Han Schuil, born in the Netherlands in 1958, is one of the major forces in Dutch painting today. As Dominic van den Boogerd puts it in his introduction to this splendid overview of Schuil's work: "The paintings of Han Schuil reflect something of the urbanized Netherlands of the present, designed down to the last detail. They are crisp, clear images with the immediate impact of a logo. The synthetic colors, the sharp-edged forms and the balanced compositions give the paintings a strong signaling effect, while the irregular contours and surfaces add strength to their physical appearance." Indeed the paintings collected here reveal the engagement of an abstraction-trained artist with the world of comic book icons and advertisement, a world of ubiquitous representation, and the results are both intuitively satisfying and intellectually challenging.

Han Schuil: Schilderijen--Paintings 1983-1999

Arts & Photography

Dominic Van Den Boogerd

Bert Jansen

History & Criticism

NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Artwork by Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters. Edited by Jean Hans Arp. Contributions by Rudi Fuchs, Siegfried Gohr, Hans Richter.

Kurt Schwitters: 'I is Style'

Tzara, Tristan

Gohr, Siegfried

Schwitters, Kurt

Individual Artists

Photographs by Arnulf Rainer. Contributions by Rudi Fuchs.

Arnulf Rainer: Even Before Language

Dennis Hopper's artistry has always extended to all facets of his life--from the films he as written, directed, and starred in, to his patronage of the arts and the avant-garde company he has kept, to his own photography and his painting. This new publication focuses on his paintings, which often refer to his cinematic and photographic work--Hopper incorporates photos and film stills into his canvases, arraying his works in diptychs and triptychs. Dennis Hopper: Paintings, Photographs, Films presents this complicated artist in all of his diversity, showing the outgoing public figure, the voyeuristic photographer, and, above all, the introverted painter. In addition to extensive full-color documentation of his paintings, Dennis Hopper: Paintings, Photographs, Films features texts--an essay by prominent art critic Rudi Fuchs and an interview between Hopper and Jan-Hein Sassen--that explore Hopper's visual art in unprecedented depth, situating him within the contemporary American art scene, and looking at his relationships with other artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Alex Katz.

Dennis Hopper: Paintings, Photographs, Films

Hopper, Dennis

Many of today's artists display an affinity for the techniques and subjects of 1960s and 70s conceptual art. A new look at the work of Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, Art &amp; Language, John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert &amp; George, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Bruce Nauman, On Kawara, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, and others bears exploring in relation to the processes and themes of contemporary art. By considering conceptual art in the Netherlands and Belgium from 1965-1975, this publication hopes to answer such questions, especially in relation to the Netherlands as a melting pot for ideas and the importance of Dutch institutions in supporting and disseminating conceptual art.

Conceptual Art In The Netherlands And Belgium 1965-1975

Visser, Hripsimé

van Winkel, Camiel

BLOTKAMP, Carel

Climbing frames, arches, igloos, tumbling bars, jumping stones, and climbing walls all found their way into unsightly wastelands and boring squares thanks to the visionary help of architect Aldo van Eyck, who transformed urban spaces in Amsterdam into more than 700 playgrounds between 1947 and 1978. Beyond the sites' spatial designs, van Eyck also developed a whole series of sandpits, climbing frames, and other equipment in his radical, charming recreation of the city into a space for play. This book considers the importance of the playground in general and more specifically within the international postwar developments in city planning. Van Eyck's sources of inspiration, from Kurt Schwitters to Jacoba Mulder, are surveyed. The playgrounds themselves are examined on the basis of how they were received at the time of construction, through letters from neighborhood residents, memoranda by public officials, and the reactions of contemporary architects. A separate essay traces what happened to the playgrounds after 1978, and how van Eyck's ideas resonate in the design practices and spatial planning policy of today.

Aldo Van Eyck: Designing For Children, Playgrounds

Lefaivre, Liane

Novak, Anja

Wilken, Debbie

Architecture

Flying in the face of the good taste so amply displayed in the "little world of ceramics" that he detests, Grayson Perry's pots are shocking and thematically controversial. With their scratched-in surfaces that feature colored images ranging from quintessentially English floral patterns to transvestities to sexual and violent scenes, Perry's work tackles guilt and innocence, perversion and hypocrisy, aggression and violence, sexuality and gender--a far cry from the subject matters usually dealt with in the British arts and crafts world. Presented in the format of an album, this monograph offers intriguing insight into the world that Grayson creates in drawings, embroidery, photography, and, most especially, ceramic pots.

Grayson Perry

WILSON, ANDREW

Buck, Louisa

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