Bøger af Michael Diers

Die Kunst der Bildanalyse ist so alt wie die Kunst selbst. Arnheims Anleitung zum Sehen ist aber immer noch so jung wie bei ihrem ersten Erscheinen 1954. Kaum ein Buch hat Generationen von Lesern so einfach und so grundlich in die Welt der Kunst eingefuhrt. Kaum ein Buch schlug so seine Leser von Anfang an in ihren Bann. Woran liegt dies? Arnheim ist in seinen Schriften ein immer verstandlicher Vermittler. An einfachen Beispielen beleuchtet er behutsam und kritisch das Wechselspiel von Form und Farbe, Raum und Licht, Bewegung und Gleichgewicht. Am Ende der Lekture wird der Leser kaum bemerkt haben, wieviel Material ihm prasentiert worden ist: von der Steinzeit bis zu Picasso.

Danish painter Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen invents modernist architecture, based upon historical models, and creates a multidimensional version of the given reality. Mentalscapes is his first international monograph. Text in English, German and Danish.

Think Like Clouds collects for the first time the drawings, notes and diagrams of curator, writer and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the past 22 years, Obrist has curated exhibitions around the world and has interviewed major and minor personalities in nearly every field of endeavor; from architect Rem Koolhaas to painter Gerhard Richter; from astronomer Dimitar Sasselov to journalist and activist Studs Turkel. Obrist draws obsessively during his work in order to help him remember and expand the conversation at hand. But these drawings are more than mere memory aids. Beautiful and enigmatic, they reveal, upon closer scrutiny, constellations of names, ideas, dates, quotes and loose bits of information entangled in wavering lines and undulating scribbles. Each drawing is a conceptual portrait of a conversation or an event. Taken as a whole, they map in visual form the intellectual and historical terrain of one of the most active and curious minds in contemporary art today. Think Like Clouds includes an introduction by scholar and archivist Michael Diers and an interview with Obrist conducted by artist Paul Chan.