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This catalogue for the 5th Art Brut Biennial at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne highlights the museum's holdings with a selection of works that address belief in its many manifestations, including religion, spirit, and the occult.
This book presents the roughly 63 statues of the Bari tribe that are known today and provides both historical context and current scholarship for these works, their use and their stylistic diversity. Text in English and French.
Stunning, colour-saturated, studio photographs by a Senegalese photographer whose costumed portraits and self-portraits reflect on the history of Black Africans and the African diaspora. Text in English and French.
This catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Baur brings together paintings by French artist Pierre Soulages and sculpture by the Japanese bamboo master, Tanabe Chikuunsai IV. Text in English and French.
Italian artist Maria Lai's best-known large-scale collective art project, a 3-day event in her small hometown in Sardinia in 1981, carried out entirely by the residents and photographed by Piero Berengo Gardin.
This book offers a review of Matteo Pugliese's art over the past 20 years. The figures the Milanese sculptor creates are distinguished by their great power, revealing an inner torment that can no longer be disguised. Text in English and Italian.
This volume is a continuation of the first instalment of the editorial project Canova | In Four Tempos.
In Kuyu, part of the Visions of Africa series, the reader will find a wide range of authentic objects belonging to a traditional Equatorial African culture, as well as a reconstruction of the migration routes that would explain such a seemingly motley collection of objects.
For the first time African headrests are brought to life with detailed information on their carvers, and the stories of their creation, ownership, and use.
This publication sets out to acquaint a European public with the Yidaki, commonly known as the didgeridoo, a captivating music instrument, and with the unique culture who produced it and with the land where it originated.
The book is dedicated to two major large collaborative canvases by male and female artists of the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands and the Kulata Tjuta installation by artists of that same region. Text in English and French.
This book celebrates the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm designed and furnished by Gio Ponti. Text in English and Italian.
Collects the best works from the Ceil Pulitzer Collection of African Art, put together over more than 30 years.
A 4,000-kilometre journey exploring a little-known network uniting highways, back roads, forests, parks, rivers, and nature reserves throughout the Italian peninsula. Text in English and Italian.
This book explores Jean-Paul Riopelle's interest in northern Canada and his works devoted to this theme. It highlights in particular the wonderful series of paintings he made in the 1970s, including both the works themselves and archival materials that delve into this period when Riopelle was especially energetic.
The aim of this first volume is to catalog the works in the collection, whose decorative aspects are every bit as important as their narrative content.
This monograph on Susanna Bauer presents the artist's work to an international audience for the first time in book form. The essential ingredients of Bauer's artistic production are leaves, stones, twigs...
This fully illustrated book was planned in collaboration with Archivio Maria Lai and its ambition is to become forthwith the standard reference work for those wishing to learn more about Maria Lai and to explore her links with the Italian and international art historical context in which she operated.
The second volume in the Hidden Treasures series launched in 2018 with the Farnese Cup examines another undoubted masterpiece: The Alexander Mosaic. It is certainly one of the great attractions for visitors who every day throng the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
Contemporary Aboriginal and Western artwork from two important private collections on view at the Fondation Opale.
The book explores the role of Jacques Kaufmann in the world of international contemporary ceramics, and his impact in architectural ceramics since he first became interested in the field several years ago.
A collection of black and white images of hidden artefacts from Pompeii, held at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples
Many of Gauguin's portraits of Breton and Polynesian sitters, as well as his self-portraits, include inanimate objects. Intriguing as these are, the works in Paul Gauguin's portrait "gallery" have never really been the subject of a thorough study. Text in French.
Over the years, the cosmic ideas of distant foreign lands were incorporated in the Hausas' system of thought and the allo kafii gida have thus turned into cosmological time capsules impressed on wooden panels.
Carlo Zinelli is one of the leading figures in Art Brut, along with Aloise Corbaz and Adolf Woelfli. The book devoted to him by Collection de l'Art Brut, in Lausanne - the public institution that possesses the largest body of work by the Italian artist - gathers together a series of articles on Zinelli by experts in different disciplines.
The book is a new take on perception and preconceptions about the unclothed body and how, through art, the naked becomes the nude.
The theatre is the central theme of this fourth volume in our series titled 'Art Brut - The Collection', published to coincide with the fourth Art Brut Biennale.
This book presents the Josette and Jean-Claude Weill Collection. Expanded over the decades under the enthusiastic stewardship of their son Jean-Pierre, the collection now includes over 120 works of the very highest order, covering Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
This book is the most important monograph devoted to the Swiss artist-photographer Beatrice Helg. Text in English and French.
This book examines the various figures and interests involved in the design and construction of the Canada Pavilion and explores how it was used over the past sixty years to exhibit the work of Canadian artists and architects
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