What is landscape?
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"What Is Landscape?" is an invitation to walk, to notice, to ask: to see a sandcastle with a pinwheel at the beach and think of Dutch windmills icons of triumph, markers of territory won from the sea; to walk in the woods and be amused by the Elizabethans' misuse of the Latin silvaticus (people of the woods) to coin the word savages; to see in a suburban front lawn a(...)
What is landscape?
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"What Is Landscape?" is an invitation to walk, to notice, to ask: to see a sandcastle with a pinwheel at the beach and think of Dutch windmills icons of triumph, markers of territory won from the sea; to walk in the woods and be amused by the Elizabethans' misuse of the Latin silvaticus (people of the woods) to coin the word savages; to see in a suburban front lawn a representation of the meadow of a medieval freehold.
Landscape Theory
Claudio Gobbi: Arménie ville
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Spanning more than 25 countries from Western Europe to the Caucasus, the Berlin-based Italian photographer traces the specific features of sacral Armenian architecture and the captivating simplicity of its forms, which have remained unchanged for more than 1,500 years. Investigating the concepts of authorship, serialization and representation, Gobbi carries on his quest(...)
Claudio Gobbi: Arménie ville
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Spanning more than 25 countries from Western Europe to the Caucasus, the Berlin-based Italian photographer traces the specific features of sacral Armenian architecture and the captivating simplicity of its forms, which have remained unchanged for more than 1,500 years. Investigating the concepts of authorship, serialization and representation, Gobbi carries on his quest for key images of Armenian cultures and in the process addresses themes of time, memory, migration and the cultural legacy of a people.
Photography monographs
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Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world-renowned art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters throught virtuel exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so exclusive of(...)
Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum : time, space and the archive
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Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world-renowned art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters throught virtuel exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so exclusive of women's artistic contributions to the twentieth century, the virtual feminist museum stages some of the complex relations between femininity, modernity and representation.
Museology
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'Into the White' uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates of perception and matter, of representation, discovery, and the time of the earth – long before the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, this book contends, the Renaissance exotic became something far(...)
Into the white: the Renaissance Arctic and the end of the image
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'Into the White' uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates of perception and matter, of representation, discovery, and the time of the earth – long before the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, this book contends, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and unmasterable, something beyond the idea of image itself.
Art Theory
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation(...)
January 2010
Space-age aesthetics: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde
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The artists discussed in Space-Age Aesthetics looked beyond the limits of the picture, exploring space, mass media, pop culture, nuclear power, and science fiction to connect new art to the dramatic changes taking place through the encroaching Space Age. Space-Age Aesthetics begins by addressing the imagery of space exploration as a field of mythical representation informed by Cold War politics and acted out in an expansive variety of media, from the picture press to comic books.
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In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private(...)
The practice of everyday life
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In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
Critical Theory
Stone foldings
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The publication Stone Foldings is based on a series of 41 piezoprints by Sibylle Eimermacher. The project is an investigation of the surfaces of nine types of Norwegian rocks through representation in the radically different medium of paper. The publication shows a selection of real-size images, an index of the complete series and photographs of quarries, where the(...)
Stone foldings
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The publication Stone Foldings is based on a series of 41 piezoprints by Sibylle Eimermacher. The project is an investigation of the surfaces of nine types of Norwegian rocks through representation in the radically different medium of paper. The publication shows a selection of real-size images, an index of the complete series and photographs of quarries, where the rocks have their origin. Art historian Inger Marie Hahn Møller contributed with a tekst about the project.
Contemporary Art Monographs
artefacts
Basilica S. Pietro, Roma
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1 model : metal ; 10 x 9 x 5 cm
[between 1960 and 1990]
artefacts
[between 1960 and 1990]
archives
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still image
[between 1955 and 1980]
archives
[between 1955 and 1980]
archives
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still image
[between 1980 and 1999]
archives
[between 1980 and 1999]