The arts: general topics Books
Lars Muller Publishers Das Andere (The Other)
Book SynopsisIn 1903, Adolf Loos edited the journal Das Andere - Ein Blatt zur Einfuhrung abendlandischer Kunst inOsterreich, in which he expressed his thoughts on, and theories of, contemporary architecture, fashion, anddesign. The publication was born out of Loos' aversion to a superficial aestheticization of life in Austria, whichhe saw embodied by the "Wiener Secession" and later on "Wiener Werkstatte" and "Werkbund." As acounterbalance, in Das Andere he showed his admiration especially for the fashion and culture of England andAmerica. Contemporary advertisements on these subjects were included in the journal, which ran for just twoissues.Beatriz Colomina supplements the reprint of Das Andere with an extensive commentary."
£21.25
De Gruyter Glaskunst am Bau und Intermedialität: Das Atelier
Book SynopsisThe leaded and cemented stained glass of the workshop of Heinrich Stäubli (1926-2016), St. Gallen, which is integrated into churches, restaurants, and schools, continues to shape the built environment of Eastern Switzerland today. The output of the workshop is characterized by relations among stained glass, murals, and graphic, textile, and funerary arts. This is the first analysis of the artworks and the estate from the perspective of intermediality and within the framework of modern art history. The study offers a systematic contextualization of Stäubli’s work within the history of stained-glass art in German-speaking countries, elucidating not only the operations of the artistic workshop but, more broadly, the artistic-social relevance of stained glass far beyond Switzerland in the 20th century.
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Springer International Publishing AG Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships: A Comparison of Chile and Romania
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Hansebooks Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S.: His personal history
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De Gruyter Matisse kommt mir vor wie vom Himmel
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Deutscher Kunstverlag Otto Dix Adolf Dietrich
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AV Akademikerverlag Artcare
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Sign Language
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Sand Cast And Kiln Glass
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Tino Sehgal
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De Gruyter Reflecting Oil
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Hansebooks Linguistisch-historische Forschungen zur
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Books on Demand Digitale Kunst für Einsteiger: Wie Sie die
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Hatje Cantz Clémentine Deliss: The Metabolic Museum: The
Book SynopsisOn the Pulse of the Museum as Institution of the FutureFor quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces the Metabolic Museum as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations. CLÉMENTINE DELISS has achieved international renown as a curator, cultural historian and publisher of artist’s books. In her role as Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, as a curator, and as a professor and researcher at eminent institutes and academies, she focuses on transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges. She is Associate Curator of KW Berlin and Guest Professor at the Academy of Arts, Hamburg.
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Hatje Cantz A Tree Could be a Paintbrush.
Book SynopsisOver a period of two years, Katharina Grosse and author Klaus Dermutz met in the artist's Berlin studio to conduct a series of very concentrated, lengthy conversations. This volume brings together ten in-depth interviews that delve deeper into central themes of Grosse's artistic work, such as the haptic image, the border, reversal, repetition without origin, interruption, the visible and the invisible, and time.
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Hirmer Gunta Stölzl Johannes Itten
Book SynopsisHelen Hirsch has been director and head curator at the Kunstmuseum Thun since 2007.Christoph Wagner is a lecturer and head of the Art History Department at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
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Hirmer Verlag Surrealism
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Prestel Noh and Kyogen Masks
Book SynopsisFeaturing breathtaking photographs of masks created by a renowned twenty-first- century craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective into noh and kyogen, two of the oldest surviving forms of theater in the world.Kitazawa Hideta is a traditional Japanese master craftsman, Shinto-temple carver and mask maker for both classical noh and kyogen theater. This gorgeous volume features more than sixty of his performance masks, presented in striking full-page photographs that allow readers to appreciate their level of detail. These meticulous creations are carved from hinoki wood, decorated with layers of gesso-paint, and thin watercolor antiquing, and sometimes include materials such as horsehair and gold paint. Readers are introduced first to classical and then to contemporary noh and kyogen masks and are invited into Hideta's workshop to explore the characteristics of the wood he uses, and the processes of creating, restoring, and we
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Books on Demand Piet Oosthoek: Beelden Sculptures Skulpturen
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Diek Grobler
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Tredition Classics Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of
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Bbooks Verlag Excentric 80s
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Sternberg Press Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's
Book SynopsisAn examination of contemporary art's recent emphasis on “research” and “knowledge production,” and its claims to provide a novel access to “knowledge.”Questioning the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect, Knowledge Beside Itself delves into the peculiar emphasis placed in recent years, curatorially and institutionally, on such notions as “research” and “knowledge production.” Contemporary art is viewed here as a strategic bet on the social distinctions and value extractions made possible by claiming a different, novel access to “knowledge.” Contemporary art's various liaisons with the humanities and the social and natural sciences, as well as its practitioners' frequent embeddedness within transdisciplinary research environments and educational settings, have created a sense of epistemo-aesthetic departure, which concurs with the growing relevance of art as conduit or catalyst of knowledge. Discussing the practice of artists such as Christine Borland, Bureau d'études, Tony Chakar, Lina Dokuzović, Fernando García-Dory, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Adelita Husni-Bey, Jakob Jakobsen, Claire Pentecost, and Pilvi Takala, writer and curator Tom Holert submits the gambit of conceptualizing contemporary art as an agent of epistemic politics to a genealogical analysis of its political-economic underpinnings—in times of cognitive capitalism, machine learning, and a renewed urgency of epistemological disobedience.
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Social Europe Publishing Social Europe: Volume 3
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Emaginity The Artist's Curse: On Being an Artist:
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Sternberg Press What about Activism?
Book SynopsisCurators and thinkers about contemporary art consider how to engage audiences in creative forms of protest and advocacy.With the global rise of a politics of shock, driven by nationalist and authoritarian regimes, what paths to resistance and sites of sanctuary can cultural institutions offer? In this book, more than twenty of the world's leading curators and thinkers about contemporary art offer powerful case studies from their own work, along with historical and theoretical perspectives, that point the way for cultural producers everywhere to engage audiences in creative forms of protest and advocacy capable of confronting the fierce political challenges of today and tomorrow.ContributorsDefne Ayas, Ute Meta Bauer, Nicolas Bourriaud, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Joshua Decter, Clémentine Deliss, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Boris Groys, Hou Hanru, Pi Li, Maria Lind, Steven Henry Madoff, Antonia Majaca, Gabi Ngcobo, Hans Ulricht Obrist, Jack Persekian with Alison Ramer, María Belén Saéz de Ibarra, Terry Smith, Nato Thompson, Mick Wilson, Brian Kuan Wood, Tirdad Zolghadr
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Schott Buch Handbuch der Gitarre und Laute
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ICI Berlin Press Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Fantasy Worlds Behind Shop Doors: Gateway to
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Small S vol. 75
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Pie International Co., Ltd. Twilight Beauty
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Pie International Co., Ltd. S vol. 85 Cover Illustration by namori
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Seiseisha Publishing Co., Ltd. Voyage of Prayer
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Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery Rebirth of a Collection
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Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery Alexandre Hollan
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Editorial Academica Espanola El cuerpo femenino en la fotografía Boudoir
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Reliable Copy Supporting Role
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MACBA ENTRE CIRCULOS Y CONSTELACIONES
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Set Margins' publications Artist-Run Europe: Practice/Projects/Spaces
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Set Margins' Publications Configurations of Time
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Saving India from Indira The Untold Story of Emergency
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Double 9 Books The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860
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Double 9 Books The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of
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Springer Art Line Thought
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APE Little Blues Booklet
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APE The Orphans of Tar – A Speculative Opera
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Onomatopee and then the doors opened again: WHAT WILL HAPPEN
Book SynopsisLocked down at home during the first wave of Covid-19, David Weber-Krebs kept on thinking about the day when theatres would open their doors again. At that point, it was somehow difficult to even picture that moment. On the 8th of April, 2020, in the middle of the lockdown, David sent an e-mail to his peers: artists, scholars, curators, and spectators belonging to different art communities. In this e-mail, there was a simple question: What will happen on your first theatre visit after the lockdown? It was an invitation to imagine the future of theatre from this very specific moment when theatres were all closed and when it was not clear how and when and if they would open again. Paula Almiron, Kristof van Baarle, Sven Age Birkeland, Antonia Baehr, Caroline Barneaud, Nicole Beutler, Maaike Bleeker, Julien Bruneau, Pieter De Buysser, Alondra Castellanos, Chloé Chignell, Amélie Coster, Jasper Delbecke, Zoë Demoustier, Wouter De Raeve, Charlotte De Somviele, Katja Dreyer, Jeroen Fabius, Silvia Fanti, Far, Nicolas Galeazzi, Emilie Gallier, Nada Gambier, Melih Gencboyaci, Konstantina Georgelou, Kristof van Gestel, Matthieu Goeury, Maximilian Haas, Ant Hampton, David Helbich, Marijke Hoogenboom, Rita Hofwijk, Breg Horemans, Asa Horvitz, Dolores Hulan, Mette Ingvartsen, Myriam Van Imschoot and Marcus Bergner (MM), Stefan Kaegi, Edyta Kozak, Bojana Kunst, Rudi Laermans, Sarah van Lamsweerde, Heike Langsdorf, Mylène Lauzon, André Lepecki, Kopano Maroga, Ivana Müller, Phoebe Osborne, Leonie Persyn, Julie Pfleiderer, Antoine Pickels, Amanda Piña, Jan-Philipp Possmann, Fransien van der Putt, Irena Radmanovic, Anna Rispoli, Martina Ruhsam, Jonas Rutgeerts, Nienke Scholts, Ula Sickle, Michael Simon, Karoline Skuseth, Lara Staal, Christel Stalpaert, Danae Theodoridou, Pankaj Tiwari, Vera Tussing, Marie Urban, Michiel Vandevelde, Hidde Aans Verkade, Mathilde Villeneuve, Georg Weinand, Stefanie Wenner, Siegmar Zacharias, Andros Zins-Browne
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Against Art and Culture
Book SynopsisOffering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification. Contending a conceptual and social reality of a combined ‘art/culture’ , this book demonstrates that the failure to appreciate the dynamic totality of art and culture by its purported negators is due to almost all existing critiques of art and culture being defences of a ‘true’ art or culture against ‘inauthentic’ manifestations, and art thus ultimately restricting creativity to the service of the bourgeois commodity regime. While the evidence that art/culture enables commodification has long been available, the deduction that art/culture itself is fundamentally of the world of commodification has failed to gain traction. By applying a nuanced analysis of both commodification and the larger systems of ideological power, the book considers how the ‘surplus’ of art/culture is used to legitimate the bourgeois status quo rather than unravel it. It also examines possibilities for a post-art/culture world based on both existing practices that challenge art/culture identity as well as speculations on the integration of play and aesthetics into general social life. An out-and-out negation of art and culture, this book offers a unique contribution to the cultural critique landscape. Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Art/Culture and Why Should You Be Against It?.- Artistic Differences: In Search of a Negation.- Artistic License: The Catechisms of Art/Culture.- Artistic Freedom: Privilege and New Products.- That’s Showbiz! Artistic Form and Control.- Conclusion: O Bailan Todos O No Baila Nadie.
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