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For Bataille, "the absence of myth" had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had "lost the secret of its cohesion," Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. "The absence of myth" is the most incisive(...)
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For Bataille, "the absence of myth" had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had "lost the secret of its cohesion," Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. "The absence of myth" is the most incisive(...)
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The absence of myth: Wtritings on surrealism
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For Bataille, "the absence of myth" had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had "lost the secret of its cohesion," Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. "The absence of myth" is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille’s links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton, "The absence of myth" shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be.
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For Bataille, "the absence of myth" had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had "lost the secret of its cohesion," Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. "The absence of myth" is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille’s links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton, "The absence of myth" shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be.
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For an ecology of images
For an ecology of images
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When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with(...)
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When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with(...)
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For an ecology of images
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When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed. Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required for images to develop and come into view. This inquisitive essay takes us from mimicry in the animal kingdom to the history of the shadow, Pliny’s story about the birth of painting to Nabokov’s butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film to the first aerial photograph.
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When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed. Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required for images to develop and come into view. This inquisitive essay takes us from mimicry in the animal kingdom to the history of the shadow, Pliny’s story about the birth of painting to Nabokov’s butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film to the first aerial photograph.
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Forms of Errantry
Forms of Errantry
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How can the form of experimental documentary address the legacies of colonization as they are lived today? Between India and Haiti, Scholar Lakshmi Padmanabhan and filmmaker Miryam Charles follow the routes opened up by this question to explore histories of survival and the aesthetics of errantry. Contributors offer poetic responses explored in the fissures between image(...)
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How can the form of experimental documentary address the legacies of colonization as they are lived today? Between India and Haiti, Scholar Lakshmi Padmanabhan and filmmaker Miryam Charles follow the routes opened up by this question to explore histories of survival and the aesthetics of errantry. Contributors offer poetic responses explored in the fissures between image(...)
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Forms of Errantry
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How can the form of experimental documentary address the legacies of colonization as they are lived today? Between India and Haiti, Scholar Lakshmi Padmanabhan and filmmaker Miryam Charles follow the routes opened up by this question to explore histories of survival and the aesthetics of errantry. Contributors offer poetic responses explored in the fissures between image and sound, personal narrative and political history, and in the juxtapositions between the dream of an anticolonial future, and the nightmare of our globalized present.
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How can the form of experimental documentary address the legacies of colonization as they are lived today? Between India and Haiti, Scholar Lakshmi Padmanabhan and filmmaker Miryam Charles follow the routes opened up by this question to explore histories of survival and the aesthetics of errantry. Contributors offer poetic responses explored in the fissures between image and sound, personal narrative and political history, and in the juxtapositions between the dream of an anticolonial future, and the nightmare of our globalized present.
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September 2024
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Walking as research practice
Walking as research practice
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What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? An important caveat to this would be to ask where and when the research occurs in relation to the walk, the walking, and the walkers. Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? Since walking involves encounters with various objects and subjects, how might it help us emphasise(...)
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What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? An important caveat to this would be to ask where and when the research occurs in relation to the walk, the walking, and the walkers. Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? Since walking involves encounters with various objects and subjects, how might it help us emphasise(...)
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Walking as research practice
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What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? An important caveat to this would be to ask where and when the research occurs in relation to the walk, the walking, and the walkers. Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? Since walking involves encounters with various objects and subjects, how might it help us emphasise our connection to the more-than-human world? In addition, walking reveals different entry points to a city. Could walking provide a path toward more socially just urban spaces and commons? With an introduction by design critic and educator Alice Twemlow and urbanist and researcher Tânia A. Cardoso. Published in collaboration with Soapbox Journal.
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What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? An important caveat to this would be to ask where and when the research occurs in relation to the walk, the walking, and the walkers. Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? Since walking involves encounters with various objects and subjects, how might it help us emphasise our connection to the more-than-human world? In addition, walking reveals different entry points to a city. Could walking provide a path toward more socially just urban spaces and commons? With an introduction by design critic and educator Alice Twemlow and urbanist and researcher Tânia A. Cardoso. Published in collaboration with Soapbox Journal.
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Is art history?
Is art history?
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A definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century, "Is Art History?" brings together Svetlana Alpers’ contributions to the art historical discipline. Her writing spans over six decades: beginning with seminal essays written in examination of the constraints of the art historical discipline, including a foundational essay on(...)
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A definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century, "Is Art History?" brings together Svetlana Alpers’ contributions to the art historical discipline. Her writing spans over six decades: beginning with seminal essays written in examination of the constraints of the art historical discipline, including a foundational essay on(...)
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A definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century, "Is Art History?" brings together Svetlana Alpers’ contributions to the art historical discipline. Her writing spans over six decades: beginning with seminal essays written in examination of the constraints of the art historical discipline, including a foundational essay on Vasari (1960), "Is Art History?" (1970), "Style Is What You Make It" (1979) and "Art History and Its Exclusions" (1982); two never before published lectures and other unpublished public presentations; notable critical essays on art and recent texts on contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Catherine Murphy and Shirley Jaffe. "Is Art History?" also includes new prefatory notes written by the author for this occasion, an unexpected introduction by her former student, the esteemed scholar-critic Richard Meyer, and an interview with the German author and critic Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. This extensive view of Alpers’ prolific and varied career appeals both to new readers in need of an introduction and to audiences familiar with her essential writing on the great European tradition of painting.
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A definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past century, "Is Art History?" brings together Svetlana Alpers’ contributions to the art historical discipline. Her writing spans over six decades: beginning with seminal essays written in examination of the constraints of the art historical discipline, including a foundational essay on Vasari (1960), "Is Art History?" (1970), "Style Is What You Make It" (1979) and "Art History and Its Exclusions" (1982); two never before published lectures and other unpublished public presentations; notable critical essays on art and recent texts on contemporary artists including Alex Katz, Catherine Murphy and Shirley Jaffe. "Is Art History?" also includes new prefatory notes written by the author for this occasion, an unexpected introduction by her former student, the esteemed scholar-critic Richard Meyer, and an interview with the German author and critic Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. This extensive view of Alpers’ prolific and varied career appeals both to new readers in need of an introduction and to audiences familiar with her essential writing on the great European tradition of painting.
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Explorer les relations subtiles entre l’art concret et la nature, tel est le dessein de cet ouvrage placé sous le signe d’une sculpture de Jean Arp dont le titre, Homme vu par une fleur, invite à renverser toutes nos certitudes. Des chemins de traverse sont empruntés pour observer la manière dont la nature s’immisce dans les problèmes mathématiques de Max Bill, s’octroie(...)
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Explorer les relations subtiles entre l’art concret et la nature, tel est le dessein de cet ouvrage placé sous le signe d’une sculpture de Jean Arp dont le titre, Homme vu par une fleur, invite à renverser toutes nos certitudes. Des chemins de traverse sont empruntés pour observer la manière dont la nature s’immisce dans les problèmes mathématiques de Max Bill, s’octroie(...)
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Art concret + Nature = Homme vu par une fleur
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Explorer les relations subtiles entre l’art concret et la nature, tel est le dessein de cet ouvrage placé sous le signe d’une sculpture de Jean Arp dont le titre, Homme vu par une fleur, invite à renverser toutes nos certitudes. Des chemins de traverse sont empruntés pour observer la manière dont la nature s’immisce dans les problèmes mathématiques de Max Bill, s’octroie une place non négligeable dans la création de la pionnière du Computer Art Vera Molnár, préside à la pensée écologique de Gottfried Honegger, constitue un modèle essentiel pour les artistes de ZERO tels que herman de vries ou Heinz Mack, offre un espace infini qu’explore la poète spatialiste Ilse Garnier. Pour concrétiser cette rencontre entre l’art et la nature, des jardins d’artistes, d’architectes, de designers, de paysagistes tels que Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Gabriel Guévrékian, Herbert Bayer, Roberto Burle Marx ou Gilles Clément ouvrent le champ des possibles.
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Explorer les relations subtiles entre l’art concret et la nature, tel est le dessein de cet ouvrage placé sous le signe d’une sculpture de Jean Arp dont le titre, Homme vu par une fleur, invite à renverser toutes nos certitudes. Des chemins de traverse sont empruntés pour observer la manière dont la nature s’immisce dans les problèmes mathématiques de Max Bill, s’octroie une place non négligeable dans la création de la pionnière du Computer Art Vera Molnár, préside à la pensée écologique de Gottfried Honegger, constitue un modèle essentiel pour les artistes de ZERO tels que herman de vries ou Heinz Mack, offre un espace infini qu’explore la poète spatialiste Ilse Garnier. Pour concrétiser cette rencontre entre l’art et la nature, des jardins d’artistes, d’architectes, de designers, de paysagistes tels que Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Gabriel Guévrékian, Herbert Bayer, Roberto Burle Marx ou Gilles Clément ouvrent le champ des possibles.
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How can we gather now?
How can we gather now?
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The publication "How can we gather now?" documents an experimental symposium that took place from March 31 to April 2, 2023, in Washington, DC, around the topic of gathering. Produced by Washington Project for the Arts and codirected by Asad Raza and Prem Krishnammurthy, it brought together hundreds of artists, creatives and organizers from all over the world. This(...)
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The publication "How can we gather now?" documents an experimental symposium that took place from March 31 to April 2, 2023, in Washington, DC, around the topic of gathering. Produced by Washington Project for the Arts and codirected by Asad Raza and Prem Krishnammurthy, it brought together hundreds of artists, creatives and organizers from all over the world. This(...)
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The publication "How can we gather now?" documents an experimental symposium that took place from March 31 to April 2, 2023, in Washington, DC, around the topic of gathering. Produced by Washington Project for the Arts and codirected by Asad Raza and Prem Krishnammurthy, it brought together hundreds of artists, creatives and organizers from all over the world. This publication acts as a performance of the event, collecting a rich variety of modes including transcriptions from conversations, poetry, essays, film stills, recipes and artworks.
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The publication "How can we gather now?" documents an experimental symposium that took place from March 31 to April 2, 2023, in Washington, DC, around the topic of gathering. Produced by Washington Project for the Arts and codirected by Asad Raza and Prem Krishnammurthy, it brought together hundreds of artists, creatives and organizers from all over the world. This publication acts as a performance of the event, collecting a rich variety of modes including transcriptions from conversations, poetry, essays, film stills, recipes and artworks.
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This book gathers a vast selection of editions by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) alongside historical and contemporary appropriations of his work by other authors. The illustrated volume contextualizes the perception and adaptations of Mallarmé’s masterpiece through critical essays written by leading scholars.
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This book gathers a vast selection of editions by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) alongside historical and contemporary appropriations of his work by other authors. The illustrated volume contextualizes the perception and adaptations of Mallarmé’s masterpiece through critical essays written by leading scholars.
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Coup de dés: Books and Ideas after Mallarmé
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This book gathers a vast selection of editions by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) alongside historical and contemporary appropriations of his work by other authors. The illustrated volume contextualizes the perception and adaptations of Mallarmé’s masterpiece through critical essays written by leading scholars.
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This book gathers a vast selection of editions by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) alongside historical and contemporary appropriations of his work by other authors. The illustrated volume contextualizes the perception and adaptations of Mallarmé’s masterpiece through critical essays written by leading scholars.
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In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first post-war European art fairs built on the imperial 19th-century model of the International Exhibitions, to the global art fairs(...)
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In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first post-war European art fairs built on the imperial 19th-century model of the International Exhibitions, to the global art fairs(...)
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The art fair story: A rollercoaster ride
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In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first post-war European art fairs built on the imperial 19th-century model of the International Exhibitions, to the global art fairs of the 21st century and their new online manifestations, it's a tale of many twists and turns. The book brings to life the people, places and philosophies that enabled art fairs to take root, examines the pivotal market periods when they flourished, and maps where they might go in a much-changed world.
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In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first post-war European art fairs built on the imperial 19th-century model of the International Exhibitions, to the global art fairs of the 21st century and their new online manifestations, it's a tale of many twists and turns. The book brings to life the people, places and philosophies that enabled art fairs to take root, examines the pivotal market periods when they flourished, and maps where they might go in a much-changed world.
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November 2022
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"Feminism, pedagogy, and the studio: Reflections across four decades" brings together two lectures delivered by Griselda Pollock in 1985 and 2022. In 1985, Griselda Pollock critically examined the gender politics of twentieth-century art education that, she argued, reinforced masculinist and individualist ideologies within capitalist conditions of artistic production. She(...)
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"Feminism, pedagogy, and the studio: Reflections across four decades" brings together two lectures delivered by Griselda Pollock in 1985 and 2022. In 1985, Griselda Pollock critically examined the gender politics of twentieth-century art education that, she argued, reinforced masculinist and individualist ideologies within capitalist conditions of artistic production. She(...)
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Feminism, pedagogy and the studio: Reflections across four decades
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"Feminism, pedagogy, and the studio: Reflections across four decades" brings together two lectures delivered by Griselda Pollock in 1985 and 2022. In 1985, Griselda Pollock critically examined the gender politics of twentieth-century art education that, she argued, reinforced masculinist and individualist ideologies within capitalist conditions of artistic production. She linked the cult of authorship to the nonrecognition of women as artists, even in the face of the evidence of women's considerable participation in modern art. She explored the impact of a critical post-modern and feminist artistic engagement with theories of meaning, subjectivity, and the image drawn from outside the "studio" model. She ultimately proposed "feminist interventions in art's histories," where expanded histories— including race, class, gender, and sexuality—challenge both the monographic-all-male model of the hero artist and the hegemony of formalist art theory.
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"Feminism, pedagogy, and the studio: Reflections across four decades" brings together two lectures delivered by Griselda Pollock in 1985 and 2022. In 1985, Griselda Pollock critically examined the gender politics of twentieth-century art education that, she argued, reinforced masculinist and individualist ideologies within capitalist conditions of artistic production. She linked the cult of authorship to the nonrecognition of women as artists, even in the face of the evidence of women's considerable participation in modern art. She explored the impact of a critical post-modern and feminist artistic engagement with theories of meaning, subjectivity, and the image drawn from outside the "studio" model. She ultimately proposed "feminist interventions in art's histories," where expanded histories— including race, class, gender, and sexuality—challenge both the monographic-all-male model of the hero artist and the hegemony of formalist art theory.
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