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Gerhard Richter – Overpainted Photographs is a catalogue published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition at Sies + Höke in 2023. The exhibition presents over 60 Overpainted Photographs by Gerhard Richter dating from the years 1989 to 2018, illuminating this important part of Richter's œuvre. Overpainted Photographs were created by Richter from the late 1980s onwards. Despite their small format, they have a significant status within the artist’s œuvre: like no other group of works, they embody the interface between the representation of photographic image content and abstract painting. Through photography, a representational motif is conveyed pictorially, while at the same time an abstract colour matter is applied to the surface. These two levels of reality appear as an interlocking unity and enter into a close, tension-filled and subtle connection. Across 304 pages, this monographic catalogue features reproductions of the exhibited works with a particular focus on illuminating their fine details. The catalogue includes a reprinted essay by Siri Hustvedt as well as new texts by Dietmar Elger and Mark Godfrey.

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.

Alles beginnt in einem Sommer in Island. Die Nächte sind lang und hell. Siri Hustvedt, 13, liest David Copperfield und weiß, dass sie Schriftstellerin werden will. Mit 14 liest sie Simone de Beauvoir und wird Feministin. Ihre Wissbegier ist schon früh enorm. Mit Anfang zwanzig flieht sie aus der amerikanischen Provinz zum Studium nach New York, wo sie noch heute lebt.
Das Bewegliche, Offene dieser Stadt habe sie immer fasziniert, erzählt Hustvedt der Kulturwissenschaftlerin Elisabeth Bronfen im Sommer 2018. Alles Starre, jedes Dogma hingegen ist ihr fremd – kulturelle Stereotype, patriarchale, sexistische Denkmuster, wie sie im Amerika unter Donald Trump wieder an Popularität gewinnen. Siri Hustvedt sucht das Verbindende, nicht das Trennende, eine Vielfalt der Perspektiven. Das Spiel mit Identitäten, auch mit Geschlechteridentitäten bestimmt ihre Romane, das Zusammenwirken verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen ihre essayistischen Texte. Luzide legt Siri Hustvedt dar, dass wahre Denkräume Zwischenräume sind, in denen nicht die Gewissheit regiert, sondern das Sowohl-als-auch.

Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York has to offer, twenty-three-year-old S.H. embarks on a year that proves both exhilarating and frightening - from bruising encounters with men to the increasingly ominous monologues of the woman next door. Forty years on, those pivotal months come back to vibrant life when S.H. discovers the notebook in which she recorded her adventures alongside drafts of a novel. Measuring what she remembers against what she wrote, she regards her younger self with curiosity and often amusement. Anger too, for how much has really changed in a world where the female presidential candidate is called an abomination? [amazon.com]

Was ist der Verstand? Wie unterscheidet er sich vom Körper? In ihrem Essay nimmt sich Siri Hustvedt das uralte, noch immer nicht gelöste Geist-Körper-Problem vor und macht deutlich, wie sehr die unterschiedlichen Antworten auf diese Frage tiefgreifende Bedeutung für unser Verständnis von uns selbst haben. Mit ihrem multidisziplinären Zugang zeigt Hustvedt, wie sehr ungerechtfertigte Annahmen über Körper und Geist das Denken der Neurowissenschaftler, Genetiker, Psychiater, Evolutionspsychologen und der Forscher zur Künstlichen Intelligenz verzerrt und verwirrt hat. Sie führt den Leser in körperintegrierende Theorien von Bewusstsein ein, die die aktuelle Debatte über Verstand und Körper verändern - betont aber, dass keine Idee unantastbar ist. «Hier münden Hustvedts literarisches Werk und ihre wissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Essays in eine ganz eigene Variante poetischer Gelehrsamkeit.» SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG

Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a range of subjects. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny. In the book's central essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section, reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory, perception and the philosophy of Kierkegaard. With clarity, wit, and passion, she exposes gender bias, upends received ideas and challenges her reader to think again.

From the internationally bestselling author, praised for her “beguiling, lyrical prose” (The Sunday Times Review, UK), comes a brilliant, provocative novel about an artist, Harriet Burden, who after years of being ignored by the art world conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts. Presented as a collection of texts, edited and introduced by a scholar years after the artist’s death, the book unfolds through extracts from Burden’s notebooks and conflicting accounts from others about her life and work. Even after she steps forward to reveal herself as the force behind three solo shows, there are those who doubt she is responsible for the last exhibition, initially credited to the acclaimed artist Rune. No one doubts the two artists were involved with each other. According to Burden’s journals, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous psychological game that ended with the man’s bizarre death. From one of the most ambitious and internationally celebrated writers of her generation, Hustvedt’s The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force. It is also an intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle that addresses the shaping influences of prejudice, money, fame, and desire on what we see in one another. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, this is a book you won’t be able to put down.

From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the essays range across the humanities and science as Siri explores how we see, remember, feel and interact with others, what it means to sleep, dream and speak, and what we mean by 'self'. The combination offers a profound and fascinating insight into ourselves as thinking, feeling beings.

Mia is forced to reexamine her life when her husband puts their marriage on "pause" after thirty years. She returns to the prairie town of her childhood, and is drawn into the lives of those around her.

"While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely?"--Back cover

The dazzling new novel by the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I LOVED, about the secrets and ghosts that haunt families from one generation to the next

In het leven van een Amerikaanse studente, die haar eigen identiteit aan het zoeken is, spelen in verschillende perioden vier mensen een grote rol.

Although she has spent many years assisting her husband, filmmaker Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders is a celebrated photographer in her own right. Her access to some of the most important creative figures of our day—musicians, artists, actors, and dancers—has given her opportunities to catch her famous subjects in rare moments of unselfconsciousness. Presented in an elegant package that features a linen jacket and gold embossing, these sumptuous black-and-white images of celebrities and ordinary people illustrate moments of exquisite contemplation, which she likens to "islands of silence." Accompanied by essays from novelist Siri Hustvedt and critic Mark Gisbourne, these glimpses of everyday life remind us of the world we all inhabit, regardless of our fame.

In this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels: identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife, student, reader and writer - to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature. Wise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit.

What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.

Siri Hustvedts nye roman er en fortelling om to familier som møter sorgen, og om hvordan de lever seg gjennom den. Hovedpersonene er kunstnere og intellektuelle, og vi følger dem gjennom mer enn to tiår i New Yorks Soho, der de bor i samme hus i hver sin etasje. Begge parene får en sønn. De er jevngamle og alltid sammen. Tilsynelatende lever de familiene i en og balanse mellom foreldrenes intellektuelle og kunstneriske virksomhet. Så rammer tragedien med full tyngde. Den ene av guttene dør i en drukningsulykke. Forholdet mellom foreldrene forvitrer, og de to kapsler seg inn og flykter inn i sin "voksne" virksomhet. I etasjen over er det duket for enda en sorg. Sønnen her viser å være et destruktivt menneske som lyver og manipulerer langt mer enn normalt. Etter hvert blir sammenhengen tydelig mellom de menneskelige tragediene boken skildrer og den kunstkritikk og historieskrivning de voksne arbeider med. To av Hustvedts bøker er tidligere utgitt på norsk, bl.a. ?Lily Dahls fortryllelse? (1997).

Siri Hustvedt hat sich mit ihren Romanen als Autorin spannender und moderner Literatur einen Namen gemacht. In «Nicht hier, nicht dort» sind erstmals ihre essayistischen Schriften versammelt. Der Titel bezieht sich auf ihre geographische Herkunft als Tochter norwegischer Einwanderer und auf ihren künstlerischen Standpunkt als Beobachterin: die Fiktion als Zwilling der Erinnerung, angesiedelt zwischen der realen und der gefühlten Welt. Die Sprache als Mittlerin zwischen diesen Welten steht im Mittelpunkt von Hustvedts Betrachtungen zu Literatur und bildender Kunst. Sie erschließt ein komplexes System von Zeichen und Symbolen, deren Struktur und Bedeutung sowohl in unserem Bewusstsein als auch außerhalb von uns angelegt sind. Hustvedt beleuchtet, wie der künstlerische Schaffensprozess zu Erkenntnis führt, anhand von Beispielen wie Vermeers «Annunziata» und F. Scott Fitzgeralds «Gatsby». Zudem untersucht sie in einem Essay den puritanischen Dirigismus, mit dem US-amerikanische Institutionen die Sexualität regulieren wollen, und erforscht das Feld der Annäherung, in dem jeder erotische Kontakt beginnt. Wie in ihren Romanen verweben sich private Biographie und öffentliches Werk, was diesem Buch einen besonderen Wert verleiht. Es bietet Einblick in ihre Arbeit und ihr Leben und unterhält auf hohem Niveau.

Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erotic adventure, she finds herself the target of mysterious acts of madness as she strains against the confines of small town life.

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.