Books written by Briony Fer

The Infinite Line: Re-making Art After Modernism

A través de la obra de varios artistas -Rothko, Piero Manzoni, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Blinky Palermo y Louise Bourgeois- se analizan aspectos innovadores del arte de los años 50 y 60, incidiendo en la tendencia a la ...
On Abstract Art

... Williams ( eds ) , Marxism and Art : Writings in Aesthetics and Criticism , McKay , New York , 1972 , p . 424 . Rosalind Krauss , ' The Originality of the Avant - Garde ' , October no . 18 ( Fall 1981 ) , reprinted in The ...
Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars

For many, Realism represented an alternative to what was seen as the isolation or even elitism of the avant-garde, a viewpoint that gained support from the adoption of Socialist Realism as the official art form of the Soviet Union.
Realismo, Racionalismo y Surrealismo

Max Morise , Michel Leiris , Exposition Chirico : Max Morise . TEXTES SURRÉALISTES : Philosophies , L'étoile au front : Paul Éluard . Philippe Soupault , Marcel Noll , Georges Malkine . Correspondance . Les parasites voyagent : Benjamin ...
Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars

( Vauxcelles , quoted in Green , Cubism and its Enemies , p.168 ) In the 1920s Vauxcelles was still warning against the ' perils of seductive intellectualism , of unbridled logic and algebra ! ' Thus in the face of such disasters ...
Louise Bourgeois: Paintings

Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings explores Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s and her development of a unique pictorial language, adding a key ...
La modernidad y lo moderno

Los artistas académicos se veían condicionados a la hora de sus temas y sus modelos por del legado de la vieja noción aristocrática que determinaba qué era digno de ser pintado y , además , cómo se debía pintar .
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All

This handsomely designed book spans the artist’s rich and varied oeuvre from the early 1960s to the present, including photo paintings, portraits, large-scale abstract series, and works on glass.
Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 8 June--21 August 2016"--Copyright page.
Detached

Whiteread's sculpture is predicated on casting procedures, and the traces left on the sacrificial objects and spaces from which the final inverse form is derived.
Tacita Dean. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting: Ausst. Kat. Mudam Luxembourg - Musée D'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 2022

Realising they were going to turn collectively one hundred and fifty years old in 2020, she filmed them in conversation in Luchita Hurtado's Santa Monica apartment.The resulting 16mm film One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting (2021) is a ...
Martin Creed

An original essay by art scholar Briony Fer looks at the overriding tendency toward repetition and seriality that marks Creeds work, whereby he recalls and transforms the work of an earlier generation of artists such as Eva Hesse, Dan ...
Anna Maria Maiolino

Accompanying the first major American museum retrospective of Anna Maria Maiolino's work, this book surveys a prodigious career that has spanned numerous decades, genres, and themes.
Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century

This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Eva Hesse: Studiowork

Throughout her career, Eva Hesse (1936--1970) produced a significant number of small, experimental works alongside her large-scale sculpture. These so-called "test-pieces” were made in a wide range of materials, including...