Viola est sculptrice. Sebastian est peintre. Tous les deux sont des artistes. Après un long voyage de plusieurs semaines, leurs oeuvres arrivent enfin au musée. Conservatrice, gardien, installateurs, artistes, médiateur : tout le monde avait hâte de commencer à travailler sur la grande exposition !
Un passionnant album-documentaire pour découvrir les coulisses d'un musée. Dès 7 ans.
Cet album emmène les enfants de 3 à 7 ans dans les coulisses des grandes expositions : comment les artistes concoivent-ils leurs oeuvres, avec quels outils ? Qu'arrive-t-il à l'oeuvre d'art ensuite, de l'atelier au parcous d'exposition ? Dans cette découverte, les personnages clés de la conception d'expositions sont présentés : commissaires, photographes, transporteurs, visiteurs et plus. Le tout illustré par Rose Blake, à qui l'on doit notamment les illustrations d'Une Histoire des Images pour les enfants par David Hockney.
Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada, Surrealism, abstraction and art from Latin America. This volume collects her important essays for the first time, addressing themes fundamental to the history of modern art and the avant-garde.
Arranged thematically, this collection of essays represents the breadth of Ades's critical and curatorial interests, ranging from avant-garde poster design, to photomontage, to the representation of the female in Mexico, but with an overarching foundation in abstraction, identity and the influence of new mediums.
As well as working as a professor and curator - which earned her an OBE for her services to art history - Ades has written on a wide range of artists since 1980. Spanning the likes of Francis Bacon, Richard Deacon, Salvador Dali and Hannah Hoech, this body of essays is ingrained with Ades's consistently clear and intellectually stimulating observations.
To introduce the book, Ades is interviewed by Doro Globus, who explores the writer's relationship to curating, teaching and art history.
A museum is not only a place where you can look at art. It is also a unique environment where art can breathe and develop and where we can encounter it face to face. An interplay of many different specialists, aesthetic flair and organizational talent are necessary to make this possible. This charming book makes it child's play taking a look behind the scenes of how a museum operates. Informative and profusely illustrated with endearing pictures, it deals with all the different fields that have to work together in order to realize a successful exhibition. We follow the various creative steps involved in making a work of art a reality. We accompany the works on their journeys around the world and into the museum. And we learn about the genesis of an exhibition from the initial conception to the day-to-day operations for the public.
