Martin Guttmann Livres

Since the early 1980s, the photographs of Clegg & Guttmann have explored the representation of power and the codification of gestures. Famous for their images of powerful people or families inspired both by seventeenth-century Dutch painting and commissioned portraits for annual reports, they have developed various typologies of photographic portraiture over the past three decades. This volume examines two typological series in “Portraits and Artworks” and “Collaborative Portraits.” These series feature artist sitters such as Sari Carel, Joseph Kosuth, David Robbins, Christoph Schlingensief, Joseph Strau, Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West.

The publication is a resumption, on Franz West's initiative, of the renowned "Brenner" - a journal published in Innsbruck by Ludwig von Ficker. The circle that associated with this journal also included Georg Trakl and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The text and image contributions of artists and authors and the interviews that the Austrian writer Benedikt Ledebur conducted with them all revolve around linguistic and philosophical-historical themes, reflecting the approaches used by the artists involved and developing a modernist aesthetic with the conceptuality of collage - all of this in keeping with the tradition of the "Brenner", but also of the Dadaists and the Vienna Group.