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Getty Trust Publications Color Science and the Visual Arts - A Guide for
Book Synopsis"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar." What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and offers solutions to problems that occur when art is displayed, conserved, imaged, or reproduced. Berns writes for two types of audiences: museum professionals seeking explanations for common color-related issues and students in conservation, museum studies, and art history programs. The seven chapters in the book fall naturally into two sections: fundamentals, covering topics such as spectral measurements, metamerism, or color inconstancy; and applications, where artwork display, painting materials, and color reproduction are discussed. A unique feature of this book is the use of more than 200 images as its main medium of communication, employing color physics, color vision, and imaging science to produce visualizations throughout the pages. An annotated bibliography complements the main text with suggestions for further reading and more in-depth study of particular topics. Engaging, incisive, and absolutely critical for any scholar or student interested in color science, Color Science and the Visual Arts is sure to become a key reference for the entire field.Trade Review"Berns delivers . . . by providing novel and clear explanations of how colour is perceived in and around an artwork. [This book] provides an excellent introduction for students of conservation or any field dealing with the presentation of art objects. It is also a valuable source for anyone wishing to review or update their understanding of (mostly) painted surfaces, their display and reproduction. The text is intended to be an accessible, go-to source and succeeds." --Art Libraries Journal "Bridging the gap between chemistry, mathematics, psychology, art conservation, art history, and the fine arts, Color Science and the Visual Arts provides an unparalleled look at the way these discipline intersect and how the science of color relates to the display, creation, and reproduction of works of art."--Art Libraries Society, North America
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Columbia University Press Installation and the Moving Image
Book SynopsisTraces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and videoTrade Review[A] wild ride of a book... Elwes has made an admirable assault on the field and I am sure this book will influence generations of students. Art Monthly Fascinating. Cinema TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Architecture 2. Painting 3. Sculpture 4. Performance 5. Film History 6. Film as Film 7. Structural Film: Detractions and Revisions 8. The Dialectics of Spectatorship 9. Expanded Cinema 10. Sound 11. Video Installation 12. Closing Thoughts Bibliography Index
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Art/Books On Being An Artist
Book SynopsisProvides lesson after valuable lesson to anyone wishing to know what it means and what it takes to be an artist today. In this book the author gives practical advice and insights gained from his own professional highs and lows. It is a mix of reminiscence, personal philosophy.
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University of California Press The Power of the Center
Book SynopsisUsing many examples, this title considers the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture.Trade Review"Arnheim was a distinguished psychologist, philosopher and critic whose work explored the cognitive basis of art—how we interpret it and, by extension, the world." * Cabinet *"It is the balance between the precision of [Arnheim's] specific analyses and their participation in a larger order of principles that makes Power of the Center such a satisfying book." * ARTnews *Table of ContentsIntroduction I. TWO SPATIAL SYSTEMS A master key to composition. Centricity and eccentricity. Vectors and their targets. Interaction of the systems. II. CENTERS AND THEIR RIVALS Geometric and dynamic. The pull of gravity. The visual center underneath. Varieties of weight. Sculpture and the ground. Matisse under pressure. III. THE VIEWER AS A CENTER Self-centered vision. Various positions in space. A slab in suspense. Seeing the world sideways. The viewer as an influence. Looking into depth. IV. LIMITS AND FRAMES Enclosures spread energy. Tampering with the range. The functions of frames. Framed space not quite closed. Rectangular formats. Challenges to the middle. Perspective creates a center. V. TONDO AND SQUARE Floating shapes. Tondi stress the middle. The role of eccentricity. Disks inside. The oval. Squares balance the coordinates. Albers's nests of squares. Mondrian overrides centricity. A square by Munch. VI. CENTERS AS HUBS Providing stability. Tension through deviation. Dynamics of the human figure. Saltimbanques and Guernica. VII. CENTERS AS DIVIDERS Bipolar composition. The necessary latch. Diagonals. Noli me tangere. VIII. VOLUMES AND NODES Volumes and vectors interacting. Kinds of nodes. Nodes of the body. Faces and hands. Singing man. IX. SPACE IN DEPTH Perceiving the third dimension. Objects behaving in space. Enclosures replacing frames. The added view of projection. Continuity of space. What perspective contributes. Time in space. The symbolism of the frontal plane. X. CENTERS AND GRIDS IN BUILDINGS Grids prevail. Design in elevation. Design on the ground. Coping with full space. XI. FURTHERMORE Composition in time. Are there exceptions? A physical foundation. Composition carries meaning. Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Princeton University Press Face and Mask
Book Synopsis"First published in Germany under the title Faces: Eine Geschichte des Gesichts."Trade Review"A compelling study."--ApolloTable of ContentsIntroduction: Defining the Subject 1 I Face and Mask: Changing Views 1 Facial Expression, Masks of the Self, and Roles of the Face 17 2 The Cult Origin of the Mask 32 3 Masks in Colonial Museums 42 4 Face and Mask in the Theater 48 5 From the Study of the Face to Brain Research 63 6 Nostalgia for the Face and the Death Mask in Modernity 77 7 Eulogy for the Face: Rilke and Artaud 84 II Portrait and Mask: The Face as Representation 8 The European Portrait as Mask 91 9 Face and Skull: Two Opposing Views 106 10 The "Real Face" of the Icon and the "Similar Face" 118 11 The Record of Memory and the Speech Act of the Face 126 12 Rembrandt's Self-Portraiture: Revolt against the Mask 135 13 Silent Screams in the Glass Case: The Face Set Free 150 14 Photography and Mask: Jorge Molder's Own Alien Face 157 III Media and Masks: The Production of Faces 15 The Consumption of Media Faces 175 16 Archives: Controlling the Faces of the Crowd 192 17 Video and Live Image: The Flight from the Mask 205 18 Ingmar Bergman and the Face in Film 211 19 Overpainting and Replicating the Face: Signs of Crisis 221 20 Mao's Face: State Icon and Pop Idol 229 21 Cyberfaces: Masks without Faces 239 Acknowledgments 247 Notes 249 Literature Cited 263 Index of Names 267
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Pluto Press Rubbish Theory
Book SynopsisHow do objects that have lost their value become valuable once again?Trade Review'Original, insightful, and entertaining' -- Ian Stewart, author of Seventeen Equations that Changed the World (Profile Books, 2012)'Witty and wide-ranging scholarly scholarly study ... a fascinating contribution to cultural theory' -- The Guardian'A remarkably original and creative book, far ahead of its time. Thompson's analysis is not only a major contribution to the anthropological theorising of waste and value, but it is also highly relevant for the contemporary dilemmas of growth and environmental destruction' -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, author of Overheating (Pluto, 2016)'Highly recommended' -- CHOICETable of ContentsForeword by Joshua O. Reno Preface Introduction to the New Edition 1. The Filth in the Way 2. Stevengraphs - Yesterday’s Kitsch 3. Rat-infested Slum or Glorious Heritage? 4. From Things to Ideas 5. A Dynamic Theory of Rubbish 6. Art and the Ends of Economic Activity 7. Monster Conservation 8. The Geometry of Credibility 9. The Geometry of Confidence 10. The Needle’s Eye Afterword (co-authored by M. Bruce Beck) Notes Index
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British Museum Press Indian Art CloseUp
Book SynopsisThis beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of a wide array of Indian art. It highlights close up and in colour outstanding examples of design, workmanship and craft in dramatic sculptures of metal, stone and wood as well as sumptuous paintings and textiles.Table of ContentsWhat is Indian art? • Gods • Heroes • Devotion • Courtly and village life • Further reading • Glossary • Index
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Stanford University Press Mapping Benjamin
Book SynopsisSince its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's Artwork essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologiesnotably film, sound recording, and photographyto reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past fifty years. Does Benjamin's famous essay still speak to this new situation? That is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range of leading scholars and thinkers across a spectrum of disciplines in the humanities. The essays gathered here do not hazard a univocal reply to that question; rather they offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin's position that refracts and reflects contemporary thinking about the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of life in the digital age.Trade Review"Mapping Benjamin not only distinguishes itself in format, scope, and tone from the mass of Benjamin books published each year, it provides an up-to-date snapshot of the humanities. This lucidly written book uses Benjamin to chart the parameters of a force field of contemporary intellectual efforts, across disciplines and other divides." -Eva Geulen,New York UniversityTable of ContentsContents BAECKER DIRK BOLZ NORBERT SIEGERT BERNHARD BARCK KARLHEINZ GILGEN PETER SHIFF RICHARD MOSER WALTER SCHMIDT SIEGFRIED J. HENNION ANTOINE LATOUR BRUNO LINK JURGEN CHARTIER ROGER LINK-HEER URSULA WATERS LINDSAY ZUMTHOR PAUL ASSMANN ALEIDA ASSMANN JAN HULLOT-KENTOR ROBERT BEHNKE KERSTIN WEIMAR KLAUS RITTER HENNING WENZEL HORST LEWIS PERICLES WERBER NIELS DE CASTRO ROCHA JOAO CEZAR NICHOLS STEPHEN G. NEVILLE BRIAN READINGS BILL FEINSTEIN JOSHUA MENOCAL MARIA ROSA SARLO BEATRIZ HARRISON ROBERT P. BANN STEPHEN
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Color Perception in Art
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Tarcher/Putnam,US Free Play Power of Improvisation in Life and the
Book SynopsisFree Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. An international bestseller and beloved classic, Free Play is an inspiring and provocative book, directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured, and how finally it can be liberated—how we can be liberated—to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. Stephen Nachmanovitch, a pioneer in free improvisation, integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity, drawing on unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecd
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The University of Chicago Press On Art
Book SynopsisThe first collection in English of the writings of Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov, a leading figure in the avant garde in the 1960s and ’70s and a major influence on artists today.
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Oro Editions LA+ Green
Book SynopsisIn the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between the binary extremes of black and white it’s not gray, as you might expect, but green. And within green’s bandwidth there are more tonal variations than any other colour can make. Maybe this is why - envy, naivete, and money aside - green is generally synonymous with good. Green is paradise for Islam, luck for the Irish, and a healthy planet for environmentalists. Whereas the industrial past was grey, the future is green. LA+ Green explores the green spectrum from plants to politics and from art to science, with contributions from: Noam Chomsky; Robert D. Bullard; Kassia St. Clair; Neil M. Maher; Rob Levinthal; Sonja Dümpelmann; Peder Anker; Robert Mcdonald; Parker Sutton; Tamara Toles O’Laughlin; Nicholas Pevzner; Michael Marder; Shannon Mattern; Michael Geffel; Brian Osborn; Julian Bolleter; Cristina Ramalho; Robert Freestone; Richard Weller; Michael Geffel; Brian Osborn; Julian Raxworthy.
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University of California Press Laszlo MoholyNagy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An excellent study . . . Tsai works chronologically through case studies that variously illuminate the changing terms of Moholy’s utopian humanism and its abiding relationship to technology and pedagogical technique." * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments / vii Plates / xi Introduction / 1 1. New Vision / 12 2. Painting Productivity / 52 3. Sorcerer’s Apprentice / 85 4. Painting after Photography / 113 Conclusion: Homecoming / 142 Postscript / 163 Archive Abbreviations / 168 Notes / 169 List of Illustrations / 197 Index / 201
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Lynda Benglis
Book SynopsisIn four decades of abstract art practice, Lynda Benglis has not merely challenged the status quo. She has tied it in knots, melted it down and poured it across the floor, cast it in glass, clay and bronze. Daring and sometimes outrageous, her intense and provocative practice has produced some of the most iconic pieces of art from the late twentieth century. Richmond gives serious critical attention to work often dismissed as trivial and rootless, recovering the themes that link the different phases of the artist''s quest to capture the ''frozen gesture''. Whether challenging popular tastes and definitions of art with her 1970s abstract knotwork or mocking puritanical aesthetics of gender with her colourful latex pourings and their allusions to corporeal topographies, Benglis never failed to provoke. Her sculptures commemorate and celebrate the processes of creation themselves, combining architectonic abstraction and feminized sensuality in a haunting, visceral theme of the strangenTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Boundless Forms and Continuous Imagery 2. Flesh and Physicality 3. Video Input and Output 4. Questioning Taste 5. Iterations and Expansions
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Valiz Shame! and Masculinity
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Transcript Verlag Queer Art: A Freak Theory
Book SynopsisA queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.Trade Review"An exciting read for those invested in queer theory and gender studies as well as for those with an interest in the fine arts and performance art." Gloria Höckner, fiber [German magazine for feminist and pop-cultural issues, appears twice a year], 21 (2012) "A very complex book that manages to be comprehensive - and infectious at the same time." Persson Perry Baumgartinger, Stimme [quarterly magazine published by the Austrian 'Initiative Minderheiten' ('Initiative Minorities')], 85 (2012) "Renate Lorenz focuses on a description of the appearance of the 'freak' as a cultural practice that not only offers alternatives to conventional relations of social power through interventions and images but also constitutes more than a simple critique or subversion of social norms. What is special about her work is that her theory links poststructuralist approaches with typical elements of the freak show [...] and thereby generates innovative intersections that go beyond what has been so far characteristic of the queer. Lorenz thus adds new aspects to the academic field." Silke Förschler, sehepunkte [German monthly Open Access review journal for historiography and art studies], 13 (2013)
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Valiz Willem Sandberg - Portrait of an Artist
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Valiz Contemporary Artist Residencies: Reclaiming Time
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No Place Press The Glen Park Library: A Fairy Tale of Disruption
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Oxford University Press Inc The Philosophical Imagination
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MACK Photography Against the Grain: Essays and Photo
Book SynopsisLong out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in these essays and images Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective model of progress. Sekula taught at California Institute of Arts (CalArts) from 1985 until his death in 2013, and from that insider's position he critiqued photography and the circumstances of its production and consumption, exposing what the medium failed to represent – women, labourers, minorities and the institutional structures that reinforce cultural biases.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Women Artists Feminism and the Moving Image
Book SynopsisLucy Reynolds is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster, UK. She is the Editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), and a curator and artist. Her work has been published in Afterall, MIRAJ, Screen and Screendance. Her particular interests are questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice.Trade ReviewWomen Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image offers up a fascinating addition to theories that inform feminist film criticism as it applies to video art. Laura Mulvey, the éminence grise of feminist film studies, provides a preface, and for the collection itself Reynolds brought together essays, interviews, and even a lengthy poem. The contributors are diverse as well, including scholars, film curators, journalists, and artists. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *This book productively brings together research happening across the History of Art, Film Studies, Visual Culture and Fine Art Practice and asserts the importance of practices that have too long remained peripheral. Each of the essays offers fresh, new perspectives, providing an excellent introduction to the recent developments in the study of moving image art. -- Amy Tobin, Curator of Exhibitions, Events and Research at Kettle’s Yard and Director of Studies in History of Art, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsForeword, Laura Mulvey (Birbeck, University of London, UK) Introduction: Raising Voices, Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK) Introduction: Certain Measures, Lis Rhodes (Artist and filmmaker, UK) Part One: Acknowledgements In Conversation: MORE: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz with Irene Revell 1. In a tiny realm of her own: Lotte Reiniger’s light work, Elinor Cleghorn (Independent scholar, UK) 2. Returning to Riddles, Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 3. 'Being a together woman is a bitch': 'An African American woman's film' genealogy of Julie Dash's Four Women (1975), So Mayer (Freelance writer, UK) 4. Film Esperienza. The work of Marinella Pirelli, Lucia Aspesi (Pirelli HangarBicocca, Italy) 5. Prescient intersectionality: Women, moving image and identity politics in 1980s Britain, Rachel Garfield (University of Reading, UK) Part Two: Engagements and Negotiations In Conversation: Maria Palacios Cruz interviews Basma Alsharif 6. 'Overexposed, like an X-ray': The politics of corporeal vulnerability in Sandra Lahire's experimental cinema, Maud Jacquin (Art historian and curator, France & USA) 7. 'Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s': Penelope Spheeris's I Don't Know, Erika Balsom (King's College London, UK) 8. Aesthetics of potentiality: Nguyen Trinh Thi’s Essay films, May Adadol Ingawanji (University of Westminster, UK) 9. The art of maximal ventriloquy: Femininity as labour in the films of Rachel MacLean, Sarah Neely (University of Stirling, UK) & Sarah Smith (Glasgow School of Art, UK) Part Three: Situations and Receptions In Conversation: Club des Femmes, Helena Reckitt: An Interview on International Women's Day 2017 10. Strategies of exposure and concealment in moving image art by women; a cross-generational account, Cate Elwes (Video artist and curator, UK) 11. Choreographing women's work: Multitaskers, smartphone users and virtuoso performers, Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland) 12. Female solidarity as uncommodified value: Lucy Beech's Cannibals and Rehana Zaman's Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen, Maria Walsh (Chelsea College of the Arts, University Arts London, UK) 13. Can we still talk about women artists? Melissa Gronlund (The National, USA) Bibliography Index
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MIT Press Think Tank Aesthetics Midcentury Modernism the
Book SynopsisHow the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.In Think Tank Aesthetics, Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operations research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism and set the terms for contemporary neoliberalism. Lee casts these shadowy institutions as sites of radical creativity and interdisciplinary practice in the service of defense strategy. Describing the distinctive aesthetics that emerged from such institutions as the RAND Corporation, she maps the multiple and overlapping networks that connected nuclear strategists, mathematicians, economists, anthropologists, artists, designers, and art historians.Lee recounts, among other things,
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University of California Press William Kentridge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a persuasive new monograph..." * New York Review of Books *"...presents a formidable argument for Kentridge’s realignment in relation to global culture, providing us with an exhilarating image of what it means to be ‘contemporary up south’, and a more nuanced understanding of Kentridge’s unique body of work." * Burlington Contemporary *"By examining the centrality of metaphor to Kentridge’s creative processes, Maltz-Leca weaves a dense tapestry in which individual works from throughout his oeuvre are explicated in terms of the complex ways in which they relate to history, South African history in particular." * H-Net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments On the Southern Tip of Africa 1 The Politics of Metaphor Erasing 2 History as Process, or Chasing Hegel out of Africa Animating 3 Process/Procession Processing Regime Change 4 Thinking/Doubting/Doubling Drawing (Up) 5 The Most Promiscuous of Metaphors Projecting Being Contemporary Up South World Time and Other Doubtful Enterprises Notes List of Illustrations Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Curation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Foreword Illustrations IntroductionBrad Buckley and John Conomos About the Editors Section One: An Overview: The origin and provenance of curating 1. A Selective History of Curating in Pittsburgh: The Recent Story of the Carnegie InternationalDavid Carrier 2. Curating Curiosity: Imperialism, Materialism, Humanism and the WunderkammerAdam Geczy 3. Professionalizing the Field: The Case of the United StatesAndrew McClellan 4. The Emergence of the Professional CuratorCarole Paul Section Two: Movements, models, people and politics 5. Curating as a Verb: 100 Years of Nation-StatesJuli Carson 6. Curating without Borders: Transnational feminist and queer feminist practices for the twenty first centuryElke Krasny 7. Displacements and Sites: Notes on a Curatorial MethodMaria Lind 8. Africa, Art and Knowing Nothing. Some thoughts on curating at the British MuseumChris Spring 9. Curatorial CrisisMartha Wilson 10. ‘We Care as Much as You Pay - Curating Asian ArtThomas J. Berghuis Section Three: The curator in a globalized world 11. Museums are everywhere in China, there is no museum in China (or, how institutional typologies define curatorial practices)Biljana Ciric 12. Curating the Contemporary in Decolonial Spaces. Observations from Thailand on Curatorial Practice in Southeast AsiaGregory Galligan 13. Curated from Within: The Artist as CuratorAlex Gawronski 14. Decolonizing the Ethnographic MuseumGerald McMaster 15. The Creature from the Id: Adventures in Aboriginal Art CuratingDjon Mundine 16. The Impact of Context Specificity in Curating amidst the Forces at Play in a Globalized World of RealmsFatoş Üstek 17. The Neglected Object of CurationLee Weng Choy Section Four: Beyond the museum: Curating at the frontier 18. Parallel processing: public art and new media artSarah Diamond 19. Approach to the Curatorship of Virtual Reality ExhibitionsArnau Gifreu-Castells 20. Tracing the Ephemeral and Contestational Aesthetics and Politics of the Living ArchiveErik Kluitenberg 21. Curating with the InternetSean Lowry 22. Arts & Science – the Intersection (re)engineeredMelentie Pandilovski Index
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National Gallery Singapore The Asian Modern
Book SynopsisIn this expansive study, John Clark draws on decades of his research on modern art cultures across Asia from 1850 to the present day. The Asian Modern uses an artist-centric approach, by way of meticulous case studies, to create a new comparative paradigm for the narration of art. Affiliations of place, claims John Clark, rather than genealogies of time, is key to clarifying the category of the Asian Modern. [...] The transfer is from an extractive art history obsessed with pedigree and derivations, on the one hand, to a redistributive art history, on the other, that is possible only through the reciprocities and fundamental obligations between persons and things. Absent the latter, there can be no future for art history in Asia. Patrick D. Flores, Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines, introduction to The Asian Modern
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Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Kunst und Forschung im Gespräch
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Pluto Press The Situationist International
Book SynopsisUp-to-date collection on the Situationist International, rethinking their relevance for todayTrade Review'It's hard to see how this book could be surpassed in rigor and scope. As its authors carefully unpack the complex manifold of situationism, readers begin to grasp again the political, aesthetic, philosophical, and cultural totality of consumer capitalism that the Situationists argued we can leave. This mid-twentieth-century critique and speculation remains an undeniable wonder' -- Simon Sadler, Professor of Design at the University of California, Davis and author of 'The Situationist City''Philosophy, critical theory, artistic practice, strategies and tactics of social contestation, transnational networks and internecine clashes all came together in the Situationist International. In this volume, new archival resources and a new generation of scholars point the way to a richer, more complete picture of the movement and its place in the 20th and 21st centuries' -- Kevin Repp, Curator of Modern European Books & Manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Situationist International in Critical Perspective - Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias PART I: KEY CONTEXTS 1. Debord’s Reading of Marx, Lukács and Wittfogel: A Look at the Archives - Anselm Jappe 2. The Unsurpassable: Dada, Surrealism and the Situationist International - Krzysztof Fijalkowski 3. Lettrism - Fabrice Flahutez 4. The Situationists, Hegel and Hegelian Marxism in France - Tom Bunyard 5. The Situationist International and the Rediscovery of the Revolutionary Workers’ Movement - Anthony Hayes 6. The Shadow Cast by the Situationist International on May ’68 - Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot 7. The Situationists’ Anti-colonialism: An Internationalist Perspective - Sophie Dolto and Nedjib Sidi Moussa 8. Gender and Sexuality in the Situationist International - Ruth Baumeister 9. Revolutionary Romanticism in the Twentieth Century: Surrealists and Situationists - Michael Löwy PART II: KEY CONCEPTS 10. The Spectacle - Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias 11. The Constructed Situation - Gabriel Zacarias 12. Unitary Urbanism: Three Psychogeographic Imaginaries - Craig Buckley 13. The Abolition of Alienated Labour - Alastair Hemmens 14. Détournement in Language and the Visual Arts - Gabriel Zacarias 15. The Situationists’ Revolution of Everyday Life - Michael E. Gardiner 16. Radical Subjectivity: Considered in its Psychological, Economic, Political, Sexual and, Notably, Philosophical Aspects - Alastair Hemmens 17. The ‘Realisation of Philosophy’ - Tom Bunyard 18. Recuperation - Patrick Marcolini 19. Internationalism - Bertrand Cochard Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Rhetoric of Perspective
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Epiphanies Individuation and Human Flourishing
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Oxford University Press Your Creative Brain and AI
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Field of Cultural Production Essays on Art
Book SynopsisThe Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieua s most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics.Trade Review'As we have come to expect of him, Pierre Bourdieu's lucid analysis of the field of cultural production once again provides us with key terms for understanding the issues at the forefront of current critical debate. His accounts of the economy of symbolic capital, and of cultural power relations will undoubtedly become classic formulations, shaping future work on the sociology of culture.' Professor Lisa Jardine, University of London Table of ContentsPreface. Editor's Introduction: Pierre Bourdieu on Art, Literature and Culture. Part I: The Field of Cultural Production. 1. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed. 2. The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods. 3. The Market of Symbolic Goods. Part II: Flaubert and the French Literary Field. 4. Is the Structure of Sentimental Education an Instance of Social Self-analysis?. 5. Field of Power, Literary Field and Habitus. 6. Principles for a Sociology of Cultural Works. 7. Flaubert's Point of View. Part III: The Pure Gaze: Essays on Art. 8. Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception. 9. Manet and the Instutitionalization of Anomie. 10. The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Semiotics The Basics
Book SynopsisThis fifth edition of the bestselling textbook, now available in print and eBook, is a major new revision, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language.Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include: What are signs and codes? What can semiotics teach us about representation and reality? What tools does it offer for analysing texts and cultural practices? Semiotics: The Basics focuses on its application to communication and cultural studies. The latest edition features a greatly extended treatment of core concepts, in particular traditional historical models of the sign, the semiotic triangle, and distinctions between ânaturalâ and conventional signs. There is also a greater emphasis on âthe social life of signsâ.With an extensive index, a comprehensive glossary, suggestions for review and for further reading, and a list of online resources, this must-have guide is both the ideal introductory text and an essential reference for students of language, communication, media, and cultural studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Photography
Book SynopsisProviding a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography. Photography is a part of everyday life; from news and advertisements, to data collection and surveillance, to the shaping of personal and social identity, we are constantly surrounded by the photographic image. Outlining an overview of photographic genres, David Bate explores how these varied practices can be coded and interpreted using key theoretical models. Building upon the genres included in the first edition documentary, portraiture, landscape, still life, art and global photography this second edition includes two new chapters on snapshots and the act of looking. The revised and expanded chapters are supported by over three times as many photographs as in the first edition, examining contemporary practices in more detail and equipping students with the analytiTrade Review"David Bate’s engaging book captures both the big picture and significant detail of photographic theory. An excellent starting point, it also rewards repeat reading. - Lucy Soutter, Royal College of Art, UK Managing to be simultaneously introductory and comprehensive, Photography: The Key Concepts ably guides the reader through the complexities of its chosen topic, examining photographic practice and discourse with equal acuity. Brought entirely up to date, this new edition is an excellent first stop in any student’s quest to understand the nature of the photographic experience. - Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Using genre as a conceptual framework to understand both what photographs are and how they operate across a myriad of contexts, this revised and expanded edition has lost none of its theoretical rigor or real-world usefulness. This essential book will continue to be a mainstay of photography courses worldwide. - Erina Duganne, Texas State University, USA This new edition builds on the legacy of photographic theory and practice deftly presented in the first edition, while incorporating visual content and contemporary issues indicative of a more socially connected global age. Beautifully illustrated with relevant images, Bate makes vivid with great clarity the intellectual terrain upon which theory resides without losing sight of its application and relevance to practice now. - Angela Kelly, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA The second edition obviously benefits from a greater number of illustrations, and colour plates, making the publication more enticing and accessible but also allowing the text to be most beneficial and worthwhile. The additional chapters are of course important in terms of acknowledging a few of the dramatic developments in the medium in the years since Bate’s first manuscript. The prose is deeply engaging and Bate does not mince his words, providing thoughtful and wise insights to the medium, and also inspiring the reader not to be afraid to formulate and adopt their own point of view. - Jesse Alexander, Falmouth University and Open College of the Arts, UK A concise, engagingly written overview of the key debates and ideas in Photography Theory. A key text for undergraduate study. - Tracy Piper-Wright, University of Chester, UK"Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION1. PHOTOGRAPHY THEORY2. SNAPSHOTS AND INSTITUTIONS3. DOCUMENTARY AND STORYTELLING4. SEEING PORTRAITS5. THE COMPOSITION OF LANDSCAPES6. THE OBJECT OF STILL LIFE7. PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART8. GLOBAL PHOTOGRAPHY9. THE SCOPIC DRIVE10. HISTORY AND PHOTOGRAPHYBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion Seductive Play
Book SynopsisEugen Fink (1905-1975) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany.Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.Giovanni Matteucci is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy.Trade ReviewThrough a detailed and in-depth contextualization of Fink’s thought, [Marino and Matteucci] succeed in highlighting its topicality by comprehensively outlining his discourse on fashion as a philosophical question, being highly controversial today. * Phenomenological Reviews *An important historical document of fashion theory, revealing the deep ambiguities and dialectics that the allegedly superficial phenomenon of fashion shares with our fundamental human condition. * Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics *Essential reading for anyone interested in recovering the philosophical depth of appearances. This compelling work, beautifully translated alongside a superb new Introduction, is here rediscovered in its first English edition. * Gwen Grewal, The New School, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci …So That the Meaning is Evident (Introduction), by Walter Spengler 1. The Magical Powers of Fashion 2. The Social Phenomenon of Fashion 3. Fashion – The Wish to Be Always Different 4. Appeal and Performance of Fashion 5. Fashion Has Many Faces 6. Leadership or Seduction in Fashion 7. Is Fashion Existentially Justified? Glossary Index of names
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David Zwirner Oh, To Be a Painter!
Book SynopsisVirgina Woolf’s collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This newest edition in David Zwirner Books’s ekphrasis series collects such essays including “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), “Pictures” (1925), and “Pictures and Portraits” (1920). These formally inventive texts examine the connection between the literary writer and the visual artist and are innovative in their treatment of ideas about color and modern art as experienced in picture galleries. In these essays, Woolf looks at the complex and interdependent relationship between the artist and society. She also provides sharp and astute commentary on specific works of art and the relationship between art and writing. An introduction by Claudia Tobin situates the essays within their cultural contexts.
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Verso Books Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil
Book SynopsisIn Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the work itself? Can we distinguish between creativity and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring artefacts as diverse as video games, Wikileaks files, the proliferation of spam, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.Trade ReviewSteyerl's art is extremely rich, dense and rewarding. . .With Steyerl, you can't always tell fact from fabulation, where the jokes end and seriousness begins, what is truth and what is a lie. A pleasure in art can unhinge us in everyday life, where we are undone by falsehoods at every turn. -- Adrian Searle * Guardian *Faced with a world lacking the stable ground necessary to base proper metaphysical claims or foundational political myths, one populated by questionable images, institutions and identities, Steyerl's practice - her example - retains a clear message: agency is still possible; one can still act, if only to needle and pick at representations in order to expose the conditions of manipulation, exploitation and affect underlying their appearance. * Art Review *[Steyerl] gleefully surfs everything from military 3-D imaging and printing to big data and corporate surveillance to computer gaming, finding in disparate events and phenomena the fingerprints of a neoliberal media order in which the old modernist notion of autonomy now refers to machines that communicate in codes. -- Saul Anton * Artforum *Offers a powerful defence of contemporary art's capacity to disrupt (rather than reinforce) systems of unequal distribution - of wealth, violence, power. This collection of essays is sometimes funny, frequently moving. -- Ben Eastham * The White Review *The highest duty of theory and art is to grasp and articulate their own time. In our time Hito Steyerl fulfills this duty as nobody else. Her investigations of the fate of images and words in the age of their global circulation are always focused and precise - but also adventurous, unexpected and fascinating. -- Boris GroysHito Steyerl's nuanced essays dissect the buckshot of digital information streams. And as her own art work engages all those digital filters and proxies that scramble and reassemble and generate noise, she also rehearses another way of thinking or recognizing or laughing. -- Keller Easterling, author of ExtratstatecraftPage by page, line by line, and phrase by phrase, Duty Free Art is a real and disquieting treasure. -- Andy Battaglia * Art News *Ms. Steyerl refuses to nail down a single idea, or insist on a point of view. Instead, we get art - her video - as an act of moral thinking-in-progress. In a very of-the-moment, digital-age way, the logic of that thinking is fractured, the nature of morality suspect. But a belief in the necessity of thinking, restlessly, politically, never is in doubt. * New York Times *Steyerl emerges as a critic in the tradition of Georg Simmel and Sigfried Kracauer, thinkers whom she credits with analyzing the surfaces of modernity not as superficial epiphenomena or "mere appearances" but as its condensation and substance. -- Chloe Wyma * Brooklyn Rail *
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Verso Books Disordered Attention
Book SynopsisThe ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty venues. There are endless artworks about mid-century architecture and design. How are we expected to engage with today's diverse practise? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling?Across four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - and their challenges to traditional modes of attention. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.
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Verso Books Working Girl
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Prototype Publishing Ltd. Appendix Project
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Appendix Project collects 11 talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter. Zambreno's most original and dazzling thinking and writing to date.
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Sternberg Press Subtraction
Book SynopsisUnbuilding is the other half of building. Buildings, treated as currency, rapidly inflate and deflate in volatile financial markets. Cities expand and shrink; whether through the violence of planning utopias or war, they are also targets of urbicide. Repeatable spatial products quickly make new construction obsolete; the powerful bulldoze the disenfranchised; buildings can radiate negative real estate values and cause their surroundings to topple to the ground. Demolition has even become a spectacular entertainment. Keller Easterling's volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series analyzes the urgency of building subtraction. Often treated as failure or loss, subtraction—when accepted as part of an exchange—can be growth. All over the world, sprawl and overdevelopment have attracted distended or failed markets and exhausted special landscapes. However, in failure, buildings can create their own alternative markets of durable spatial variables that can be managed and traded by citizens and cities rather than the global financial industry. These ebbs and flows—the appearance and disappearance of building—can be designed. Architects—trained to make the building machine lurch forward—may know something about how to put it into reverse.
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Sternberg Press Decolonizing Nature – Contemporary Art and the
Book SynopsisA study of the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics.While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe—and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North—Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.
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Sternberg Press Contemporary Condition - We Are Here, But Is It
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Sternberg Press Fiction as Method
Book SynopsisSee the world through the eyes of a search engine, if only for a millisecond; throw the workings of power into sharper relief by any media necessary; reveal access points to other worlds within our own. In the anthology Fiction as Method, a mixture of new and established names in the fields of contemporary art, media theory, philosophy, and speculative fiction explore the diverse ways fiction manifests, and provide insights into subjects ranging from the hive mind of the art collective 0rphan Drift to the protocols of online self-presentation. With an extended introduction by the editors, the book invites reflection on how fictions proliferate, take on flesh, and are carried by a wide variety of mediums—including, but not limited to, the written word. In each case, fiction is bound up with the production and modulation of desire, the enfolding of matter and meaning, and the blending of practices that cast the existing world in a new light with those that participate in the creation of new openings of the possible. ContributorsJustin Barton, Delphi Carstens & Mer Roberts, Tim Etchells, Matthew Fuller, David Garcia, Dora García, M. John Harrison, Simon O'Sullivan, Erica Scourti, Jon K Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Gottfried Boehm.: Passion of Images
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MIT Press Ltd Retracing the Expanded Field Encounters Between
Book SynopsisScholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few of the terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-five years. If modernists invented the model of an ostensible “synthesis of the arts,” their postmodern progeny promoted the semblance of pluralist fusion. In 1979, reacting against contemporary art's transformation of modernist medium-specificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, the art historian Rosalind Krauss published an essay, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. Krauss tried to clarify what these art practices were, what they were not, and what they could become if logically combined. The essay soon as
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MIT Press Ltd Prosthetic Gods October Books
Book SynopsisImagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Guaguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others.How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine. Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of the Viennese architect Loos, who abhorred all things primitive. Next Foster considers the technophilic su
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Monash University ePress Spirit of Secular Art
Book SynopsisThe Spirit of Secular Art: A History of the Sacramental Roots of Contemporary Artistic Values explains the spiritual prestige of art. Various theorists have discussed how art has an aura or indefinable magic. This book explains how, when and why it gained its spiritual properties. The idea that all art is somehow spiritual (even though not religious) is often assumed; this book, while narrating the historical trajectory of art in the most accessible language, reveals how the mysteries of religious practice are abstracted and saved through all stages of secularisation in European culture.The Spirit of Secular Art presents a coherent theory defining the sacred basis of Western aesthetics. It evocatively describes the afterlife of the holy from Ancient Greece to the present, and outlines how the mysterious institution of art can be explained in material terms. Unlike other books in the genre, The Spirit of Secular Art radically deconstructs traditional art history in terms of prestige' an
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