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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 Inc Power Image and Memory
Book SynopsisThose who write history determine its narrative, whether through written text or through the visual language of art and public monuments. Power, Image, and Memory examines a wide variety of artistic traditions, showing how art commemorating historical events can shape collective memory, and with it, the identities of social groups and nations. From the Mesopotamians to the present day, leaders and societies have used art to frame and memorialize important events. This account establishes a dialogue among traditions in a series of case studies, ranging from the reliefs at Ramses'' temple at Abu Simbel and the ancient Greek Alexander Mosaic to the Heian Period Japanese scroll of the Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, the Benin Bronzes, Diego Velázquez''s Surrender at Breda, and Picasso''s Guernica. Weaving together meticulous historic detail, theory, and visual analysis, this volume offers a complex picture of the power of art and memory, as well as of the life of these monuments and mess
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Oxford University Press Inc The Geography of Taste
Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Wherever on the globe anyone sets foot, they find people immersed in matters aesthetic. In UNESCO''s definition, there can be no culture that lacks an aesthetic life. Aesthetic life is in this sense a cultural universal. At the same time, aesthetic engagement has a geography. While all cultures have an aesthetic, no single aesthetic belongs to all cultures. The rules of aesthetic engagement vary by culture.How should aesthetics proceed if we take this fact of aesthetic diversity, rather than the presumption of aesthetic universality as our starting point? How should we theorize the cultural origins and cultural basis of aesthetic diversity? How should we think about the value and normativity of aesthetic diversity? To model what the turn toward diversity might look like in aesthetic inqu
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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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Hatje Cantz Stepping Out! (Bilingual edition): Female
Book SynopsisSince the beginning of China’s economic boom in the late 1980s and its ever-increasing influence on globalized society, the country’s burgeoning contemporary art scene has attracted great attention around the world. However, despite the Chinese art market’s emergence as a highly prolific industry and a growing international recognition of contemporary art from China, there is a remarkable lack of Chinese women artists represented in (inter-)national exhibitions and publications. Stepping Out! is the first comprehensive publication in 25 years to present a broadly representative selection of the work of contemporary Chinese female artists, including pioneering as well as emerging artists thus far little known abroad. Through an enormous wealth of perspectives, the artists reveal personal and social fears, contradictions, and hopes in the tense field occupied by powerful tradition, and shed light upon the search for identity both as a woman and as an artist within a rapidly changing Chinese society. Stepping Out! features more than 100 artworks by 27 artists born between 1960 and 1994 living in mainland China, including Wen Hui, Cao Fei, Lin Tianmiao, Xing Danwen, Yin Yiuzhen, Ma Qiusha, Xiao Lu, Luo Yang and Tong Wenmin.
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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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Esther Siegel and Spencer Brewer Lost and Found
Book SynopsisThe artists featured in this book have embarked on the strange and risky path where they never quite know what they are making until it is finished. In treating us to their personal artistic vision, they throw off old societal rules regarding what art should be. They create pieces that might remind you of something you had once yourself imagined.
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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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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts
Book SynopsisThe psychology of aesthetics and the arts is dedicated to the study of our experiences of the visual arts, music, literature, film, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world. The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts is a foundational volume presenting an overview of the key concepts and theories of the discipline where readers can learn about the questions that are being asked and become acquainted with the perspectives and methodologies used to address them. The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is one of the oldest areas of psychology but it is also one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas. This is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook featuring essays from some of the most respected scholars in the field.Trade Review'This book is a significant contribution to furthering our understanding about the importance and value of aesthetics within different art forms and contexts. It has cross-disciplinary appeal and helps to promote both theoretical development and applied research, while opening the study of aesthetics to a broader audience.' Paul M. Camic, Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent'This volume is impressive in both its breadth and depth. I work in this area, yet I learned something from each and every chapter about the psychology of aesthetics and art, and - perhaps more importantly - how aesthetics and art contribute to the human condition. This book will be kept on my desk so I can have easy access to it!' Jonathan Plucker, Raymond Neag Professor of Education, University of Connecticut'This volume brings together important scholarship and groundbreaking methodological approaches for understanding the fundamental question of how and why art moves us. Although an individual's experience of art is inherently subjective, these collected essays draw on research in psychology and aesthetics to bring new insights to a topic that historically many scholars in the field had considered too indefinable to analyze or quantify.' Kathryn Potts, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, Whitney Museum of American ArtTable of ContentsPart I. Concepts, Theories and Methods: 1. Introduction by the editors Jeffrey K. Smith and Pablo P. L. Tinio; 2. Empirical aesthetics: hindsight and foresight Oshin Vartanian; 3. Philosophy of art and empirical aesthetics: resistance and rapprochement William P. Seeley; 4. Theoretical foundations for an empirical aesthetics Gerald C. Cupchik; 5. Aesthetics assessment Aaron Kozbelt and James C. Kaufman; Part II. Perspectives and Approaches to Art and Aesthetics: 6. Beyond perception: information processing approaches to art appreciation Helmut Leder; 7. Psychodynamics and the arts Pavel Machotka; 8. Evolutionary approaches to art and aesthetics Marcos Nadal and Gerardo Gómez-Puerto; 9. The walls do speak: psychological aesthetics and the museum experience Pablo P. L. Tinio, Jeffrey K. Smith and Lisa F. Smith; Part III. Objects and Media: 10. Empirical investigation of the elements of composition in paintings: a painting as stimulus Paul J. Locher; 11. 'Mute, motionless, variegated rectangles': aesthetics and photography I. C. McManus and Katharina Stöver; 12. Aesthetic responses to design: a battle of impulses Paul Hekkert; 13. From music perception to an integrative framework for the psychology of aesthetics Stefan Koelsch; 14. Theater and dance: another pathway to understanding human nature Thalia R. Goldstein and Rebecca Yasskin; 15. Arts education, academic achievement and cognitive ability Swathi Swaminathan and E. Glenn Schellenberg; 16. Aesthetics and the built environment: no painting or musical piece can compare Andréa Livi Smith; 17. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? Influencing factors and effects of facial attractiveness Gernot Gerger and Helmut Leder; 18. An aesthetics of literary fiction David Carr; Part IV. Contemporary Issues and Debates: 19. Neuroaesthetics: descriptive and experimental approaches Anjan Chatterjee; 20. How emotions shape aesthetic experiences Stefano Mastandrea; 21. Unusual aesthetic states Emily C. Nusbaum and Paul J. Silvia; 22. Personality and aesthetic experiences Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham; 23. Hokusai and Fuji: cognition, convention and pictorial invention in Japanese pictorial arts David Bell; Part V. Pulling it All Together: 24. And all that jazz: rigour and relevance in the psychology of aesthetics and the arts Pablo P. L. Tinio and Jeffrey K. Smith.
£173.85
Cambridge University Press Abstract Art Against Autonomy Infection Resistance And Cure Since The 60S
Book SynopsisIn Abstract Art Against Autonomy, Mark Cheetham provides a revolutionary account of abstraction in the visual arts since the decline of the formalist paradigms in the 1960s. He claims that abstract work remains a vital contributor to contemporary visual culture, but that it performs in a way that is different from its predecessors of the early and mid-twentieth century and cannot adequately be assessed without new models of understanding. Cheetham posits that abstraction has reacted to paradigms of purity with practices of impurity. By examining abstract art since the 1960s within a narrative of infection, resistance and cure, Cheetham provides an opportunity to rethink paradigmatic genres - the monochrome and the mirror - and to link in new ways the work of artists whose work extends and complicates the tradition of abstract art, including Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Turrell, Gerhard Richter, Peter Halley, General Idea and Taras Polataiko.Table of Contents1. Past to present: a diagnosis of recent abstraction; 2. White mischief: monochromes; 3. Mirror digressions: stages; 4. Possible futures: abstraction as infection and cure.
£999.99
Cambridge University Press Performing Endurance
Book SynopsisOffers a formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest. Discusses influential performances by Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Yoko Ono, and others, as well as 1960s lunch counter sit-ins and twenty-first-century protest camps. Essential reading in performance theory, art history, and political activism.Trade Review'Lara Shalson's Performing Endurance is an original, bold, and impeccably lucid encounter with endurance art. Shalson's writing carries a deep and abiding sympathy for what it means to endure, to survive the situation in which one finds oneself: say, in art, in life, in conflict, or in love. This book will make an urgent and compelling contribution to theatre and performance studies now, and to broader political considerations of how and with what means one may endure, together and apart, in difficult or uncertain times.' Dominic Johnson, Queen Mary, University of London'In this excellent, elegantly written, and tautly argued book, Lara Shalson offers nothing less than a profound rethinking of key works and concepts in performance art practice and theory … the distinctive contribution this book makes to performance art discourse will endure.' Heike Roms, Contemporary Theatre Review'Shalson's theorisation of endurance, and its delineation as performance structure, is taut and precise, enabling generative readings of performance events as ambivalent, discomforting and yet deeply ethical in the way that they force artists and spectators alike to negotiate interpersonal relations and politically charged power structures … her argument is elegant and far-reaching.' Roberta Mock, Times Higher Education'Performing Endurance is a valuable resource for scholars toiling to spotlight the rich and varied mechanisms at work in performance art. Shalson's study will undoubtedly serve as a springboard for researchers looking to extend discussions on crucial aesthetic investments in endurance and as a model for scholars invested in parsing the urgent affinities between performance structures and protest tactics.' Raegan Truax, Modern Drama'Through Performing Endurance, well-known works of art are returned to and seen in a rigorously new and resolutely political light … Shalson's book will sit alongside works by Peggy Phelan and Rebecca Schneider with Amelia Jones not too far away … Her writing equals publications by these thinkers in significance and rigor …' Nik Wakefield, The Drama ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Enduring objecthood; 2. Enduring protests; 3. Enduring life; 4. Enduring documents; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£85.50
Nova Science Publishers Inc Visual Artists & Resale Royalties:
Book SynopsisArtists Rights Society (ARS) is an organisation that represents the intellectual property rights, including the copyrights, of more than 50,000 visual artists world-wide. It has an American repertory, which includes Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Georgia O''Keeffe, and Jacob Lawrence, to name some of the prominent members. However, the overwhelming majority of ARS'' members are lesser known artists who have nevertheless devoted their lives to this profession. This book provides an updated report examining the issues surrounding visual artists and resale royalties in the United States, and also is an adjunct to the Office''s 1992 report, Droit de Suite: The Artist''s Resale Royalty, and takes into account changes in law and practice over the past two decades. The book provides further detail on resale royalties, the Visual Arts and Galleries Association (VAGA), and the Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011.
£189.74
University of Huddersfield Shibusa: Extracting Beauty
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates a number of artistic endeavours: music, painting and the skill of making in general with particular reflection upon Japanese aesthetics. Composer, Monty Adkins and visual artist, Pip Dickens (through a Leverhulme Trust Award collaboration) investigate commonality and difference between the visual arts and music exploring aspects of rhythm, pattern, colour and vibration as well as outlining processes utilised to evolve new works within these practices. The hand-cut paper Katagami stencil: a beautiful utilitarian object once used to apply decoration on to Japanese kimonos, is used as a poignant symbol the hand-made machine - by Adkins and Dickens both within the production of paintings and sound compositions and as a thematic link throughout the book. The book reviews examples of a number of contemporary artists and craftspeople and their individual approaches to making things well. It explores the balance between hand skills and technology within a works production with particular reference to Richard Sennetts review of material culture in The Craftsman. Shibusa includes contributing essays by arts writer, Roy Exley, who examines convergence and crossover within the arts and an in-depth history, and review, of the kimono making industry by Kyoto designer, Makoto Mori.Table of ContentsExploding stillness; The katagami stencil: handmade machine; Pattern, rhythm, vibration and colour; Low tech and high tech: the tail should not wag the dog; Smashed pianos and dysfunctional brushes; Sharing of textures: crossovers in contemporary art; The craftsmen of Kyoto; History and techniques of the kimono.
£27.00
MACK Between
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1986 and long out of print, Between charts Burgin’s passage from early conceptual art, via appropriationist works and critiques of mass media imagery to a series of photo-texts informed by psychoanalysis, semiotics, cinema studies and feminism. Photographer, critic and curator David Campany writes: “Between was first published into a time when the art markets came to dominate and dictate as never before. Art was no longer that stubborn space of resistance and reflection; it was to be part of the spectacle of neoliberal capitalism in which image is all. Self-congratulatory art fairs, artists as media celebrities, bloated auction prices, and the reduction of criticality to recognizable and increasingly empty gestures. … Burgin makes photographic work like no other artist, but his themes and motifs are drawn from experiences common to us all – the modern city, the structures of family, language as something that forms and reforms us, the power of images, principles of government, memory and history. And yet, encouraged by the media to look to art for quick messages, some audiences and critics have found his work ‘inaccessible’. Actually Burgin’s work is among the most accessible I know, if by that we mean ‘easy to get into’. It’s the getting out that’s tricky.” Interweaving Burgin’s visual work with fragments from interviews, talks and letters, Between offers insights into the relation of ‘theory’ to ‘practice’ in a form of art which has undermined the basis of this distinction. This MACK facsimile makes Burgin’s historic and groundbreaking book available for the first time in over three decades.
£30.00
MACK Blind Folly or How Tacita Dean Draws
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MACK Image Text Music
Book SynopsisImage Text Music by writer and editor Catherine Taylor is a series of textual and photographic essays that explore our encounters with the place where the visual meets the verbal. Taylor riffs on and subverts Roland Barthes' classic 1977 essay collection, Image Music Text, using his title as playful points of departure for her thinking.
£15.80
Monash University Publishing Variations: A More Diverse Picture of
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£39.94
Monash University Publishing What Artists See
£17.99
Otago University Press Landfall 246: Spring 2023
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£15.20
Lars Muller Publishers Phenotypes / Limited Forms
Book SynopsisThis book is an extension of the interactive installation Phenotypes/Limited Forms. The installation encourages visitors to pick their favorite subjects out of a total of several hundreds of displayed photographs, rearrange them, name their sequences, and print them in the form of a fanfold. The publication analyzes the 30 000 sequences selected by the public. A detailed demonstration of the applied algorithms helps us to understand the connection between the photographs, the number of times they were chosen by an individual visitor, and how the visitors named their personal selection of images. The book traces the creative processes and the interaction of the visitors with the material of the installation as a work of art highly dependent on the involvement of the audience. Essays by curators and art historians discuss the subject on a theoretical level while examining the aspects of participation and emancipation as well as the question of the autonomy of images.
£29.75
Bohlau Verlag Academic Showcases: The Collections at the
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Hatje Cantz ESCH 2022 Ars Electronica: IN TRANSFER: A New
Book SynopsisFocussing on the potentials of creative and artistic thinking in scientific research as well as industrial production, the exhibition shows how collaborations between art and science can substantially support the creation of innovative, sustainable and ethical solutions to the struggles and issues of contemporary societies. Conceived in collaboration with Ars Electronica, international platform and eponymous festival pioneering in the development of strategies and competencies for the Digital Transformation, the exhibition is curated by Martin Honzik, chief curator at Ars Electronica and Laura Welzenbach, Head of Ars Electronica Export.
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