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''Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind'' explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their owners yet were ultimately consigned to online “junk drawer” sales. Photographer and coeditor Barbara Von Eckardt acquired these random assortments from estate remnants on eBay and has documented their contents through evocative, sepia-toned images. In doing so, she has(...)
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''Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind'' explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their owners yet were ultimately consigned to online “junk drawer” sales. Photographer and coeditor Barbara Von Eckardt acquired these random assortments from estate remnants on eBay and has documented their contents through evocative, sepia-toned images. In doing so, she has(...)
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''Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind'' explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their owners yet were ultimately consigned to online “junk drawer” sales. Photographer and coeditor Barbara Von Eckardt acquired these random assortments from estate remnants on eBay and has documented their contents through evocative, sepia-toned images. In doing so, she has breathed new life into items the world had deemed valueless, but that hint at the stories and identities of those who once owned them. In addition to the photographs, Von Eckardt and coeditor Sander L. Gilman have gathered essays by scholars across disciplines, each offering a unique perspective on how such everyday objects can carry profound meaning. The result is a “junk drawer” of reflections, as varied and thought-provoking as the artifacts themselves. It is a moving testament to the emotional and cultural resonance of ordinary things—and an invitation to look more deeply at the objects surrounding us.
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''Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind'' explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their owners yet were ultimately consigned to online “junk drawer” sales. Photographer and coeditor Barbara Von Eckardt acquired these random assortments from estate remnants on eBay and has documented their contents through evocative, sepia-toned images. In doing so, she has breathed new life into items the world had deemed valueless, but that hint at the stories and identities of those who once owned them. In addition to the photographs, Von Eckardt and coeditor Sander L. Gilman have gathered essays by scholars across disciplines, each offering a unique perspective on how such everyday objects can carry profound meaning. The result is a “junk drawer” of reflections, as varied and thought-provoking as the artifacts themselves. It is a moving testament to the emotional and cultural resonance of ordinary things—and an invitation to look more deeply at the objects surrounding us.
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« Est-il possible de penser la technologie et l’IA à la lueur de la création artistique? ». C’est en essayant de répondre à cette question que Louis de Diesbach nous montre comment la puissance du monde artistique éclaire les limites de la technique, et comment nous pouvons repenser notre rapport à l’intelligence artificielle. Nourri de plus de cent vingt rencontres(...)
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« Est-il possible de penser la technologie et l’IA à la lueur de la création artistique? ». C’est en essayant de répondre à cette question que Louis de Diesbach nous montre comment la puissance du monde artistique éclaire les limites de la technique, et comment nous pouvons repenser notre rapport à l’intelligence artificielle. Nourri de plus de cent vingt rencontres(...)
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Faussaires algorithmiques: L'intelligence artificielle va-t-elle remplacer les artistes ?
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« Est-il possible de penser la technologie et l’IA à la lueur de la création artistique? ». C’est en essayant de répondre à cette question que Louis de Diesbach nous montre comment la puissance du monde artistique éclaire les limites de la technique, et comment nous pouvons repenser notre rapport à l’intelligence artificielle. Nourri de plus de cent vingt rencontres avec des acteurs du monde de l’art – artistes, philosophes, entrepreneurs, juristes… – Louis de Diesbach utilise la création artistique comme prisme pour interroger l’IA. Il révèle une résistance singulière : face à une technologie qui standardise, l’art nous montre notre besoin de nous arracher aux logiques strictement mathématiques. Cela étant, l’auteur de ce livre rappelle qu’il reste de nombreuses questions à aborder, de l’impact environnemental à la souveraineté numérique, en passant par le droit d’auteur et l’industrialisation. Penser l’IA, c’est aussi penser ces enjeux, pour nous permettre de rejeter le strictement statistique. Une invitation à considérer la technique par ce qu’elle ne peut capturer – la fragilité, l’inattendu, le vivant.
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« Est-il possible de penser la technologie et l’IA à la lueur de la création artistique? ». C’est en essayant de répondre à cette question que Louis de Diesbach nous montre comment la puissance du monde artistique éclaire les limites de la technique, et comment nous pouvons repenser notre rapport à l’intelligence artificielle. Nourri de plus de cent vingt rencontres avec des acteurs du monde de l’art – artistes, philosophes, entrepreneurs, juristes… – Louis de Diesbach utilise la création artistique comme prisme pour interroger l’IA. Il révèle une résistance singulière : face à une technologie qui standardise, l’art nous montre notre besoin de nous arracher aux logiques strictement mathématiques. Cela étant, l’auteur de ce livre rappelle qu’il reste de nombreuses questions à aborder, de l’impact environnemental à la souveraineté numérique, en passant par le droit d’auteur et l’industrialisation. Penser l’IA, c’est aussi penser ces enjeux, pour nous permettre de rejeter le strictement statistique. Une invitation à considérer la technique par ce qu’elle ne peut capturer – la fragilité, l’inattendu, le vivant.
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Erin Brannigan examine la chorégraphie dans le cinéma moderne et contemporain, et notamment la manière dont les éléments chorégraphiques informent les opérations cinématographiques dans le film de danse. L'histoire des avant-gardes du début du XXe siècle, des comédies musicales, des vidéoclips et des courts métrages de danse expérimentaux contemporains est ici retracée.
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Erin Brannigan examine la chorégraphie dans le cinéma moderne et contemporain, et notamment la manière dont les éléments chorégraphiques informent les opérations cinématographiques dans le film de danse. L'histoire des avant-gardes du début du XXe siècle, des comédies musicales, des vidéoclips et des courts métrages de danse expérimentaux contemporains est ici retracée.
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Cinédanse, chorégraphie et image en mouvement
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Erin Brannigan examine la chorégraphie dans le cinéma moderne et contemporain, et notamment la manière dont les éléments chorégraphiques informent les opérations cinématographiques dans le film de danse. L'histoire des avant-gardes du début du XXe siècle, des comédies musicales, des vidéoclips et des courts métrages de danse expérimentaux contemporains est ici retracée.
Cinédanse, chorégraphie et image en mouvement
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Erin Brannigan examine la chorégraphie dans le cinéma moderne et contemporain, et notamment la manière dont les éléments chorégraphiques informent les opérations cinématographiques dans le film de danse. L'histoire des avant-gardes du début du XXe siècle, des comédies musicales, des vidéoclips et des courts métrages de danse expérimentaux contemporains est ici retracée.
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Artists Making Books
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''Artists Making Books'' explores the work of artists who have expanded the boundaries of the book as both an object and a medium of expression. Through exclusive interviews and original essays, the contributors examine the relationships between artists, readers, and collectors, while reflecting on the artistic practices and cultural dynamics that make artists’ books so(...)
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''Artists Making Books'' explores the work of artists who have expanded the boundaries of the book as both an object and a medium of expression. Through exclusive interviews and original essays, the contributors examine the relationships between artists, readers, and collectors, while reflecting on the artistic practices and cultural dynamics that make artists’ books so(...)
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''Artists Making Books'' explores the work of artists who have expanded the boundaries of the book as both an object and a medium of expression. Through exclusive interviews and original essays, the contributors examine the relationships between artists, readers, and collectors, while reflecting on the artistic practices and cultural dynamics that make artists’ books so compelling today.
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''Artists Making Books'' explores the work of artists who have expanded the boundaries of the book as both an object and a medium of expression. Through exclusive interviews and original essays, the contributors examine the relationships between artists, readers, and collectors, while reflecting on the artistic practices and cultural dynamics that make artists’ books so compelling today.
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What aesthetic practices have Palestinians been employing throughout their revolutionary anti-colonial tradition, both historically and in contemporary times? How can we read the performative gestures, image-making techniques, and singing replete inPalestine’s streets as ones embedded within a collective psychosocial and material experience and not as arbitrary isolated(...)
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What aesthetic practices have Palestinians been employing throughout their revolutionary anti-colonial tradition, both historically and in contemporary times? How can we read the performative gestures, image-making techniques, and singing replete inPalestine’s streets as ones embedded within a collective psychosocial and material experience and not as arbitrary isolated(...)
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An Echo in Search of its Shadow, Aesthetics of the Repressed
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What aesthetic practices have Palestinians been employing throughout their revolutionary anti-colonial tradition, both historically and in contemporary times? How can we read the performative gestures, image-making techniques, and singing replete inPalestine’s streets as ones embedded within a collective psychosocial and material experience and not as arbitrary isolated events? In An Echo in Search of its Shadow, Aesthetics of the Repressed Adam HajYahia and Haitham Haddad formulate an aesthetic theory of revolt by examining anti-colonial praxis. Unfolding through analysis, image-making, and poetics, HajYahia and Haddad assemble a new framework from which to understand dialectics between the visual and the audial, body and soul, form and content.
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What aesthetic practices have Palestinians been employing throughout their revolutionary anti-colonial tradition, both historically and in contemporary times? How can we read the performative gestures, image-making techniques, and singing replete inPalestine’s streets as ones embedded within a collective psychosocial and material experience and not as arbitrary isolated events? In An Echo in Search of its Shadow, Aesthetics of the Repressed Adam HajYahia and Haitham Haddad formulate an aesthetic theory of revolt by examining anti-colonial praxis. Unfolding through analysis, image-making, and poetics, HajYahia and Haddad assemble a new framework from which to understand dialectics between the visual and the audial, body and soul, form and content.
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June 2024
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L’exposition « Un monde en commun » sous le commissariat Julie Belisle et Josianne, aura lieu du 2 mai au 26 juillet 2026 à la Fondation Grantham du 5 septembre 2026 au 2 mai 2027 à la Biosphère |'Espace pour la vie. L’exposition rassemble les œuvres des artistes Maude Arès, Geneviève Chevalier, Hannah Claus, Jim Holyoak, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Fre´de´ric(...)
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L’exposition « Un monde en commun » sous le commissariat Julie Belisle et Josianne, aura lieu du 2 mai au 26 juillet 2026 à la Fondation Grantham du 5 septembre 2026 au 2 mai 2027 à la Biosphère |'Espace pour la vie. L’exposition rassemble les œuvres des artistes Maude Arès, Geneviève Chevalier, Hannah Claus, Jim Holyoak, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Fre´de´ric(...)
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Les Cahiers de la Fondation no. 13 : Un monde en commun/A world in Common
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L’exposition « Un monde en commun » sous le commissariat Julie Belisle et Josianne, aura lieu du 2 mai au 26 juillet 2026 à la Fondation Grantham du 5 septembre 2026 au 2 mai 2027 à la Biosphère |'Espace pour la vie. L’exposition rassemble les œuvres des artistes Maude Arès, Geneviève Chevalier, Hannah Claus, Jim Holyoak, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Fre´de´ric Lavoie, Angela Marsh, Kimberly Orjuela, Taqralik Partridge & Miranda Smitheram. En tentant d’adopter la perspective de l’hirondelle, du mulot ou encore du pissenlit, les œuvres réunies dans cette exposition décentrent notre regard. Elles nous enjoignent à considérer comment le territoire nous accueille et comment nous le partageons avec d’autres espèces, nous invitant à nous engager envers un monde pluriel, solidaire et profondément relationnel. Par des gestes de soin, des approches collaboratives de la création et une attention à l’éthique interspécifique, elles offrent une compréhension étendue de la notion d’hospitalité et nous encouragent à repenser nos manières « d’habiter ». Ensemble, elles explorent la possibilité d’« un monde en commun » où tous les vivants pourraient s’épanouir.
Les Cahiers de la Fondation no. 13 : Un monde en commun/A world in Common
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L’exposition « Un monde en commun » sous le commissariat Julie Belisle et Josianne, aura lieu du 2 mai au 26 juillet 2026 à la Fondation Grantham du 5 septembre 2026 au 2 mai 2027 à la Biosphère |'Espace pour la vie. L’exposition rassemble les œuvres des artistes Maude Arès, Geneviève Chevalier, Hannah Claus, Jim Holyoak, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Fre´de´ric Lavoie, Angela Marsh, Kimberly Orjuela, Taqralik Partridge & Miranda Smitheram. En tentant d’adopter la perspective de l’hirondelle, du mulot ou encore du pissenlit, les œuvres réunies dans cette exposition décentrent notre regard. Elles nous enjoignent à considérer comment le territoire nous accueille et comment nous le partageons avec d’autres espèces, nous invitant à nous engager envers un monde pluriel, solidaire et profondément relationnel. Par des gestes de soin, des approches collaboratives de la création et une attention à l’éthique interspécifique, elles offrent une compréhension étendue de la notion d’hospitalité et nous encouragent à repenser nos manières « d’habiter ». Ensemble, elles explorent la possibilité d’« un monde en commun » où tous les vivants pourraient s’épanouir.
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Focusing on concepts of spirituality, Heretics looks at themes such as the contrast between good and evil, sacredness, and the relationship between eroticism, sex, and death in the production of forty contemporary artists, including Marina Abramovic, Nobuyoshi Araki, Vanessa Beecroft, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, and Joel-Peter Witkin. This richly illustrated(...)
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Focusing on concepts of spirituality, Heretics looks at themes such as the contrast between good and evil, sacredness, and the relationship between eroticism, sex, and death in the production of forty contemporary artists, including Marina Abramovic, Nobuyoshi Araki, Vanessa Beecroft, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, and Joel-Peter Witkin. This richly illustrated(...)
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Eretica: the transcendent and the profane in contemporary art
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Focusing on concepts of spirituality, Heretics looks at themes such as the contrast between good and evil, sacredness, and the relationship between eroticism, sex, and death in the production of forty contemporary artists, including Marina Abramovic, Nobuyoshi Araki, Vanessa Beecroft, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, and Joel-Peter Witkin. This richly illustrated anthology includes critical essays by prominent philosophers, anthropologists, and art historians such as Gore Vidal, Faye Waddleton, Jean Baudrillard, Arthur C. Danto, Vito Mancuso, Michel Maffesoli, Pierre Riches, Julien Ries, Arturo Schwarz, and others.
Eretica: the transcendent and the profane in contemporary art
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Focusing on concepts of spirituality, Heretics looks at themes such as the contrast between good and evil, sacredness, and the relationship between eroticism, sex, and death in the production of forty contemporary artists, including Marina Abramovic, Nobuyoshi Araki, Vanessa Beecroft, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, and Joel-Peter Witkin. This richly illustrated anthology includes critical essays by prominent philosophers, anthropologists, and art historians such as Gore Vidal, Faye Waddleton, Jean Baudrillard, Arthur C. Danto, Vito Mancuso, Michel Maffesoli, Pierre Riches, Julien Ries, Arturo Schwarz, and others.
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October 2007, Milan
October 2007, Milan
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A follow-up to First Diasporist Manifesto, this book is a personal reflection on the Jewish Question in contemporary art as it is lived and painted and imagined by one of the most innovative and controversial artists. Including 41 images of the artist's work, it takes a look into an artist's unusual life and work.
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A follow-up to First Diasporist Manifesto, this book is a personal reflection on the Jewish Question in contemporary art as it is lived and painted and imagined by one of the most innovative and controversial artists. Including 41 images of the artist's work, it takes a look into an artist's unusual life and work.
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Second diasporist manifesto: A new kind of long poem in 615 free verses
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A follow-up to First Diasporist Manifesto, this book is a personal reflection on the Jewish Question in contemporary art as it is lived and painted and imagined by one of the most innovative and controversial artists. Including 41 images of the artist's work, it takes a look into an artist's unusual life and work.
Second diasporist manifesto: A new kind of long poem in 615 free verses
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A follow-up to First Diasporist Manifesto, this book is a personal reflection on the Jewish Question in contemporary art as it is lived and painted and imagined by one of the most innovative and controversial artists. Including 41 images of the artist's work, it takes a look into an artist's unusual life and work.
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September 2007, New Haven, London
September 2007, New Haven, London
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Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and independent essays bridge the fields of literature, aesthetics, and(...)
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Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and independent essays bridge the fields of literature, aesthetics, and(...)
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The open studio : Essays on art and aesthetics
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Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and independent essays bridge the fields of literature, aesthetics, and contemporary art. Gathering most of Stewart's writing on contemporary art—long and short pieces first published in small magazines, museum and gallery publications, and edited collections—The Open Studio illuminates work ranging from the installation art of Ann Hamilton to the sculptures and watercolors of Thomas Schütte, the prints and animations of William Kentridge to the films of Tacita Dean. Stewart's essays are often the record of studio conversations with living artists and curators, and of the afterlife of those experiences in the solitude of her own study. Considering a wide variety of art forms, Stewart finds pathbreaking ways to explore them. Whether she is following central traditions of painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography, and printmaking or exploring the less well-known realms of portrait miniatures, collecting practices, doll-making, music boxes, and gardening, Stewart speaks to the creative process in general and to the relation between art and ethics. The Open Studio will be read eagerly by scholars of art, poetry, and visual theory; by historians interested in the links between contemporary and classic literature and art; and by teachers, students, and practitioners of the visual arts.
The open studio : Essays on art and aesthetics
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Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and independent essays bridge the fields of literature, aesthetics, and contemporary art. Gathering most of Stewart's writing on contemporary art—long and short pieces first published in small magazines, museum and gallery publications, and edited collections—The Open Studio illuminates work ranging from the installation art of Ann Hamilton to the sculptures and watercolors of Thomas Schütte, the prints and animations of William Kentridge to the films of Tacita Dean. Stewart's essays are often the record of studio conversations with living artists and curators, and of the afterlife of those experiences in the solitude of her own study. Considering a wide variety of art forms, Stewart finds pathbreaking ways to explore them. Whether she is following central traditions of painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography, and printmaking or exploring the less well-known realms of portrait miniatures, collecting practices, doll-making, music boxes, and gardening, Stewart speaks to the creative process in general and to the relation between art and ethics. The Open Studio will be read eagerly by scholars of art, poetry, and visual theory; by historians interested in the links between contemporary and classic literature and art; and by teachers, students, and practitioners of the visual arts.
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September 2004, Chicago London
September 2004, Chicago London
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The gothic
The gothic
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This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of "the Gothic" in contemporary visual culture. The contemporary Gothic in art is informed as much by the stock themes of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic novel as it is by more recent permutations of the Gothic in horror film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Goth subcultures. This(...)
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This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of "the Gothic" in contemporary visual culture. The contemporary Gothic in art is informed as much by the stock themes of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic novel as it is by more recent permutations of the Gothic in horror film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Goth subcultures. This(...)
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The gothic
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This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of "the Gothic" in contemporary visual culture. The contemporary Gothic in art is informed as much by the stock themes of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic novel as it is by more recent permutations of the Gothic in horror film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Goth subcultures. This reader from London's Whitechapel Gallery brings together artists as different as Matthew Barney, Gregor Schneider, Louise Bourgeois, and Douglas Gordon; its intent is not to use "the Gothic" to group together dissimilar artists but rather to shed light on a particular understanding of their practice. Anthony Vidler looks at ideas of the uncanny to explore Rachel Whiteread's House, and Jeff Wall uses the motif of vampirism to analyze fellow artist Dan Graham's Kammerspell; Hal Foster considers Robert Gober's recent work--laden with Christian symbolism, criticism of America as a nexus of power, and fragmented bodies--as an updated American Gothic, and Kobena Mercer examines the Gothic's depiction of the Other in relation to Michael Jackson's pop video Thriller. Texts by artists including Mike Kelley, Damien Hirst, Tacita Dean, Jonathan Meese, and Catherine Sullivan are complemented by extracts from Walpole's genre-establishing gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, William Gibson, Bret Easton Ellis, and Stephen King, among others, and theoretical writings by such key thinkers as Carol Clover, Beatriz Colomina, Julia Kristeva, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Marina Warner, and Slavoj Zizek. The Gothic provides the first comprehensive overview of the uses of Gothic in contemporary visual culture.
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This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of "the Gothic" in contemporary visual culture. The contemporary Gothic in art is informed as much by the stock themes of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic novel as it is by more recent permutations of the Gothic in horror film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Goth subcultures. This reader from London's Whitechapel Gallery brings together artists as different as Matthew Barney, Gregor Schneider, Louise Bourgeois, and Douglas Gordon; its intent is not to use "the Gothic" to group together dissimilar artists but rather to shed light on a particular understanding of their practice. Anthony Vidler looks at ideas of the uncanny to explore Rachel Whiteread's House, and Jeff Wall uses the motif of vampirism to analyze fellow artist Dan Graham's Kammerspell; Hal Foster considers Robert Gober's recent work--laden with Christian symbolism, criticism of America as a nexus of power, and fragmented bodies--as an updated American Gothic, and Kobena Mercer examines the Gothic's depiction of the Other in relation to Michael Jackson's pop video Thriller. Texts by artists including Mike Kelley, Damien Hirst, Tacita Dean, Jonathan Meese, and Catherine Sullivan are complemented by extracts from Walpole's genre-establishing gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, William Gibson, Bret Easton Ellis, and Stephen King, among others, and theoretical writings by such key thinkers as Carol Clover, Beatriz Colomina, Julia Kristeva, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Marina Warner, and Slavoj Zizek. The Gothic provides the first comprehensive overview of the uses of Gothic in contemporary visual culture.
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October 2007, Whitechapel London Cambridge
October 2007, Whitechapel London Cambridge
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