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Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
– San Francisco, Contemporary
Jewish Museum –
Catalogue by Wanda M. Corn &
Tirza True Latimer. San Francisco/Washington
2011/12. 4to.
XII, 404 S. mit 248 teils farb. Abb.,
Bibliographie, Index, Ppbd.
SITUATIONISTEN – WARK,
McKENZIE. The Beach Beneath
the Street: The Everyday Life
and Glorious Times of the Situationist
International. London
2011. VIII, 197 S., Index, Ppbd.
Over fifty years after the Situationist
International appeared, its legacy
continues to inspire activists,
artists and theorists around the
world. Such a legend has accrued
to this movement that the story
of the SI now demands to be told
in a contemporary voice capable
of putting it into the context of
twenty-first-century struggles.
Accessible to those who have only
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Gertrude Stein is justly famous
for her modernist writings and her
patronage of vanguard painters
(most notably Matisse and Picasso)
in Paris before the First
World War. This book illuminates
less familiar aspects of her life.
Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True
Latimer analyze the portraits for
which Stein posed, the domestic
settings she created with Alice
B. Toklas, her partner, and the
signature styles of dress the two
women adopted. Focusing on portraits
in a range of media, photo
essays, press clippings, snapshots,
clothing, furniture, and other visual
artifacts, this pathbreaking
study reveals Stein’s sophistication
in shaping her public image
and cultural legacy.
1459550 39,–
just discovered the Situationists
and filled with new insights, „The
Beach Beneath the Street“ rereads
the group’s history in the light
of our contemporary experience
of communications, architecture,
and everyday life.
1460523 19,90
SKULPTUR – HOLZ. Werke der
Sammlung Annetta und Gustav
Grisard. Beitr. von Gustav E. Grisard
& Nicolaj van der Meulen.
Basel 2011. 196 S. mit 150 farb.
Abb., Ppbd. mit Holzfurnier.
Die Sammlung Annetta und Gustav
Grisard bietet einen einmaligen
Einblick in die mannigfaltigen
künstlerischen Positionen skulpturaler
und bildlicher Beschäftigung
mit dem Thema Holz. Der aufwendig
ausgestattete Katalog, der