Demetrio Paparoni

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their discussions ranged widely over a vast range of topics, from American pop art and minimalism to abstraction and appropriationism. Yet they continually returned to the concepts at the...

The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because his work underlines, through new expressive language forms, the deep social changes the country is experiencing. This monograph reveals for the first time the entire oeuvre of the artist, whose...

The starting point for Dietrichson's works is architecture, but detached from scale and human scale. The artist's interest is the spatial, the angular, and the geometric. Shapes create utopian imagery in the form of either sculpture, watercolour or silkscreens of levitating building elements, or sculptures and installations in public spaces. However, the expression is closely linked and characterised by being...

The most complete monograph realised about the noted Austrian painter, photographer, filmmaker, performer, and set designer, born in Vienna in 1948. The works of Helnwein show the bare truth where society instead hides and removes. What emerges by leafing through the pages of this monograph is the obsession that accompanies the artistic career of this notable Austrian artist, marked by...