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Le livre des symboles
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Le Livre des symboles allie essais originaux et incisifs sur des symboles particuliers à des images représentatives provenant de tous les horizons et de toutes les époques de l'histoire. Les textes très accessibles s'associent de façon originale à près de 800 images en couleur pour transmettre les dimensions voilées du sens. Chacun de ces quelques 350 essais examine les(...)
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Le Livre des symboles allie essais originaux et incisifs sur des symboles particuliers à des images représentatives provenant de tous les horizons et de toutes les époques de l'histoire. Les textes très accessibles s'associent de façon originale à près de 800 images en couleur pour transmettre les dimensions voilées du sens. Chacun de ces quelques 350 essais examine les(...)
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Le Livre des symboles allie essais originaux et incisifs sur des symboles particuliers à des images représentatives provenant de tous les horizons et de toutes les époques de l'histoire. Les textes très accessibles s'associent de façon originale à près de 800 images en couleur pour transmettre les dimensions voilées du sens. Chacun de ces quelques 350 essais examine les origines psychiques d'un symbole donné et la manière dont il évoque les processus et dynamiques psychiques. Les racines étymologiques, les jeux d'opposition, le paradoxe et l'ombre, les différentes manières dont les diverses cultures ont fait naître une image symbolique: tous ces facteurs sont pris en compte. Rédigés par des auteurs spécialisés dans les domaines de la psychologie, de la religion, de l'art, de la littérature et de la mythologie comparée, les essais entrent en résonance de manière à refléter les correspondances inattendues de la psyché. Il n'existe pas de définitions immuables, qui auraient tendance à écraser les symboles; un symbole encore essentiel demeure partiellement inconnu, attire notre attention et s'offre sous de nouvelles manifestations et de nouveaux sens au cours du temps. Plutôt que de proposer de simples catégories, le Livre des symboles met en lumière la manière dont on passe de l'expérience visuelle d'une image symbolique dans l'art, la religion, la vie ou les rêves, à l'expérience directe de ses résonances personnelles et psychologiques.
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Le Livre des symboles allie essais originaux et incisifs sur des symboles particuliers à des images représentatives provenant de tous les horizons et de toutes les époques de l'histoire. Les textes très accessibles s'associent de façon originale à près de 800 images en couleur pour transmettre les dimensions voilées du sens. Chacun de ces quelques 350 essais examine les origines psychiques d'un symbole donné et la manière dont il évoque les processus et dynamiques psychiques. Les racines étymologiques, les jeux d'opposition, le paradoxe et l'ombre, les différentes manières dont les diverses cultures ont fait naître une image symbolique: tous ces facteurs sont pris en compte. Rédigés par des auteurs spécialisés dans les domaines de la psychologie, de la religion, de l'art, de la littérature et de la mythologie comparée, les essais entrent en résonance de manière à refléter les correspondances inattendues de la psyché. Il n'existe pas de définitions immuables, qui auraient tendance à écraser les symboles; un symbole encore essentiel demeure partiellement inconnu, attire notre attention et s'offre sous de nouvelles manifestations et de nouveaux sens au cours du temps. Plutôt que de proposer de simples catégories, le Livre des symboles met en lumière la manière dont on passe de l'expérience visuelle d'une image symbolique dans l'art, la religion, la vie ou les rêves, à l'expérience directe de ses résonances personnelles et psychologiques.
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The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and(...)
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The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and(...)
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The migrant's time: rethinking art history and diaspora
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The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display. In a wide-ranging selection of essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism explore the universality of conditions of global migration and interdependence, inviting a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies, and laying the foundation for empirical and theoretical directions beyond the terms of these traditional frameworks.
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The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display. In a wide-ranging selection of essays, fourteen distinguished scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, literary studies, global studies, and art criticism explore the universality of conditions of global migration and interdependence, inviting a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies, and laying the foundation for empirical and theoretical directions beyond the terms of these traditional frameworks.
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La déshumanisation de l'art
La déshumanisation de l'art
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"Si le nouvel art n'est pas intelligible à tout le monde, cela signifie que ses ressorts ne sont pas ceux du genre humain. Ce n'est pas un art pour les hommes en général, mais pour une classe très particulière d'hommes qui, même s'ils ne valent pas plus que les autres, sont de toute évidence différents." Jean Cassou disait d'Ortega y Gasset qu'il ne craignait pas la(...)
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"Si le nouvel art n'est pas intelligible à tout le monde, cela signifie que ses ressorts ne sont pas ceux du genre humain. Ce n'est pas un art pour les hommes en général, mais pour une classe très particulière d'hommes qui, même s'ils ne valent pas plus que les autres, sont de toute évidence différents." Jean Cassou disait d'Ortega y Gasset qu'il ne craignait pas la(...)
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"Si le nouvel art n'est pas intelligible à tout le monde, cela signifie que ses ressorts ne sont pas ceux du genre humain. Ce n'est pas un art pour les hommes en général, mais pour une classe très particulière d'hommes qui, même s'ils ne valent pas plus que les autres, sont de toute évidence différents." Jean Cassou disait d'Ortega y Gasset qu'il ne craignait pas la frivolité, voire la recherchait. Ce n'est pas le moindre des paradoxes, quand on lit ce texte-ci, mélange de critique "sérieuse" et de fascination-répulsion pour un art désormais futile aux yeux de l'auteur. Ortega y Gasset s'attaque en effet à une tendance de l'art de l'époque (ce texte est publié pour la première fois en 1925) à éliminer la figure humaine de ses sujets au point de devenir autocritique, voire un jeu entre artistes. Cela conduit à le rendre impopulaire. Dégagé du sérieux et de tout pathos, l'art perd sa transcendance au profit de la superficialité, du divertissement. Il est désormais élitiste, il exclut les masses. Il est le symptôme d'une crise culturelle, qui annonce la décadence d'une société de plus en plus tournée vers le spectacle. En effet, l'art finit par se vider de tout contenu: "Tout comme dans un système de miroirs qui se réfléchissent indéfiniment les uns dans les autres, aucune forme n'est la dernière. Toutes sont moquées et réduites à pure image."
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"Si le nouvel art n'est pas intelligible à tout le monde, cela signifie que ses ressorts ne sont pas ceux du genre humain. Ce n'est pas un art pour les hommes en général, mais pour une classe très particulière d'hommes qui, même s'ils ne valent pas plus que les autres, sont de toute évidence différents." Jean Cassou disait d'Ortega y Gasset qu'il ne craignait pas la frivolité, voire la recherchait. Ce n'est pas le moindre des paradoxes, quand on lit ce texte-ci, mélange de critique "sérieuse" et de fascination-répulsion pour un art désormais futile aux yeux de l'auteur. Ortega y Gasset s'attaque en effet à une tendance de l'art de l'époque (ce texte est publié pour la première fois en 1925) à éliminer la figure humaine de ses sujets au point de devenir autocritique, voire un jeu entre artistes. Cela conduit à le rendre impopulaire. Dégagé du sérieux et de tout pathos, l'art perd sa transcendance au profit de la superficialité, du divertissement. Il est désormais élitiste, il exclut les masses. Il est le symptôme d'une crise culturelle, qui annonce la décadence d'une société de plus en plus tournée vers le spectacle. En effet, l'art finit par se vider de tout contenu: "Tout comme dans un système de miroirs qui se réfléchissent indéfiniment les uns dans les autres, aucune forme n'est la dernière. Toutes sont moquées et réduites à pure image."
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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
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Dime-store alchemy: the art of Joseph Cornell
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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
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Published on the occasion of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON , a series of activities that check in on a long-term 'living research' project titled User's Manual: The Grand Revolution. This publication include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author(...)
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Published on the occasion of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON , a series of activities that check in on a long-term 'living research' project titled User's Manual: The Grand Revolution. This publication include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author(...)
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The grand domestic revolution goes on
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Published on the occasion of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON , a series of activities that check in on a long-term 'living research' project titled User's Manual: The Grand Revolution. This publication include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author of the 'original' The Grand Domestic Revolution, a chronicle of 19th century material feminist design movement in the United States.
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Published on the occasion of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON , a series of activities that check in on a long-term 'living research' project titled User's Manual: The Grand Revolution. This publication include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author of the 'original' The Grand Domestic Revolution, a chronicle of 19th century material feminist design movement in the United States.
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes(...)
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes(...)
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Beyond the dust : artists' documents today
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes raised by the various components, but will offer a broader reflection on the contemporary meaning of memory, and hence authenticity, fiction and falsehood. Artists include Richard Sympson, Batia Suter, Irene Kopelman, Jeroen Kooijmans, Invernomuto, Mark Geffriaud, Linda Fregni Nagler, Diego Marcon and others.
Beyond the dust : artists' documents today
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes raised by the various components, but will offer a broader reflection on the contemporary meaning of memory, and hence authenticity, fiction and falsehood. Artists include Richard Sympson, Batia Suter, Irene Kopelman, Jeroen Kooijmans, Invernomuto, Mark Geffriaud, Linda Fregni Nagler, Diego Marcon and others.
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Gastronomy meets art in a new series, On the Table, edited by the provocative, genre-straddling Swedish writer Charlotte Birnbaum. The first publication is a new translation of a 17th-century text describing three spectacular banquets that greeted Queen Christina of Sweden when she visited Rome in 1668. Antonio degli Effetti was on the scene, and described all three(...)
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Gastronomy meets art in a new series, On the Table, edited by the provocative, genre-straddling Swedish writer Charlotte Birnbaum. The first publication is a new translation of a 17th-century text describing three spectacular banquets that greeted Queen Christina of Sweden when she visited Rome in 1668. Antonio degli Effetti was on the scene, and described all three(...)
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On the table : three banquets for a queen
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Gastronomy meets art in a new series, On the Table, edited by the provocative, genre-straddling Swedish writer Charlotte Birnbaum. The first publication is a new translation of a 17th-century text describing three spectacular banquets that greeted Queen Christina of Sweden when she visited Rome in 1668. Antonio degli Effetti was on the scene, and described all three feasts in their sumptuous glory, detailing the lavish preparations for the celebrations and the dining experience itself, designed by Bernini, no less! The original text, dotted with quotations from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Aeneid, is placed in today's context by a foreword and two essays by Birnbaum. Was it dinner or was it 300-year-old performance art?
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Gastronomy meets art in a new series, On the Table, edited by the provocative, genre-straddling Swedish writer Charlotte Birnbaum. The first publication is a new translation of a 17th-century text describing three spectacular banquets that greeted Queen Christina of Sweden when she visited Rome in 1668. Antonio degli Effetti was on the scene, and described all three feasts in their sumptuous glory, detailing the lavish preparations for the celebrations and the dining experience itself, designed by Bernini, no less! The original text, dotted with quotations from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Aeneid, is placed in today's context by a foreword and two essays by Birnbaum. Was it dinner or was it 300-year-old performance art?
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Cornerstones
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This publication compiles a series of essays on contemporary art written by leading art historians and experts. The majority of the essays were first presented in lecture format at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Bringing together both historical and intuitive approaches, these essays reflect the wealth of the exchange that(...)
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This publication compiles a series of essays on contemporary art written by leading art historians and experts. The majority of the essays were first presented in lecture format at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Bringing together both historical and intuitive approaches, these essays reflect the wealth of the exchange that(...)
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This publication compiles a series of essays on contemporary art written by leading art historians and experts. The majority of the essays were first presented in lecture format at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Bringing together both historical and intuitive approaches, these essays reflect the wealth of the exchange that exists between theoretical writing and artistic thinking, sharing the fascination that each of these authors has with both the work of an artist and how this work functions in relation to larger contexts and broader ideas.
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This publication compiles a series of essays on contemporary art written by leading art historians and experts. The majority of the essays were first presented in lecture format at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Bringing together both historical and intuitive approaches, these essays reflect the wealth of the exchange that exists between theoretical writing and artistic thinking, sharing the fascination that each of these authors has with both the work of an artist and how this work functions in relation to larger contexts and broader ideas.
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The Immaterial
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In ''The Immaterial'', French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy.(...)
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In ''The Immaterial'', French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy.(...)
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In ''The Immaterial'', French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy. In this volume, Gorz argues instead for the creation of a true knowledge economy. This economy would be based on zero-cost exchange and pooled resources, and knowledge would be treated as humanity's common property. Currently, in order to exploit knowledge and turn it into capital, the capitalist enterprise privatizes specialized knowledge and claims ownership through private licenses and copyright. But as Gorz shows, the traditional foundations of such capitalist economics have begun to crumble because of the immaterial nature of this new form of product, which makes it almost impossible to measure in monetary terms.
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In ''The Immaterial'', French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy. In this volume, Gorz argues instead for the creation of a true knowledge economy. This economy would be based on zero-cost exchange and pooled resources, and knowledge would be treated as humanity's common property. Currently, in order to exploit knowledge and turn it into capital, the capitalist enterprise privatizes specialized knowledge and claims ownership through private licenses and copyright. But as Gorz shows, the traditional foundations of such capitalist economics have begun to crumble because of the immaterial nature of this new form of product, which makes it almost impossible to measure in monetary terms.
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is presents a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of(...)
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is presents a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of(...)
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Art is not what you think it is
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is presents a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of contexts Deals with divisive and controversial problems such as blasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth Addresses relations between European notions about art and artifice and those developed in other and especially indigenous cultural traditions.
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is presents a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of contexts Deals with divisive and controversial problems such as blasphemy and idolatry, and the problem of artistic truth Addresses relations between European notions about art and artifice and those developed in other and especially indigenous cultural traditions.
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