Weiermair, Peter

The measure of all things : on the relationship between photography and objects( Book )
4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 187 libraries worldwide

Light years by Ralph Gibson( Book )
3 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 182 libraries worldwide
"This volume presents the 92 most significant pictorial compositions of Ralph Gibson. His raw materials are the lines and shapes of seemingly mundane objects - a streetlamp, the back of a chair, a wine bottle, a human silhouette against the light. Based upon an unusual black-and-white technique, his photography is metaphorical rather than documentary." "The contents of Gibson's pictures are difficult to grasp, often even mysterious. Some compositions seem characterized by unusual control, structure and clarity, while others are opulent, seductive and full of hidden meaning. Gibson celebrates what he sees. The human form is generalized far beyond the concrete-associative representational approach of portraiture. In deliberately overlooking the signs and props of specific locale, Gibson raises individual figures to an abstract level of human existence. His often fragmentary figures draw the viewer's attention to the design and composition of the pictorial details. The organic structure of such pictures clearly suggests that their origins are by no means random. With great precision and without sentimentality he succeeds in making his "message" comprehensible."--BOOK JACKET.

Louise Bourgeois : Aller-Retour : Zeichnungen und Skulpturen = drawings and sculptures by Louise Bourgeois( Book )
3 editions published in 2005 in German and held by 168 libraries worldwide

Vance Kirkland 1904-1981 by Vance Kirkland( Book )
4 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and German and held by 154 libraries worldwide
"Vance Kirkland (Ohio, 1904 - Denver, 1981) was a fine, mysterious American painter whose unique abstract methods were not discovered and appreciated until after he died. During the first half of his fifty-four year career, he was nationally famous in America for his masterful realist and surrealist watercolor, gouache and casein paintings and he exhibited with such artists as Dali, Ernst, Margritte and Miro. The abrupt transition to abstraction and oil sent him into a spiral of oblivion but also into increasingly brilliant and distinctive paintings. He had started mixing watercolor and denatured alcohol, and later oil paint and water for a major period of resist abstract expressionism." "Kirkland's paintings have been awakened from their isolation in the middle of America to take a rightful place in global art."--BOOK JACKET.

The nude : ideal and reality : from Neoclassicism to today : [painting and sculpture by Paolo Fabbri( Book )
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 151 libraries worldwide

Mario Cravo Neto : [photographs by Mário Cravo Neto( Book )
4 editions published in 1994 in English and Portuguese and held by 146 libraries worldwide

Male nudes by women : an anthology( Book )
4 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 145 libraries worldwide
"The present anthology, Male Nudes by Women, edited by Peter Weiermair, reflects the current efforts of a number of female photographers in dealing with the male body. It reflects as well their critical approach to seemingly rigid gender roles and cliches, developed over a period of centuries, and to their own erotic imaginations."--BOOK JACKET.

The body : contemporary Canadian art = Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Kanada = Le corps : art contemporain canadien( Book )
4 editions published in 1994 in German and held by 132 libraries worldwide

Ann Mandelbaum : thin skin by Ann Mandelbaum( Book )
3 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide

The bird of self-knowledge : folk art and current artists' positions( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 127 libraries worldwide
Item documents the installations of 25 artists in response to the collection of the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum, Innsbruck and the papers from the symposium which examined the relationship between contemporary art and folk culture. Artists who participated include Pieter Laurens Mol, Hermann Nitsch, Al Souza and Antoni Tàpies.