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The 1960s and 1970s marked a period of exceptional change in Korea, propelled by rapid urbanization and modernization, and influenced by an authoritarian state at home and a globalizing world beyond. Young artists of the era were not immune to these unprecedented socioeconomic, political, and material conditions, responding with a groundbreaking and genre-defying body of(...)
October 2023
Only the young: Expermental art in Korea, 1960s-1970s
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The 1960s and 1970s marked a period of exceptional change in Korea, propelled by rapid urbanization and modernization, and influenced by an authoritarian state at home and a globalizing world beyond. Young artists of the era were not immune to these unprecedented socioeconomic, political, and material conditions, responding with a groundbreaking and genre-defying body of avant-garde art known broadly as ''Experimental art'' (silheom misul). Both as individuals and in collectives, these artists broke definitively with their predecessors, redefining the boundaries of traditional painting and sculpture while embracing innovative and often provocative approaches to materials and process through performance, installation, photography, and video. ''Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s'' accompanies the first exhibition in North America to examine this influential but understudied period. Featuring incisive new scholarship and lavish photography of works drawn from public and private collections across the globe, the volume also brings together translations of articles, artist manifestos, and other primary sources that offer a firsthand perspective on the ideas and discourses then shaping Korean art. What emerges is the story of how this generation of young Korean artists harnessed the power of art to confront and reimagine an ever-shifting present.
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''Humane ecology: Eight positions'' features a group of contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of environmental questions: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Carolina Caycedo, Allison Janae Hamilton, Juan Antonio Olivares, Christine Howard Sandoval, Pallavi Sen, and Kandis Williams. These artists—through their work in(...)
September 2023
Humane ecology: Eight positions
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''Humane ecology: Eight positions'' features a group of contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of environmental questions: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Carolina Caycedo, Allison Janae Hamilton, Juan Antonio Olivares, Christine Howard Sandoval, Pallavi Sen, and Kandis Williams. These artists—through their work in sculpture, video, sound installation, and plantings—think in the relational terms implied by ecology, the study of how organisms relate to one another and their environment. They explore themes such as the extraction and exploitation of both places and people, kinships with the more-than-human world, and ancient traditions of relation to the land that take on new urgency and form. Against posthumanist tendencies to “decenter” the human, these artists center different humans, ones routinely excluded from dominant discourses of environmentalism. The publication presents entries on each artist in addition to scholarly essays on the exhibition concept, genealogies of land art, and settler colonial histories of the Berkshires.
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It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in America of(...)
May 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
The arts at Black Mountain College
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It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in America of the 1960s. The faculty included such diverse talents as Anni and Josef Albers, Eric Bentley, Ilya Bolotowsky, Robert Creeley, Willem de Kooning, Robert Duncan, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Goodman, Walter Gropius, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Charles Olson. Among the students were Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Francine du Plessix Gray, Kenneth Noland, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Snelson, Cy Twombly, Stan Vanderbeek, and Jose Yglesias. In this definitive account of the arts at Black Mountain College, back in print after many years, Mary Emma Harris describes a unique educational experiment and the artists and writers who conducted it. She replaces the myth of the college as a haphazardly conceived venture with a portrait of a consciously directed liberal arts school that grew out of the progressive education movement. Proceeding chronologically through the four major periods of the college’s history, Harris covers every aspect of its extraordinary curriculum in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
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May 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
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Extensively illustrated, the catalog contains an essay by the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 team, and texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory. All artists are featured with illustrations of representative works, and the documentation of selected artists’ projects(...)
January 1900, Ostfildern
Documenta_11 exhibition catalogue
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Extensively illustrated, the catalog contains an essay by the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 team, and texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory. All artists are featured with illustrations of representative works, and the documentation of selected artists’ projects and writings facilitate an additional insight into the processes of creative thought and the mechanisms of reception at stake in the making of the exhibition. Short guide also available.
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January 1900, Ostfildern
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Pour sa 11e édition, Manif d'art – La biennale de Québec s’est inspirée de l’hiver et du sommeil de la terre pour s’intéresser à celui des humains et explorer les nuances multiples de l’éveil. Moments de latence, de transition, de pause, la saison froide et le sommeil ont en commun de suspendre la productivité, et de résister aux principes de l’exploitation des corps et(...)
Les forces du sommeil - Cohabitations des vivants
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Pour sa 11e édition, Manif d'art – La biennale de Québec s’est inspirée de l’hiver et du sommeil de la terre pour s’intéresser à celui des humains et explorer les nuances multiples de l’éveil. Moments de latence, de transition, de pause, la saison froide et le sommeil ont en commun de suspendre la productivité, et de résister aux principes de l’exploitation des corps et des ressources. De ces alternances quotidiennes ou saisonnières, où les différentes espèces et leur environnement peuvent entrer en correspondance, dépendent la régénération du vivant, et aussi l’écoute, l’attention portée à la connaissance de soi et aux interactions avec d’autres formes de vie. Parce qu’il libère des forces intérieures incontrôlées et parfois décisives, parce qu’il altère nos réflexes et modifie nos perceptions, le sommeil a la capacité de modifier notre appréhension du monde.
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Réalisé par une cinquantaine d'artistes ou de chercheurs et de chercheures en arts (danse, cinéma, musique et arts sonores, arts plastiques, théâtre, arts numériques, littérature, photographie, performance), et coordonné par un collectif de l'Université Paris 8, ce livre souhaite contribuer au tournant écologique des arts. La notion d'écologie est ici entendue au sens(...)
June 2024
Arts, écologies, transitions : Un abécédaire
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Réalisé par une cinquantaine d'artistes ou de chercheurs et de chercheures en arts (danse, cinéma, musique et arts sonores, arts plastiques, théâtre, arts numériques, littérature, photographie, performance), et coordonné par un collectif de l'Université Paris 8, ce livre souhaite contribuer au tournant écologique des arts. La notion d'écologie est ici entendue au sens large (dans une perspective guattarienne), et intègre à la perspective environnementale celles des écologies mentale et sociale : les pratiques artistiques se font écosophiques dès lors qu'elles interrogent la notion même d'esthétique, à la croisée de l'aisthétis (le sensible), de l'éthique et du politique. Respectueux de la multiplicité et de la complexité du monde, l'ouvrage est organisé sous la forme d'un abécédaire qui fait état du foisonnement des pratiques artistiques contemporaines en prise avec les enjeux écologiques. Sa forme en est également le reflet, chaque notice assumant sa singularité, du discours académique à des formes d'écritures engagées.
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This illustrated exhibition catalog looks closely at how abstraction in art is often intimately tied with shifting ideas of the bodily. Bringing together seemingly unalike categories such as figurative/abstract, self/other and exotic/banal into newly fused configurations, the publication shows how artists have often conceived of these categories as inextricably(...)
November 2024
Vital signs: Artists and the body
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This illustrated exhibition catalog looks closely at how abstraction in art is often intimately tied with shifting ideas of the bodily. Bringing together seemingly unalike categories such as figurative/abstract, self/other and exotic/banal into newly fused configurations, the publication shows how artists have often conceived of these categories as inextricably intertwined. The catalog is divided into three thematic sections. “Mirror” explores the ways artists have honed in on the forms of the face and head as a distorted mirror. “Matter” looks at how artists draw on the metaphorical resonances of the body in ways that suggest mutable morphologies, especially in relation to socially constructed definitions of gender, race and sexuality. "Metamorphosis" examines how artists have used abstraction as a means to transform the human body into different modes of being: new identities, other animals and spiritual or cosmological entities.
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What is "Magic Art"? In 1953, André Breton, founder of the Surrealist movement, was invited by a prestigious French publisher to explore answers to this question. His resulting analysis is wide-ranging and evocative. Beginning with a literary review of magic and art, Breton draws upon Novalis and Baudelaire before considering the prehistoric rock art of Spain and France,(...)
January 2025
Magic art
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What is "Magic Art"? In 1953, André Breton, founder of the Surrealist movement, was invited by a prestigious French publisher to explore answers to this question. His resulting analysis is wide-ranging and evocative. Beginning with a literary review of magic and art, Breton draws upon Novalis and Baudelaire before considering the prehistoric rock art of Spain and France, the native art of the Pacific Northwest, the magical grimoires and alchemical symbolism of the Middle Ages, and the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Antoine Caron, Paolo Uccello, Gustav Moreau, Paul Gauguin and the Surrealists. Through these and other diverse sources, Breton traces a mystery that lies at the heart of our timeless fascination with otherness and seeks to place Surrealism as a successor to a magical sensibility that began with art itself.
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This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial(...)
August 2024
Architecture for housing: Understanding the value of design through 14 case studies
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This book shows how architectural design can improve housing. It looks at 14 innovative multiunit dwelling projects through the lenses of current research on urban housing systems, driven by questions on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Residential buildings designed for diverse cultural contexts are brought together and examined according to spatial antonyms: the individual and communal, the interior and exterior, and the determined and undetermined, to create a resource for future architectural practice. The book concentrates on design decisions and incorporates rich illustrations and conversations with architects and residents. It follows a series of talks curated by the Melbourne School of Design to extend the debate on the missing links between architectural practice and housing research.
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The book "Visible: Art as policies for care. Socially engaged art (2010–Ongoing)" was born from the editors' enduring curatorial research into long-term situated art projects that exist within the social sphere, beyond the logic of the traditional art system, confronting unjust systems, and prefiguring novel visions for living together. The socially engaged art projects(...)
November 2024
Visible – Art as policies for care: Socially engaged art (2010-Ongoing)
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The book "Visible: Art as policies for care. Socially engaged art (2010–Ongoing)" was born from the editors' enduring curatorial research into long-term situated art projects that exist within the social sphere, beyond the logic of the traditional art system, confronting unjust systems, and prefiguring novel visions for living together. The socially engaged art projects collected here hold a significant place in the constantly evolving trans-local art scene of the past two decades, and form a lens through which to observe changing realities and their urgencies; they redefine the concept of art in light of current climatic, political, and social changes and foster the dematerialization of the artwork in processes that become policies of culture and care.