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Niki de Saint Phalle, Louise Bourgeois et Annette Messager : trois femmes, trois artistes, trois vies. Trois histoires passionnantes que tresse Nathalie Piégay, dans l'imbrication de l'existence quotidienne et de l'aventure artistique. Elle dit leur solitude et la part de folie qui les pousse à faire oeuvre, tout en cherchant à comprendre quels liens s'établissent entre(...)
3 nanas : Saint Phalle, Bourgeois, Messager
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Niki de Saint Phalle, Louise Bourgeois et Annette Messager : trois femmes, trois artistes, trois vies. Trois histoires passionnantes que tresse Nathalie Piégay, dans l'imbrication de l'existence quotidienne et de l'aventure artistique. Elle dit leur solitude et la part de folie qui les pousse à faire oeuvre, tout en cherchant à comprendre quels liens s'établissent entre elles. Peu à peu elle découvre tout ce qui les relie : la maternité, la cruauté, la révolte, la féminité, mais aussi l'invention de personnages, le recours au tissu et à la couture, et bien d'autres motifs. Le récit se tisse comme une toile d'araignée pour révéler l'être intime de femmes qui ont inventé des univers très singuliers et puissants, reconnaissables entre mille, et qui nous bouleversent. Raconter l'histoire de ces trois femmes, c'est s'approcher au plus près de la création.
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Les voyages de l'art
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Le moment où l’art a été identifié comme une sphère d’expérience autonome et installé dans les musées et les salles de concert est aussi celui où s’est imposée à lui la nécessité de sortir de lui-même, de devenir autre chose que de l’art. La musique a prétendu être plus que l’art des musiciens : la langue de l’esprit ou le drame de l’avenir. L’architecture a voulu(...)
Les voyages de l'art
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Le moment où l’art a été identifié comme une sphère d’expérience autonome et installé dans les musées et les salles de concert est aussi celui où s’est imposée à lui la nécessité de sortir de lui-même, de devenir autre chose que de l’art. La musique a prétendu être plus que l’art des musiciens : la langue de l’esprit ou le drame de l’avenir. L’architecture a voulu construire non plus seulement des bâtiments, mais un monde nouveau et cherché pour cela à s’envoler dans les airs. Les artistes révolutionnaires ont décidé de confectionner non plus des tableaux, mais les formes de la vie nouvelle. Et les performances et installations de l’art contemporain se tiennent sur la frontière indécise du dedans et du dehors, de l’art et de la politique. En suivant quelques-uns de ces voyages, Jacques Rancière montre aussi comment les vieux maîtres, Kant et Hegel, nous aident à en comprendre les détours.
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Il n'est pas anodin que Marcel Duchamp ait figuré au sommaire du premier numéro d'artpress paru en décembre 1972 : sans lui, pas d'art contemporain, cet art apparemment sans règles ni limites apparu dans les années 1960-1970 et qu'artpress accompagne.. Ce volume revient sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), scrute la notion de ready-made, ne néglige pas sa(...)
Marcel Duchamp, pour et contre
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Il n'est pas anodin que Marcel Duchamp ait figuré au sommaire du premier numéro d'artpress paru en décembre 1972 : sans lui, pas d'art contemporain, cet art apparemment sans règles ni limites apparu dans les années 1960-1970 et qu'artpress accompagne.. Ce volume revient sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), scrute la notion de ready-made, ne néglige pas sa pratique de la peinture qu'il a pourtant abandonnée très tôt et souligne son apport qui semble aussi inépuisable qu'il fait débat. Il montre l'effet produit par Duchamp sur les générations ultérieures, engageant certains à reproduire son Grand Verre pour tenter d'en percer les mystères et d'autres à rendre à sa célèbre Fontaine sa fonction originelle.... Composé d'articles de fond, d'études monographiques et d'interviews publiés dans artpress, ce volume confronte les points de vue, donnant la parole aux défenseurs de l'inventeur du ready-made comme à ceux qui critiquent la « fétichisation » de Duchamp..
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Over the last few decades the term "bootlegging"—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become(...)
Unlicensed: Bootlegging as creative practice
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Over the last few decades the term "bootlegging"—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing ideologies, to acts of high fashion détournement. "Unlicensed" contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging. The conversations in "Unlicensed" investigate bootlegging’s creative and critical potential, and explore new ways bootlegging can be deployed in order to thrive as an impactful cultural force.
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A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojève suggests that in(...)
Kandinsky: Incarnating beauty
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A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojève suggests that in creating (rather than replicating) beauty, the paintings are themselves complete universes as concrete as the natural world. Kojève’s text considers the utility and necessity of beauty in life, and ultimately poses the involuted question: What is beauty?
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In "More than the eyes", writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000, the book shows how we have become restricted by a hierarchy that values sight and reason above other senses, and how encounters(...)
More than the eyes: Art, food and the senses
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In "More than the eyes", writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000, the book shows how we have become restricted by a hierarchy that values sight and reason above other senses, and how encounters with food in art can help us break this bind. By putting food at the center of the highly visual art world, the artists in this book quicken a range of sensations beyond visual perception, helping us access and liberate aspects of our experience that have been ignored or suppressed.
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An incredibly large (literally phone book sized) and beautiful cornucopia of movement-building inspiration. You will want to spend a long time browsing the rainbow of practices in this book and reflecting on the numerous ways there are for us to help each other. ''An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping'' invites the reader to wander through a collection of interconnected(...)
Encyclopedia of radical helping
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An incredibly large (literally phone book sized) and beautiful cornucopia of movement-building inspiration. You will want to spend a long time browsing the rainbow of practices in this book and reflecting on the numerous ways there are for us to help each other. ''An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping'' invites the reader to wander through a collection of interconnected entries on helping and healing by over 200 contributors from the worlds of social work and family therapy; art and design; body work; organizing; and more. Privileging co-construction over diagnosis, wisdom over evidence, collective healing over individual cure–yet always blurring categories and embracing contradictions–this world-making collection reveals a pluriverse of helping practices grounded in love and freedom.
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From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental University of Vincennes and, starting in 1980, at Saint-Denis. In the spring of 1981, he began a series of eight seminars on painting and its intersections with philosophy. The recorded sessions, newly transcribed and translated into English, are now available in their entirety for the first(...)
On painting: Courses March - June 1981
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From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental University of Vincennes and, starting in 1980, at Saint-Denis. In the spring of 1981, he began a series of eight seminars on painting and its intersections with philosophy. The recorded sessions, newly transcribed and translated into English, are now available in their entirety for the first time. Extensively annotated by philosopher David Lapoujade, On Painting illuminates Deleuze’s thinking on artistic creation, significantly extending the lines of thought in his book Francis Bacon. Through paintings and writing by Rembrandt, Delacroix, Turner, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Klee, Pollock, and Bacon, Deleuze explores the creative process, from chaos to the pictorial fact. The introduction and use of color feature prominently as Deleuze elaborates on artistic and philosophical concepts such as the diagram, modulation, code, and the digital and the analogical. Through this scrutiny, he raises a series of profound and stimulating questions for his students: How does a painter ward off grayness and attain color? What is a line without contour? Why paint at all?
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In these six essays, Mitch Speed plumbs the ambivalences that at once fuel and plague art. Written over the last fifteen years, in parallel to Speed’s work as an art critic, the essays forward ways of writing, which might be better equipped to trace art’s role in life, from personal intricacies to looming political questions. Each piece proceeds through a specific theme,(...)
Closeness eats time: Six essays inside art
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In these six essays, Mitch Speed plumbs the ambivalences that at once fuel and plague art. Written over the last fifteen years, in parallel to Speed’s work as an art critic, the essays forward ways of writing, which might be better equipped to trace art’s role in life, from personal intricacies to looming political questions. Each piece proceeds through a specific theme, for example: the art world’s relationship to socioeconomic injustice, the beguiling return of found objects to contemporary art, the devolution of art criticism into a branch of the communications industry, and how we can better understand art’s meanings, by attending closely to the words of the people who make it.
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Surrealism was not only an international artistic movement, but also a political one. Its members denounced European colonial policy, opposed fascist regimes, fought for the Spanish Republic, were persecuted, went into exile, and died in war. They wrote poetry, deconstructed the language of a supposedly rational world, worked on paintings, collective drawings, took(...)
Surrealism and anti-fascism: An anthology
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Surrealism was not only an international artistic movement, but also a political one. Its members denounced European colonial policy, opposed fascist regimes, fought for the Spanish Republic, were persecuted, went into exile, and died in war. They wrote poetry, deconstructed the language of a supposedly rational world, worked on paintings, collective drawings, took photographs, and made collages. Surrealism was associated with later emancipatory concerns not as a style, but as a method, and was taken up by the student protests of the 1960s and the Black Liberation Movement. This catalogue is published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Lenbachhaus Munich. In the form of an anthology, it presents pivotal texts and manifestoes of political Surrealism from its beginnings to current references in art and politics. It thus offers a valuable contribution to revising the still narrowly defined Surrealist canon.
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