Bücher von Katia Baudin

On Air showcases a distinctive art form, the sound sculpture, retracing its evolution from the early 1950s, when artists begin dismantling the conventional boundaries of art, to the early 1970s. In no more than a quarter-century, the range of possible answers to the question "What is art?" grows vastly larger. Propelled by the idea of the work of art as a machine and instrument, sounds, noises, tones, vibrations, silence, words, breath become a "tangible" sculptural material. Artists enrich visual perception by adding the acoustic dimension, interweave seeing and hearing, explore time and space with fresh zeal. In emerging artistic genres such as performance, installation, or media art, sound is an integral component of the work. The book focuses on sound objects by Yaakov Agam, Joseph Beuys, Hermann Goepfert, Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tinguely, David Tudor, Timm Ulrichs, and others.With five scholarly essays and numerous illustrations and notes on individual works, the comprehensive publication offers an attractive introduction to the subject.

Sonia Delaunay's work appears today as fresh and relevant as ever. The modernist pioneer's ingenious color patterns dissolved the boundaries between visual and applied art. She further developed her painterly experiments in fashion, fabric patterns, interior design, book and object art, merging geometric abstraction and the sculptural qualities of pure color.Maison Sonia Delaunay is dedicated to Sonia Delaunay as a mediator between artistic-philosophical design and the beauty of everyday life. It particularly focuses on new research into textiles, fashion, and interior design. Drawing on never-before-published sources, the publication examines her international collaborations with entrepreneurs and artists, and illuminates how she redefines the relationship between art and industry in the process to design for a visionary, modern life.SONIA DELAUNAY (1885, Odessa-1979, Paris) was trained in St. Petersburg, Karlsruhe, and Paris around 1900, and initially established herself as a portrait painter before dedicating her work to abstraction around 1913. With her husband Robert Delaunay, she experimented with the concept of "Simultané" based on the use of intense color contrasts. During a stay in Portugal and Spain in World War I, she expanded her art to the objects of life. Back in Paris in the 1920s, she combined her ambitions in painting and design with her fashion and furnishing house "Sonia Delaunay." Her influence continues to this day, her patterns being as modern as ever.

Der Einfluss von volkstümlichen Traditionen auf die Pioniere der Moderne bei der Entwicklung ihrer neuen künstlerischen Sprache wird grundlegend untersucht. Objekte aus dem Kunsthandwerk und der Volkskunst treffen auf Meisterwerke von Avantgarde-Künstlern wie Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Charles Sheeler oder Sophie Taeuber-Arp.Ein Jahrhundert nach Entstehung der Moderne in Europa und Amerika strebt dieses Standardwerk eine Neubewertung der Epoche an. Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zogen viele Künstler und Architekten Inspirationen aus lokaler Volkskunst. Privatsammler, Museen und Künstler begannen sie zu sammeln und auszustellen. Die Begeisterung für traditionelle Handwerkstechniken verstärkte sich durch deren drohende Verdrängung durch die Industrialisierung. Im Fokus stehen die Rezeption afrikanischer, volkstümlicher und bäuerlicher Kunst und textilen Kunsthandwerks. Das Phänomen wird von internationalen Autoren beleuchtet und anhand von 350 Abbildungen veranschaulicht.