Schlaflos | Sleepless
308 pages, 29 x 34.5 cm , 2295 g.
Schlaflos | Sleepless
Das Bett in Geschichte und Gegenwartskunst
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More than forty years ago, John Lennon and Yoko Ono got into bed to protest against the war. The world’s most popular artist couple of that time made their honeymoon public by stating: “Make love, not war!” Simultaneously, the bed turned into a political instrument of visual art.

The exhibition "Sleepless. Beds in History and Contemporary Art" focuses on the historical as well as iconographic significance of the depiction of the bed and will include and juxtapose paintings, sculptures, drawings, photos, and video works spanning from old masters to present-day artists, subdivided into themes and arranged according to visual associations.

As the territory of birth, love, illness, and death and as the most anthropomorphic shape in the history of all civilizations, beds are possibly one of the most reproduced objects in art and one of the most common metaphors for the human condition.

Many artists made use of the bed’s idiosyncratic shape in their work, from Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Lucian Freud, and Yayoi Kusama to Jannis Kounellis, Antoni Tàpies, Rosemarie Trockel, Egon Schiele, Jürgen Teller, or Franz West, and Rachel Whiteread. Others, as Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Jim Lambie, and Sarah Lucas demonstrate, used the bed as a ready-made itself.
EditorMario Codognato, Agnes Husslein-Arco
PublisherBelvedere
Year
CoverCloth
LanguageEnglish, German
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ISBN978-3-902805-64-5
ContributorsAnthony Burgess
Type of bookExhib'publication
Museum / PlaceBelvedere Wien
Article IDart-18210

 

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