Bøker av Barry Schwabsky

Haiku by Schwabsky accompanied by new pastels by t thilleman. These poems are charactrerized as "Fat Haiku" because they stretch the usual line length as well as the purported moment of thought involved in their creation.

The definitive book on a creative force who continues to influence sculpture and installation art

Rarely seen and important paintings by this much-loved French postimpressionist, emphasizing his radical use of colour and unconventional compositions.

In this collection of critical essays, Barry Schwabsky re-examines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of 'high modernism' remain consequential to it, through tensions between representation, abstraction, and pictorial language.

Leading art critic explores the connections between art's past and presentContemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art's present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past. Surveying the art world of recent decades, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer facesamong them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei, Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpsonbut their forebears as well, both near (Jeff Wall, Nancy Spero, Dan Graham, Cindy Sherman) and more distant (Velzquez, Manet, Matisse, and the portraitists of the Renaissance). Schwabsky's rich and subtle contributions illuminate art's present moment in all its complexity: shot through with determinations produced by centuries of interwoven traditions, but no less open-ended for it.

This is the first substantial publication on the work of Britishartist Gillian Carnegie. In contemporary painting her work stands apart,quietly, calmly and insistently uncanny, with an emotional tenor unlikeanything else in art today.

Juan Uslé (Santander) has been living in New York since the early ''90s, and is one of the most prominent figures of contemporary painting. The hypersensitivity described by Uslé in his work is a sort of memorable visionary state because it is painful. When we see certain paintings by Uslé, always in intense, bright and burning colours, we should be reminded of encounters with one of those states that take us out of our everyday way of perceiving, Each one of these events teaches us that everything we perceive can be captured in an entirely different way, given that even a small modification of the perceptual apparatus can cause it to vary.Some of Uslé''s paintings, the most complex, bring to mind looking through a kaleidoscope. It is useful to recall that these types of experiences, to which we are unaccustomed, are neither easy nor comfortable, and yet remain a crucial step away from being painful. In their excess they put pressure on our aesthetic expectations. This work would be the pictorial equivalent of Rimbaud''s famous quote: "dérèglement de tous les sens".