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Available: April 2013
ISBN: 9783864420269
Price: £28.50
Format: Hardback
Pages: 180
Illustrations: 500 colour
Size: 290 x 240 mm
Category: Art
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Der Spiegel des Narziss
Der Spiegel des Narziss
Vom mythologischen Halbgott zum Massenphänomen
30 JOHN RULE Spring 2013
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Available: April 2013
ISBN: 9783864420306
Price: £28.50
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
Illustrations: 100 colour
Size: 280 x 220 mm
Category: Art
Rights: UK & Eire, Scandinavia,
Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal
and Eastern Europe only
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Peter Dreher: Homage to Painting
Peter Dreher & Christine Litz
The diverse oeuvre of Peter Dreher, who celebrated his 80th birthday
this summer, has culminated in a continuing series initiated way back in
1974. The 25 × 20 cm panels – oil on canvas or cardboard – perennially
depict the same solitary glass and are all entitled Every Day is a Good
Day. The artist recently described the genesis of the series as follows:
One idea I had at the end of the 1960s, beginning of the 1970s, was to
paint an invisible picture. Of course, it was an impossible undertaking.
An undertaking that could only be realised by painting the simplest
thing possible … I was always cautious about narrative pictures charged
with meaning. But an individual painting loses its relationship with
reality as soon as it is repeated. This is how I arrived at the idea of
painting the same thing over and over again At first there were six,
then I felt like doing another and another – and now there are 5,000.
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The Mirror of Narcissus: From
Mythological Demigod to Mass
Phenomenon
Beate Ermacora et al
This extensive catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the Galerie
Taxispalais in Innsbruck. It interprets the popular Narcissus theme, not
merely from the mythological angle – Narcissus is considered to be the
godfather of painting – or as a mirror image of Freudian psychoanalysis
– but in particular to place the theme in the context of gender
discourse. According to one of the theses, it is only through the blurring
of gender roles that a masculine physical self-awareness has come into
play, which, with vain self-reflection, blatantly and radically parades a
different part of the essence of feeling, somewhere between denial and
delusions of grandeur. Featuring works by Urs Lüthi, Niklas Goldbach,
Ely Kim, Helmut Schober, Anan Tzukerman and Luis Camnitzer.