Des films de Woody Allen et des frères Coen aux livres de Margaret Atwood en passant par les chansons d'Arcade Fire, les mythologies grecque et romaine constituent une source d'inspiration artistique omniprésente. Les combats face aux dieux, aux monstres et aux destins de leurs héros tour à tour triomphants et tragiques exercent un pouvoir mystérieux sur l'imagination, poussant les artistes à évoquer et réinterpréter ces récits fondateurs. Cet ouvrage réunit les oeuvres d'artistes antiques, modernes et contemporains, inspirées par la mythologie, de Botticelli au Caravage jusqu'à Jeff Koons et Damien Hirst.
David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portraitist, and went on to make an even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. By the beginning of the millennium, he had returned to his Yorkshire roots, embarking on a new period of painting and capping a truly remarkable career. This book brings his spectacular life together into one short, sweet volume.
From the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source of cultural inspiration.
The struggles of heroes, both triumphant and tragic, with gods, monsters, and fate, exert a particular grip on our imagination. Visual artists have long expressed and reworked these foundational stories. This is the first book to unite myth-inspired artworks by ancient, modern, and contemporary artists, from Botticelli and Caravaggio to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
Ben turns and grins ironically. ''When you stopped just now and looked at the sky, you weren''t measuring it. You weren''t thinking about classical proportion. You were feeling something.'' Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience of life and love. When an explosive piece of contemporary art is installed on the lawn of his college, it sets in motion Don''s abrupt departure from Cambridge to take up a role at a south London museum. There he befriends Ben, a young artist who draws him into the anarchic 1990s British art scene and the nightlife of Soho. Over the course of one long, hot summer, Don glimpses a liberating new existence. But his epiphany is also a moment of self-reckoning, as his oldest friendship - and his own unexamined past - are revealed to him in a devastating new light. As Don''s life unravels, he suffers a fall from grace that that shatters his world into pieces.
Sur le principe d'une bataille améliorée, Le match de l'art regroupe 50 cartes, arborant 50 figures majeures de l'art moderne et contemporain. Chaque carte mentionne 6 critères (Influence, Choc de la nouveauté, Polyvalence, Prix maximum de vente, Accueil critique, Facteur "beauté"), auxquels sont attribués des points. Les joueurs peuvent ainsi mettre en compétition l'influence d'Andy Warhol avec celle de Jackson Pollock, l'esthétisme de Sonia Delaunay avec celui de Sophie Calle.
Un livret explicatif présente une courte biographie des 50 artistes du jeu.
Pouvant plaire aux adultes comme aux plus jeunes, Le match de l'art est le jeu idéal pour tous les amoureux de l'art !
Track list : LISTE DES 50 ARTISTES :
MARINA ABRAMOVIC, NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY, DIANE ARBUS, FRANCIS BACON, BANKSY, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, JOSEPH BEUYS, LOUISE BOURGEOIS, SOPHIE CALLE, LEONORA CARRINGTON, MAURIZIO CATTELAN, MARC CHAGALL, CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE, LYGIA CLARK, SALVADOR DALÍ, SONIA DELAUNAY, MARCEL DUCHAMP, TRACEY EMIN, LUCIAN FREUD, NAN GOLDIN, GUERRILLA GIRLS, MONA HATOUM, DAVID HOCKNEY, EDWARD HOPPER, FRIDA KAHLO, JEFF KOONS, BARBARA KRUGER, YAYOI KUSAMA, RENÉ MAGRITTE, HENRI MATISSE, ANA MENDIETA, PIET MONDRIAN, TAKASHI MURAKAMI, BRUCE NAUMAN, GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, YOKO ONO, MÉRET OPPENHEIM, PABLO PICASSO, JACKSON POLLOCK, OBERT RAUSCHENBERG, PAULA REGO, GERHARD RICHTER, BRIDGET RILEY, ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO, MARK ROTHKO, CINDY SHERMAN, HITO STEYERL, KARA WALKER, ANDY WARHOL, RACHEL WHITEREAD.
Piet Mondrian ou Andy Warhol - Damien Hirst ou Banksy - qui a créée les oeuvres les plus influentes? Les plus choquantes ? Les plus chères ? Qu'en est-il de leur polyvalence ou de leur réception critique? Ces cartes à jouer permettent aux amateurs d'art de tous âges de jouer leurs artistes préférés les uns contre les autres pour découvrir qui dirige le monde de l'art.
