Jenny Saville : gaze / edited by Ralph Gleis, Angela Stief.
By: Saville, Jenny [artist.]
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Contributor(s): Gleis, Ralph [editor.] | Stief, Angela [editor.].
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BookBerlin : Hatje Cantz, [2025] ©2025Description: 125 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783775760171 (hardback); 9783950567205.Subject(s): Saville, Jenny, 1970- | Portrait painting -- Exhibitions | Figure painting -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 759.2 SAV | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.2 SAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00198314 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
New works by the acclaimed painter
In her painterly and graphic oeuvre, the renowned British artist Jenny Saville explores the centuries-old tradition of representing the human body. Her figures occupy an ambiguous zone between idealization and deconstruction. Drawing inspiration from the annals of art history- from Old Masters such as Leonardo and Raphael through to Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud-Saville's painterly practice is characterized by physicality, carnality, and the interplay between new and old media. Whether she is depicting history, the bodies of others, or indeed her own, Jenny Saville's work explores what it means to be human.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at Albertina, Wien, March 21-June 29, 2025.
Includes bibliographical references.
A life force beyond the human : Jenny Saville im gespräch mit/in conversation with Angela Stief -- Sinnliche transformationen, oszillierende blicke : Jenny Savilles bildproduktion = Visceral transformations, oscillating gazes : Jenny Saville's image-making -- Werkliste = List of works.
"In her painterly and graphic oeuvre, the renowned British artist Jenny Saville explores the centuries-old tradition of representing the human body. Her figures occupy an ambiguous zone between idealization and deconstruction. Drawing inspiration from the annals of art history - from Old Masters such as Leonardo and Raphael through to Egon Schiele, Picasso, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, Saville's painterly practice is characterized by physicality, carnality and the interplay between new and old media. Whether she is depicting history, the bodies of others or indeed her own, her work is always be defined by its defiance of the conventional notions of beauty and ugliness. As a member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Jenny Saville (*1970, Cambridge) reinvigorated contemporary figurative painting. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, her work questions representations and perceptions of the human form" - publisher's description.