Theory of art Books
Random House USA Inc New Art City
Book SynopsisIn this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists-Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them-who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known figures as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric expressionist Joan Mitchell, and the adventuresome realist Fairfield Porter, as well the writers, critics, and patrons who rounded out the artists’world. Brilliantly describing the intellectual crosscurrents of the time as well as the genius of dozens of artists, New Art City is indispensable for lovers of modern art and culture.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Interpretation and Construction
Book SynopsisInterpretation and Construction examines the interpretation and products of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech. Focuses on artistic interpretation, but also includes extended discussion of interpretation of the law and everyday speech and communication. Written by one of the leading theorists of interpretation. Theoretical discussions are consistently centered around examples for ease of comprehension. Trade Review"Stecker is a key player in contemporary philosophical debates about interpretation. In his new book these debates are systematically and even-handedly expounded and Stecker's own distinctive position – a version of historicism and pluralism – defended with meticulous attention to detail. I would recommend his book both to those entering the debates for the first time and to those already well engaged." Peter Lamarque, University of York "In characteristic fashion, Robert Stecker has written a carefully considered and well-crafted book. Interpretation and Construction addresses key issues that have become the subjects of lively debate. It is an important contribution that will be of special interest to philosophers of art, literature, history, and law." Michael Krausz, Bryn Mawr College "Robert Stecker has thoughtfully and comprehensively advanced our understanding of ‘interpretation,’ skillfully surveying historicist and constructivist approaches. Of special interest, he addresses both art and law, two seemingly disparate areas in which theories of ‘interpretation’ have flourished, but have rarely been considered together." Julie C. Van Camp, California State University, Long Beach "Overall, the arguments are interesting, extremely careful, and certainly make a significant contribution to the theory of interpretation. Not only does the book have much to offer to scholars, its arguments are easily accessible to students." Choice "Overall, the arguments are interesting, extremely careful, and certainly make a significant contribution to the theory of interpretation. Not only does the book have much to offer to scholars, its arguments are easily accessible to students." Choice, December 2003Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. 1. Interpreting the Everyday. 2. Art Interpretation: the Central Issues. 3. A Theory of Art Interpretation: Substantive Claims. 4. A Theory of Art Interpretation: Conceptual and Ontological Claims. 5. Radical Constructivism. 6. Moderate and Historical Constructivism. 7. Interpretation and Construction in the Law. 8. Relativism v. Pluralism. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Dictionary of Postmodernism
Book SynopsisA Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture.Trade Review“Quirky, colourful and polemical, this volume is as much mosaic as dictionary, re-laying and reconfiguring established positions, suggesting new angles, and helping current understanding both to encompass, and perhaps finally move beyond, postmodern theories so influential in the late twentieth century.”Randall Stevenson, University of Edinburgh “Niall Lucy's Dictionary of Postmodernism is as sharp and sprightly an assembly of essays on postmodernism as one could wish for, which demonstrates the continuing traction and reach of postmodern thought in contemporary art and culture. All the principal persons and preoccupations are considered and the essays are clear-eyed and invigorating.”Steven Connor, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface x Note on contributors xiii Description xiv Introduction 1 Dictionary Barthes, Roland (Tony Thwaites) 3 Baudrillard, Jean (Niall Lucy) 7 Cultural studies (John Hartley) 12 Culture (Niall Lucy) 19 Deconstruction (Claire Colebrook) 27 Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix (Claire Colebrook) 30 Derrida, Jacques (Tony Thwaites) 34 Dialogue (John Hartley) 39 Differend (Niall Lucy) 44 Discourse (Robert Briggs) 52 Eco, Umberto (John Hartley) 56 Essence (Robert Briggs) 62 Foucault, Michel (Robert Briggs) 69 Globalization (John Hartley) 76 Habermas, Jürgen (Claire Colebrook) 81 Hassan, Ihab (Darren Tofts) 84 Hyperreality (Robert Briggs) 89 Jameson, Fredric (Niall Lucy) 96 Jencks, Charles (John Hartley) 105 Lacan, Jacques (Tony Thwaites) 110 Lyotard, Jean-François (Niall Lucy) 113 Metanarrative (Niall Lucy) 118 Minor(itarian) (Niall Lucy) 128 Modernism (Niall Lucy) 130 Modernity (Niall Lucy) 137 New media (McKenzie Wark) 139 Paraliterature (Darren Tofts) 144 Phrase (Claire Colebrook) 148 Poststructuralism (Tony Thwaites) 149 Punk (McKenzie Wark) 151 Remix (Darren Tofts) 156 Representation (Darren Tofts) 160 Ronell, Avital (Claire Colebrook) 164 Semiotics (Niall Lucy and John Hartley) 167 Simulation (Niall Lucy) 172 Situationism (McKenzie Wark) 178 Sokal affair (McKenzie Wark) 182 Transcendental signified (Robert Briggs) 188 Truth (Tony Thwaites) 190 iek, Slavoj (Tony Thwaites) 194 References 196 Index 213
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd About Mieke Bal
Book SynopsisMieke Bal is a leading scholar in art history and visual studies, with an international reputation in the English-speaking world. About Mieke Bal provides the first sustained scholarly assessment of Bal's writings in art history, visual studies, and critical theory.Table of ContentsNotes on contributors vi 1 Conversation pieces: about Mieke Bal 1Deborah Cherry 2 Piecemeal translation 7Murat Aydemir 3 Time of history and time out of history: the Sistine Chapel as ‘theoretical object’ 26Giovanni Careri 4 Reading the Annunciation 49Hanneke Grootenboer 5 Visual archives as preposterous history 64Ernst van Alphen 6 What does a woman want? Art investigating death in Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 83Griselda Pollock 7 Reading, writing, filming, dreaming, dressing 106Michael Ann Holly and Mieke Bal 8 Killing kool: the graffiti museum 118Sonja Neef 9 Aesthetics of intermediality 132Jill Bennett 10 Je vous 151Kaja Silverman Selected bibliography 168 Index 185
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Style of Gestures
Book SynopsisWith a foreword by well-known neuroscientist Alain Berthoz, The Style of Gestures convincingly makes the case that embodied cognition is essential to the reception, understanding, and enjoyment of art and literature.Trade ReviewWhat is remarkable about The Style of Gestures... is that it combines a precisely grounded model from neuroscience with persuasive readings of texts across a wide historical range, from medieval works such as Gawain and the Green Knight via Shakespeare and Milton to Joyce and Proust. Guillemette Bolens is a medievalist and a comparatist, and she is always sensitive to the cultural constraints within which her readings must operate: no one could accuse her of reductive universalism or anachronism. Her work thus provides a powerful and persuasive example of what a cognitive literary criticism can achieve. -- Terence Cave Times Literary Supplement This book successfully translates its analytic tools and interpretative frameworks beyond the page into the reader's next reading experience and, perhaps, social encounter. As Bolens writes, 'literature is powerful because, more than any other type of discourse, it triggers the activation of unpredicted sensorimotor configurations and surprises the mind with its own imaginative and cognitive possibilities.' -- Rebecca Dobson MAKE: A Literary Magazine The Style of Gestures brings interdisciplinary research from the field of embodied cognition to medieval textual criticism, and the results are remarkable... Bolens's work demonstrates the clear advantages of embracing the shift towards embodied cognition. -- Melissa Raine ParergonTable of ContentsForeword by Alain BerthozAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Body in Literature2. Kinesic Tropes and Action Verbs3. Verecundia and Social Wounding in the Legend of Lucrece4. Face-work and Ambiguous Feats in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing Consciousness Theatre Literature and the Arts 2011
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume were initially presented at the Fourth International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, held at the University of Lincoln, May 28–30, 2011.
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Chronicle Books See for Yourself
Book SynopsisThis accessible handbook from design guru and Design Within Reach founder Rob Forbes uncovers the beauty in the commonplace and reveals how visual thinking can enrich our lives. In friendly text complemented by photographs taken on his travels around the world, Forbes explains how to appreciate the design elements that surround us in the built environment. Linking broad concepts such as composition and materiality to quotidian details such as the play of color in hanging laundry or the repeated forms in a row of ice cream scoops, Forbes reveals how an appreciation of the hues, patterns, and textures that surround us can enhance a life well lived. See for Yourself is essential reading to see more clearly, think more visually, and enjoy the world more deeply.
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Dartmouth College Press Materializing New Media Embodiment in
Book SynopsisA significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies
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Semiotext (E) Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns,
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BookBaby Asylum in the Mind: Liberation and Constraint
Book SynopsisAsylum in the Mind is a journey of original art and poetry combined to illustrate the darkness humanity experiences and how we drift between the difficult and the fantastical.
£28.79
Reaktion Books Counterpoints: Dialogues Between Music and the
Book SynopsisMultimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day. Philippe Junod's main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture and architecture. He draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. The Renaissance, Neoclassicism and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as Romanticism, Symbolism and Surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history that provides a critical understanding of a popular but unheralded art form.
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Octopus Books Color Theory for Artists
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Verso Books A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John
Book SynopsisJohn Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a TV presenter he changed the way we looked at art in Ways of Seeing; as a storyteller and political activist he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants and the oppressed around the world. In 1953 he wrote: "Far from dragging politics into art, art has dragged me into politics." He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January, 2017. In A Writer of Our Time, Joshua Sperling places Berger's life and works within the historical narrative of postwar Britain and beyond. The book also explores, through the work, the larger questions that vexed a generation: the purpose of art, the nature of creative freedom, the meaning of commitment. Drawing on extensive interviews, close readings and a wealth of archival sources only recently made available, the book brings the many different faces of John Berger together and shows him as one of the most vital, and brilliant, thinkers and storytellers of our time.Trade ReviewA welcome intervention that does justice to the legacy of Berger's thought and work which has been criminally underappreciated in Britain. * Morning Star *Berger's talent for 'seeing all sides' of a thing, his incredible floating perspective, would have been worth less had he not used it to choose the right side. -- Sarah Nicole Prickett * Bookforum *
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Verso Books Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of
Book SynopsisIn an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler family money) and boards (for example, the Whitney appointing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders)--to say nothing of demonstrations over exhibitions and artworks--have roiled cultural institutions across the world, from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to the Akron Art Museum. At the same time, never have there been more calls for museums to work for social change, calls for the emergence of a new role for culture.As director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York municipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that were also political protests. Then in January, 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials became a public controversy--she had objected to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring vice president Mike Pence.In this book, Raicovich explains some of the key museum flashpoints, and she also provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding capitalist values. And she suggests how museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.Trade ReviewUrgent -- Travis Diehl * art-agenda *[Culture Strike] brilliantly problematizes the pervasive old myth of "neutrality." -- Dessane Lopez Cassell * Hyperallergic *A must-read ... Culture Strike contains layers of honest observation from museum professionals, loving critique, historical context, and case studies that illuminate the best and worst in museum culture to offer a clear path forward. -- Cara Ober * BmoreArt *Maps out thoughtful considerations of pressing subjects that apply everywhere. Among them are the private power of philanthropy, the practical and spiritual benefits of staff diversity, unionizing cultural institutions, and the contours of museums' social responsibility. -- Christopher Knight * Los Angeles Times *Offers key contextual and historical lenses through which to consider protests that have occurred at institutions worldwide, addressing topics from museum funding to workers' rights. * Ocula *An engaging and personally invested discussion of the many controversies that have engulfed American museums -- JJ Charlesworth * ArtReview *
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Parthian Books Holy Hiatus Ritual and Community in Public Art
Book SynopsisHoly Hiatus sought to examine the ways that artists can draw audiences into different, often unexpected experiences of place through ritual. The temporary, mobile and in some cases, understated nature of the works meant that the impact was often subtle, but the artworks nonetheless created a ripple of effect for audiences.
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Sternberg Press Contemporary / Unconscious
Book SynopsisAn aesthetic and political redefinition of gendered relations.Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s films, installations, performances, and texts offer an aesthetic and political redefinition of gendered relations—especially in the realms of memory and identity politics at work in recent history and in the frame of contemporary visual production. Specifically, she focuses in her performative investigations on moments of queerness and non-alignment in both colonial and fascist regimes of power. The publication documents for the first time the work of the artist to date, in particular her* most important previous projects are translated into book format: Freud Film, Non-aligned relatives, The Bacha Posh Project, Private View, and Active Intolerance.In Freud Film, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* deals with the unconscious within the development of Freud’s psychoanalytical theory and tackles the racialized and heteropatriarchal dimension of its concept of “alterity,” which is foundational to the constitution of a modern “European identity”—based, actually, on the exclusion of others. Non-alignment as a geopolitical reality and as a concept—a political and cultural refusal to align to certain normative models and behaviors—recurs often in the artist’s work. Non-aligned Relatives is a work constellation in which she* investigates diverse aspects of non-alignment, on political, cultural, and psychoanalytical levels, especially also linking it to formations of queer kinship, a strategy which continues in The Bacha Posh Project.The series Private View tackles investment in art institutions from the weapons industry, hedgefund companies, and investors of Nazi heritage, thus, in a self-reflexive movement, questioning the capacity of the art field itself to welcome, support, and stand for minoritarian alternatives and non-aligned thought. In Active Intolerance, Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s research tackles diverse forms of exploitation of labor in enclosed environments, namely the factory and the prison. The artist once again investigates the liberal and capitalist political project and its relentless construction of, on the one hand, working, consuming, complying, and reproducing bodies and, on the other, of those, who are to be exploited.ContributorsAnne Faucheret, Sara Reisman, Marlene RiglerCopublished by Kunsthalle WienThis publication includes a folded A2 poster: SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together! / Carlos Maria Romero, Carlos Motta & John Arthur Peetz), We The Enemy (poster), 2017.
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Sternberg Press H(a)untings / Heim-Suchungen
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Sternberg Press Citizens of the Cosmos
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Sternberg Press My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything We See Could
Book SynopsisOn the legacy of the Eastern European neo-avantgarde and the work of artist Mladen Stilinović.“My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise),” a series of exhibition episodes based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović, unfolded in Zagreb and London in 2016–2017. This publication, conceived as a “post-episode” of the project, presents extensive visual documentation of the exhibitions alongside newly commissioned texts by theorists and writers Branislav Dimitrijević, Miguel A. López, Oxana Timofeeva, and Marina Vishmidt, as well as a conversation on exhibition making with curators Ekaterina Degot, Ana Janevski, Emily Pethick, and Marion von Osten. Drawing on the legacy of the Eastern European neo-avantgarde and the work of Stilinović in particular, these contributions grapple with urgent questions about the value of art and exhibition making.ContributorsJonathan Burrows, Ekaterina Degot, Branislav Dimitrijević, Oliver Frljić, Ana Janevski, Miguel A. López, Marion von Osten, Emily Pethick, Kathrin Rhomberg, Oxana Timofeeva, What, How & for Whom / WHW, Marina VishmidtCopublished with Kontakt
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Sternberg Press Katrina Daschner: BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON!
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Sternberg Press Lalitha Lajmi
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Sternberg Press Simone Fattal
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Urbanomic Media Ltd BecomingMatisse
Book SynopsisA reevaluation of Matisse that reveals the complex function of his work and thought in contemporary art's escape from the image, from traditional forms of art, and even from the art form itself.
£23.40
Lukas & Sternberg Canvases and Careers Today – Criticism and Its
Book SynopsisCanvases and Careers Today brings together contributions from the eponymous conference organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main. Its goal is to provide deeper insights and more complexity to current debates on the relationship between criticism, art, and the market. “It was especially interesting for us to watch a kind of transatlantic divide happening. While the US-American participants mostly declared criticism as obsolete while hoping for turning its weakness into a strength, most European participants departed from the opposite diagnosis: that criticism has never been as strong as it is today, since it is now part of a knowledge-based economy.”—Isabelle Graw/Daniel BirnbaumContributorsGeorge Baker, Johanna Burton, Merlin Carpenter, Melanie Gilligan, Isabelle Graw, Tom Holert, Branden W. Joseph, John Kelsey, André Rottmann, Julia VossInstitut für Kunstkritik Series
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For Beginners Art Theory for Beginners
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Classiques Garnier Quand l'Art Se Dit Et Se Pense: Les Theories
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Diaphanes AG Thinking Resisting Reading the Political
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Diaphanes AG No New Kind of Duck
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Bohlau Verlag Kunst/Erfahrung: Wissen und Geschlecht in Musik,
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Bohlau Verlag Palais Ephrussi
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Bohlau Verlag Sprechen über Bilder: Die kunstwissenschaftliche
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Bohlau Verlag Unzeitgemäße Techniken: Historische Narrative
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Dietrich Reimer Opake Fotografien: Das Sichtbarmachen
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Von Material Zu Architektur
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Johannes Itten Und Die Alten Meister: Genese Und
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Raume Der Reform: Kunst Und Lebenskunst Der
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Von Der Fuge in Rot Bis Zur Zwitschermaschine:
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Auf Dem Weg Zu Einer Idee: Uber Das Experiment in
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V&R unipress GmbH Kunst und Politik.
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V&R unipress GmbH Kunstgeschichte nach 1968
Book SynopsisIm Zuge der Studentenbewegung und der Politisierung der Hochschulen in den späten 60er Jahren hat sich die Kunstwissenschaft grundlegend verändert. Der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs forderte weitreichende institutionelle und inhaltliche Reformen ein, eine Demokratisierung der Bildungsinstitutionen, die Reform der kunstwissenschaftlichen Ausbildung, ein neues, kritisches Wissenschaftsverständnis und eine stärkere Verankerung der Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft. Es wurden neue Themen gesetzt, gesellschaftsbezogene Fragestellungen entwickelt und kooperative wissenschaftliche Umgangsformen erprobt. Der Band untersucht die Auswirkungen der 68er-Bewegung auf die Kunstgeschichte, insbesondere an den Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen, aber auch an den Museen und im Ausstellungswesen.
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V&R unipress GmbH Von Ausschweifungen und Hirngespinsten: Das
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V&R unipress GmbH Museum und Politik Allianzen und Konflikte
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Edition Imorde Raume Des Sehens: Giusto De' Menabuoi Und Die
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Edition Imorde Vor-Bildliches Sterben: Der Tod Der Kleopatra ALS
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Sternberg Press Aesthetics of Installation Art
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Librum Publishers & Editors LLC Unsichtbar - Kunst Und Wissenschaft Im Dialog
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Ergon Verlag Polychrome Hellenistische Mattfarbenkeramik:
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Sternberg Press Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years.Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in pop music, and what drew John Lennon, in turn, to visual art? Why, in 1982, did Joseph Beuys record the pop single “Sonne statt Reagan,” and why, around the same time did, West German artists such as Michaela Melián move into pop music?In Double Lives in Art and Pop Music, Jörg Heiser argues that context shifting between art and pop music is an attempt to find solutions for contradictions faced in one field of cultural production. Heiser looks closely at the careers of artists and pop musicians who work in both fields professionally. The seeming acceptance and effortlessness today of current border crossings can be deceptive, since they might be serving vested economic or ideological interests. Exploring a pop and art history of more than fifty years, Heiser shows that those leading double lives in art and pop music may often be best able to detect these vested interests while he points toward radical alternatives.
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