Danto Arthur C Foreword (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. xviii, 334 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Additional translation by Nickolas Decarlo, Kayvan Rouhani and Heidi Zimmerman. Tight, clean copy. *** "Joseph Beuys is one of the most legendary figures of 20th century art and his work and ideas continue to impact on artists today. This reader brings together the crucial texts on Beuys to look at the most contentious reception ever accorded a postwar artist." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Style and Salvation in the Art of Beuys; Editors' Introduction; I; BEUYS AND HIS 'CHALLENGERS'; 1. Breaking the Silence: Joseph Beuys on his 'Challenger', Marcel Duchamp (1995); 2. Beuys, Haacke, Broodthaers (1988); 3: Beuys and Broodthaers: Dialectics of Modernity between 'Analytic Geometry and the Belief in an Unbelieving God' (2001); 4. Letters as Works of Art: Beuys and James Lee Byars (2000, excerpt); II: CRITICS' PERSPECTIVES: 5. Beuys: The Twilight of the Idol (1980); 6. Discontinuous Notes on and after a Meeting of Critics, by One of the Artists Present (1981, excerpt); 7. Joseph Beuys, or the Last of the Proletarians (1988); III: BEUYS AND THE LIMITS OF ICONOGRAPHY: 8. Beuys and Romanticism (1986, excerpt); 9. No to. Joseph Beuys (1997); IV: BEUYS, ART AND POLITICS; 10. 'Questions? You have Questions?' Joseph Beuys' Artistic Self-Presentation in Fat Transformation Piece/Four Blackboards, 1972 (1996); 11. Every Man an Artist: Talks at Documenta V by Joseph Beuys (1972, excerpt); 12. Institutionalizing Social Sculpture: Beuys' Office for Direct Democracy through Referendum Installation, 1972 (1997, excerpt);13. U berblick Series on the Parliamentary Election (1983, excerpt); V. BEUYS AND POSTMODERNISM; 14. Performance: Joseph Beuys (1985, excerpt); 15. In the Shadow of Joseph Beuys: Remarks on the Subject of Art and Philosophy Today (1987); 16. Letter to Jean-Franc ois Chevrier (1997, excerpt); 17. The Aesthetics of Post-History: A German Perspective (1995, excerpts); VI: ISSUES OF RECEPTION: 18. The Reception of Joseph Beuys in the USA, and Some of its Cultural/Political and Artistic Assumptions (1998, excerpt); 19. Joseph Beuys and the GDR: The Individual as Political (1992); 20. Joseph Beuys and Surrealism (1997) Roundtable; Appendix: Key Dates and Exhibitions; Index. Size: 8vo.…

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. First Printing in black-stamped two-tone cloth boards and illustrated black dust jacket, Fine in Fine, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, a pristine unread exemplary copy; 8vo; (xv) 422pp indexed & illus.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Square super octavo, black heavy card boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 223pp, illus b&w photo portraits, VG+ (light rubbing to board extrems, light soiling to some page edges) in d/w, VG (light rubbing, creasing & soiling).

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 88 pages with 37 color illustrations - Jeff Koons' Popeye series, begun in 2002, incorporates some of the artist's signature themes and motifs: the surrealistic combination of everyday objects, cartoon imagery, outsized scale, art-historical references and children's toys. The sculptures reproduced here continue Koons' fondness for casting inflatable toys in aluminum carefully painted to resemble supple plastic which he juxtaposes here with unaltered everyday objects, such as chairs or garbage cans. The Popeye paintings are complex and layered compositions that combine disparate images both found and created by Koons (including images of the sculptures in the series). The instantly recognizable figures of Popeye and Olive Oyl are central, and recur across several key works within the book. Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto and Dorothea von Hantelmann provide commentary on this fun body of work, which Koons discusses in a conversation with Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Quarto. Color and B&W illustrations. As new in as new DJ. 224 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in fine unclipped dust jacket. A massive oversized monograph on Shirin Neshat, illustrated throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, unmarked copy, in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector.