Swiss Made: Precision and Madness: Swiss Art from Hodler to Hirschhorn

by Bruderlin, Markus

• ISBN13: 9783775719636
• ISBN10: 3775719636
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

At last, the broader movements of twentieth-century Swiss art--and the individual artists behind them--are tracked through the present day in one standard-setting publication. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness sets the famous Swiss tendency toward precision and order alongside the tendency toward obstinacy and chaos, pairing canonical works with pieces made within the past 40 years. Provocative pairs include Max Bill and John Armleder, Ferdinand Hodler and Urs Luthi, Alberto Giacometti and Remy Zaugg, Louis Soutter and Martin Disler, Robert Muller and Sylvie Fleury, Paul Klee and Silvia Bachli, Adolph Wolfli and Ugo Rondinone. Tensions emerge between the focused and the expansive, over everyday life in the Swiss state, and naturally over the mountains. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness is of interest on its own analytic terms, and as an excellent overview of the country's art since 1850.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 5
About the Exhibition	p. 9
Precision and Madness: A Journey in Twelve Chapters from Ferdinand Hodler to Thomas Hirschhorn	p. 14
The Authentic Modernists: Five Swiss Character Miniatures	p. 34
Swiss Art since the Nineteen-Seventies: A Study on the Cultural Climate	p. 44
Moderation and Insanity: To What Extent Is Swiss Literature Swiss?	p. 56
Precision and Madness: A Project Revisited (Expo.02)	p. 64
My Swiss Adventure: Attempting a Declaration of Love	p. 70
The Catalogue	p. 77
List of Exhibited Works	p. 166
Author Biographies	p. 171
Artist Biographies	p. 172
Photo Credits	p. 180
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