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Books : Arts & Photography : Artists, A-Z : ( J-L ) : Kollwitz, Kathe
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Eighty-three moving works from the four great print cycles — The Weavers, The Peasant War, War, Death — and more. "To see the beautiful examples of her work reproduced in this well-printed, reasonably priced volume is to sit at the feet of a great modern master." — School Arts.
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The German printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz's images of mothers and children and of protest against social injustice have long been admired by both critics and the public. Kollwitz adhered to a figurative style in the era of abstraction and she depicted socially-engaged subject matter when it was unfashionable. Critics have often focused on those issues and have rarely studied the ways in which the artist manipulated technique and resolved formal problems. This illustrated book redresses this imbalance, portraying Kollwitz as an innovative and virtuosic artist rather than a mere chronicler of particular themes. The book consists of three essays on Kollwitz - Elizabeth Prelinger provides a reassessment of Kollwitz as an artist; Alessandra Comini presents a discussion of Kollwitz's life in Berlin during the tumultuous period that spanned two world wars; and Hildegard Bachert surveys the reception of Kollwitz in Germany and America as manifested in collections of her works. The volume, which includes a selection examples of Kollwitz's work, juxtaposes preparatory drawings with finished art, illustrating the arduous experimental process by which she attained her results. Themes important to Kollwitz - such as self portraits, political and social activism as illustrated in the cycles "The Weavers' Rebellion" and "The Peasants' War", love and death, nudes, workers, and war
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A genration after her death, German artist Kathe Kollwitz is winning a reputation as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th Century. Concentrating on the more "democratic" media-especially etchings, lithographs, posters, and woodcuts, as well as sculpture and bronze reliefs-Kollwitz always created for the people, rather than for the upper class collector. Unlike the volputuous odalisques so often depicted by male artists, Kollowitz's women are joyous or grief stricken, thoughtful or shielding mothers; forlorn, pregnant, widows; tender friends; prostitutes; militant pacifists or revolutionaries in action. In her sensitive narrative, Martha Kearns establishes Kollwitz's contributions to western art, and especially to women's art. This original paperback is generously illustrated with many striking, seldom-see reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time.
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This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of famous artists of the past: Jean Arp, William Blake, Emily Carr, Salvador Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Fuseli, Paul Gauguin, Kahlil Gibran, George Grosz, Benjamin Haydon, Derek Jarman, Paul Klee, Kathe Kollwitz, Willem de Kooning, Le Corbusier, Wyndham Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Samuel Lover, Rene Magritte, Spike Milligan, William Morris, Georgia O'Keeffe, Baroness Orczy, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Man Ray, Janet Scudder, and Valerie Solanas.
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