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The life of forms in art
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In this classic meditation on the problem of style in art history, the author describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous formal mutation within the shifting domain of materials and(...)
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In this classic meditation on the problem of style in art history, the author describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous formal mutation within the shifting domain of materials and(...)
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In this classic meditation on the problem of style in art history, the author describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous formal mutation within the shifting domain of materials and techniques. Focillon emphasizes the presence of nonsynchronous tendencies within styles that give to artworks a manifold and stratified character.
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In this classic meditation on the problem of style in art history, the author describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous formal mutation within the shifting domain of materials and techniques. Focillon emphasizes the presence of nonsynchronous tendencies within styles that give to artworks a manifold and stratified character.
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September 1992
September 1992
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Participation
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Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation-notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives(...)
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Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation-notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives(...)
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Friends of interpretable objects
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Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation-notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society. As his work unfolds, "friends" also takes on a legal sense, as advocates, introduced to advance the argument that the social life of interpreted and interpretable objects engenders a related web of social obligations. Focusing on those who, through interpretation, make objects "speak" in settings as different as churches, museums, forests, and distant galaxies-those who know the best interests of corporations, endangered species, and works of art--Tamen exposes the common ground shared by art criticism, political science, tort law, and science. Learned and witty, with much to teach art historians, environmentalists, anthropologists, curators, and literary critics, his book utterly reorients our understanding of how we make sense of our world.
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Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation-notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society. As his work unfolds, "friends" also takes on a legal sense, as advocates, introduced to advance the argument that the social life of interpreted and interpretable objects engenders a related web of social obligations. Focusing on those who, through interpretation, make objects "speak" in settings as different as churches, museums, forests, and distant galaxies-those who know the best interests of corporations, endangered species, and works of art--Tamen exposes the common ground shared by art criticism, political science, tort law, and science. Learned and witty, with much to teach art historians, environmentalists, anthropologists, curators, and literary critics, his book utterly reorients our understanding of how we make sense of our world.
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March 2004, Cambridge, London
March 2004, Cambridge, London
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When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Kubler’s classic work is now(...)
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When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Kubler’s classic work is now(...)
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The shape of time: remarks on the history of things
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When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Kubler’s classic work is now made available in a freshly designed edition
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When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Kubler’s classic work is now made available in a freshly designed edition
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February 2008, New Haven & London
February 2008, New Haven & London
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Ways of seeing
Ways of seeing
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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.
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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.
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Ways of seeing
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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.
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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.
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January 1900
January 1900
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The pieces collected in this book appeared originally in Partisan Review, The Nation, Commentary, Arts (formely Art Digest), Art News and The New Leader. Few reappear unaltered. (...) This book is not intended as a completely faithful record of my activity as a critic. Not only has much been altered, but much more has been left out than put in. I would not deny being one(...)
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The pieces collected in this book appeared originally in Partisan Review, The Nation, Commentary, Arts (formely Art Digest), Art News and The New Leader. Few reappear unaltered. (...) This book is not intended as a completely faithful record of my activity as a critic. Not only has much been altered, but much more has been left out than put in. I would not deny being one(...)
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Art and Culture Critical essays
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The pieces collected in this book appeared originally in Partisan Review, The Nation, Commentary, Arts (formely Art Digest), Art News and The New Leader. Few reappear unaltered. (...) This book is not intended as a completely faithful record of my activity as a critic. Not only has much been altered, but much more has been left out than put in. I would not deny being one of those critics who educate themselves in public, but I see no reason why all the haste and waste involved in my self-education should be preserved in a book. Clement Greenberg
Art and Culture Critical essays
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The pieces collected in this book appeared originally in Partisan Review, The Nation, Commentary, Arts (formely Art Digest), Art News and The New Leader. Few reappear unaltered. (...) This book is not intended as a completely faithful record of my activity as a critic. Not only has much been altered, but much more has been left out than put in. I would not deny being one of those critics who educate themselves in public, but I see no reason why all the haste and waste involved in my self-education should be preserved in a book. Clement Greenberg
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January 1900, Boston
January 1900, Boston
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L'art contemporain
L'art contemporain
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La nouveauté et la radicalité de l'art contemporain ne cessent de surprendre, de fasciner, de troubler et d'interroger notre monde et ses représentations traditionnelles. A travers l'itinéraire de plus de cinquante artistes, de René Magritte à Jackson Pollock, d'ORLAN à Damien Hirst en passant par JonOne, Jean-Michel Basquiat et Joana Vasconcelos, des avant-gardes(...)
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La nouveauté et la radicalité de l'art contemporain ne cessent de surprendre, de fasciner, de troubler et d'interroger notre monde et ses représentations traditionnelles. A travers l'itinéraire de plus de cinquante artistes, de René Magritte à Jackson Pollock, d'ORLAN à Damien Hirst en passant par JonOne, Jean-Michel Basquiat et Joana Vasconcelos, des avant-gardes(...)
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L'art contemporain
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La nouveauté et la radicalité de l'art contemporain ne cessent de surprendre, de fasciner, de troubler et d'interroger notre monde et ses représentations traditionnelles. A travers l'itinéraire de plus de cinquante artistes, de René Magritte à Jackson Pollock, d'ORLAN à Damien Hirst en passant par JonOne, Jean-Michel Basquiat et Joana Vasconcelos, des avant-gardes jusqu'aux premières années du XXIe siècle, ce livre élégant et magnifiquement illustré apporte un regard nouveau sur la création contemporaine et explore les mouvements qui la structurent l'expressionnisme abstrait, les nouvelles figurations, le minimalisme, le street art, l'art vidéo... Retrouvez pour chaque peintre et chaque sculpteur des explications sur une de leurs oeuvres les plus célèbres et les techniques employées pour la réaliser. Découvrez leurs audaces, leurs combats, les questions qu'ils se sont posées, les conceptions traditionnelles qu'ils ont défiées, pour faire de l'art une révolution permanente.
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La nouveauté et la radicalité de l'art contemporain ne cessent de surprendre, de fasciner, de troubler et d'interroger notre monde et ses représentations traditionnelles. A travers l'itinéraire de plus de cinquante artistes, de René Magritte à Jackson Pollock, d'ORLAN à Damien Hirst en passant par JonOne, Jean-Michel Basquiat et Joana Vasconcelos, des avant-gardes jusqu'aux premières années du XXIe siècle, ce livre élégant et magnifiquement illustré apporte un regard nouveau sur la création contemporaine et explore les mouvements qui la structurent l'expressionnisme abstrait, les nouvelles figurations, le minimalisme, le street art, l'art vidéo... Retrouvez pour chaque peintre et chaque sculpteur des explications sur une de leurs oeuvres les plus célèbres et les techniques employées pour la réaliser. Découvrez leurs audaces, leurs combats, les questions qu'ils se sont posées, les conceptions traditionnelles qu'ils ont défiées, pour faire de l'art une révolution permanente.
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Publié pour la première fois en 1997, cet ouvrage est paru dans un contexte de polémique virulente sur la « valeur » de l’art contemporain en France. Sa réception a favorisé, pour le public, une prise de conscience générale que les idées pouvaient être discutées et analysées. « Le débat a eu un effet positif, ne serait-ce qu’en dédramatisant les choses, au moins on a pu(...)
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Publié pour la première fois en 1997, cet ouvrage est paru dans un contexte de polémique virulente sur la « valeur » de l’art contemporain en France. Sa réception a favorisé, pour le public, une prise de conscience générale que les idées pouvaient être discutées et analysées. « Le débat a eu un effet positif, ne serait-ce qu’en dédramatisant les choses, au moins on a pu(...)
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La crise de l'art contemporain [nouvelle édition] : utopie, démocratie et comédie
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Publié pour la première fois en 1997, cet ouvrage est paru dans un contexte de polémique virulente sur la « valeur » de l’art contemporain en France. Sa réception a favorisé, pour le public, une prise de conscience générale que les idées pouvaient être discutées et analysées. « Le débat a eu un effet positif, ne serait-ce qu’en dédramatisant les choses, au moins on a pu commencer d’en parler » et comprendre que nous avons vécu « la fin de l’utopie de l’art et que nous sommes entrés dans un autre paradigme de production et de représentation ».
La crise de l'art contemporain [nouvelle édition] : utopie, démocratie et comédie
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Publié pour la première fois en 1997, cet ouvrage est paru dans un contexte de polémique virulente sur la « valeur » de l’art contemporain en France. Sa réception a favorisé, pour le public, une prise de conscience générale que les idées pouvaient être discutées et analysées. « Le débat a eu un effet positif, ne serait-ce qu’en dédramatisant les choses, au moins on a pu commencer d’en parler » et comprendre que nous avons vécu « la fin de l’utopie de l’art et que nous sommes entrés dans un autre paradigme de production et de représentation ».
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December 2015
December 2015
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This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by(...)
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This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by(...)
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Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
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This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by making it convenient and affordable for renegade publishers, zinesters, artists, punks, anarchists, queers, feminists, street activists, and others to publish their work and to get their messages out on the street. The xerographic copier adjusted the lived and imagined margins of society, Eichhorn argues, by supporting artistic and political expression and mobilizing subcultural movements.
Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
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This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions of this clunky office machine a source of fear, rage, dread, and disappointment. But eventually, xerography democratized print culture by making it convenient and affordable for renegade publishers, zinesters, artists, punks, anarchists, queers, feminists, street activists, and others to publish their work and to get their messages out on the street. The xerographic copier adjusted the lived and imagined margins of society, Eichhorn argues, by supporting artistic and political expression and mobilizing subcultural movements.
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December 2015
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Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings is a comprehensive collection of writings by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko spanning from the 1970s to the present day. Known for his large-scale, politically charged video and slide projections onto prominent architectural structures, this publication explores the development of Wodiczko's political, theoretical and social(...)
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Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings is a comprehensive collection of writings by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko spanning from the 1970s to the present day. Known for his large-scale, politically charged video and slide projections onto prominent architectural structures, this publication explores the development of Wodiczko's political, theoretical and social(...)
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Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings
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Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings is a comprehensive collection of writings by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko spanning from the 1970s to the present day. Known for his large-scale, politically charged video and slide projections onto prominent architectural structures, this publication explores the development of Wodiczko's political, theoretical and social motivations in relation to his practice. These writings encompass the artist's ongoing critique of public space and his argument for the integral role that art plays in challenging the institutionalised and national narratives inscribed in the architecture of urban environments, and therefore in the democratic process. Working with marginalised city residents since the 1980s as active, critical democratic agents, Wodizcko explores the political and psychological potential of "fearless" or parrhesiastic speaking in the reanimation of our public spaces and monuments.Krzysztof Wodiczko is Professor in Residence at Harvard University and was awarded the Hiroshima Prize in 1998 for his contribution as an artist to world peace.
Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings
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Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings is a comprehensive collection of writings by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko spanning from the 1970s to the present day. Known for his large-scale, politically charged video and slide projections onto prominent architectural structures, this publication explores the development of Wodiczko's political, theoretical and social motivations in relation to his practice. These writings encompass the artist's ongoing critique of public space and his argument for the integral role that art plays in challenging the institutionalised and national narratives inscribed in the architecture of urban environments, and therefore in the democratic process. Working with marginalised city residents since the 1980s as active, critical democratic agents, Wodizcko explores the political and psychological potential of "fearless" or parrhesiastic speaking in the reanimation of our public spaces and monuments.Krzysztof Wodiczko is Professor in Residence at Harvard University and was awarded the Hiroshima Prize in 1998 for his contribution as an artist to world peace.
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October 2016
October 2016
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