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„Conference Room, Peack House, Kaesong – Aug.15, ’51” by Herbert C. Hahn
This drawing, highlight of a series of a total of eight by American war artist Herbert C. Hahn, is certainly a haunting graphic document of the armistice talks during the Korean War that started at Kaesong on July 10, 1951 and lasted until August 22, 1951. Initially, both sides – the North Korean and Chinese […]
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Van Goghs Favorites III: Arthur Boyd Houghton – Our One-eyed Artist in America
«Until now I never knew Boyd H[oughton] was so interesting (…) Very strange. (…) After you have seen my Boyd Houghtons from the first year of the Graphics you will understand more clearly what I wrote about the importance of this master’s work.» Vincent van Gogh to Anton van Rappard, February and April 1883 (Letters […]
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The “Mitoyennetés aberrantes” project
“Mitoyennetés aberrantes” should probably be translated as “Aberrant neighbourhood”. It was conceived in october 2007 by Olivier Spinewine (drawing, photographing and filming reportage), Lionel Devlieger (text) and Alexia de Visscher (graphism). Eventually the project took the form of an exhibition and the edition of a zigzagfolder (download the pdf here). The concept evolved around French […]
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Drawn Novel by Franz Erhard Walther
Until July 28, the Parisian Galerie Jocelyn Wolff presents drawing-based work by Franz Erhard Walther (*1939). The new work “Sternenstaub – A Drawn Novel” (2007/08) consists of several hundred (photocopies of) pencil-on-paper drawings tacked to the wall, each of them detailing memorable occurrences and encounters from the artist’s life – in a style vaguely reminiscent […]
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Thomas Nast: «Dead Men´s Clothes Soon Wear Out»
This drawing by Thomas Nast, in the MePri-Collection, is a very precise preliminary study for one of his best-known political cartoons. The wood engraving made from this 18 x 22.5 cm sketch filled a large-format double page spread in “Harpers Weekly”, the most widely circulated American illustrated magazine of the time, on 10 September 1870. […]
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Isidore Pils: History Painter and “Realist Reporter”
11 January, 1871. Snow covers the bunker installations of Bastion 69, southwest of Paris. Several soldiers are on guard with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. An icy wind is blowing over the defence walls. One waits, time seems to stand still, as if it were frozen. One person among the guards is not a soldier, […]
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Review: Susan Turcot – bitumen, blood and the carbon climb [Drawings, sculptures and a animation film by Canadian artist Susan Turcot]
In her recent works, Susan Turcot has adopted a variety of reportage techniques and has made a significant point of examining the time-based, processual and functional equation that “live” drawing and its medialized representations can set up for the viewer. She investigates large-scale ecological and economical processes such as deforestation and the exploitation of other […]
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A Pre-modern History of the Culture of the Unfinished and the Discarded Drawing
The following text was commissioned by the Spanish artists magazine Centro de Bajo Rendimiento“ for proyecto editorial No.1, 2008 www.centrodebajorendimiento.com Special thanks go to Toni Crabb. I. Unfinished The first drawing ever published in a state of declared unfinishedness appeared on November 28th, 1891, in the globally distributed magazine „The London Illustrated News“. In his […]
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“Wie sind uns jetzt sicher.” Werner Spies zu Bernard Buffet
Not translated: Das Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt zeigt eine Retrospektive des lange verdrängten und vergessenen Malerstars der fünfziger und sechziger Jahre. In der Ausstellung “Tauchfahrten. Zeichnung als Reportage”, die 2004/2005 im Kunstverein Hannover und der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf stattfand, war Bernard Buffet mit zwei Industriereportagen der sechziger Jahre vertreten, mit einem Porträt der Burda-Werke […]
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Images of War, War of images. The Invention of Pictorial Reportage in the course of the Crimean War. ar of images. The Invention of Pictorial Reportage in the course of the Crimean War
Ill. 1 War is atrocious, and the horror of war has proven to be the most tenacious constant in human history. Empirically seen, we are in a constant state of war. Among other things, this fact presents problems to those responsible, to those who must make war – despite the known horrific results – publicly […]