Artists and visual authors
Artists
Biographical and visual-analytical profiles of artists whose methods and images became part of the language of visual culture.
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Andy Warhol
Art, commerce and the manufacture of celebrity02Anish Kapoor
Void, material and the politics of monumental form03Barbara Kruger
Language, power and the architecture of persuasion04Cindy Sherman
Mask, image, and the production of identity05Damien Hirst
Death, system and the economy of the artistic spectacle06David Hockney
Vision, colour and the expansion of the picture07Francis Bacon
Deformation, chance and the brutality of fact08Jean-Michel Basquiat
Language, race and the production of artistic value09Jeff Koons
Desire, production and the economy of the perfect surface10Joseph Beuys
Social sculpture, myth and the politics of artistic action11Keith Haring
The line, public space and the art of social accessibility12Louise Bourgeois
Memory, the body and the architecture of psychological space13Marcel Duchamp
Choice, chance and the redefinition of the work of art14Marina Abramović
The body, duration and the institutionalisation of presence15Olafur Eliasson
Light, perception and the politics of shared space16Pablo Picasso
The destruction of form, the production of the image and the power of the artistic myth17René Magritte
Image, language and the mystery of the everyday18Salvador Dalí
Paranoia, spectacle and the production of one's own myth19Yayoi Kusama
Infinity, repetition and the disappearance of the self