Alberto Giacometti (1901 1966) and Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) both lived during times of cultural crisis and turmoil Giacometti experiencing the crippling effects of two world wars and Nauman, the birth of the Cold War, surveillance and the rise of technology. The surprising and hitherto overlooked connections between the works of these two artists from two different generations are the subject of both the current Schirn Kunsthalle exhibition and its accompanying catalog. Both Nauman's and Giacometti's oeuvres revolve primarily around the image of man and the human condition. With reduced means of representation, each artist explores fundamental existential questions: the emptiness, the relationship between figure and space, and the fragmented body. Illustrated with over 200 color plates, this critical hardcover publication features essays by critic, curator and painter Robert Storr, art historian Thierry Dufr.ne, cultural historian and sound art curator Gaby Hartel and exhibition curator Esther Schlicht, all of whom expand our perception of the significant commonalities in the work of these outstanding representatives of 20th- and 21st-century art. Giacometti emerges as a pioneer of key developments in art after 1960, regaining his original radicalism, while Nauman continues his outstanding importance as a sculptor, photographer, video and performance artist of behavioral and psychological encoding. Seen together they achieve an alternative historical significance.

Giacometti – Nauman: Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Arts & Photography

STORR, Robert

Hartel, Gaby

Dufrêne, Thierry

History & Criticism

Snoeck Publishing Company

Jan Svankmajer (born 1934) is one of the most celebrated animation filmmakers in the world. Widely imitated and hugely influential for several generations of directors and animators, including Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay, Svankmajer populates his surreal universe with sentient household objects, morphing clay figures, grotesquely exaggerated everyday sounds and a mood of paranoia pitched somewhere between Kafka and Poe. Among his best known works are the feature films Alice (1988), Faust (1994) and Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), and the short Dimensions of Dialogue (1982--chosen by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animations ever). His most recent film is 2010's Surviving Life. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer is the first monographic overview of this major artist's work. Including excellent film stills, sculptures, illustrations and an interview with the filmmaker, it spans nearly 40 years of visionary creativity.

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer: The Pendulum, the Pit, and other Pecularities

Individual Artists

Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

<p>Designed to mimic the look of dimestore crime novels, <i>Elevator to the Gallows</i> juxtaposes works by Banks Violette, Miles Davis, John Huston and Weegee with an essay by Luc Sante.</p>

Elevator to the Gallows: Banks Violette and Gerald Matt present Banks Violette, Miles Davis, Dashiell Hammett, John Huston, Weegee

Mießgang, Thomas

Matt, Gerald

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg

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