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To make art to take clothes off: Babi Badalov

Cuando Goya inició su aprendizaje artístico a los trece años de edad, nadie hubiera podido sospechar que habría de convertirse en uno de los pintores más importantes de España.

Al llarg de la seva dilatada trajectòria, M. Assumpció Raventós (Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona, 1930) ha anat experimentant amb tècniques i formes d’expressió diverses els temes que l’han preocupat

The Contemporary Artist Series is comprises of four sections. The Interview is a discussion between author and artistand their influences and motivations, the Survey looks at the artist''s work in historical and contemporary context, Focus is an analysis of a single piece of the artist''s work and Artist''s Writing gives further insight into the artist themselves.In the Interview Hou Hanru discusses the artist''s influences and motivations, and the dramatic changes that affected contemporary Chinese art over the past two decades. Wu Hung''s Survey offers a deep insight into the historical context in which Yin''s work developed, from painting to her public actions in the streets of Beijing and the second-hand clothes sculptures that would eventually become her signature pieces. Stephanie Rosenthal focuses on COllective Subconscious (2007), a minivan commonly referred to as xiao mian (''little loaf of bread'') that the artist stretched out and converted into a place for conversation and discussion. For the Studio Visit, Yin''s practice is documented by fellow artist and partner Song Dong. Artist''s Writings include a selection of Yin''s previously unpublished texts, including About Clothes (2000-02), One Sentence (2011), as well as a conversation with Song Dong and Lilly Wei (2011).

Con motivo de la gran retrospectiva de Marcel Duchampque el pasado año acogió el Centro Pompidou de París, elartista revisita su obra a lo largo de un recorrido ligero ydivertido a través de las ilustraciones de François Olislaegery al hilo de sus propios escritos autobiograficos.En forma de historieta, se narran las anecdotas y obsesionesque persiguieron a Duchamp, artista flaneur y dandyimpasible, que hizo de su vida una obra de arte en si misma.Editado en un curioso formato que al desplegarse seconvierte en un friso ilustrado de seis metros de longitud,esta publicacion es, mas que un libro, un objeto decoleccionista.

Dean Stockton (D*Face) began his career as a street artist fifteen years ago in London by hand-drawing stickers and posters, and is now a leading figure in urban contemporary art. With his fusion of pop culture and graffiti, he has become notorious for witty and veneered cultural critiques that conceal more malicious undertones. In rethinking and subverting popular imagery, he encourages us to grasp our cultural environment, especially with regard to our increasingly bizarre fascination with celebrity, fame, and consumerism. This book is published on the occasion of his very first museum show, at the CAC Malaga, and reviews his entire career through 39 selected works.

Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt marginalized for his origins and ultimately left the school. The decision to become an artist led him to a new phase in his life. Early in his career, Annie Cohen-Solal writes, "he became a major player in the social struggle of American artists, and his own metamorphosis benefited from the unique transformation of the U.S. art world during this time." Within a few decades, he had forged his definitive artistic signature, and most critics hailed him as a pioneer. The numerous museum shows that followed in major U.S. and European institutions ensured his celebrity. But this was not enough for Rothko, who continued to innovate. Ever faithful to his habit of confronting the establishment, he devoted the last decade of his life to cultivating his new conception of art as an experience, thanks to the commission of a radical project, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Cohen-Solal's fascinating biography, based on considerable archival research, tells the unlikely story of how a young immigrant from Dvinsk became a crucial transforming agent of the art world-one whose legacy prevails to this day.

L''obra d''un dels pocs artistes de Catalunya dedicats a l''art religiós.La producció de Joan Curieses, capellà i escultor, és present en diverses esglésies del nostre país, i destaca per una gran va