FILMS&
BOOKS
Andy Warhol, Flowers, synthetic polymer, screen ink, canvas, 61×61cm, 1964
Halfway through the holiday, it's time to start acquiring artistic knowledge! In addition to seeing exhibitions, movies and books are also a great way to learn about the art world. Harper's Bazaar Art features a special selection of 20 films and books, ranging from artist biographies and interviews to collectors and collectors' histories, to film, literature and music. Collect and watch!
#1
Anselm Kiefer: Voice of the Years
Anselm
2023
Want to see the original Anselm Kiefer without leaving home? This year's 3D documentary for artists will satisfy you – Kiefer's career is told in the flow of the film's four seasons: from an international presence in the 80s to an exhibition in the Doge's Palace in Venice last year; Its studios were also expanded from small attics to warehouses.
Following the film, the viewer can briefly spend time with the expressionist giant: in the studio, he rides his bicycle around; Check the status of the painting; Read documents, look at photos; Incineration of works with igniters ...
👉 : What is Neo-Expressionism?
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#2
Lennon's final conversation with Yoko
All We Are Saying
by David Sheff
2023
The book chronicles John Lennon's last two-person interview with Yoko Ono before his assassination. In 1980, Lennon ended his five-year life as a "househusband" and resumed recording. Contributor David Sheff was given the opportunity to speak to the couple on Playboy's behalf.
For three weeks, they talked about music and peace; the dissolution of the Beatles; Relationship with singer Paul McCartney – More than 20 hours of in-depth notes, 30 quotes from the couple make up the book. On December 7 of the same year, Yoko said that she and Lennon were very satisfied with the interview; The next day, Lennon was assassinated at the age of 40...
👉 : Can artists collaborate with each other?
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#3
Orlando: My Political Biography
Orlando, My Political Biography
2023
In 1928, author Virginia Woolf's Oranldo: A Biographic was published. It was the world's first novel in which the protagonist switched genders: the hermaphroditic poet lived for centuries and met key figures in the history of English literature.
One hundred years later, transgender writer and director Paul M. Paul B. Preciado used the book as a starting point to retell Orlando's experience with his own story—Orlando: My Political Biography is a video letter to Woolf stating that his characters are now around the world.
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#4
Intellect and Passion: A Biography of Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
2022
It is no exaggeration to say that Susan Sontag's works reflect the ideological map and literary trend of Western intellectual and cultural circles from the 30s of the last century to the beginning of this century.
Written by Béatrice Mousl, recipient of the French Chevalier de l'Ordre de l'Palm Education, this biography captures Sontag's extensive personal documents donated to the University of California and his posthumous publications, providing a comprehensive restoration of his academic thought and life experience. This year marks the 90th anniversary of Sontag's birth, and it may be time to get to know the intellectual.
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#5
Poor stuff
Poor Things
2023
What would have happened if Frankenstein the Frankenstein had been a woman? The film "Poor Thing", which won the Golden Lion Award at this year's Venice Film Festival, satisfies this curiosity.
Set in the late Victorian era, the film is full of surrealism, gothic spectacle and large-scale plot, while the female Frankenstein, played by actor Emma Stone, is capricious and unfettered. For this reason, it has been described as "a hopeful film about women escaping from exquisite prisons, mocking patriarchy and truly exploring themselves".
👉 : What does the genre of art have to do with film?
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#6
A family of collectors at sea
Solemnly
2022
The title of the book is "Collectors at Sea", but it is actually about "Shanghai collectors", especially those closely related to the Shanghai Museum. In the changing 20th century, their stories and collections constitute an important chapter in the circulation of Chinese painting and calligraphy.
Based on letters, photographs, diaries and personal information, the book interviews 40 collectors or their descendants, including Wu Hufan, Shen Tongyue, Zhang Heng, etc., presenting the stories behind Huaisu's "Bitter Shoots" and Dong Yuan's "Summer Mountain Map".
👉 : How do different collectors collect in the face of the market?
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#7
Hilma
Hilma
2022
You may know that she was a pioneer feminist artist whose work was deeply influenced by mysticism, but you do not know that her abstract painting practice even predates Kandinsky's. She was Hilma af Klint, who created more than 1,300 pieces in her lifetime. The film is based on Clint's art, and his life course slowly unfolds.
👉 : Independent women, what is it like?
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#8
General History of Design
Design: The Whole Story
by Elizabeth Wilhide
2022
Want to learn about design history but can't get started? Collect this "tome"! The book chronologically introduces all the waves of design and key practitioners from the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century to the present, including the well-known Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, and the little-known classical Revival and postmodernist design, which can be described as functional and essential for design enthusiasts.
👉 : In the first half of 2023, 4 design weeks, 20 cutting-edge designs, which one do you pick?
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#9
Jane Campion, female filmmaker
Jane Campion, the cinema woman
2022
In 1993, director Jane Campion won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for "Piano Lessons", becoming the first female filmmaker to win this award. Last year, her film "Dog Power" also helped her win the Oscar for Best Director.
Born in New Zealand, how does Campion "ride the waves"? What are the dilemmas faced by female filmmakers? The film will answer them one by one.
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#10
The Walking Man: Biography of Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
by Catherine Grenier
2023
Restrained and mysterious, the creation of thin body sculptures is not much impression of Giacometti. Returning to Paris in the last century, the artist is also deeply involved in the art world: the writer Sartre talks to him about his travels in China; He befriended Picasso and fell apart...
This book is the first authoritative Chinese Simplified edition biography of Giacometti, reconstructing his secret life. As the author puts it: "His fidelity to his destiny as an artist becomes more important than everything, even more important than the creation of the work." ”
👉 : 18 days lurking in Giacometti's studio, he secretly wrote an observation diary...
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#11
Solitary landscape
Geographies of Solitude
2022
Welcome to the "lie flat" moment – if you don't want to go out with your friends City Walk during the holidays, why not give your eyes a Nature Walk! Follow in the footsteps of naturalist Zoe Lucas to see hills, wild horses, sunrises and sunsets on Sable Island, Canada. This inaccessible island may be the ideal place for people to live...
👉 : The art world, how is the City Walk?
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#12
A woman in a comic
The woman in the cartoon
by Edward Fuchs
2022
The book brings together more than 500 cartoons about women, historically showing their beauty and suffering, fashion and emotion, marriage and morality. Behind this, the status and role of women in the family, class, society and the state are also exposed.
"Women in Comics" is one of the important works of German art historian Edward Fuchs - a unique history of comics, as well as the formation and change of women's ideas.
👉 : What exactly are women facing?
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#13
What kind of life do you want to live
Hayao Miyazaki 2023
In 2017, Miyazaki announced that he was working on a new anime – and six years later, it would finally be "Lushan's true face". "What kind of life do you want to live" is adapted from the novel of the same name by Japanese writer Genzaburo Yoshino, which is the "favorite" of the animation master since childhood. He once commented on the original work: "No matter how difficult and cruel the times are, you must live like a real person." ”
This time, what kind of audiovisual feast did the 82-year-old Miyazaki bring to the audience?
👉 : Have you seen these domestic animations?
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#14
Avant-garde Promises: Interview with October
Lu Mingjun
2023
It was once the most important base for contemporary art – in 1976, October magazine was launched; Over the past half century, he has carried out a series of experiments in art criticism and writing, and is well-known in the industry and abroad.
The magazine's writers are leading critics and art historians of contemporary art, such as Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss. Their views have long radiated from the United States to Europe and even the world. This book interviews the above-mentioned writers and members of the magazine's editorial board to present the past and present of October magazine.
👉 : Magazines are the best testing ground for the art world?
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#15
Land of Dalí
Dalíland
2022
In 1973, Salvador Dalí was already a famous artist, but behind the money and honor there were many stories hidden.
"The Land of Dalí" is told from the perspective of a gallery assistant in New York: he was assisting Dalí in organizing exhibitions, but the artist's relationship with his wife Gala became increasingly tense, and he would follow Dalí to Spain... In this film, the artist's crazy later life surfaces.
👉 : He is behind photography and surrealism, who is this top gallerist?
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#16
A Fictional History of Collection: Xiang Yuanbian's Fiction and the Fictional Zhao Mengfu Zhao Hua 2023
Throughout the ages, calligraphy and painting have always been caught in the dispute between authenticity and falsity. This book is a big exposure in the world of collection: Xiang Yuanbian, a great collector of the Ming Dynasty, actually invented a large number of collector seals? Or the work of the great painter Zhao Mengfu?
This book takes Zhao Mengfu's three idle residences - Guilt, Sickness and Old Age, as the main clues, presenting the painter's idle life in a panoramic view, and re-appraising his paintings through research methods such as creative style, seal periodization, and title periodization.
👉 : In the art world, if you have money, can you do whatever you want?
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#17
Milan Kundera: From Joke to Senseless Feast Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance2022
In mid-July, writer Milan Kundera died at the age of 94. And as early as 1985, it had decided not to accept interviews after stealth works.
This tradition was broken by a student. The camera follows in his footsteps - waiting in a café near Kundera's house, reading novels, he gradually understands and identifies with his ideas... Why did Kundera go into exile in France? Why write in French and refuse to translate into Czech? Perhaps, this documentary can provide the answer.
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#18
Chinese Style: Chinese Influences on European Art from the 13th to the 19th Century Francesco Morena 2022
The story begins in the Yuan Dynasty: Marco Polo was received by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, in the Yuan capital; When he returned to Europe, he brought back some Chinese artifacts, which caused a sensation. "Chinese style" became a cultural phenomenon in Europe at that time and lasted for six centuries. This book traces the birth and development of this trend and describes how the "east wind and west wind" affected European countries.
👉 : How does Eastern art influence the West?
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#19
ShowUp2022 is coming soon
"Life is a beautiful robe crawling with lice." Eileen Chang's quote applies equally to the glamorous art world.
For example, there are too many dramatic moments behind the opening of an exhibition: the artist Liz does mundane and trivial work in art school; At the same time, she has to take care of a wounded pigeon and manage a family relationship that has fallen apart. And the development is imminent, and his work is not yet completed... Last year, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival.
👉 : Annoyance, annoyance! Annoying! I can't read the preface of the exhibition, but why does it have to exist?
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#20
I Will Be Your Mirror: An Interview with Andy Warhol
I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
2023
The book is Andy Warhol's first collection of interviews, a collection of 37 interviews conducted by the artist from 1962 to 1987, spanning his ideas and creative journey from his budding to the end of his life.
How does Andy Warhol view art, reputation, stars and even life? This interview book may tell you the answer - of course, you also need to find and understand in its mischievous and complex language system...
👉 Andy Warhol: Stand, make the money!
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After the scorching heat, the most refreshing season of the year has finally arrived. Whether traveling or staying at home, artistic living is the most elegant choice.
When faced with a vast sea of art history, I hope the above movies and books can bring you some inspiration for watching. The world of art is vast and uninhibited, and you won't be alone. Finally, Harper's Bazaar Art wishes you a happy festive season, peace and joy!
Editor, text by Yu Mingyi
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