Feelings
Skira Rizzoli (Publisher)
Published on 3. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-8478-4579-8 (ISBN)
Description
A visually arresting collection of new works by emerging artists and celebrated names, united around a simple premise. The first in an exciting new series, Feelings: Soft Art is an intimate exploration of contemporary art today. Focused on material qualities and the feelings evoked by a work, this thematic approach returns to the basic pleasure of experiencing art. An easy, evocative look at artists and their projects, this heavily illustrated publication features hands-on insight from within the art world and without. Drawing on hundreds of new paintings, sculptures, photographs, and other practices, extended essays develop common threads. Brief texts and interviews reveal the making of soft works and artists' relationships with the materials they use. Other contributions celebrate instinctual reactions to art across all mediums. The publication includes original works created exclusively for Soft Art.
Reviews / Votes
"If you're like us, you want to cuddle up with Paola Pivi's pink polar bear sculptures or dive into one of Ryan McGinley's hazy daydreams. Our initial response to artwork is often sensual rather than intellectual. Gut reactions to these furry, squishy and plush pieces are at the heart of Feelings: Soft Art. From original photographs by Petra Collins to sculptures by Claes Oldenburg -- the tome features soft works that span movements, periods, and media.Titans of contemporary art like John Baldessari share space with emerging talents like Jack Greer of the buzzy collective Still House Group. Feelings also forged some exciting collaborations, including a studio session in which Dev Hynes and painter Alice Lancaster produced three new songs and accompanying artworks. . . In addition to these unexpected partnerships and pieces, the scrapbook-cum-diary also includes written emotional responses from a diverse range of viewers as they encounter contemporary art."
-ID MAGAZINE
"Perfect for sensitive art lovers, Feelings is a book about the sensory responses artists and their audiences have to specific pieces of contemporary art. . . This is a book that just feels good."
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More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Rizzoli International Publications
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
150 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
789 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-4579-8 (9780847845798)
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Persons
Tracey Emin is a writer and artist. Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. His previous titles include Humiliation, My 1980s, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, and Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background. John Onians is professor emeritus of world art at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. His recent books include Neuroarthistory. Asher Penn is an artist and publisher. Andrea K. Scott writes for the New Yorker.