Don McCullin

With his arresting, unsettling style, George Condo emerged out of the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 198os, and he has been restlessly painting, drawing and sculpting - bringing forms into the world in one way or another - ever since. Condo's originality lies in his transformation of references and inspirations, in both style and content, which include the canon of Western art history ; from his journey through Greek classical sculpture to an unlimited and free exchange of painterly languages ranging from Rembrandt and Velasquez to Picasso and Warhol, and a unique vision of literary and popular culture. With his 'fake' Old Masters, reconfigured Manets, impossibly intricate paintings that seem abstract only from a distance, fractured and multifaceted `psychologically Cubist' portraits, and the orgiastic misdemeanours of a host of butlers, bankers and priests, Condo has invented, mastered and expanded not just one painterly language but an entire lexicon. Working closely with Condo, Simon Baker has combined biographical, chronological and thematic approaches to survey the artist's work and career to date. An introductory essay on Condo's contradictor nature and a chapter exploring his phenomenal early career are followed by three thematic chapters that look at the years from 1984 to the present, tracing Condo's systematic reconstruction of the techniques of painting, exploring his relationship to the concept of abstraction, and probing the darker side of his psychological iconography in drawing, painting, sculpture and writing. George Condo is the definitive monograph on this unique artist. It will appeal to artists, art students and those with a general interest in art.

George Condo - Painting Reconfigured

Serious performance art, portraiture, or simply just posing. What does it mean to perform for the camera ? Photography has been used to capture performances since its invention from the stars of the Victorian stage to the art happening of the 1960s, and today's trend for selfies. This lavishly illustrated publication offers an essential survey of the unique relationship between photography and performance, engaging with serious, provocative and sensational subjects, as well as humour, improvisation and irony. It shows how photographs have captured performances by important artists including Yves Klein and Yayoi Kusama, as well as highlighting ground-breaking collaborations between photographers, performers and dancers. Exploring how artists such as Francesca Woodman and Erwin Wurm have used photography as a stage on which to perform, it also reveals how figures from Cindy Sherman and Hannah Wilke to Marcel Duchamp and Samuel Fosso have utilised the camera to consider questions of identity. From marketing and self-promotion to the investigation of gender and self-portraiture, Performing for the Camera brings together over 300 images by more than sixty international artists. Vintage prints, large-scale works and series, marketing posters and Instagram images all contribute to a wide-ranging exploration of how performance artists use photography and how photography can itself be a form of performance.

Performing for the camera

COLLECTION " PERCEVOIR " Percevoir (verbe tr.) : saisir, prendre connaissance par les sens, l'intuition ou l'entendement. Les Editions de La Martinière encouragent les nouveaux talents de la photographie et des arts visuels à travers " Percevoir ", une collection de livres qui porte un autre regard sur l'image : mouvante, fragmentaire et multiple, comme le monde qui nous entoure. A chaque artiste, une réponse singulière. MARGUERITE BORNHAUSER Marguerite Bornhauser aime nous promener à la surface du monde : textures, détails et, bien sûr, couleurs, sa signature la plus évidente à qui contemple ses photographies pour la première fois. Une image d'ici évoquera un ailleurs, une image lointaine nous semblera familière. Et toutes ces pistes brouillées nous conduisent sur le chemin de la fiction... L'ouvrage proposera un parcours au fil de ses séries When Black is burned, Journal de confinement, Moisson rouge, le Bruit des cactus, Plastic Colors... Le musicien et compositeur Flavien Berger offre à cet opus un poème, Etoile rétine, qui vient résonner avec l'univers coloré de Marguerite Bornhauser.

Percevoir

Hassan Hajjaj

Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of An Empire

This book is a new account of the surrealist movement in France between the two world wars. It examines the uses that surrealist artists and writers made of ideas and images associated with the French Revolution, describing a complex relationship between surrealism's avant-garde revolt and its powerful sense of history and heritage. Focusing on both texts and images by key figures such as Louis Aragon, Georges Bataille, Jacques-André Boiffard, André Breton, Robert Desnos, Max Ernst, Max Morise, and Man Ray, this book situates surrealist material in the wider context of the literary and visual arts of the period through the theme of revolution. It raises important questions about the politics of representing French history, literary and political memorial spaces, monumental representations of the past and critical responses to them, imaginary portraiture and revolutionary spectatorship. The study shows that a full understanding of surrealism requires a detailed account of its attitude to revolution, and that understanding this surrealist concept of revolution means accounting for the complex historical imagination at its heart.

Surrealism, History and Revolution

Connu pour The Solitude of Ravens, où des corbeaux menaçants en nuée ou solitaires noircissent des pages d'un bout à l'autre de ce livre mythique paru en 1986, le photographe japonais Masahisa Fukase, parmi les plus radicaux et les plus originaux de sa génération, possède en réalité une oeuvre protéiforme : recherches formelles, surimpressions, collages, autoportraits, photographies retravaillées au dessin, tirages noir & blanc, polaroids...
Ses deux commissaires, Simon Baker, directeur du département photographique de la Tate Modern, à Londres, et Tomo Kosuga, directeur des archives Masahisa Fukase, à Tokyo, seront les auteurs de ce livre-somme qui présentera 26 séries de l'oeuvre de Fukase, notamment celles consacrées à son père (Memories of Father), sans oublier celle sur les chats, y compris le sien, Sasuke, et ses fameux autoportraits pris dans une baignoire, avec un appareil étanche (« Bukubuku ») ou en duos (« Berobero ») qui se touchent la langue et qu'ils coloriera par la suite. Fukase aura tout expérimenté au cours de sa vie professionnelle et ce travail longtemps resté dans l'ombre, où la dramaturgie côtoie autant l'ironie que la provocation, méritait un ouvrage complet, d'autant que la plupart de ses parutions se limitaient jusqu'alors à son pays natal.

Don McCullin

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