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Philippe Parreno: C.H.Z.
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Renowned for his sophisticated ruminations on nature and artifice, character and its construction, and the transformative lens of history and nostalgia, Philippe Parreno (born 1964) created C.H.Z. in a zone between science and fiction. According to NASA, any planet hospitable to life will most likely orbit a pair of dwarf stars in a Continuously Habitable Zone. The effect(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2012
Philippe Parreno: C.H.Z.
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Renowned for his sophisticated ruminations on nature and artifice, character and its construction, and the transformative lens of history and nostalgia, Philippe Parreno (born 1964) created C.H.Z. in a zone between science and fiction. According to NASA, any planet hospitable to life will most likely orbit a pair of dwarf stars in a Continuously Habitable Zone. The effect of multiple stars is black vegetation. Working with landscape architect Bas Smets, the artist painstakingly constructed a garden of black plants on the side of a mountain in Portugal, where the garden continues to flourish outside the framework of an art object; Parreno then shot a poetic, abstract film in that alien landscape, rendering the territory inescapably cinematic. C.H.Z. features the artist’s dark, impasto ink drawings, which functioned as a storyboard for the cinematographer Darius Khondji, as well as sequences of stills of the seven stages of the film. Parreno’s reflections and commentary are featured alongside the images and paired with comprehensive essay by Nancy Spector, deputy director and chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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September 2012
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 162
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At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original,(...)
October 162
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At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today’s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.
Magazines
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The starting-point for the photography of Kooi (born 1962, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands) is the Dutch landscape, which she transforms into the setting for ambiguous and inexplicable events. The apparent naturalism of her images, which always have the spontaneity of a snapshot, derives from a complex creative process involving preparatory drawings, models, and design of the(...)
Ellen Kooi: within from without
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The starting-point for the photography of Kooi (born 1962, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands) is the Dutch landscape, which she transforms into the setting for ambiguous and inexplicable events. The apparent naturalism of her images, which always have the spontaneity of a snapshot, derives from a complex creative process involving preparatory drawings, models, and design of the lighting and location in a way comparable to film or to the great Baroque paintings.
Photography monographs
William Kentridge
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This book offers a lavishly illustrated look at the distinctive work of acclaimed South African artist. The unique artistic vision and distinctive visual style have made him a hugely sought after talent by major galleries around the world. This is a superbly illustrated volume in which the artist himself takes readers on an unprecedented behind the scenes tour of his(...)
William Kentridge
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This book offers a lavishly illustrated look at the distinctive work of acclaimed South African artist. The unique artistic vision and distinctive visual style have made him a hugely sought after talent by major galleries around the world. This is a superbly illustrated volume in which the artist himself takes readers on an unprecedented behind the scenes tour of his latest work - which includes sculpture, film, animation, and drawing.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Too Much is a new magazine about cities. International writers and photographers join a Japanese design team to examine the urban environment, its changes and challenges; its romantic geography. For all those who care about architecture, design, globalization and the future of the shared landscape, there are contributions from internationally acclaimed photographer Taro(...)
Too much: Magazine of romantic geography Fall 2010
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Too Much is a new magazine about cities. International writers and photographers join a Japanese design team to examine the urban environment, its changes and challenges; its romantic geography. For all those who care about architecture, design, globalization and the future of the shared landscape, there are contributions from internationally acclaimed photographer Taro Hirano, film director Mike Mills, stylist Nicola Formichetti and an extended interview with Tokyo’s buzzing architecture unit, SANAA.
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Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book(...)
Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book demonstrates and illuminates the significance and manifold facets of the community media movement.
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John Severson's: Surf
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John Severson's SURF explores Severson's surf odyssey through painting, photography, film and publishing. Featuring an interview with the artist by Nathan Howe, artist and curator at Puka Puka, Hawaii, foreword by Gerry Lopez, surfer and co-founder of Lightning Bolt surfboards and afterword by Drew Kampion, author and former editor of Surfer, John Severson's SURF(...)
John Severson's: Surf
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John Severson's SURF explores Severson's surf odyssey through painting, photography, film and publishing. Featuring an interview with the artist by Nathan Howe, artist and curator at Puka Puka, Hawaii, foreword by Gerry Lopez, surfer and co-founder of Lightning Bolt surfboards and afterword by Drew Kampion, author and former editor of Surfer, John Severson's SURF documents the birth of surf culture and serves as a testament to our ocean.
Photography monographs
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The Smith Tapes transcribes, for the first time ever, sixty-one of those recorded sessions, from an archive of more than one hundred fifty reels unearthed after more than forty years. Edited by documentary film writer and director/producer Ezra Bookstein, this book reveals the time capsule that Smith ingeniously captured, and contains raw and unscripted talks that take(...)
The Smith tapes: lost Interviews with rock stars & icons 1969-1972
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The Smith Tapes transcribes, for the first time ever, sixty-one of those recorded sessions, from an archive of more than one hundred fifty reels unearthed after more than forty years. Edited by documentary film writer and director/producer Ezra Bookstein, this book reveals the time capsule that Smith ingeniously captured, and contains raw and unscripted talks that take you right into the midst of a transformative cultural and musical explosion.
Acoustics
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Imagining the Audience offers an unusual glimpse behind the work of both artist and curator concerning the role of the audience. Part of a research project on viewpoints in aesthetics and film theory applied to contemporary art, this book asks how an artist or curator imagines the experience, movement, and mental processes of the viewer, and how this perspective(...)
Imagining the audience: viewing positions in curatorial and artistic practice
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Imagining the Audience offers an unusual glimpse behind the work of both artist and curator concerning the role of the audience. Part of a research project on viewpoints in aesthetics and film theory applied to contemporary art, this book asks how an artist or curator imagines the experience, movement, and mental processes of the viewer, and how this perspective influences the artwork, the way the viewer experiences it.
Museology
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In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban(...)
The social life of small urban spaces
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In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.
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