Face, sharp

Sweeping across art, fashion, film, and art worlds,
Dialogue with 25 legendary pioneering women,
The book in which the goddesses, witches, and she-devil of our time speak for themselves.
It took 7 years to complete and is the painstaking work of the artistic director of Abramović Studio.
An unrepeatable journey of a female idol chasing the light.
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【Content Introduction】
Marin, artistic director of Abramović's studio, asked 25 pioneering women the same question: Can I create a portrait of you?
To gain a deeper understanding of them, he conducted a series of interviews to understand their life's work.
They discuss art, beauty, desire, pain, success, fame, shame, death, sex, rebellion, spirituality, race, heritage, religion...
They are directors, designers, actors, singers, painters, photographers, sculptors... They are doers. They are artists.
Artists who break boundaries. Artists who change the rules. Artists who blaze a trail for other artists. Artists whose work will resonate with generations to come.
They have played an indispensable role in shaping the world we see today.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
🎨 Over the course of seven years, I met 25 legendary women: an unparalleled portrait of "her power," an unparalleled journey of female idols chasing their own light. Meet Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, and Tracy Emin: seeing through the true intentions of contemporary artists beneath their wild facades;
Listen to Annie Lennox, FKA Twigs, and Debbie Harry: Learn about the growth and creative methods of pop musicians;
Watch Miuccia Prada, Rei Kawakubo, and Ann Dimelamister: revealing the gorgeous expressions of fashion's "female demons";
Dialogue with Cate Blanchett, Isabelle Huppert, Julianne Moore, and Charlotte Gainsbourg: Learning the self-cultivation of a film queen;
Includes unpublished conversations with Agnès Varda, the "Grandmother of the French New Wave."
Spanning the worlds of film, fashion, art, and music, this series uses dialogue to portray the legendary artists of our time.
🎨 Brilliant faces, unstoppable creativity: All female creators are descendants of those witches who can't be burned to death!
They are doers. They are artists.
The faces of these 25 women represent the avant-garde edge of contemporary art.
They use words of provocation, destruction and rebellion to break through the stone walls that prevent women from expressing themselves.
“Women feel most powerful when they are most angry.” (Anjelica Huston, actress)
“The use of their bodies by women artists was a major factor in the emergence of modern art.” (Kiki Smith, sculptor)
“Women are artists of life.” (Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer)
🎨 The Ultimate Guide to "Women in Business," a life-changing reference book for girls: "What are your fears?" "What is your pain?" "How do you challenge the status quo? How do you define beauty?"
They are directors, designers, actors, singers, painters, photographers, sculptors...
They talked about art, beauty, desire, body, exposure, fame, shame, death,
Sex, aversion, attraction, rebellion, spirituality, race, gender.
They created themselves and shaped the world we see today.
Understanding their careers, adventures, and creations is a process of re-examining and understanding the power of women.
🎨 The "little blue book" of art that is hard to replicate!
This is the masterpiece of the artistic director of the Abramović studio, with meticulous translation and annotations by the well-known translator Yi Shi, and the overall binding by the emerging designer Xi He. With hundreds of detailed annotations, this is a cross-disciplinary book on contemporary art!
Blue all the way! Three sides of the book are sprayed blue, and the inner text is printed in blue + black;
The translucent electrochemical hot stamping process creates a rainbow halo that symbolizes inspiration, femininity, and creation;
Multiple Polaroid photos capture the artists’ spontaneous moments intimately;
Yulong Yaguang pure paper, silky texture, full color presentation.
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【Celebrity Recommendation】
This book, a captivating collection of interviews with leading female artists from around the world, explores each artist's practice and their perspectives on power, celebrity, gender, and art in an intimate and compelling way. From radical feminists to conceptualists, from sculptors to installation and performance artists, the work and thought of these pioneering women represent the full breadth of contemporary art. Faces, Edges demonstrates the absolute centrality of women's practice in today's visual culture.
- Amelia Jones, American art historian, art critic, and curator The interviewees in this book are all women who have really sparked my interest and made me eager to understand more deeply: Abramović is studying energy; Yoko Ono uses art as a tool to express peace and social change; Varda talked about her visit to China for a project in 1957... They all talked about their worldview, aesthetics, creation, growth, fame, pain, as well as gender, politics, death, fear and unknown things, expanding the dimension of our intelligence.
——Zhu Yujie, writer, cultural scholar, and art curator

2024-05-01

广西师范大学出版社

592

9787559863607