Performing image
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In "Performing Image", Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism. Over this period, artists have used a variety of DIY modes of self-imaging and circulation from home video(...)
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In "Performing Image", Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism. Over this period, artists have used a variety of DIY modes of self-imaging and circulation from home video to social media suggesting how and why Western subjects might seek alternative platforms for self-expression and self-representation. In the course of her argument, Harbison offers close analyses of works by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Yvonne Rainer, Mark Leckey, Wu Tsang, and Martine Syms.
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La pomme et l'étoile
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La pomme, c'est Ozias Leduc. L'étoile, Paul-Émile Borduas. C'est à partir de la relation entre le maître et l'élève de Saint-Hilaire, entre deux générations, qu'Étienne Beaulieu parvient à penser et à aimer à la fois ses territoires intimes et collectifs. Que demander de plus, comme lectrice, comme lecteur, que de voir un auteur devenir sous nos yeux un écrivain, une(...)
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La pomme, c'est Ozias Leduc. L'étoile, Paul-Émile Borduas. C'est à partir de la relation entre le maître et l'élève de Saint-Hilaire, entre deux générations, qu'Étienne Beaulieu parvient à penser et à aimer à la fois ses territoires intimes et collectifs. Que demander de plus, comme lectrice, comme lecteur, que de voir un auteur devenir sous nos yeux un écrivain, une prose sortir de ses gonds, un cœur s'affoler. « Je me suis enfin mis au monde », voilà les derniers mots de ce magnifique essai, œuvre de maturité qui réussit à réconcilier l'ici et l'ailleurs, le jour et la nuit, à raconter du même souffle une histoire du Québec, une histoire de l'art et une histoire d'amour.
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These influential, hard-to-obtain texts—many of which have never before been published— by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York’s New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing while rethinking inherited structures of power within and outside the museum. The volume brings together the only comprehensive(...)
Out of bounds: the collected writings of Marcia Tucker
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These influential, hard-to-obtain texts—many of which have never before been published— by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York’s New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing while rethinking inherited structures of power within and outside the museum. The volume brings together the only comprehensive bibliography of Tucker’s writing and highlights her critical attention to art’s relationship to broader culture and politics. The book is divided into three sections: monographic texts on a selection of the visionary artists whom Tucker championed, among them Bruce Nauman, Joan Mitchell, Richard Tuttle, and Andres Serrano; exhibition essays from some of the formative group shows she organized, such as Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (1969) and Bad Girls (1994), which expanded the canons of curating and art history; and other critical works, including lectures, that interrogated museum practice, inequities of the art world, and institutional responsibility. These texts attest to Tucker’s tireless pursuit of questions related to difference, marginalization, access, and ethics, illuminating her significant impact on contemporary art discourse in her own time and demonstrating her lasting contributions to the field.
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This book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. '' Insect Artifice'' explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dutch Revolt wreaked havoc on the region's creative and intellectual community, compelling its members to seek solace in intimate exchanges of art and knowledge. At(...)
Insect artifice: nature and art in the Dutch revolt
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This book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art, and philosophy in the late sixteenth-century Low Countries. '' Insect Artifice'' explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dutch Revolt wreaked havoc on the region's creative and intellectual community, compelling its members to seek solace in intimate exchanges of art and knowledge. At its center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the ''Four Elements'' manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman who turned to the study of nature in this era of political and spiritual upheaval.
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Surrealism at play
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In 'Surrealism at Play' Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism.
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In 'Surrealism at Play' Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism.
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Endless shout
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"Endless Shout" asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, where five participants—Raúl de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George Lewis, The Otolith Group and taisha paggett—collectively led a(...)
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"Endless Shout" asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, where five participants—Raúl de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George Lewis, The Otolith Group and taisha paggett—collectively led a series of improvisation experiments.
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Stemming from the timely spring 2019 group exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ''Producing Futures: A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms'' focuses on feminist concerns in the post-internet era. While in the 1990s cyber-feminism—a term coined by artist collective VNS Matrix—celebrated the cyberspace as a place of liberation and empowerment, one is now confronted(...)
Producing futures: a book on post-cyber feminisms
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Stemming from the timely spring 2019 group exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ''Producing Futures: A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms'' focuses on feminist concerns in the post-internet era. While in the 1990s cyber-feminism—a term coined by artist collective VNS Matrix—celebrated the cyberspace as a place of liberation and empowerment, one is now confronted with the fact that, rather, it multiplied and enforced existing hierarchies and power structures. Thus the question remains of whether the cyberspace can be appropriated when striving for gender justice, emancipation and social equality. As the virtual world(s) and real life are increasingly merging, artists reflect on and productively alienate the tools and platforms on hand to produce a future that is worth living in—offline and online.
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S'appuyant sur des archives françaises, américaines et allemandes, cette enquête sur le marché de l'art sous l'Occupation à Paris et à Nice révèle les trafics, vols et autres recels qui se sont alors multipliés. Les biens appartenant aux familles juives sont systématiquement saisis pour alimenter le musée de Hitler ou pour être revendus aux enchères à bas prix à des(...)
Le marché de l'art sous l'occupation, 1940-1944
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S'appuyant sur des archives françaises, américaines et allemandes, cette enquête sur le marché de l'art sous l'Occupation à Paris et à Nice révèle les trafics, vols et autres recels qui se sont alors multipliés. Les biens appartenant aux familles juives sont systématiquement saisis pour alimenter le musée de Hitler ou pour être revendus aux enchères à bas prix à des marchands allemands.
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The black city
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"The Black City" is a portrait of New York City written by Hubert Fichte between 1978 and 1980. One of Germany’s most important postwar authors, Fichte researched the city as the center of the African diaspora, conducting interviews and composing essays about syncretism in culture and the arts, material living conditions in the city, and political and individual struggles(...)
The black city
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"The Black City" is a portrait of New York City written by Hubert Fichte between 1978 and 1980. One of Germany’s most important postwar authors, Fichte researched the city as the center of the African diaspora, conducting interviews and composing essays about syncretism in culture and the arts, material living conditions in the city, and political and individual struggles based on race, class, and sexuality.
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Curatorial projects are increasingly understood as research projects with extended time frames and complex interactions across diverse sectors. This book presents “100 Years of Now,” a research project taking place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from 2015 to 2019, as a critical investigation into the temporality of contemporaneity—both in terms of its structure(...)
'100 years of now' and the temporality of curatorial research. The contemporary condition
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Curatorial projects are increasingly understood as research projects with extended time frames and complex interactions across diverse sectors. This book presents “100 Years of Now,” a research project taking place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from 2015 to 2019, as a critical investigation into the temporality of contemporaneity—both in terms of its structure and content. To address the expanding temporality of the now, the book argues for the need to include other forms of knowledge in curatorial process, and for contemporary cultural institutions to facilitate the development of collective curatorial processes and research practices.
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