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Xanti Schawinsky by Eva Diaz (English) Paperback Book
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- ISBN-13
- 9783037643976
- Type
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- ISBN
- 9783037643976
- Book Title
- Xanti Schawinsky
- Publisher
- Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag A&G
- Item Length
- 10.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / Monographs, Performance
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Item Width
- 8 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Publisher
Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag A&G
ISBN-10
3037643978
ISBN-13
9783037643976
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211942142
Product Key Features
Book Title
Xanti Schawinsky
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / Monographs, Performance
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
8 in
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How could an artist and designer as prolific, gifted and charismatic as Xanti Schawinsky - a central figure in mid-20th-century avant-garde circles in Europe and the United States - have come close to being forgotten?, Schawinsky went on to produce a body of visual work that still looks remarkably fresh. It has the clean, formal discipline that gives away his architectural training, but with a sense - thanks to comic touches, surreal flashes and experimentation - of an artist constantly pushing at the boundaries of genre. Cut-outs, optical tricks, the repurposing of brand identities and early mechanical graphic treatments: all contribute to work which manages to be genuinely avant-garde without snobbishly pushing the viewer away. Schawinsky deserves to be a better known name, both in art and also in the world of graphic identity which now permeates almost all aspects of modern life., How could an artist and designer as prolific, gifted and charismatic as Xanti Schawinsky -- a central figure in mid-20th-century avant-garde circles in Europe and the United States -- have come close to being forgotten?
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
709.2
Synopsis
In his lifetime, "Xanti" (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904-79) was best known for his work in the theater department at the Bauhaus. Fleeing Germany before the beginning of the Second World War, he landed at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where in the 1930s he developed his theory of the "Spectodrama." Involving multimedia productions examining elementary phenomena such as space, motion, light, sound or color from scientific, technical and performance-based perspectives, the Spectodrama represents an early form of the "happening." Beyond the avant-garde utopias of the Bauhaus and his proto-happening art, Schawinsky also worked as a painter and graphic designer.Protracted legal disputes over the artist's estate meant that Schawinsky's work was until recently almost inaccessible; Xanti Schawinsky is the first survey of Schawinsky's extraordinarily prolific output over the course of five decades, and a long-overdue resource on the work of this key figure., The work of the late Swiss artist 'Xanti' (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904-1979) was until recently almost inaccessible. A long legal dispute and the fact that Schawinsky's work as a teacher was so integral to his artistic praxis (rather than only presenting his work in galleries and exhibitions), explain why much of his oeuvre is to be found in just one location today.In his lifetime, Schawinsky was mainly known for his work in the theatre department at the Bauhaus. In the 1930s, while teaching at Black Mountain College, a legendary art college in North Carolina that provided refuge for many European emigrants during the Nazi era, Schawinsky, building on his Bauhaus work, developed his dramatic theory known as Spectodrama.Involving multimedia productions that examine elementary phenomena such as space, motion, light, sound, or colour from scientific, technical, and performance-based perspectives, it represents an early form of the 'happening,' which would later be made famous by another affiliate of the same institution, John Cage.His work may thus also be seen as representative of the transatlantic exchange of artistic ideas that was induced by the political situation and had a lasting impact on art history.This publication is conceived as an indispensable monograph on the artist - the most recent book, which focuses on the works from his time at the Bauhaus, came out almost three decades ago. This is the first survey of Schawinsky's extraordinarily prolific output over the course of five decades. Published with Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich.English and German text.
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Díaz, Eva, Blume, Torsten
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