Wiebke Siem (Bilingual edition)

Name: Wiebke Siem (Bilingual edition)
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783777440125
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Wiebke Siem is renowned for her 1990s installations that transform everyday objects like clothing, shoes, and toys into oversized, alienated forms. Her work combines domestic items and whimsical, puppet-like figures to create psychologically charged environments that are both oppressive and humorous, questioning societal roles. Drawing on ethnological references, Siem critiques Modernism's approach to non-European art and explores the male-dominated art world.
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Wiebke Siem (Bilingual edition)

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This bilingual edition is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, cultural critique, and feminist perspectives within the arts. It will appeal to those keen on installations and the intersections of art history and social commentary.

Description

Wiebke Siem (1954 Kiel, DE - Berlin, DE) became known in the 1990s for extensive installations in which she alienated everyday objects, such as pieces of clothing, shoes, bags, or toys, or transformed them into oversized objects.

Wiebke Siem uses pieces of furniture, objects, and materials with domestic connotations and whimsical, often puppet-like figures to create psychologically charged installations that are as oppressive as they are humorous. These works raise questions about societal role models. Siem's art repeatedly employs a formal language and a mode of presentation that refer to ethnological objects and collections, enabling her to comment on Modernism's problematic appropriation strategies toward non-European art.

In addition to borrowing motifs from art and cultural history, Siem critically engages with the mechanisms of the male-dominated art business—a central theme in her oeuvre.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777440125

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 100 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Edited by Kunstmuseum Bonn
Edited by Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 860g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

The Kunstmuseum Bonn holds one of the most important collections of German art in the country, with a focus on the Rhenish Expressionists and German art after 1945, and a special emphasis on graphic art, photography, videography, and multimedia art. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is renowned for its exhibitions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is one of Europe's biggest art museums, with 160,000 works of art. It has a leading collection of modern and contemporary art, fashion, and decorative arts.