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''Painting Photography Painting'' is the essential first collection of essays by critic and theorist Carol Armstrong, bringing together writings encompassing the many inflection points of her academic work, including French painting, early photography, feminist theory, and the representation of women and gender in the visual arts. In the book’s titular essay, Armstrong(...)
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''Painting Photography Painting'' is the essential first collection of essays by critic and theorist Carol Armstrong, bringing together writings encompassing the many inflection points of her academic work, including French painting, early photography, feminist theory, and the representation of women and gender in the visual arts. In the book’s titular essay, Armstrong asks of Ellen Gallagher’s 2008 painting ''An Experiment of Unusual Opportunity'', which depicts a barely-visible sea creature created out of ink, graphite, oil, varnish, and variously sliced paper, ‘in what sense is this a painting exactly?’ This enquiry into the very essence of the medium provides a thread that runs throughout the book’s wide-ranging essays and ties together a variety of works on paper ‘inscribed, drawn, printed, photographed, and variously pierced and punctured’.
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Gathering contributions from artists, writers and theorists, Fieldwork for Future Ecologies addresses the role that art and art-based research plays in expanding notions of fieldwork. At once a research handbook and a philosophical speculation, it explores ways of working within diverse climates using image, sound, movement and other sensing technologies, and also offers(...)
Fieldwork for future ecologies: radical practice for art and art-based research
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Gathering contributions from artists, writers and theorists, Fieldwork for Future Ecologies addresses the role that art and art-based research plays in expanding notions of fieldwork. At once a research handbook and a philosophical speculation, it explores ways of working within diverse climates using image, sound, movement and other sensing technologies, and also offers more creative interventions into the idea of "the field" itself. Focusing on projects from various geographic locations and situations, the book highlights the crucial contribution that art can make to environmental and climate studies.
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Becoming an artwork
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For some time, artists and intellectuals struggled for the sovereign right to present themselves to society in their own way – to become self-created works of art. Today everybody has not only a right but also an obligation to practice self-design. We are responsible for the way we present ourselves to others – and we cannot get rid of this aesthetic responsibility.(...)
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For some time, artists and intellectuals struggled for the sovereign right to present themselves to society in their own way – to become self-created works of art. Today everybody has not only a right but also an obligation to practice self-design. We are responsible for the way we present ourselves to others – and we cannot get rid of this aesthetic responsibility. However, we are not able to produce our own bodies. Before we begin to practice self-design, we find ourselves already designed by the gaze of others. That is why the practice of self-design mostly takes a critical and confrontational turn. We want to bring others to see us in the way we want to be seen – not only during our earthly life but also after our death. This is a complicated struggle, and the aim of this book is to describe and analyze it.
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Copiez ce livre: Un manuel sur le droit d'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
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Alors que les artistes se débattent face aux évolutions du droit d'auteur et aux complexités de la copie dans leurs pratiques au quotidien, le livre «Copy this book» d'Eric Schrijver est traduit en français et édité par Les commissaires anonymes. Ce livre adopte une approche à la fois pratique et critique pour guider les lecteurs à travers les différents concepts liés au(...)
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Copiez ce livre: Un manuel sur le droit d'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
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Alors que les artistes se débattent face aux évolutions du droit d'auteur et aux complexités de la copie dans leurs pratiques au quotidien, le livre «Copy this book» d'Eric Schrijver est traduit en français et édité par Les commissaires anonymes. Ce livre adopte une approche à la fois pratique et critique pour guider les lecteurs à travers les différents concepts liés au droit d'auteur et la façon dont ils s'appliquent. Il se présente sous la forme d'un volume découpé en cinq chapitres thématiques, s'appuyant sur des exemples concrets et illustré par des images libres de droits et des créations originales de l'auteur. Il répond à des questions telles que : Comment obtenir des droits d'auteur ? Pour quels types d'œuvres ? Et pour combien de temps ? Comment le droit d'auteur se transpose-t-il selon les médias ? Et comment intégrer le travail d'autres artistes dans le vôtre ? « Copiez ce livre » détaille également les concepts de parentalité d'une œuvre et de création originale qui définissent les systèmes juridiques actuels. Il offre ainsi des outils conceptuels permettant de participer aux débats contemporains concernant la propriété intellectuelle.
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Volume—a word that refers to sound, collections, and the measurement of space—is a crucial characteristic of both graphic design and popular music. While expressing different aspects of these two pervasive cultural mediums, the term also introduces a discussion on their many links. This publication is a collection of both new and classic writings by frequent Emigre(...)
Volume: writings on graphic design, music, art and culture
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Volume—a word that refers to sound, collections, and the measurement of space—is a crucial characteristic of both graphic design and popular music. While expressing different aspects of these two pervasive cultural mediums, the term also introduces a discussion on their many links. This publication is a collection of both new and classic writings by frequent Emigre contributor and educator Kenneth FitzGerald that survey the discipline of graphic design in context with the parallel creative fields of contemporary music and art. The topics of the writings are diverse: the roles of class in design, design education, Lester Bangs and Creem magazine, pornography, album cover art, independent record labels, anonymity and imaginary creative identities, and design as cultural chaos-maker.
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Descent to revolution
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Descent to revolution is an exhibition featuring five international artist collectives and collaboratives that respond to the social and economic frameworks of a city.
Descent to revolution
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Descent to revolution is an exhibition featuring five international artist collectives and collaboratives that respond to the social and economic frameworks of a city.
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Calling beauty
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Calling Beauty is an investigation into the evolving definition of beauty as a concept of rarity and exclusivity. Organized around four basic pillars of reflection: still life, landscape, nude, and portraiture, the exhibition examines what has been traditionally viewed as beautiful, how that view has influenced contemporary art, and how it has shaped, paradoxically, an(...)
Calling beauty
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Calling Beauty is an investigation into the evolving definition of beauty as a concept of rarity and exclusivity. Organized around four basic pillars of reflection: still life, landscape, nude, and portraiture, the exhibition examines what has been traditionally viewed as beautiful, how that view has influenced contemporary art, and how it has shaped, paradoxically, an aesthetics of the everyday. Artists include Thorsten Brinkmann, Moyra Davey, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Ellen Harvey, Matts Leiderstam, Ryan McGinley, Anna Molska, Susan Sontag, Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, and Darren Waterston.
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Of other spaces
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This catalogue is about how space affects human behavior and experience. The exhibition asks us to consider the ways in which spaces are charged with authority, and both serve and suppress our actions and ways of relating. The concept of “other spaces” is inspired by the philosophy of Michel Foucault, especially his thoughts on social relations and cultural practices(...)
Of other spaces
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This catalogue is about how space affects human behavior and experience. The exhibition asks us to consider the ways in which spaces are charged with authority, and both serve and suppress our actions and ways of relating. The concept of “other spaces” is inspired by the philosophy of Michel Foucault, especially his thoughts on social relations and cultural practices expressed in the intersection of space, architecture, and history.
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Charles Saatchi, fondateur de la célèbre agence de publicité Saatchi & Saatchi, est certainement aujourd hui le plus célèbre collectionneur d'art contemporain au monde. En 1985, il ouvre à Londres une prestigieuse galerie qui aura notamment pour vocation de promouvoir les fameux Young British Artists. En octobre 2008, la Saatchi Gallery s'installe sur King's Road, dans(...)
Mon nom est Charles Saatchi et je suis un artoolique : tout ce que vous devez savoir sur l'art, la publicité, la vie, Dieu et autres mystères - et vous avez osé demander...
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Charles Saatchi, fondateur de la célèbre agence de publicité Saatchi & Saatchi, est certainement aujourd hui le plus célèbre collectionneur d'art contemporain au monde. En 1985, il ouvre à Londres une prestigieuse galerie qui aura notamment pour vocation de promouvoir les fameux Young British Artists. En octobre 2008, la Saatchi Gallery s'installe sur King's Road, dans le quartier de Chelsea et propose quelque 6 500 m2 d espaces d exposition. Sa dernière audace en date : la diffusion, depuis octobre 2009 par la chaîne britannique BBC2, de School Of Saatchi, émission de téléréalité et sorte de Nouvelle Star de l'art contemporain. Si l'émission porte son nom, il ne s'y montre cependant jamais. Saatchi est connu pour ne jamais accorder d'entretiens. Cet ouvrage offre désormais la possibilité de découvrir ses réponses à une série d'environ 200 questions posées par des journalistes et critiques en vue, ainsi que des anonymes. Que ces questions soient relatives à l'art, la publicité, l'argent, la vie politique ou sa vie privée, Charles Saatchi y répond avec une franchise déroutante, parfois brutale mais toujours avec beaucoup d'esprit, d'humour et parfois une pointe de cynisme.
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Compiled for the first time here, essays by American critic, artist, gallerist and dealer John Kelsey convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates. Rich Texts play the double role of explaining the art world and actively participating in it; they close the distance between the work of art and how we talk about it.(...)
Rich texts: Selected writing for art
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Compiled for the first time here, essays by American critic, artist, gallerist and dealer John Kelsey convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates. Rich Texts play the double role of explaining the art world and actively participating in it; they close the distance between the work of art and how we talk about it. These writings - many originally published in Artforum - embody a timelessness that strikes at the core of the contemporary art world.
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