Böcker av Leonhard Emmerling

An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO", before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted barely a decade, he remains a cult figure of artistic social commentary, and a trailblazer in the mediation of graffiti and gallery art. Basquiat's work drew upon diverse sources and media to create an original and urgent artistic vocabulary, biting with critique against structures of power and racism. His practice merged abstraction and figuration, poetry and painting, while his influences spanned Greek, Roman, and African art, French poetry, jazz, and the work of artistic contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly. The results are vivid, visceral mixtures of words, African emblems, cartoonish figures, daubs of bold color, and beyond. This book presents Basquiat's short but prolific career, his unique style, and his profound engagement with ever-relevant issues of integration and segregation, poverty and wealth.

An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO", before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted barely a decade, he remains a cult figure of artistic social commentary, and a trailblazer in the mediation of graffiti and gallery art. Basquiat's work drew upon diverse sources and media to create an original and urgent artistic vocabulary, biting with critique against structures of power and racism. His practice merged abstraction and figuration, poetry and painting, while his influences spanned Greek, Roman, and African art, French poetry, jazz, and the work of artistic contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly. The results are vivid, visceral mixtures of words, African emblems, cartoonish figures, daubs of bold color, and beyond. This book presents Basquiat's short but prolific career, his unique style, and his profound engagement with ever-relevant issues of integration and segregation, poverty and wealth.

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Pollock's most famous works are his drip paintings, where he dripped and poured household enamel paint over the canvas with a variety of instruments, from sticks to syringes, hardened brushes to broken bits of glass. The splattered results pulsate with energy, replacing the refinement of easel and brush with something altogether more immediate, vivid, and physical. To evade the viewer's search for figurative elements in his paintings, Pollock abandoned titles and identified each work with a neutral number only. Notoriously reclusive and volatile, struggling with alcoholism, married to fellow Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, and killed in a car crash aged just 44, Pollock is as much a compelling celebrity icon as an artistic pioneer. This essential artist introduction explores both his work and his fame to shed light on masterpieces of the modernist story, and the making of a cultural icon.

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Pollock's most famous works are his drip paintings, where he dripped and poured household enamel paint over the canvas with a variety of instruments, from sticks to syringes, hardened brushes to broken bits of glass. The splattered results pulsate with energy, replacing the refinement of easel and brush with something altogether more immediate, vivid, and physical. To evade the viewer's search for figurative elements in his paintings, Pollock abandoned titles and identified each work with a neutral number only. Notoriously reclusive and volatile, struggling with alcoholism, married to fellow Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, and killed in a car crash aged just 44, Pollock is as much a compelling celebrity icon as an artistic pioneer. This essential artist introduction explores both his work and his fame to shed light on masterpieces of the modernist story, and the making of a cultural icon.

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Rebell und tragischer Held des Abstrakten Expressionismus, wurde bereits zu Lebzeiten mythologisiert. Der "Hemingway der Malerei" hat dem Publikum alles geboten, was man von einem Genie erwarten darf: Trunksucht, Rowdytum, Größenwahn, Depressionen, einen frühen Tod in einem Autocrash und eine Kunst, wie es sie vor ihm nicht gegeben hat. Mit seinen abstrakten "Drip Paintings" schlug er ein gänzlich neues Kapitel der modernen Kunst auf.Nachdem er zu Beginn seiner Laufbahn noch figurativ gearbeitet und Einflüsse von den Surrealisten bis zur mexikanischen Wandmalerei verarbeitet hatte, fand er in der zweiten Hälfte der 1940er zu einem Stil, den er zwar nicht erfunden hatte, aber weltberühmt machen sollte. Als prominentester Vertreter des "Action Painting" kehrte er konventionellen Maltechniken den Rücken zu und schuf abstrakte Gewebe, indem er Industriefarben mit Stöcken oder eingetrockneten Pinseln auf die Leinwand spritzte oder direkt aus den Farbtöpfen tropfen ließ.In den auf diese Weise entstehenden Geweben aus Schlieren, Schwüngen, Tropfen und sich überschneidenden Rinnsalen spiegelte sich so auch der Bewegungsduktus des Künstlers wider. Um zu verhindern, dass der Betrachter in seinen Gemälden nach etwas Figürlichem sucht, gab Pollock ihnen eine Zeit lang keine Titel mehr, sondern identifizierte jedes seiner Werke lediglich durch eine Nummer.Pollock hatte ungeachtet seiner Erfolge in der zeitgenössischen Kritik stets mit schweren existenziellen Krisen zu kämpfen, die sein kurzes Leben überschatteten, der Legendenbildung jedoch durchaus förderlich waren. So ist diese Einführung in sein revolutionäres Werk auch die Geschichte einer medialen Inszenierung, die der gängigen Fantasie von Genie und Wahnsinn folgt.

Die New Yorker Ikone der 1980er, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), signierte seine Werke zunächst mit dem Graffiti-Tag SAMO, bevor er zum Atelierkünstler und mit 20 Jahren weltberühmt wurde. Obwohl seine Karriere kaum ein Jahrzehnt dauerte, ist er nach wie vor als sozialkritische Künstlerstimme eine Kultfigur und gilt als Vorreiter in der Vermittlung zwischen Graffiti und Galeriekunst.Basquiat schöpfte aus verschiedenen Quellen und schuf mit unterschiedlichen Medien eine originelle und dringliche Kunst, die sich mit beißender Kritik gegen Machtstrukturen und Rassismus wandte. In seinen Arbeiten vermischen sich Abstraktion und figürliches Malen, Poesie und Malerei; zu seinen Einflüssen zählen griechische, römische und afrikanische Kunst, französische Lyrik, Jazz und die Werke zeitgenössischer Künstler wie Andy Warhol und Cy Twombly. Daraus entstand ein leidenschaftlicher Mix aus Wörtern, afrikanischen Emblemen, Comicfiguren, leuchtenden Farbklecksen und mehr.Dieses Buch führt ein in Basquiats kurze, aber produktive Karriere, seinen einzigartigen Stil und seine Auseinandersetzung mit den bis heute relevanten Themen Integration und Ausgrenzung, Armut und Wohlstand.

"An engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages. One of the most astonishing aspects of the discourse on contemporary art is the firm and unwavering belief that art has the power to transform society for the better. There seems to be a consensus around the idea that art, especially visual art, is greatly suited to addressing all manner of social, political, economic, ecological, and other imbalances. Celebrated as a powerful remedy for social grievances, art finds its justification in the service it seems to provide to society. But as art historian Leonhard Emmerling contends in this timely volume, this presumptuous heroism shows willful blindness towards art's subjugation to contradictions inherent in social relations. He argues that the narrative of the power of art has its specific history. In trying to reconstruct this history in Art of Diremption, he discovers instead art's fundamental powerlessness as the foundation for art's political relevance. Art is weak, argues Emmerling. It, therefore, requires an ethics of weakness, which rejects the discourse of impact and power to enable a politics of art containing the permanence of reflection, the unreliability of thought, and the emergence of form as the event of the new. With a meticulously studied and well-argued case about the "powerlessness of art," Art of Diremption will be an important contribution to the field of art, aesthetics, and philosophy."--

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape, with his urgent, splattered drip paintings his most explosive legacy. This essential introduction traces Pollock's work and his fame to understand his masterpieces in the greater modernist story and explore his...

From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. This title also features a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work.