Theory of art Books
Valiz Mobile Autonomy: Exercises in Artists'
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£19.00
Valiz In-Between Dance Cultures: The Migratory Artistic
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£17.55
Valiz What's the Use?: Constellations of Art, History
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£24.70
Valiz Imaginative Bodies: Dialogues in Performance
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£18.52
Valiz Of Sponge, Stone and the Intertwinement with the
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£10.00
Valiz Lost and Living (In) Archives: Collectively
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£19.00
Valiz The Art of Civil Action: Political Space and
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£19.00
Valiz The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in
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£19.90
Valiz Help Your Self: The Rise of Self-Design
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£22.50
Valiz Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in
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£18.90
Valiz Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World
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£26.12
Art Data Between The Fiction And Me - Umwelten Of Artists
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£20.90
Valiz Design Struggles
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£28.02
Rab-Rab Press Iliazd - Le degre 41 sinapise - Lecture on Pearl
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£11.20
Rab-Rab Press The Marketplace of Art / Commentary (2 volumes)
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£20.62
Garret Publications Jurriaan Benschop - Why Paintings Work
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£28.95
Kontejner Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Age Reader:
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£20.90
Termoelektrarna Sostanj Code: Red
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£25.65
Gingko Press Writing the Modern: Selected Texts on Art and Art
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£34.81
National Gallery Singapore The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader
Book SynopsisWho spoke of the modern in Southeast Asia? When and where was the modern written? How was it written? How was it received? This collection brings together nearly 300 texts that were originally published between the late 19th to late 20th centuries, selected by a group of scholars as responses to questions such as these. The texts were produced chiefly in various locations in the region, by artists, critics, historians and curators in 13 languages, many of which had never before been translated into the English language. Years in the making, this publication is the first to present such breadth and depth of art writing in the region of Southeast Asia, and will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, scholars and those interested in Southeast Asian studies and art history.
£54.00
NUS Press Culture City. Culture Scape.
Book SynopsisA much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions and community engagement through the arts in urban Asia. Distributed for the NTU Centre for Co ntemporary Art Public art integrates landscape architecture, urban planning, and cultural management to create a sense of place. This book, dstributed for the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, documents a major public art commission in Singapore, featuring works by artists Dan Graham, Zul Mahmod, TomÁs Saraceno, and Yinka Shonibare, and represents a unique collaboration between Nanyang Technology University Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Mapletree Investments—a Singaporean state-owned property developer with global operations. Essays and interviews with the artists tell the story of the regional histories, urban politics, and collaboration that went into the successful creation of a public space. Culture City. Culture Scape. is a much-needed resource on the role that art can play in public education and social corporate investment in urban Asia.Trade Review"The book offers insights on lesser-known topics through the discussion of public artworks at Mapletree Business City II.... All in all, Culture City. Culture Scape is a welcomed reference book on the discourse of public art in Singapore. With a critical, interdisciplinary approach, it successfully marries cultural and corporate interests to provide public education." * Art and Market *Table of Contents Greetings Joseph Liow Edmund Cheng Culture City. Culture Scape. Notes from the Curators Ute Meta Bauer and Khim Ong In the Public Sphere: Art and Education at Mapletree Business City Edmund Cheng with Ute Meta Bauer About the Artworks and Artists Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA): Wind Sculpture I Zul Mahmod: Sonic Pathway Tom?ís Saraceno: Stillness in Motion ÔÇö 3 Airborne Self-Assemblies Dan Graham: Elliptical Pavilion In Conversation Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA) with Sophie Goltz Zul Mahmod with Khim Ong Tom?ís Saraceno with Ute Meta Bauer Dan Graham with Ute Meta Bauer Permanent Public Artworks Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA) Zul Mahmod Tom?ís Saraceno Dan Graham Public Art Education: Situated in Singapore Sophie Goltz Mapletree-NTU CCA Singapore Public Art Education Programme Image Credits Acknowledgements Colophon
£18.86
National Gallery Singapore The Artist Speaks: Kim Lim
Book SynopsisKnown primarily as a sculptor who produced abstract wooden pieces and stone-carved works, Kim Lim channelled natural materials into paradoxical expressions of stillness and motion, substance and weightlessness. Her practice explores the relationship between art and nature, drawing inspiration from her varied travels across Asia and her life in Europe. In this publication, her process of shaping materials into contours of curves, lines and surfaces over three decades of artistry takes centre stage. Writings, sketches and notes shed new light on her masterpieces, offering a glimpse into Lim’s personal and artistic life.
£17.00
NUS Press Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia
Book SynopsisGets to the heart of what is unique about Indonesian art. Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia’s vibrant art world, this book examines why so many artists in the world’s largest archipelagic nation choose to work directly with people in their art practices. While the social dimension of Indonesian art makes it distinctive in the globalized world of contemporary art, Elly Kent is the first to explore this engagement in Indonesian terms. What are the historical, political, and social conditions that lie beneath these polyvalent practices? How do formal and informal institutions, communities, and artist-run initiatives contribute to the practices and discourses behind socially engaged art in Indonesia? Drawing on interviews with artists, translations of archival material, visual analyses, and participation in artists’ projects, this book presents a unique, interdisciplinary examination of ideologies of art in Indonesia. Table of Contents Author's Introduction: Entanglement in the world Part 1: History, identity and culture: the matrix for the artist's soul Si Kabayan Nyintreuk: eccentricity and activism Local knowledge: Jiwa ketok The unified eye: Where do the Quiet Ones Go? Etching performance: reflections from praxis Personal/social/interactive: a formula for the engaged artist Drawing on the personal-social-interactive Part 2: Turba, down to 'the people' People's culture inside and outside institutions Participation, pedagogy and politics: Made Bayak's Plasticology Adiboga Wonoasri – cosmopolitanism out of starvation Jakarta Biennale and Trotoart: social tactics in the city IBU at Cigondewah: turba as antagonism Part 3: Kerakyatan: conscientisation for the people The New Order and New Indonesian Art: Opportunity and Oppression Conscientisation and the rakyat – global/local entanglement Rayuan Pulau Kelapa – turba, conscientisation and negotiation KuehSenyum: actions in social exchange Tepuk Tangan Nuhun: interventions in gratitude Back to the Bay: Tita Salina and conceptual conscientisation Performing opposition: the burial of Made Bayak Part 4: Ethics and Aesthetics Local knowledge: gotong royong and rasa Pirates and maids: gotong royong as horizontal knowledge-building An ecosystem of production: institutional practices and contemporary art practice in Indonesia Mamahkuaing: maternal feelings Rasa: Feeling, Flavour, Taste and Touch A conversation: true fiction, fictional truth Impermanent conclusions An artistic ideology Originary discourses Coda
£23.76
NUS Press Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland
Book SynopsisA new analytical perspective on stones and stone masters across Southeast Asia that extends and deepens the recent literature on animism. Stones and stone masters are an important focus of animist religious practice in Southeast Asia. Recent studies on animism see animist rituals not as a mere metaphor for community or shared values, but as a way of forming and maintaining relationships with occult presences. This book features city pillars, statues, megaliths, termite mounds, mountains, rocks found in forests, and stones that have been moved to shrines, as well as the territorial cults which can form around them. The contributors extend and deepen the recent literature on animism to form a new analytical perspective on these cults across mainland Southeast Asia. Not just a collection of exemplary ethnographies, Stone Masters is also a deeply comparative volume that develops its ideas through a meshwork of regional entanglements, parallels, and differences, before entering into a dialogue with debates on power, mastery, and the social theory of animism globally.Table of Contents List of figures and tables Section I: Stone Theory Chapter 1: Holly High: An introduction to Stone Masters Chapter 2: John Clifford Holt: Theorizing 'Stone Masters': Revisiting Paul Mus Chapter 3: Holly High: "They can see us but we can't see them": Power, deities, and presences of places in Sekong, Lao PDR Chapter 4: Courtney Work: 'The Dance of Life and Death: Social relationships with elemental power Chapter 5: Paul-David Lutz: The State Has Come Chapter 6: Benjamin Baumann: Masters of the Underground: Termite Mound Worship and the Mutuality of Chthonic and Human Beings in Thailand's Lower Northeast Chapter 7: Holly High: Lady Luck of the City: Myth and meaning at Vientiane's city pillar Chapter 9: Kazuo Fukurra: From Ritual Traditions to Spirit Mediumship: The Evolution of Pillar Worship in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Chapter 10: Klemens Karlsson: Territory Cults and Power in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar Chapter 11: H?ng T. D. Ngô: The Mountain, the Masters and the Nation: Enduring Power Encounters at a Temple in Contemporary Vietnam? Chapter 12: Penny Van Esterik: Afterword
£23.76
GHOST Editions Complexity: At the Limit of the (Im)possible
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£10.00
Aman iman Remi Coignet - Conversations 3 ENG
£16.20
Gwin Zegal 404
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£9.46
Academic Studies Press Beautiful Ugliness
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£36.00
Academic Studies Press Gans Constructivism
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£30.39
Art Issues Press,U.S. The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other
Book Synopsis“If this book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world.” —Peter Schjeldahl An expanded edition of Hickey’s controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty—championed by artists, reviled by art critics, and as powerful as ever 30 years on The 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon’s four essays on beauty and commingles them with newly discovered essays by the MacArthur Foundation “genius.” Art by Caravaggio, Bellini, Velázquez, Raphael, Warhol and Mapplethorpe is complemented by Hickey’s tributes to Dolly Parton and Richard Pryor, outing of John Rechy’s gay novel Numbers, essays on the art of writing and witty analysis of paintings by Ed Ruscha. An afterword by Hickey’s friend and Dragon’s editor queers the brash, heterosexual gambler as it situates the creation of Dragon squarely within the AIDS plague. At the time, the book made beauty visible under the looming presence of death and bodily decay. Today, Hickey’s prescient diagnosis of the “therapeutic institution” resonates even louder and artists respond by harnessing beauty as a source of meaning and of joy. Dave Hickey (1938–2021) was one of the preeminent arts and cultural writers of the turn of the 21st century. A MacArthur "Genius" Fellow known as the "beauty guy" in the popular press, Hickey opened A Clean, Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, in the 1960s, before becoming executive editor at Art in America magazine. In the 1970s, he was a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where he coined and helped create the "Outlaw country" music movement. By the 1990s, Hickey had made a home in Las Vegas, from where he regularly traveled to speak with audiences worldwide.Trade ReviewDave Hickey was a genius. Not because of what he did for me but because of the way he was, the way he felt and the wonderful way he worded things, he was beyond compare. I liked him, I loved him and yes, I had a crush on him too. Long live the memory and the words of Dave Hickey. -- Dolly PartonWhen Dave Hickey died last fall at the age of eighty-two, he left behind a singular contribution to the history of art writing, along with a badly bruised reputation, both routinely called 'iconoclastic' for lack of anything more precise. The magazines hed published in since the 1960s hardly took notice. The perfunctory obituaries that did appear treated him as a kind of Hunter S. Thompson of the contemporary art world, ensconced as he was in Las Vegas at the height of his fame. But alongside the bluster of 'the bad boy of art criticism' was a neon Walter Pater of the Southwest who almost single-handedly remade the practice of art writing with his first two collections, The Invisible Dragon and Air Guitar. -- Jarrett Earnest * New York Review of Books *If the book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world. -- Peter Schjeldahl * "Author of Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018" *Dave Hickey's prose transports are like an eye attached to a butterfly attached to a rocketshipwhich is to say, lucidity uncannily yoked to both a deft lightness of touch and sheer gangbusters propulsion: the down-to-earth, time and again, taking off and taking flight. The generosity of the man's vervethe suppleness of its profusionscan get to be downright ravishing. On top of which, the guy's really funny. -- Lawrence Weschler * Author of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees *
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