on artbooks is a blog by artbooksonline, created to share our passion for books on art & photography. We explore books from different perspectives, zoom in and out, invite guest bloggers and talk to people who make books. Take a look behind the scenes!
Es war eines der aufregendsten, kritischsten und bissig-ironischsten Fotobücher des Jahres 2013 – und das, obwohl es eigentlich gar kein richtiges Buch, sondern eher ein Magazin war. Weiterlesen
Ein Gespräch zwischen der Künstlerin Gesa Lange und der Kunsthistorikerin Kathrin Barutzki zu Gesa Langes aktuellem Künstlerbuch Sammlung Minna Menz (2016) für www.on-artbooks.com Weiterlesen
When Jule Schaffer asked me to write a review of Christo and Jean-Claude’s The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy 2014-2016 I was quite reluctant… I had just come back to Cologne after having been a member of The Floating Piers team for two emotionally, physically intense weeks. I was not mentally prepared to digest this experience yet. Weiterlesen
Das Werk Hieronymus Boschs fordert regelrecht dazu auf, einen Blick auf die Details zu werfen und so die fantastische Bilderwelt des Künstlers zu entdecken: Höllische Kreaturen, seltsame Mischwesen und exotische Tiere tummeln sich auf seinen Leinwänden. Weiterlesen
Der Kölner Künstler Lutz Fritsch ist bekannt für seine ortspezifischen Skulpturen wie „Standortmitte“ an den Verteilerkreisen von Köln und Bonn, „Rheinorange“ an der Rhein-Ruhr-Mündung Duisburg sowie der „Bibliothek im Eis“, Weiterlesen
Ein Gespräch zwischen der Künstlerin Stefanie Pluta und der Kunsthistorikerin Kathrin Barutzki zu Stefanie Plutas aktuellem Fotobuch here (2016) Weiterlesen
The late 1980s – early 1990s was the ideal symbolic time for an artist to pass government grant money along to male prostitutes trolling California’s Santa Monica Boulevard. After public ‘scandals’ of funding art by the likes of Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, Republicans and the religious right, most vociferously headed by Senator Jesse Helms, were trying their best to Weiterlesen
Die Porträts von Pierre Gonnord zielen auf das allgemein Menschliche. In großformatigen, malerisch wirkenden Farbfotos zeigt der in Frankreich geborene und in Spanien arbeitende Fotograf Menschen vom „Rande der Gesellschaft“, die würdevoll, ernst und stolz in die Kamera blicken. 2005 stellte das Weiterlesen
Francis Bacon barely needs an introduction. Well-known for his idiosyncratic approach to figurative painting, his screaming popes, unconventional figure studies and portraits are among the most iconic images of British post-war art. During his lifetime, Bacon strictly controlled Weiterlesen
Last November, photographer Joachim Schmid took a critical stance on the notion of the „best of“ lists of photobooks usually circling the press at the end of every year. Half-way through this new year, we thank him for republishing this article on our blog, allowing for a critical rethinking of current approaches to photobooks. Read what he had to say:
„So-called photobooks have been the hot shit for some years. Part of the culture around this phenomenon are the best-of lists compiled by experts every year. Magazines and book dealers regularly ask influential photographers, writers, curators, collectors, and any other type of expert for their opinions about the best books of the year. For unknown reasons I was one of the ones who was asked this year. Here’s my reply to the prompt: Weiterlesen
