Mamma Andersson & Jockum Nordstrom: Who is sleeping on my pillow

Mamma Andersson & Jockum Nordstrom: Who is sleeping on my pillow
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Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781935202264
ISBN-13 : 193520226X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Mamma Andersson & Jockum Nordstrom: Who is sleeping on my pillow by :

Originally published on the occasion of the 2010 exhibition at David Zwirner in New York, Who is sleeping on my pillow marked the first time Andersson and Nordstrom presented their work in concurrent solo shows. The book showcases their work from the late 1980s to 2010 in over two hundred full-color plates, as well as numerous reproductions of family snapshots and source material. The Swedish artist couple Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom have been at the forefront of contemporary figurative art since the late 1980s. Updating Vuillard for a post-Hitchcock age, Andersson paints beguilingly eerie interiors and landscapes. Nordstrom’s detailed collages, watercolors, and drawings occupy a more folkloric realm peopled by historical and contemporary characters enacting sexual and social roles across broad narrative panoramas. Included in Who is sleeping on my pillow are texts by Paolo Colombo and Anders Kruger, a poem by Stig Claesson, and an interview with Nordstrom by Marcel Dzama. As Colombo notes in his accompanying essay, “The miracle is that Jockum and Mamma spent more than half of their life together, and that over the years their complicity has guided them into the artists they are, each the complement and the best sounding board for the other.” The publication was reissued to coincide with Nordstrom’s 2014 exhibition, For the insects and the hounds, at David Zwirner in London, and Andersson’s 2015 presentation, Behind the Curtain, at the gallery in New York.

Jockum Nordström

Jockum Nordström
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 3775735828
ISBN-13 : 9783775735827
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Jockum Nordström by : Jockum Nordström

Jockum Nordstrom is one of the most renowned Swedish artists of his generation. Stylistically the artist's works are based on poor materials like paper or cardboard, and developed in a manner that is naive as well as erudite, both descriptive and enigmatic. Dotted with objects, animals and people, they tell us stories that are elegant, endearing, and rather disconcerting. The publication comprises almost a hundred works of Jockum Nordstrom, unfolding a comprehensive panorama of his oeuvre, from the earlier pencil drawings to his more recent collages, including the architectural models and photographic collages.

A Stick in the Wood

A Stick in the Wood
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Publisher : Gerhard Steidl Gmbh
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015069128836
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Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis A Stick in the Wood by : Jockum Nordström

Pseudo-naove and funny, Jockum Nordstrvm's works compress a bundle of simultaneous narratives in a single frozen frame. He says, "A single picture of mine may often be based on a multiple of originals. I am constantly looking at my immediate surroundings as well as books." Art, photographs, people, plants, architecture, patterns, textiles, sex, and history all play an important role in his compositions. His enigmatic scenes, rendered in drawings and mixed-media pieces in watercolor, gouache, and collage, seem at once old-fashioned and modern. Lucas Cranach and James Ensor are longstanding influences, as are folk art and Surrealism. His art seems to portray suppressed fantasies fighting their way into the consciousnesses of the flattened-out figures. Fantasy has the power to transform banal, alienating tasks into moments that shimmer with humor and poignancy.

Loyal and His Band

Loyal and His Band
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Publisher : Loyal Publishing
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015063332681
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Loyal and His Band by : Kristian Bengtsson

"The creators of Loyal magazine and its eponymous gallery celebrate five years with this, their first book. Loyal And His Band brings together a stunning variety of work from more than 20 artists--it's a collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, humorous, poignant stories and interviews with many who have been part of the Loyal family, including Matt Leines, Jules de Balincourt, Misaki Kawai, Wes Lang, Eddie Martinez, Yun-Fei Ji, Taylor McKimens, Jockum Nordstrom, Mamma Andersson, Stephen Shore, Miroslav Tichy, Brian Belott and more"--Publisher.

Drawing Now

Drawing Now
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Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 0870703625
ISBN-13 : 9780870703621
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Drawing Now by : Laura J. Hoptman

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art QNS, New York, 17 October 2002 - 6 January 2003.

David Zwirner: 25 Years

David Zwirner: 25 Years
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Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781941701775
ISBN-13 : 1941701779
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis David Zwirner: 25 Years by : Richard Shiff

Published on the occasion of the twenty-five year anniversary of David Zwirner, this book paints a picture of the gallery’s growth and development through the lens of the artists that have shaped it. Since its founding in 1993, David Zwirner has above all else been guided by its artist-centric ethos. Beginning with the gallery's early days on Greens Street in SoHo, to its transition and expansion to Chelsea, London, the Upper East Side, and Hong Kong, this book captures David Zwirner's devotion to its inimitable roster of artists and estates. The heart of the publication is a wide-ranging, dynamic selection of the gallery's standout exhibitions—in many cases handpicked by David Zwirner himself. Many of these exhibitions highlight the countless works that ended up in major museum and private collections around the world. Also featured is an extensive gallery history that details all of the exhibitions by every artist and estate presented at David Zwirner, accompanied by archival imagery. With contributions by Richard Shiff and Robert Storr, as well as a foreword by David Zwirner, this publication offers rare insights into the growth of a commercial gallery through its long-term commitment to artists.

Depicting Canada’s Children

Depicting Canada’s Children
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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages : 905
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ISBN-10 : 9781554587292
ISBN-13 : 1554587298
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Depicting Canada’s Children by : Loren Lerner

Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children.

Seeing Out Loud

Seeing Out Loud
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Publisher : Geoffrey Young
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 1930589174
ISBN-13 : 9781930589179
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeing Out Loud by : Jerry Saltz

Literary Nonfiction. Art. In SEEING OUT LOUD, Saltz critically engages with notable works of art by over 100 notable artists ranging from Picasso, Matisse, and Warhol to Matthew Barney, Gerhard Richter, and Chris Ofili. These reviews appeared in the Village Voice between November 1998 and winter 2003. "Jerry Saltz is the best informed and hair-trigger liveliest of contemporary art critics, tracking pleasure and jump-starting intelligence on the fly. Jerry's fast takes usually stand up better in retrospect than other people's long views"---Peter Schjedahl. "Jerry Saltz looks at art from the perspective of the viewer, the ignorant, the lover, and the enemy. His writing is overwhelmingly passionate, yet without sentimentality. His words pierce the content and beauty of each work of art to test its endurance in time and memory"---Francesco Bonami, Curator, 2003 Venice Biennale.

Dwell

Dwell
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Total Pages : 242
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Dwell by :

At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Art on the Block

Art on the Block
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9781137364739
ISBN-13 : 1137364734
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Art on the Block by : Ann Fensterstock

A fascinating tour of the last five decades of contemporary art in New York City, showing how artists are catalysts of gentrification and how neighborhoods in turn shape their art--with special insights into the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons Stories of New York City's fabled art scene conjure up artists' lofts in SoHo, studios in Brooklyn, and block after block of galleries in Chelsea. But today, no artist can afford a SoHo loft, Brooklyn has long gentrified, and even the galleries of Chelsea are beginning to move on. Art on the Block takes the reader on a journey through the neighborhoods that shape, and are shaped by, New York's ever-evolving art world. Based on interviews with over 150 gallery directors, as well as the artists themselves, art historian and cultural commentator Ann Fensterstock explores the genesis, expansion, maturation and ultimate restless migration of the New York art world from one initially undiscovered neighborhood to the next. Opening with the colonization of the desolate South Houston Industrial District in the late 1960s, the book follows the art world's subsequent elopements to the East Village in the ‘80s, Brooklyn in the mid-90s, Chelsea at the beginning of the new millennium and, most recently, to the Lower East Side. With a look to the newest neighborhoods that artists are just now beginning to occupy, this is a must-read for both art enthusiasts as well as anyone with a passion for New York City.