Per Kirkeby (b. 1938) is Scandinavia's most highly acclaimed artist since August Strindberg and Asger Jorn. His early training as a geologist is evident in his richly layered canvases, which are structured like geological strata, constantly in flux, expressing movement and change. This is true as we[...]
Seven papers originally delivered at the annual Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, August 1972, by Adolf Portmann, Gershom Scholem, Christopher Rowe, Dominique Zahan, Ernst Benz, Rene Huyghe, and Toshihiki Izutsu.[...]
The Human Argument is the first publication of Agnes Denes's collected writings. Denes--an early pioneer of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art--has investigated the physical and social sciences, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, art history, poetry and music and transformed he[...]
"Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008" is the first significant survey of the work and methods of this British-born, Texas- and New York-based 'realist' panoramic painter, and features 25 works from Downes' earliest panoramic work, "A Thaw (1972)" through major examples of painting done in [...]