Tate glossary definition for kitsch: German word for trash, used in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms of popular and commercial culture
Where there is an avant-garde, generally we also find a rear-guard.
Show A recreation of Daido Moriyama’s 1974 performance of the same name Find
Artist page for Anselm Kiefer (born 1945)
It is also characteristic of his work to find signatures and names of people of historical
assistant of the artist (from 1987 to 1998) remembers working with her father Find
Calle Gral. Aureliano Rivera 17-B Villa Obregon Distrito Federal Mexico 13 August 1947 My very dearest Annerl! Your letter from 24 July arrived while Catharine, Hester (my eldest, below us in the picture, kneeling) and I were as good as lying on our deathbeds with mushroom poisoning. Catharine and Hester have now almost completely recovered, and I’m doing much better again despite the constant headaches and diarrhoea. The deadly mushrooms were a gift from a Swiss friend who has been studying fungi for twenty years, looking at them under microscopes, reading God knows how many volumes about them. She’s supposed …
yet know whether it will be possible, partly because it’s virtually impossible to find
So throughout her body of work you will find this principle of echoing and mirroring
Tate glossary definition for avant-garde: Art that is innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter
Read the captions of the artworks below to find out about the shock-waves they caused
Kisling writes about the ‚joy of working‘, even in the circumstances of the moment and express his joy that Lipchitz continues to work and has good ‚morale‘. He also speaks about receiving ‚a good letter from M-me.Barr‘ and that she hsa already occupied herself with efforts to make Lipchitz come [to the USA]. There is also talk of organising an exhibition in New York when Lipchitz will have all his work back from Washington. He adds that the American JOINT has funding for this kind of arrangement. Full text: ‚My dear Jacques, Your letter of the 20th of November only …
I think I will finally be able to leave at the end of January, if I can find a space
short film about Mira Schendel retrospective at Tate Modern
find out more Artist Mira Schendel 1919–1988 Artwork
15 September 1932 Dear Annerl! I’m now sitting here in my brother’s incredible office on the twentieth floor of one of the most beautiful new skyscrapers, the NEWS BUILDING. Two hundred metres from here, out of the window and to the right, stands the CHRYSLER BUILDING, the second tallest building in the world. And not much further to the left stands the EMPIRE STATE. Ten minutes’ walk from the office is the apartment, 2 Beekman Place, and it’s the sort of apartment you would like: plain and simple, a place for only the finest art, and so practical that the …
I won’t know such happiness again unless I can find my way back to you, liberated
