Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary politica...

Op 11 september 2001 was Keiko Sato in New York toen Amerika getroffen werd door een van de meest schokkendse terroristische aanslagen. De zelfmoordcommando's die met hun vliegtuigen de Twin Towers binnenvlogen, en uiteindelijk deze iconen van de Westerse wereld volledig ten onder lieten gaan, herinnerden Sato aan haar eigen vader, die als Japanse kamikaze piloot de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleefde.How to tell a story of my father is een bijzonder document met teksten, interviews en kunstbijdra...

Een van Londens gekende maar toch vrij obscure geschiedenissen betreft het feit dat in de periode tussen de vroege jaren 1800 tot de jaren 1950, ruim 250.000 Londenaren uit de arbeidersklasse - vooral vrouwen en kinderen - uit het East End vertrokken om de late zomerweken op het platteland in Kent door te brengen. Wat in de volkstaal omschreven werd als 'to go picking', cre

Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in US domestic politics, and in the Arab Spring. Taking these events as points of departure, Göttke investigates the conditions of this visual genre of protest, its roots and genealogies in a number of countries, its aesthetics and politics.

Effigy protests communicate comm...

The Battle Between Carnival and Lent is a masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569). Dating from 1559, the world-famous painting is rich in remarkable stories and characters.

This book zooms in on the many everyday objects portrayed by Bruegel in the painting. These objects have been meticulously examined and interpreted through a contemporary gaze. Just as Bruegel's paintings served in the sixteenth century as conversation pieces among guests at dinner, so too this book prese...

Every kind of change belongs to a form of community art’, stelt de Italiaanse filosoof Antonio Negri. Het is de omkering van het gebruikelijke adagium dat community art een deel kan zijn van gewenste maatschappelijke veranderingen. Negri stelt niet alleen de community art, haar voorstanders en critici voor een uitdagende verantwoordelijkheid, maar iedereen in de samenleving die verandering wil teweeg brengen op sociaal, politiek, economische, technologisch of ecologisch vlak. Artistiek én c...

A collection of paintings made by Andre Schreuder.He was born in Delft in 1960 in The Netherlands.He gets his inspiration from everyday life,nature,reading and most of all music.In this book you will see his style developing from realism to a more abstract way of painting.

Tatyana Galtseva was born in Kemerovo (Siberia) in 1967 and has lived in Antwerp, Belgium, since 2000.

Besides her daily work at the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience, she took several courses (ceramics, painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berchem. Since her studies at the Academy, Tatyana has been working as an independent artist in her own studio.

An important source of inspiration in her search for her own forms and her own style and colour palette is the art theory of the founder o...