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FAMOUS : 121 Contemporary Artists [Hardcover]

Petru Russu (Author, Editor)
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Book Description

June 1, 2007
An overview of contemporary art, a resource book for artists, galleries, museums, dealers, art collectors, who seek the latest trends in the art world, an art book as art and source of information including 121 profiles of artists.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Masters of Today (MOT) books; Limited edition (June 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9189685113
  • ISBN-13: 978-9189685116
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,582,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Petru Russu (Petru Augustin Rusu), visual artist, curator, author, gallery director, editor and publisher, dual citizenship Swedish and Roumanian, born in Reghin, Mureş County, Transylvania, lives and works in Stockholm and London. Fine Arts graduate (MA 1979), Italian Government Studentship (Rom 1986), multimedia and graphic artist, Petru has realized around 200 individual and international exhibitions and has works in museums, public, corporate and private collections.

Petru Russu is the founder and director of Art Addiction International Gallery (Stockholm 1992-1997) art company registered by the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, than Piccola Galeria Correr (Venice 1997-1999). Art Addiction Online Gallery (www.artaddiction.net) sine 1992 is the first ever and the oldest art site on the web, also is the largest virtual art gallery including 8 online global art annual exhibitions on view and one media global art biennial.

From 1999 Petru Russu is the publisher and the editor of World of Art (WOA) Global Art Magazine and World of Art (WOA) Books, an artist created art publishing of highly collectible bibliophile limited editions and collective art books (www.worldofartmagazine.com).

From 2006 Petru is also the publisher and the editor of MOT / "Masters of Today 100 Contemporary Artists" collectible, collective art book series (www.mastersoftoday.com).

MOT and WOA publications are distributed by Ingram (USA) in US newsstands, bookstores and eCommerce worldwide including Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon and many others. Our distinguished collaborators are Guggenheim Museum and MoMA in New York, TATE Modern in London, Rivoli Museum in Torino, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Musée D'Art Moderne ARC Paris, The Getty in Los Angeles, Art Basel, the Venice Biennial and others.

Briefly, Petru's art production includes The Middle Ages Trilogy - Love, Sex, and Death on over 361 graphic interpretations: DECAMERON (1985 etching), THE CANTERBURY TALES (1992 encaustic and digital graphic) and the TALE OF GRISELDA (1993 drawing and digital graphics). Boccaccios' Decameron (1313-1375) a 705 year-old pre-Renaissance book (1351) about love, lust, deception, murder, religion, adultery, generosity, fortune and sexual avidity of the natural woman, an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death including 101 original etchings, 51 computer graphics and creative layout created by Petru in 1985-1987. Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / Pilgrinages (1343-1400) is a limited edition of 141 interpretations on drawing, computer graphics and creative layout created by Petru in 1994 and Francis Petrarcha's Story of Griselda (1304-1374), a tale of wifely obedience and faith is a limited edition of 78 graphics interpretations and creative layout created by Petru in 2000.

In 1987-1988 Petru created interpretations on etching and painting of Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE and in 1989 recreated on over 100 paintings, drawings, objects and graffiti Umberto Eco's THE PENDULUM OF FOUCAULT. Umberto Eco opened Petru's Foucault Pendulum exhibitions at Gummeson Gallery in Stockholm, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, The Netherlands, also in Milano, London and other galleries and cultural institutions.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Art Ideal And The Metaphorical Value Of Art, October 7, 2011
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It is quite relevant that collective art book exposure and the digitalization became the favorite trend foremost of the young and emerging contemporary artists, and also the whole artistic generation worldwide. This is a sign that the misrepresented visual discourse of "official" art is not longer important and representative of the global movement in art. The 121 Contemporary Artists selected and included in FAMOUS may not be all famous but one day they will because they have a well focused art ideal anticipating the future of contemporary art.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Famous? or not so famous?, August 14, 2008
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This was too lightweight and many of the artists I found were pretty lightweight as well.
Not really a study text, but a lovely book for the coffee table.
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