict friends and family as well as famous figures in their paintings.In essays by nine different authors, these artists and their subjects are considered individually and as part of a chronology of modern portraiture, with an emphasis on the dynamics of gender.

From the Fourth ECB Central Banking Conference, 9-10 November, 2006. Published in glossy pictorial boards without dust jacket.

Enth. u.a. (S. 326-333): Paul Klees botanische Metamorphosen und Garten-Phantasien / Barbara Eschenburg. - Betr. ferner u.a. Werke von Ferdinand Hodler und weitere Werke von Paul Klee.

German

Klassizismus und Romantik wurden lange Zeit als einander entgegengesetzte Epochen der Kunst betrachtet. Dieser Band zeigt, dass in beiden zugleich der Ursprung der Moderne liegt, dass sie auf vergleichbare Krisen der Kunst reagierten und dass sie mehr verbindet als trennt. Andreas Beyer stellt die Epoche mit ihren Protagonisten und Hauptwerken in Malerei, Architektur und Skulptur vor. Er umreißt das Panorama einer Kunstperiode, die einen frühen internationalen Stil ausbildete und in vielem vorwegnahm, was die Kunst bis heute charakterisiert und belebt.