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"Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard" / "A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance" (Sculpture) is a close copy of the 1914 edition of the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem of the same name, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text. "A Preface"(...)
Michalis Pichler: Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
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"Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard" / "A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance" (Sculpture) is a close copy of the 1914 edition of the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem of the same name, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text. "A Preface" features the entire poem written as a block of text with each line separated by a slash (/). This block-transcription of the Mallarme-Text was carried out 1969 by Broodthaers. 12 double spreads follow, with immaculately cut out windows standing in for the text. When turning the pages, numerous shadows are being generated by the cutouts.
Literature and poetry
Chris Johanson: Ants
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Chris Johanson (né en 1968 à San Jose, vit et travaille entre Los Angeles et Portland) est une figure centrale de la Mission School de San Francisco, le mouvement post-punk qui a intégré des aspects du graffiti et de l'art populaire. Sa pratique multidimensionnelle englobe la peinture, le dessin, la sculpture, le design et la musique. Incorporant des influences disparates(...)
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Chris Johanson (né en 1968 à San Jose, vit et travaille entre Los Angeles et Portland) est une figure centrale de la Mission School de San Francisco, le mouvement post-punk qui a intégré des aspects du graffiti et de l'art populaire. Sa pratique multidimensionnelle englobe la peinture, le dessin, la sculpture, le design et la musique. Incorporant des influences disparates qui reflètent la complexité de la vie, son travail est centré sur des thèmes tels que la spiritualité, la sociologie et l'observation de l'environnement. Johanson a commencé à travailler sur des dessins figuratifs et à peindre sur des planches de skate dès son plus jeune âge. Ses compositions se veulent ouvertes à l'interprétation et invitent à la réflexion sur la vie quotidienne et la condition humaine.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Isa Genzken
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Interview – in her discussion with Diedrich Diedrichsen the artist considers her relationship to the many sources behind her work : minimal sculpture, modernist architecture, conceptual art, and other multi-media artists` practices, such as Bruce Nauman’s. Survey – Alex Farquharson examines the principal themes in Genzken’s work since her now-legendary first exhibition in(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2005, London
Isa Genzken
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Interview – in her discussion with Diedrich Diedrichsen the artist considers her relationship to the many sources behind her work : minimal sculpture, modernist architecture, conceptual art, and other multi-media artists` practices, such as Bruce Nauman’s. Survey – Alex Farquharson examines the principal themes in Genzken’s work since her now-legendary first exhibition in Berlin whilst still a student of Gerhard Richter. Focus – Sabine Breitwieser looks at Genzken’s little known ‘Hi-Fi’ series of photographic works, which centre on magazine advertisements for stereo equipment. Artist’s choice – "The bad glazier" by Charles Baudelaire (1869). Artist’s writings – notes from a 1973 exercise based on instructions by Bruce Nauman ; an previously unpublishd 1996 film script ; a 2003 interview with Wolfgang Tillmans ; and two new artist`s statements. Chronology and bibliography.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Focusing on the years 1958-1968, A Minimal Future? presents key works within the framework of a scholarly re-examination of minimal art's emergence and historical context. It reflects the early transitional period that begins in the late 1950s, through the so-called "canonization" of Minimalism by 1968, with an emphasis on work produced in the mid-to-late 1960s. The(...)
May 2004, Cambridge
A minimal future? : art as object 1958-1968
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Focusing on the years 1958-1968, A Minimal Future? presents key works within the framework of a scholarly re-examination of minimal art's emergence and historical context. It reflects the early transitional period that begins in the late 1950s, through the so-called "canonization" of Minimalism by 1968, with an emphasis on work produced in the mid-to-late 1960s. The book includes works from the late 1950s through the late 1960s by 40 artists, including Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Mel Bochner, Judy Chicago, Dan Flavin, Robert Grosvenor, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, and Lawrence Weiner that reflect the shifting object status of painting and sculpture.
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Avec sa silhouette iconique de Babel des Temps modernes, on croit toujours se « souvenir » du Monument à la IIIe Internationale (1919-1920) de V. Tatline (1885-1953). Pourtant, notre esprit ne retient souvent de la « Tour Tatline » que la sculpture tirée d'un musée imaginaire, alors qu'il s'agit d'abord du modèle réduit d'une « anti-Tour Eiffel » non réalisée. Bien plus(...)
La Tour Tatlin : monument à la IIIième internationale?
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Avec sa silhouette iconique de Babel des Temps modernes, on croit toujours se « souvenir » du Monument à la IIIe Internationale (1919-1920) de V. Tatline (1885-1953). Pourtant, notre esprit ne retient souvent de la « Tour Tatline » que la sculpture tirée d'un musée imaginaire, alors qu'il s'agit d'abord du modèle réduit d'une « anti-Tour Eiffel » non réalisée. Bien plus élevée que les 160 m du treillis fuselé de la Tour TSF (1920-1922) de l'ingénieur-architecte V. Choukhov (1853-1939), les 400 m de contreplongées constructivistes auraient dû incarner un monument socialiste et une œuvre d'art cosmopolite totale, tour à tour promenade cinématique, centre d'émission radio et haut-parleur d'amplification de la voix de Moscou : à la ville et au monde prolétarien.
Architectural Theory
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From the outset, American artist Betty Woodman (born 1930) has used ceramics as her medium of expression and artistic research, and it has made her one of the most influential and original voices on the international art scene. Bridging the gap between art and craft, Woodman moves nimbly between the traditions of an age-old medium, taking inspiration from Minoan and(...)
Betty Woodman: theatre of the domestic
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From the outset, American artist Betty Woodman (born 1930) has used ceramics as her medium of expression and artistic research, and it has made her one of the most influential and original voices on the international art scene. Bridging the gap between art and craft, Woodman moves nimbly between the traditions of an age-old medium, taking inspiration from Minoan and Egyptian art, Greek and Etruscan sculpture, Tang Dynasty works, majolica and Sèvres porcelain, Italian Baroque architecture and the paintings of Bonnard, Picasso and Matisse, while also introducing innovations in both style and technique. This publication focuses on work made over the past ten years, while taking stock of Woodman's continued relevance to contemporary art and her importance among postwar artists.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Perhaps most well known for the iconic sculpture "Cadillac Ranch" and performances like "Media Burn", the radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm created an abundance of works across disciplines — including video, publications, built environments, and performance. Less known are the group’s “time capsule” works made throughout their career, which rejected the(...)
March 2017
The present is the form of all life: the time capsules of Ant Farm and LST
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Perhaps most well known for the iconic sculpture "Cadillac Ranch" and performances like "Media Burn", the radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm created an abundance of works across disciplines — including video, publications, built environments, and performance. Less known are the group’s “time capsule” works made throughout their career, which rejected the idea of the time capsule as a reliable means of cultural preservation. Published as a supplement to the exhibition "The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST", this book features essays, an interview with LST, and many never before published or reproduced images of archival material, tracing the time capsule works of Ant Farm and successor group LST from analog archive to digital database.
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In Travels in the History of Architecture, Robert Harbison provides an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. The book begins its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of architecture through the(...)
Travels in the history of architecture
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In Travels in the History of Architecture, Robert Harbison provides an engaging and concise companion to the great themes and aesthetic movements in architecture from antiquity to the present day. The book begins its journey with the great temples of the Egyptians and the shrines of Classical Greece and Rome and then provides a complete survey of architecture through the present day. Each chapter of this dynamic and approachable volume focuses on a movement in architectural history, including Byzantine, Baroque, Mannerism, Historicism, Functionalism, and Deconstruction. Unique to this work is Harbison’s wide-ranging approach, which draws on references and examples outside of architecture—from literature, art, sculpture, and history—to further illustrate and contextualize the themes and ideas of each period.
Architectural Theory
Ruth Asawa: Life's work
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Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned while traveling in Mexico in 1947. In 1949, after studying at Black Mountain College, Asawa moved to San Francisco and created dozens of wire works, among(...)
Ruth Asawa: Life's work
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Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned while traveling in Mexico in 1947. In 1949, after studying at Black Mountain College, Asawa moved to San Francisco and created dozens of wire works, among them an iconic bronze fountain for the city's Ghirardelli Square. Bringing together examples from across Asawa's career, this volume serves as a reorientation of her sculptures within the historical context of 20th-century art. In particular, it includes careful consideration of Asawa's advocacy for arts education in public schools, while simultaneously focusing on her vital—and long under-recognized—contributions to the field of sculpture.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922–2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor and a one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes of World War II, scattered around the former Yugoslavia, continue to attract attention today, more than 25 years after the country’s collapse. The monuments, cemeteries, mausoleums, memorial parks,(...)
Bogdanovic by Bogdanovic: Yugoslav memorials through the eyes of their architect
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Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922–2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor and a one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes of World War II, scattered around the former Yugoslavia, continue to attract attention today, more than 25 years after the country’s collapse. The monuments, cemeteries, mausoleums, memorial parks, necropolises, cenotaphs and other sites of memory Bogdanovic designed between the early 1950s and late 1970s occupy a unique place in the history of modern architecture, redrawing the boundaries between architecture, landscape and sculpture in varied and unexpected ways. This book presents Bogdanovic’s built oeuvre through his own eyes, in a selection of nearly 50 color photographs of his memorials, which the architect took soon after the completion of each project.
Photography monographs