Azzedine Alaïa (1935-2017), couturier de renom,
était aussi un collectionneur passionné. Épris des
pièces qui constituent le patrimoine de la mode,
il a rassemblé une collection de plus de 20 000
vêtements dessinés par de grands créateurs, avec
une place d'honneur pour les réalisations de
Christian Dior et des directeurs artistiques qui
lui ont succédé à la tête de la maison Dior.
Ce livre célèbre une nouvelle exposition à la
Galerie Dior et dévoile pour la première fois
la collection personnelle de pièces Dior réunies
par Alaïa à partir des années soixante, témoignant
de sa longue relation avec l'univers Dior. Âgé de
22 ans, le jeune couturier tunisien a d'ailleurs
travaillé quelques jours chez la maison Dior, une
expérience qui a marqué les débuts de sa carrière
dans la mode.
Le livre aborde, dans des chapitres thématiques,
les éléments qui ont éveillé la curiosité et le désir
de collectionner d'Alaïa : l'architecture des robes,
la poésie des noms de créations comme Joli coeur,
Musique de nuit, Bal de printemps, Fête à Grenade,
ou encore Mystère de New York, et les différentes
façons d'utiliser les textures et les couleurs,
notamment le rouge vif chéri par Christian Dior.
Illustré par des photographies inédites de robes
iconiques, images d'archives, dessins signés
Christian Dior et chartes de collection, ce livre
offre une vision nouvelle de l'histoire de Dior à
travers les robes collectionnées par Alaïa. Le livre
inclut aussi une interview exclusive avec Olivier
Saillard, directeur de la Fondation Azzedine Alaïa,
où une exposition soeur célèbre les créations d'Alaïa
inspirées par Dior.
The most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize-nominated artist Peter Doig. In every generation of artists, there are a few-or perhaps just one-who propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is such an artist. While stories of paintings demise in the early 1990s deemed painters and their work quaintly anachronistic, Doig-looking ahead as much as back for inspiration-forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting and sometimes dreamlike landscape vistas. In this lavish new volume devoted to his entire career-which includes paintings, drawings, and reference material, such as found photographs-art historians Richard Shiff and Catherine Lampert mine the artists rich and varied work. Doigs landscapes have been inspired by the many places the artist has lived-England, Canada, Trinidad. So, too, does memory, or the idea of memory, inform much of his production. This volume is designed in close collaboration with the artist, with Doig specially creating the cover and various elements of the interior. Every facet of the painters singular vision is explored, from his earliest paintings of the early 1990s to the most recent series of works. Published in association with Michael Werner Gallery
The most private of artists was beguiled by a hardscrabble farm and its residents down the road from his studio, revealing some of his most personal friendships, and yielding some of his most iconic paintings.
Andrew Wyeth first discovered the haunting beauty of the farm owned by German immigrants Karl and Anna Kuerner on his boyhood rambles in Pennsylvania's bucolic Brandywine River Valley, and it would captivate him for the rest of his life, appearing as subject of more than one thousand landscapes, interiors, and portraits. As traced throughout this volume, just what Wyeth uncovered beneath the farm's austere facade is key to understanding his singular artistic vision.
This intimate look at Wyeth's decades-long connection to Kuerner Farm and the people there reveals not only the source of many of the artist's most deeply resonant paintings but also the secrets that have given his deceptively simple art its mysterious pull on the popular imagination for generations. As Wyeth became one of the country's most celebrated artists, he continued to return to the farm, the Kuerners, and to the enigmatic Helga Testorf, creating timeless portraits from an experience of deep looking and charting a way toward unearthing from the ordinary, the extraordinary.
Ce petit livre présente les oeuvres majeures du peintre réaliste américain. Sur 70 ans de carrière, il a peint avec humanisme et simplicité les paysages et les habitants du Maine où il passait ses étés, et de la Pennsylvanie où il vécut.
Réédition compacte de cette monographie de référence consacrée à l'oeuvre de Keith Haring. De l'underground new-yorkais à la reconnaissance internationale, toutes les étapes majeures de sa fulgurante carrière sont documentées avec de nombreuses reproductions d'oeuvres, des photos d'archives et des interviews de l'artiste réalisées par John Gruen en 1989, pour sa biographie.
Organized with the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation, this exhibition catalogue presents the work of the beloved West Coast painter on the theme of the American summer.
This book tracks the career of the artist over six decades, revealing his retained interest in lighthearted subjects while casting them in traditional modes of painting. It celebrates the artist's regard for the delights of the quintessentially American summer experience, from its sweet ice creams and chilled soda pops to beach games and barbecues, melting a gray winter into a fading memory. The catalogue features paintings from the 1960s through the 2000s of beach scenes, hot dogs, ice creams, beach balls, and bathing suits.
Most of the works come directly from the foundation and are rarely seen in public. More than 60 paintings show the artist's versatility, dazzling technique, and rich use of color, as well as a sense of playfulness--a longing for a sweeter and more nostalgic time.
Ce volume célèbre la longue collaboration entre Yayoi Kusama et Louis Vuitton présentant aussi bien des oeuvres de l'artiste que la collection qu'elle a conçu avec la maison de mode. Des contributions d'experts de mode et d'art tels que l'écrivaine Jo-Ann Furniss ou le conservateur Mika Yoshitake explorent les différentes facettes de ce partenariat créatif emblématique.
The first critical look at the artist's work since his death,;focusing on his deep connections to California and his distinctive approach to realism, by those who knew him well.
This book examines the extraordinary career of Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) and highlights his iconic representations of everyday scenes. Born in Mesa, Arizona, Thiebaud's formative years in Southern California and his long-term residence in Northern California crucially influenced his work.;;
Renowned for his vibrant portrayals of commonplace objects--dessert pastries, bow ties, paint cans, and hot dogs--as well as his figure studies and landscapes, Thiebaud is reexamined through the lens of his lifelong engagement with historical and contemporary art movements, as well as his California surroundings.;The radical realism of Thiebaud treats its subjects--isolated still life objects, decontextualized people, and skewed landscapes--unnaturally, keeping them familiar but disturbingly distorted.;Essays offer fresh perspectives on how Thiebaud's work infuses familiar scenes with both humor and depth, while capturing the dramatic spirit of the region. Thiebaud's teaching career and the influence of California's unique light, culture, and landscape on his art are also explored, offering a comprehensive understanding of how place and profession shaped his creative vision.
The first monograph on New York-based contemporary artist Richard Phillips, best known for his large-scale paintings that are ultracool in execution and very hot in effect. Richard Phillips's hyperrealistic oil paintings embody themes as broad as power, politics, celebrity, fashion, ideology, beauty, and sex, and pose questions about the status of painting today: Does the medium remain valid, or has it become a historical pastime? Pornography, propaganda, advertising, entertainment, fashion-Phillips incorporates material from a range of sources to confront what is at the core of contemporary image making, from the power of celebrity branding to complicity between viewer and viewed. The book's exploitative design strategy celebrates the commercial and fashion alliances of the artist's practice, while revealing the complex politics behind the imagery the artist chooses to paint.
"I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of all the accumulated images stored in our subconscious that coagulate and mutate when we sleep." -Glenn Brown Mining art history and popular culture, Brown has created an artistic language that transcends time and pictorial conventions. He creates a space where the abstract and the visceral, the rational and irrational, the beautiful and grotesque churn in a dizzying amalgamation of reference and form.In paintings completed over the last three years, including some of his largest works to date, Brown confronts traditional subjects of still life and portraiture. With characteristically fleshy textures beneath remarkably flat and glossy surfaces, the scenes evoke traditional memento mori.
As he turns 100, the definitive monograph of Wayne Thiebaud's work is now available in a reformatted, accessibly priced edition, and including his most recent paintings. This is the most comprehensive monograph to date on Wayne Thiebaud, with new works added, in a reformatted size. Spanning the length of his career from the 1950s to the present, the book has been made in close collaboration with the artist. Thiebaud selected the works himself, making the book an act of autobiography in a sense. At age 100, he looks back over his life and his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and masterful individuality. Required reading for those who have a healthy appetite for provocative art. -Bloomberg Business This comprehensive monograph of more than 200 illustrations can literally be considered eye candy. American artist Wayne Thiebaud is famed for his brightly coloured canvases of cakes, diner pies, pastries, ice cream cones, candy and brightly coloured gumball machines. . . . Whether still lifes or landscapes, Thiebaud's paintings are akin to visual Prozac; you simply cannot be in a bad mood looking at them. -Kansas City Magazine While Thiebaud is best known for his heavily pigmented still lifes of cakes, pies, and candies, [this] book shows his broader range, from vibrant landscapes depicting highways and farmland to portraits of solitary figures. . . The texts examine Thiebaud's influences as well as his impact on the art world and the individual viewers of his work. -Architectural Diges.
Photographe emblématique et documentariste de la contre-culture, Ari Marcopoulos saisit depuis quarante ans la scène hip-hop, le milieu du skateboard et du snowboard ou son propre entourage familial. Il est également connu pour ses paysages urbains et ses portraits de célébrités, filmées ou photographiées, notamment Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith ou John Cage. Cette monographie présente ses images les plus emblématiques, mais également de nombreuses photos inédites des années 1980 à aujourd'hui.
Ce volume passe en revue les créations de l'artiste américain Richard Diebenkorn, qui a exploré avec succès la peinture abstraite et figurative, et constitue un ouvrage exhaustif reparcourant sa vie et sa carrière depuis ses premières oeuvres du milieu des années 1940 jusqu'à ses séries Berkeley et Ocean Park. Le livre comprend non seulement ses peintures emblématiques de paysages et d'images liées à la Californie, mais également bon nombre de ses oeuvres moins connues et rarement publiées. Le volume comprend aussi un essai de l'historienne de l'art Sasha Nicholas sur la place de Richard Diebenkorn dans la peinture américaine d'après-guerre et de son indépendance par rapport aux tendances du monde de l'art, ainsi qu'une interview de Steven Nash avec un ami proche du peintre, Wayne Thiebaud, donnant ainsi le point de vue d'un créatif.
