Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages.

Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed the world. Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brilliant, foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking, hard-smoking, husba...

Expo: 10/4/2018 - 5/8/2018, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid - 8/9/2018 - 13/1/2019, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is the most important painter of sketches in the history of European art. His Italian and Flemish predecessors had for the most part prepared their paintings by using drawings. Rubens transformed this process by systematically making sketches in colour, with oil paint, and nearly always on panel supports. Rubens's oil sketches were essentially a ne...

56 Beaver St. is het adres waar Erik Wesselo verbleef in New York van januari 2001 tot april 2002. In die periode boorden twee vliegtuigen zich in de Twin Towers en waren de stad en de inwoners lange tijd in staat van totale ontreddering. Die vervreemding, de nietigheid en de eenzamheid, altijd al bepalende elementen in Wesselo's werk, zijn in deze publicatie sterker aanwezig dan ooit.

56 Beaver St. is een initiatief van Erik Wesselo en Theo Tegelaers en bestaat uit twee delen die hetzelfde v...

STUFF provides an overview of ten years public art projects and includes an in-depth interview by prof.dr. Wouter Davidts about what this practice means for Van den Broek. Especially for this publication, the artist created new sketches on tracing paper that provide insight into his working process and the interaction with his painterly oeuvre. The book is lavishly illustrated and contains never before published images of designs, models, work in progress and temporary, executed and not execu...

During the summer of the year 2000, Medieval Art Historian Scott Montgomery and Early Modern Historian Alice Bauer undertook the task of retracing the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. This book documents their thousand-mile, sixty-seven-day journey walking from Le Puy en Velay, France to the tomb of St. James at Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It also examines the historical background and numerous historical lessons gleaned from the experience.

As academics, Montgomery ...

De internationaal bekende Nederlandse kunstenaar Claudy Jongstra heeft een indrukwekkend oeuvre opgebouwd van veelal monumentale murals en sculpturale installaties, waarin kleur en textuur een belangrijke rol spelen. Jongstra's uiterst persoonlijke en expressieve idioom kent een verrassend scala aan natuurlijke materialen en een niet aflatende fascinatie met vilt-technieken. De kenmerkende intense en gelaagde kleuren zijn het resultaat van een adembenemende ontdekkingstocht naar natuurlijke v...

Na het internationale succes van de eerste en de tweede editie van 'Carnets d'une chorégraphe'/'A Choreographer's Score', verschenen in 2012 en 2013, grijpen de Belgische choreografe Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker en performance-theoreticus en musicologe Bojana Cvejic´ naar dezelfde formule terug voor Drumming en Rain, twee producties die tot op de dag van vandaag op het repertoire staan bij verschillende gereputeerde dansgezelschappen.

'Carnets d'une chorégraphe: Drumming & Rain'/'A Choreog...

Yayoi Kusama is certainly one of the most important post-war and contemporary artists of the moment, with exhibitions all over the world. Her work is not only of historical importance, but it also appeals to a huge, broad and international audience, and escapes almost all art concepts such as Minimal Art, Pop Art and Happening. Since 2005, the 0-institute has been collecting archive material with a team of art historians and doing interviews with eyewitnesses, including artists, friends, and ...