The imagined Instagrams of art history’s “influencers,” from Gauguin to Warhol
With his sharp-witted illustrations and insightful one-liners, the French illustrator, painter and writer Jean-Philippe Delhomme (born 1959) is a deft observer and loving critic of our contemporary culture. In his latest book, Artists' Instagrams, Delhomme imagines what the masters of modern art would have posted if they had access to Instagram and shared our addiction to the platform.
The results are hilarious: Picasso collaborates with a car brand and compares his follower-count with Braque’s; Mondrian paints his IKEA kitchen; Gauguin incites #FOMO with his travel photographs of tantalizing, exoticizing Polynesian nudes. They are all here, from Joseph Beuys to Andy Warhol.
Artists' Instagrams: The Never Seen Instagrams of the Greatest Artists is one of the first art books to engage Instagram’s influence in our visual culture (Kim Kardashian’s pioneering efforts notwithstanding). But Artists’ Instagrams is not only an amusing mash-up of high culture and everyone's favorite social media platform; it's a veritable history of modern art through hashtags.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Jean-Philippe Delhomme: Artists' Instagrams.'
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Guardian
Michael-Oliver Harding
The project of Hilma af Klint and her female colleagues was the result of great maturity, of confidence and collective efforts, performed both in work and in life.
Creative Pro
Maya P Lim
Witty posts (and commentary from other famous artists) pair with silly drawings in this goofy gag book.
Architectural Digest
Elizabeth Stamp
His 2019 book, Artists' Instagrams: The Never Seen Instagrams of the Greatest Artists, depicted witty takes on imagined posts by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, and Piet Mondrian, while playing with the realities of the Instagram age.
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In this meta take on artist representation, French illustrator, painter and writer Jean-Philippe Delhomme presents the reader with a suite of 85 tongue-in-cheek line drawings hypothesizing how some of the world's great artists whose death predated social media—including Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Mark Rothko, Gertrude Stein, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol—would have interacted on Instagram today. A crude, hand-drawn "post" by Vincent van Gogh shows an old woman pointing at a plein air masterpiece clamped into a French easel with the caption, “old crazy woman said my painting will become a handbag and people will make tons of money with it." Thirteen "likes" are registered, as well as a response from @gauguin reading, "ha ha ha." This bright yellow volume of facetious, hand-drawn black-and-white Instagram posts is compact, functional and filled with enough satire to satisfy everyone from the art historian to the Instagram influencer. In the featured image, Duchamp’s female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, has posted a photo of the artist’s infamous urinal piece captioned to imbue the banality of a typical Monday. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 176 pgs / 85 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $29.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $45 GBP £27.00 ISBN: 9781947359048 PUBLISHER: August Editions AVAILABLE: 4/23/2019 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Jean-Philippe Delhomme: Artists' Instagrams The Never Seen Instagrams of the Greatest Artists
Published by August Editions.
The imagined Instagrams of art history’s “influencers,” from Gauguin to Warhol
With his sharp-witted illustrations and insightful one-liners, the French illustrator, painter and writer Jean-Philippe Delhomme (born 1959) is a deft observer and loving critic of our contemporary culture. In his latest book, Artists' Instagrams, Delhomme imagines what the masters of modern art would have posted if they had access to Instagram and shared our addiction to the platform.
The results are hilarious: Picasso collaborates with a car brand and compares his follower-count with Braque’s; Mondrian paints his IKEA kitchen; Gauguin incites #FOMO with his travel photographs of tantalizing, exoticizing Polynesian nudes. They are all here, from Joseph Beuys to Andy Warhol.
Artists' Instagrams: The Never Seen Instagrams of the Greatest Artists is one of the first art books to engage Instagram’s influence in our visual culture (Kim Kardashian’s pioneering efforts notwithstanding). But Artists’ Instagrams is not only an amusing mash-up of high culture and everyone's favorite social media platform; it's a veritable history of modern art through hashtags.
