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Close Cousins - Stephen Buckley – Paintings

Edition Cantz 2019 ISBN 9783947563265 Acqn 29447
Hb 24x30cm 288pp 316col ills £42

For more than forty years Stephen Buckley, born 1944 has concerned himself with addressing
the major themes of the twentieth century through a personal style oscillating between the
matiere of Kurt Schwitters, the dandyism of Francis Picabia and the intellectual rigour of Marcel
Duchamp. He takes the two most basic components of a conventional painting (canvas and
stretcher), and makes multi-dimensional constructions, joins groups of single canvases together
in overlapping structures, makes shaped canvases, cuts a stretcher with a variegated edge,
stitches and weaves together strips of canvas, patches pieces of canvas onto another support,
and adds cardboard tubing, rope, found objects and cut out shapes. In the 1970's and 1980's,
Buckley saw extended prominence in the art press, starting with the artist being described as 'the
Punk Rock of contemporary painting' and ending with him gaining the title of 'the ubiquitous
Stephen Buckley'. There is now a large portfolio of themes, references, motifs and symbols which
are continually reworked and reinvented. Since then, he has made some of his most compelling
paintings, lush pop canvases full of symbols and colour, a far cry from the pared-down, industrial
feel of some of his early works. This publication is the first in more than thirty years to consider
Stephen Buckley's painting as a body of work.

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Jeff Wall – Appearance

Edition Cantz 2019 ISBN 9783947563081 Acqn 29449
Hb 28x32cm 144pp 60col ills £28

The first major special exhibition in the new Kunsthalle Mannheim is dedicated to the international
photo artist Jeff Wall. He is best known for his large-format back-lit Cibachrome photographs,
which appear as extravagantly composed film stills. With his works, the trained art historian
makes references to the history of art, and thanks to his complex orchestrations, is frequently
compared to modern masters, such as Eugene Delacroix and Edouard Manet. The Kunsthalle
Mannheim focuses on his Constellations, which present the medium of photography in the form of
a search for traces. The third central group of works to be exhibited alongside his back-lit
photographs are his colour C-prints. The exhibition, which includes numerous works on loan from
international institutions, offers a new perspective on works which have rarely been presented in
exhibitions.

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Hofmann's Way - Hans Hofmann

Edition Cantz 2019 ISBN 9783947563029 Acqn 29450
Hb 24x26cm 208pp 140ills col £22

A representative of Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann was one of the most important artistic
personalities of the 20th Century. He began his career as a teacher and artist in the United States
in the mid-1930s. The previously unpublished graphic work shows an interesting and variational
development process that preceded the influential painting of the post-war period.

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