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The book features a collection of essays that explore the concept of beauty in art, combining four original essays with newly discovered writings. Celebrated by artists and critiqued by some, it addresses the significance of beauty during the AIDS crisis, reflecting on its role amidst death and decay. Hickey's insights on the "therapeutic institution" and his unique perspectives on various artists and cultural figures highlight his influence as a prominent arts writer. The afterword adds depth by contextualizing his work within the challenges of his time.

The bestselling visual biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative, influential artists Andy Warhol "Giant" Size is the definitive document of this remarkable creative force, and a telling look at late twentieth-century pop culture. A must-have for Warhol fans and pop culture enthusiasts, this in-depth and comprehensive overview of Warhol's extraordinary career is packed with more than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork. Dave Hickey's compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution combines with chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders to give special insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his art. It also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world of the 1950s to the 1980s. From the publisher of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volumes 1 - 5.

When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out -- he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which nearly killed him. A Hickey went on to develop a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted no-nonsense voice commenting on the worlds of art and culture. Perfect Wave brings together essays on a wide range of subjects from throughout Hickey's career, displaying his breadth of interest and powerful insight into what makes art work, or not, and why we care.

Photographer David Levinthal's most recent series, History, is a culmination of his work over the last three-and-a-half decades. Like his previous bodies of work--the most well-known of which include Hitler Moves East (1975--77), Modern Romance (1984--86), The Wild West (1987--89), and Barbie (1998--99)--History speaks to the way in which popular imagery infiltrates memory, imagination, and identity. The exhibition at George Eastman House will be the first time that History is presented to the public. To make his work, Levinthal (American, b. 1949) begins by finding vintage figurines and play sets through his now long-established network of toy sellers and collectors, and then creates elaborate scenes based on events in history, especially as they are depicted in visual culture. Levinthal then photographs his scenes and creates large, history-painting-sized inkjet prints. The compositions are reminiscent of famous images from art history, television, and movies, but are not exact replicas. Instead, they are imaginative re-creations that paraphrase their source material. This increases the scenarios' semblance of realism, in that the viewer interprets them as moments near the time of the iconic pictures, but it also introduces a note of disjuncture to the scenes--George Eastman Museum

„. wenn unsere Kunstkritik mehr sein möchte als eine bloße geisteswissenschaftliche Disziplin, dann muss die Wirkungsmacht der Bilder der Ausgangspunkt der Kritik sein und nicht ihre Konsequenz, - das Subjekt der Kritik und nicht ihr Objekt. Und darum“, resümierte ich einigermaßen großartig, „möchte ich ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf die Sprache des visuellen Affekts richten, - auf die Rhetorik des Wie-die-Dinge-aussehen, - auf die Ikonographie des Begehrens, - mit einem Wort, auf Schönheit.“ Dave Hickey gilt als einer der eigensinnigsten und einflussreichsten Kunstkritiker der USA, er publizierte unter anderem in Artforum, Interview und im Rolling Stone. Derzeit hat er eine Professur an der University of Nevada, Las Vegas inne. Der erstmals in deutscher Sprache erscheinende Band wurde vom Autor in Gänze durchgesehen und stark überarbeitet. Die vier Essays spannen einen Bogen über die Werke von Raphael und Caravaggio bis hin zu Andy Warhol und Robert Mapplethorpe.

Arguably one of Americas most unconventional art/cultural critics

David Levinthal, a central figure in the history of American postmodern photography, has staged uncanny tableaux using toys and miniature dioramas for nearly forty years. This publication for the first time assembles the artist's photography on the subject of war. Levinthal's combat-related tableaux constitute a remarkable critique of the ways society experiences conflict through its portrayal. His groundbreaking project "Hitler Moves East" (1975–77), a series of imagined scenes from World War II's Russian front, first established his reputation, becoming a touchstone for the iconoclastic generation of American photographers that includes artists like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince.The book has a beautifully designed canvas hardcover with silkscreen print and a dust jacket

„The mutable version of identity is not an aberration... the fixed version is the aberration.“ Roni Horn Comprising fifteen pairs of portraits collected from throughout a life...

One of a very few women willing to brave the machismo of New York Abstract Expressionism, Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) today ranks among the best of her generation. And the art market reflects her steady two years ago Christie's sold a 1971 Mitchell canvas for $7 million, the second-highest sale for a female artist. Setting aside matters of gender, Mitchell remains exemplary as an artist able to lay bare each decision of the brush, in long, curving strokes and tangles of paint on often unprimed canvases. Mitchell is as raw and as messy as Jackson Pollock or Cy Twombly, never digressing into prettiness for the sake of art. Published on the occasion of her eponymous late-2008 exhibition at Cheim & Read, Joan Sunflowers presents major paintings alongside a selection of pastels and etchings, which turn on the theme of the sunflower. Begun in 1969, after Mitchell had relocated to the French town of Vétheuil, just outside Paris, these works gathered steam until 1972. Sunflowers includes an essay by noted art historian and critic Dave Hickey, which offers a context for these fraught and beautiful works.

Mit dem ersten Playboy-Centerfold im Jahr 1953 – zufällig, oder auch nicht, war es der aufstrebende Weltstar Marilyn Monroe – hatte Hugh Hefner, Erfinder, Herausgeber und Verleger des Playboy, im playmate of the month einen Kultplatz für weibliche Aktphotographie geschaffen, um den sich in der Folge die schönsten Frauen der Welt reißen sollten. Die Idee, alle playmate of the month-Akte in einem einzigen Buch zusammenzustellen, hat voll ins Schwarze getroffen: Die 1. Auflage war im Handumdrehen vergriffen und der Appetit – auf insgesamt 625 farbige Photos von entblößten Schönheiten – hält unvermindert an. Die Sammlung ist eine kolossale, ins erotische Delirium führende Feier des weiblichen Körpers und seiner Formen. Sie illustriert die kollektiven erotischen Phantasien, die Playboy-Leser – Männer wie Frauen – in den sechs Dekaden heimgesucht haben, und ihren Wandel. Zu jedem Jahrzehnt hat ein Schriftsteller oder eine Schriftstellerin von Rang einen einführenden Text geschrieben. So treffen Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Stella Stevens, Jenny McCarthy, Anna Nicole Smith, Pamela Anderson und alle anderen Schönen auf die Poetenaugen von Robert Coover, Paul Theroux, Robert Stone, Jay McInerney, Daphne Merkin und Maureen Gibbon.