Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. "Rock My Religion" collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power. Alternating with these theoretical...
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian album, one of the world's great assemblages of Mughal art.
An enquiry into the historical understanding of pictures - something sought not only by art historians but by anyone who looks at a picture in the knowledge that it is old or comes out of a culture different from their own.
A review of current information on the jades and in their archaeological context, images and relationship to the jades of Mexico and the Maya area.
Trash (Alphabet City)
Writers, artists, and filmmakers investigate the proposition that we are what we throw away - Trash: the emptied out, the used up, the broken, the outgrown, the obsolete; the dispossessed, the lost, the left behind. In "Trash", writers, artists, and filmmakers look at how we are defined by what we waste and discover that we are what we throw away. "Trash" surveys a terrain that ranges from micro (a typology of dust bunnies) to macro (studies of landfill design and the trashed space of urban brow...
Die Kunst der Innovationsgesellschaft (Kunst Und Gesellschaft)
by Henning Mohr
Angesichts der zunehmenden Bedeutung künstlerischer Prozesse für andere Gesellschaftsbereiche (etwa Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Stadtentwicklung),werden die besonderen Potentiale des Künstlerischen herausgearbeitet. Anhand einer Analyse verschiedener Kunstprojekte der Kulturorganisation Urbane Künste Ruhr zeigt sich, dass künstlerisches Handeln nahezu idealtypisch dem Neuheitsimperativ einer wissens- und kreativitätsbasierten Innovationsgesellschaft entspricht. Künstlerische Prozesse leisten einen...
A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human commun...
Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's Vertigo, the sexual aesthetics of Caravaggio, the artistic pen of Barthes, and how Cronenberg's film Crash functions as a sinthome.
Time, Narrative & the Fixed Image / Temps, narration & image fixe (Faux Titre, #208)
This volume focuses on the relationship between time, narrative and the fixed image. As such, it highlights renewed interest in the temporality of the fixed image, probably one of the most important trends in the formal and semiotic analysis of visual media in the past decade. The various essays discuss paintings, the illustrated covers of books, comics or graphic novels, photo-stories, postcards, television and video art, as well as aesthetic practices that defy categorization such as Chris Mar...
Published to coincide with the first ever ex hibition of the outstanding drawings from the Weld-Blundell Drawings Collection, this catalogue includes an introductory essay, 80 colour illustrations and 247 black and white illu strations. '
To overcome the strictures of his early academic training in art, Paolo Canevari turned to Arte Povera as a place to start afresh, and as an antidote to the "high rhetoric" of conventional materials. Canevari bring a minimalist's restraint to his materials--which include rubber tires and inner tubes--and also a more explicit political commentary on their ramifications in the world. This volume documents 10 years' worth of Canevari's work.
This volume gathers a number of contemporary artists who have courageously addressed the AIDS epidemic in their work: Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nan Goldin, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Wolfgang Tillmans, among many others.
This book discusses text and image relationships in the history of art from ancient times to the contemporary period across a diversity of cultures and geographic areas. Focusing on the use of words in art and words as art forms, thematic chapters include "Visual Wordplay: A Thousand Words," "Pictures in Words/Words in Pictures," "Word/Picture Puzzles," "Words as Images," "The Power of the Word," and "Monumental and Moving Words." Chapter subsections further explore cross-cultural themes. Examin...
What is the role of the contemporary artist in a reality that interprets cultures as conflicting parties and Europe as a closed space? How does his identity develop in relation to European cultures and those that exist elsewhere in the world? Does there exist an acceptable comparative footing that permits otherwise explosive diversities to engage in dialogue with each other? These questions were the starting point for an international forum on the deepest cultural roots of European thought. Host...
This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases. Addressing cultural forms from 1960s–70s sociology, performance art, and drag queen balls to more recent queer voguing performances by Pasifika and Māori people from New Zealand and pop culture television shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race, the book traces ho...
