DAVID ANFAM

Jackson Pollock's Mural, created early in his career in 1943, is a vast panorama spanning a 6-metre-long canvas - the largest painting he ever made. Mural marked a watershed for Pollock: a presentiment of the epic scale, complexity, energy and ambition of the work ahead. David Anfam considers the manifold influences on Pollock that led to this landmark achievement - including the context of the American West, his hitherto little-known relationship with Clyfford Still and the importance of wartime action photography. He also traces the explosive magnetism Mural exerted over the emergent Abstract Expressionists and its legacy for painters and sculptors as diverse as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, David Smith, Richard Serra and Brice Marden. Indeed, the work's wider impact on post-war American art is comparable to that of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon on European modernism in the first half of the twentieth century.

Anish Kapoor (b.1954) is one of the world's most prominent artists, the creator of popular public sculptures around the globe, including Cloud Gate (2004, Millennium Park, Chicago), Mirror (2006, Rockefeller Center, New York), and Taratantara (1999Ð2000, Gateshead and Naples), and the recipient of numerous international awards, including the Turner Prize (1991) This is the most extensive monograph ever published on the artist, covering more than thirty years of work and illustrated with hundreds of full-colour images including sketches and technical diagrams from his most ambitious projects In a range of materials, from the traditional (alabaster, sandstone) to the high tech (polished steel, PVC), Kapoor's unique vocabulary of natural shapes and abstract forms has changed the course of contemporary sculpture Includes an extensive chronology covering the artist's life in detail and illustrated with snapshots, sketches and ephemera, some never before published

Interesante estudio del movimiento artístico más relevantes desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Un recorrido por este movimiento artístico desde sus comienzos hasta las últimas creaciones de sus principales representantesCuando el Expresionismo Abstracto se propagó más allá de Nueva York y la costa Oeste de Estados Unidos tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el mundo del arte cambio para siempre. Aunque al principio desperto indignacion, la cautivadorabelleza de los lienzos de Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Joan Mitchell y Franz Kline lograron erigirse como elementos iconicos y tremendamente influyentes del arte del siglo xx. El presente volumen recogela obra de estos pintores pero tambien contiene obras de escultores como David Smith y Louise Nevelson, asi como de los fotografos Aaron Siskind, Barbara Morgan y Minor White.Mediante fotografias de archivo y una exhaustiva cronologia de la epoca, los autores indagan en las raices del movimiento en la Gran Depresion, suacogida internacional, el rol revolucionario que jugaron las marchantes como Peggy Guggenheim y Betty Parsons, y las complejas y a menudo tumultuosas relaciones entre sus protagonistas.Catalogo de la exposicion del mismo nombre que tendra lugar en el Museo Guggenheim de Bilbao desde el 3 de febrero al 4 de junio de 2017.