Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Carson, Anne, 1950-
2. Heuer, Christopher P.
3. Nochlin, Linda
4. Kunsthalle Wien, host institution.

Description

1. 307 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

1. German artist and 2017 Turner Prize nominee Andrea Büttner examines depictions of beggars in visual culture in an artist?s book about poverty, art history, theology, and the politics of social benefits. Büttner, whose work addresses notions of shame, vulnerability, and dignity, presents a recent series of woodcuts, as well research conducted at the Warburg Institute in London. including sixteenth-century vignettes from the Liber Vagatorum and a visual essay on the iconography of shepherds and kings in nativity scenes. Exhibition: Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (08.06. - 18.09.2016) / Musée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan, France (06.11.2016 - 19.02.2017) / Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (04.03. - 07.05.2017) / Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (24.08. - 28.10.2018).

Alternative title

1. Beggars

Subject

1. Exhibition catalogs
2. Pose
3. Kunst
4. Körpersprache
5. Holzschnitt
6. Geste
7. Bettler > Motiv
8. Armut > Motiv
9. Büttner, Andrea 1972-
10. Artists' books
11. Beggars in art > Exhibitions
12. Poverty in art > Exhibitions
13. Büttner, Andrea, 1972- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Note

1. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Exhibition: Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (08.06. - 18.09.2016) and 3 other venues.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.