Happenings and events
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Édition critique, annotée et augmentée du numéro de la Tulane Drama Review consacré au happening, traduit pour la première fois en français. Paru en 1965, ce volume de référence comprend notamment les contributions prestigieuses de John Cage, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young…
Happenings and events
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Édition critique, annotée et augmentée du numéro de la Tulane Drama Review consacré au happening, traduit pour la première fois en français. Paru en 1965, ce volume de référence comprend notamment les contributions prestigieuses de John Cage, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young…
Art Theory
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Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants.
Ecstatic worlds: media, utopias, ecologies
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Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants.
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A small town in the vast desert of West Texas, Marfa attracts visitors from around the world to its art foundations and galleries, film and music festivals, and design and architecture symposiums. While newcomers sometimes see it as "another Santa Fe," long-time residents often take a bemused, even disapproving attitude toward the changes that Marfa has undergone since(...)
Marfa: the transformation of a West Texas town
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A small town in the vast desert of West Texas, Marfa attracts visitors from around the world to its art foundations and galleries, film and music festivals, and design and architecture symposiums. While newcomers sometimes see it as "another Santa Fe," long-time residents often take a bemused, even disapproving attitude toward the changes that Marfa has undergone since artist Donald Judd came to town in the 1970s and began creating spaces for his own and other artists' work. They remember when ranching and the military formed the basis of the town's economy, even as they acknowledge that tourist dollars are now essential to Marfa's sustainability.
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In "Landscape into eco art", Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting. Through eight thematic case studies that illuminate what eco art means in practice, reception, and history, Cheetham places the form in a longer and broader(...)
Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of nature since the '60s
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In "Landscape into eco art", Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting. Through eight thematic case studies that illuminate what eco art means in practice, reception, and history, Cheetham places the form in a longer and broader art-historical context. He considers a wide range of media—from painting, sculpture, and photography to artists’ films, video, sound work, animation, and installation—and analyzes the work of internationally prominent artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Nancy Holt, Mark Dion, and Robert Smithson. In doing so, Cheetham reveals eco art to be a dynamic extension of a long tradition of landscape depiction in the West that boldly enters into today’s debates on climate science, government policy, and our collective and individual responsibility to the planet
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A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters. Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed the terrible beauty of the natural world from(...)
Elegy landscapes: Constable, Turner and the intimate sublime
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A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters. Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed the terrible beauty of the natural world from an intimate, close-up perspective. Plumly studies the paintings against the pull of the artists' lives, probing how each finds the sublime in different, though connected, worlds. At once a meditation on the difficulties in achieving truly immortal works of art and an exploration of the relationship between artist and artwork, ''Elegy Landscapes'' takes a wide-angled look at the philosophy of the sublime.
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Constable's skies
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John Constable was one of the supreme painters of the weather, and his depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numerous cloud studies painted on Hampstead Heath, culminating in paintings that are all sky; the landscape beneath is completely absent.(...)
Constable's skies
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John Constable was one of the supreme painters of the weather, and his depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numerous cloud studies painted on Hampstead Heath, culminating in paintings that are all sky; the landscape beneath is completely absent. Written by Mark Evans, a leading authority on the work of John Constable, ''Constable’s Skies'' captures the artist’s fascination with the sky and brings together his depictions of the English weather from throughout his career. The unprecedented fidelity of Constable’s painted skies is proven by reference to contemporary weather diaries. The book also includes a guide to where to find Constable’s work around the world.
Art Theory
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"On knowledge production : a critical reader in contemporary art" presents a selection of newly commissioned and anthologized texts by a diverse group of artists, art historians, philosophers, and theorists who have engaged with thinking critically about the field of art as a site for the production of knowledge. The body of contributions in this reader comprise a series(...)
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January 1900, Utrecht, Frankfurt am Main
On knowledge production : a critical reader in contemporary art (BAK critical reader series)
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"On knowledge production : a critical reader in contemporary art" presents a selection of newly commissioned and anthologized texts by a diverse group of artists, art historians, philosophers, and theorists who have engaged with thinking critically about the field of art as a site for the production of knowledge. The body of contributions in this reader comprise a series of critical inquiries, thought experiments, documents of practices, and tentative propositions about the status of producing knowledge in contemporary art, which vary widely in perspective, approach, and form. This selection unfolds different entry points and layers, unwrapping the (often) uncritically adopted notion of "art producing knowledge" and casting diverse views on the context, meaning, and potential of this understanding of art practices today.
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Curating critique :
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"Our interest in research lies in mediating the complexity of what we define as art in the widest sense of the term, in other words in developing an ´operating system´ that attempts in all its facets to balance order and change, old and new, theory and practice."
Art Theory
January 1900, Frankfurt am Main
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"Our interest in research lies in mediating the complexity of what we define as art in the widest sense of the term, in other words in developing an ´operating system´ that attempts in all its facets to balance order and change, old and new, theory and practice."
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà(...)
Nicolas Bourriaud postproduction
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà construits, d’itinéraires balisés par leurs devanciers. Ils ou elles ne considèrent plus le champ artistique comme un musée contenant des œuvres qu’il faudrait citer ou "dépasser", ainsi que le voudrait l’idéologie moderniste du nouveau, mais comme autant de magasins remplis d’outils à utiliser, de stocks de données à manipuler, à rejouer et à mettre en scène. Version française de Postproduction, parue en anglais en 2001.
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Brève histoire du monde
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L'histoire de l'humanité racontée en quelque trois cents pages? Aussi audacieux que cela puisse paraître, c'est le pari que s'est lancé Ernst Gombrich, et qu'il a relevé avec brio. Il choisit de tutoyer ses lecteurs, tel un grand frère qui s'adresserait à ses cadets et, considérant que ceux-ci savent réfléchir par eux-mêmes, il ne les encombre pas d'explications(...)
Brève histoire du monde
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L'histoire de l'humanité racontée en quelque trois cents pages? Aussi audacieux que cela puisse paraître, c'est le pari que s'est lancé Ernst Gombrich, et qu'il a relevé avec brio. Il choisit de tutoyer ses lecteurs, tel un grand frère qui s'adresserait à ses cadets et, considérant que ceux-ci savent réfléchir par eux-mêmes, il ne les encombre pas d'explications simplistes. II leur présente les personnages historiques emblématiques de leur temps et raconte les faits dans leur continuité, comme s'il ne s'arrêtait pas de parler, insufflant au récit un sens du rapprochement et de la contemporanéité des événements. Un ouvrage formidable pour apprendre l'histoire sans en avoir l'air. Membre de l'école viennoise d'histoire de l'art, Sir Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001) a dirigé l'Institut Warburg à Londres de 1959 à 1976. Historien de l'art réputé pour ses travaux sur l'iconographie, la psychologie de l'art et les problèmes de méthodologie propre à sa discipline, il a publié deux synthèses au succès ininterrompu : Brève Histoire du monde et une Histoire de l'art traduite en dix-huit langues.
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