Abstract paintings, scribbles, writing and drawings. Includes an interview with the artist and an essay by Tacita Dean.

This groundbreaking book explores the evolving concept of unfinishedness as essential to understanding art movements from the Renaissance to the present day. Unfinished features more than 200 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. What unites these works, across centuries and media, is that each one displays some aspect of being unfinished. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory—which can be traced back to the first century—has had on modern and contemporary art. The book investigates the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art.

Reconsiders the cut-outs, including the materials and methods, the artist's environmental ambitions for them, tensions between art and decoration and between drawing and color.

Catalog of an exhibition held Nov. 30, 2011-Mar. 4, 2012 at Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and June 22-Sept. 16, 2012 at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England.

In October 2014 the Moderna Museet will premiere Sculpture after Sculpture a major exhibition that brings together the work of three of today’s most esteemed artists, Katharina Fritsch, Jeff Koons, and Charles Ray. The exhibition at the Moderna Museet is the first in which these ground breaking artists can be seen together in appreciable depth.0A focused examination of thirteen large-scale masterworks presented in a series of telling juxtapositions, Sculpture after Sculpture traces the parallel developments of Katharina Fritsch (b. 1956), Jeff Koons (b. 1955), and Charles Ray (b. 1953). Beginning with iconic works from the late ’80s and early ’90s, which highlight the artists’ shared relationship to the commodity and the readymade, the exhibition follows the development of their practices up to the present. Highlights of the exhibition include Jeff Koons’s celebrated Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988, a porcelain and gilt confection depicting the late Pop legend Michael Jackson with his pet chimpanzee for which the sculpture is named; Charles Ray’s two-ton aluminium Tractor, 2005; and Katharina Fritsch’s acid yellow apparition Madonnenfigur (Madonna Figure), 1987. 0Exhibition: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (11.10.2014 -18.1.2015).

Détenteur de records de vente toujours inégalés dans l'histoire du disque, Michael Jackson, qui figure parmi les personnalités les plus représentées de ces cinquante dernières années, inspire d'innombrables peintres, sculpteurs ou plasticiens de premier plan, tels qu'Isa Genzken, Grayson Perry, Andy Warhol ou Kehinde Wiley... Le présent ouvrage, qui rassemble plus de 80 oeuvres de près de 60 créateurs contemporains, s'intéresse aux raisons qui ont poussé tant d'artistes à prendre Michael Jackson pour sujet et décrypte la manière dont ils ont abordé cette icône mondiale à la personnalité fascinante.

The project brings together for the first time the work of Polish artist Pawel Althamer and Russian artist Anatoly Osmolovsky, both of whom are from the generation shaped by the decisive shift from communism to post-communism, experienced in Russia and the Eastern Bloc in the early 1990s, and whose work shares many parallels.

On the occasion of the exhibition "Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude", organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and open to the public from March 16 to July 20, 2025, Marsilio Arte is publishing the exhibition catalogue of the same name. Tracey Emin is a contemporary British artist known for works deeply rooted in the feminist tradition, with an uncompromising and unapologetic approach to themes such as desire, the body, and solitude. Her art delves into complex personal states through openly expressionist styles and techniques: vulnerability, rawness, and physicality are key words in her artistic world, where tenderness and love are interwoven with pain and sacrifice. The catalogue includes three substantial essays: the first, Sex and Solitude, written by curator Arturo Galansino, explores Emin's personal and professional journey. As Emin states, "Even if you're with someone, you're still alone [...] I believe that to be an artist, you need more solitude to create, and as the years go by, I crave solitude more than ever." The second essay is a dialogue between the curator and the artist, offering an intimate and wide-ranging portrait of Emin as they discuss sexuality, religion, and literature. The final essay, The Rebirth of Tracey Emin, written by Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the British Museum in London, is a tribute to the artist's multifaceted practice and her "commitment to honesty," which Cullinan defines as "a monument to truth." The catalogue features images of the works on display, divided into eleven sections: both historical and recent pieces from public and private collections around the world, reflecting the controversial and piercing aesthetic of one of the most influential artists in shaping the image of women and the relationship between body and existence in contemporary art over the past thirty years.

Elizabeth Joy Peyton (b.1965) is one of the preeminent artists working today. She paints still lifes and landscapes, but above all, portraits: of friends, lovers, heroes, admirations, inspirations and fascinations. Her subjects include artists, activists, actors, athletes, dancers, musicians, queens, princes, politicians and poets. Captured from life, memory, literature and imagination, through found images and photographs, amongst many things her art explores love, individuality, beauty and the passing of time. - This book accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, devoted to the work of Elizabeth Peyton and is created in close collaboration with the artist. Featuring key examples of her work - it will look at the evolution of Peyton's practice, exploring her unique aesthetic and her interrogation of perception, emotion and human relationships. - The exhibition catalogue explores the development of Peyton's art from the 1990's to the present day, with a particular focus on the last ten years, whilst situating her work within the context of the historic genre of portraiture. Alongside an essay from the curator, Lucy Dahlsen, this book will feature essays by Dr Nicholas Cullinan and Thomas Crow.