Product Description: Norwegian artist Jan Freuchen’s (born 1979) project Columna Translatlantica was commissioned for the National Tourist Routes initiative. Freuchen’s contribution, consisting of elements carved from Italian marble, is placed in the village of Vevang.

Product Description: In this notebook, art historian Dario Gamboni embarks on the trail of the notoriously restless Paul Gauguin, making his own observations in Gauguin’s wake through photographs, drawings and notes. Comparisons between their respective experiences are elaborated in extensive captions...read more

In this book - the first comprehensive examination of modern iconoclasm - Dario Gamboni looks closely at deliberate attacks against works of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He probes for motives and reassesses the circumstances in which institutions was well as individuals have attempted to eradicate public buildings, churches, sculptures, paintings, and other works of art. His interest spurred by the destruction of public monuments in the Communist bloc after 1989, Gamboni shows that iconoclasm is not just a thing of the past, but is also an international contemporary cultural phenomenon that includes explicable and inexplicable vandalism, political protest, and censorship. He examines incidents of destruction, some comic and others disquieting, in the United States, France, Britain, Switzerland, Germany, the former Soviet Union and its satellites, and elsewhere. To explore the relationship between the destruction of art in this century and older forms of iconoclasm, the author presents case studies of such European and American controversies as the Suffragette protests in London's National Gallery and the hotly-debated removal of Richard Serra's Tilted Arc in New York.

Product Description: Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Potential Images, the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response...read more