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Concepts such as “new genre public art,” “social practice,” or “socially engaged art” may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and social services differ crucially in terms of their methods and metrics. Socially engaged artists need not be aligned (and may often be opposed) to the public sector and(...)
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September 2016
Public servants: and the crisis of the common good
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Concepts such as “new genre public art,” “social practice,” or “socially engaged art” may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and social services differ crucially in terms of their methods and metrics. Socially engaged artists need not be aligned (and may often be opposed) to the public sector and to institutionalized systems. In many countries, structures of democratic governance and public responsibility are shifting, eroding, and being remade in profound ways—driven by radical economic, political, and global forces. According to what terms and through what means can art engage with these changes? This volume gathers essays, dialogues, and art projects—some previously published and some newly commissioned—to illuminate the ways the arts shape and reshape a rapidly changing social and governmental landscape. An artist portfolio section presents original statements and projects by some of the key figures grappling with these ideas.
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Hans Haacke’s art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context—the economic, social, and political conditions of the art world and the world at large. Among his best-known works are MoMA-Poll (1970), which polled museumgoers on their opinions about Nelson Rockefeller and the Nixon administration’s(...)
Working conditions: the writings of Hans Haacke
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Hans Haacke’s art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context—the economic, social, and political conditions of the art world and the world at large. Among his best-known works are MoMA-Poll (1970), which polled museumgoers on their opinions about Nelson Rockefeller and the Nixon administration’s Indochina policy; Gallery-Goers’ Birthplace and Residence Profile (1969), which canvassed visitors to the Howard Wise Gallery in Manhattan; and the famously canceled 1971 solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, which was meant to display, among other things, works on two New York real estate empires. This volume collects writings by Haacke that explain and document his practice. The texts, some of which have never before been published, run from straightforward descriptions to wide-ranging reflections and full-throated polemics. They include correspondence with MoMA and the Guggenheim and a letter refusing to represent the United States at the 1969 São Paulo Biennial; the title piece, “Working Conditions,” which discusses corporate influence on the art world; Haacke’s thinking about “real-time social systems”; and texts written for museum catalogs on various artworks, including GERMANIA, in the German Pavilion of the 1993 Venice Biennial; DER BEVÖLKERUNG (To the Population) of 2000 at the Berlin Reichstag; Mixed Messages, an exhibition of objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum (2001); and Gift Horse, unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2015.
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Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and(...)
Animals
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Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to engage with animal behavior and consciousness. Centered on contemporary artworks, this anthology attests to the trans-disciplinary nature of this subject, with art as one of the principal points of convergence.
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Information
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This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. It examines such landmark exhibitions as "Information" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970, and the equally influential "Les Immatériaux," initiated by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, Paris,(...)
Information
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This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. It examines such landmark exhibitions as "Information" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970, and the equally influential "Les Immatériaux," initiated by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 1984. It reexamines work by artists of the 1960s to early 1980s, from Les Levine and N. E. Thing Co. to General Idea and Jenny Holzer, whose prescient grasp of information's significance resonates today. It also reinscribes into the narrative of art history technologically critical artworks that for years have circulated within new media festivals rather than in galleries.
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Agnes Martin: night sea
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Agnes Martin’s Night Sea (1963) is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous blue and gold. In this illustrated study, Suzanne Hudson presents the painting as the work of an artist, thinker, poet and writer, for whom self-presentation was a necessary part of making works public. With Night Sea, Hudson argues, Martin was moving from visible labour(...)
Agnes Martin: night sea
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Agnes Martin’s Night Sea (1963) is a large canvas of hand-drawn rectangular grids painted in luminous blue and gold. In this illustrated study, Suzanne Hudson presents the painting as the work of an artist, thinker, poet and writer, for whom self-presentation was a necessary part of making works public. With Night Sea, Hudson argues, Martin was moving from visible labour to lightness unburdened by evidence of process. She created a shimmering realisation of control and loss that stands alone within her suite of classic grid paintings as an exceptional achievement. This title is part of the One Work book series, which focuses on the artworks that have significantly shaped the way we understand art and its history.
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Donald Judd: writings
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''Donald Judd: Writings,'' copublished by Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, is the most comprehensive collection of the artist's writings assembled to date. This timely publication includes Judd’s best-known essays organized chronologically with little-known texts previously published in limited editions. This new collection also includes unpublished college essays(...)
Donald Judd: writings
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''Donald Judd: Writings,'' copublished by Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, is the most comprehensive collection of the artist's writings assembled to date. This timely publication includes Judd’s best-known essays organized chronologically with little-known texts previously published in limited editions. This new collection also includes unpublished college essays and hundreds of never-before-seen handwritten notes, a critical but unknown part of Judd’s writing practice.
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Juillet 2011. Ai Weiwei vient d'être libéré de prison. Barnaby Martin se rend à Pékin où l'artiste est assigné à résidence. Les entretiens qu'il mène secrètement avec Ai Weiwei dans son atelier nous éclairent sur les coulisses du Parti communiste chinois et permettent de dresser un portrait rare fondé sur le témoignage inédit du plus célèbre artiste et dissident chinois.
Ai Weiwei : histoire d'une arrestation
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Juillet 2011. Ai Weiwei vient d'être libéré de prison. Barnaby Martin se rend à Pékin où l'artiste est assigné à résidence. Les entretiens qu'il mène secrètement avec Ai Weiwei dans son atelier nous éclairent sur les coulisses du Parti communiste chinois et permettent de dresser un portrait rare fondé sur le témoignage inédit du plus célèbre artiste et dissident chinois.
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Ni tout à fait le même, ni tout à fait un autre : le lecteur retrouvera dans l'épaisseur de ce volume le Starobinski qu'il aime et qu'il recherche – «l'œil vivant», le lecteur impeccable, sachant allier la délicatesse du toucher et la maîtrise de l'explication, mais il découvrira aussi un Starobinski arpentant pour lui des terres peut-être nouvelles – non pas celles du(...)
La beauté du monde : la litéérarure et les arts
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Ni tout à fait le même, ni tout à fait un autre : le lecteur retrouvera dans l'épaisseur de ce volume le Starobinski qu'il aime et qu'il recherche – «l'œil vivant», le lecteur impeccable, sachant allier la délicatesse du toucher et la maîtrise de l'explication, mais il découvrira aussi un Starobinski arpentant pour lui des terres peut-être nouvelles – non pas celles du siècle des Lumières, ni celles de l'histoire des idées médicales, mais celles de la poésie, de la peinture et de la musique. Ces trois muses se donnent la main et forment une ronde que le critique n'a jamais quittée. Au total. c'est une centaine d'études composées sur plus de soixante ans qui se trouvent rassemblées sous le titre «La beauté du monde». Car la littérature et les arts répondent à la beauté du monde et le critique, premier lecteur, spectateur et auditeur, célèbre la réponse de ceux-là pour chanter celle-ci. Le lecteur comprendra mieux sans doute ce qui continue d'animer celui qui a fait de la…
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Une topologie du quotidien
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Aujourd’hui une cartographie devient nécessaire, afin de retracer la frontière entre extérieur et intérieur, privé et public, sédentaire et nomade. La maison n’est pas seulement une demeure, elle est aussi un terrain pour les transactions multiples entre diverses sphères – le domaine de la technologie et de la physiologie, comme celui de la psyché. Dans Une topologie du(...)
Une topologie du quotidien
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Aujourd’hui une cartographie devient nécessaire, afin de retracer la frontière entre extérieur et intérieur, privé et public, sédentaire et nomade. La maison n’est pas seulement une demeure, elle est aussi un terrain pour les transactions multiples entre diverses sphères – le domaine de la technologie et de la physiologie, comme celui de la psyché. Dans Une topologie du quotidien, Georges Teyssot observe comment opère le brouillage des notions de privé, d’intimité – et d’extimité dans nos sociétés. Les seuils sont autant de marques traçant des limites apparemment infranchissables, mais ils offrent également des passerelles vers l’extérieur. Le dilemme entre la frontière et le pont ouvre un espace de l’entre-deux, où l’on peut entrer, un «mi-lieu» offrant les possibilités d’échange. Georges Teyssot examine la porte, la fenêtre, le miroir et l’écran?: des espaces interstitiels divisant le monde en deux, formant des jeux de surface dont la géométrie est de nature topologique. En définitive, le corps habite-t-il encore la demeure – ou est-ce le logement qui, évoluant en des dispositifs microscopiques, habite le corps?
Architectural Theory
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This publication features design projects organized into six working themes: Act, Save, Share, Live, Learn and Make. It is a true manual--in format and content--featuring design solutions that expand access to education, food, health care and affordable housing; increase social and economic inclusion; offer improved alternative transportation options, and provide a(...)
By the people: designing a better America
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This publication features design projects organized into six working themes: Act, Save, Share, Live, Learn and Make. It is a true manual--in format and content--featuring design solutions that expand access to education, food, health care and affordable housing; increase social and economic inclusion; offer improved alternative transportation options, and provide a balanced approach to land use between the built and natural environments. Cooper Hewitt Curator Cynthia E. Smith traveled to post-industrial cities, urban areas impacted by natural disasters, sprawling cities, places of persistent poverty and major metropolitan regions. Her research yielded nearly 400 potential projects from over 30 states and three indigenous nations (Navajo, Lakota, Pueblo).
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August 2016
Design Theory