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"Open" 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors consider transparency as fetish and the ideal of the free flow of information.
Open 22, Transparency : publicity and secrecy in the age of Wikileaks
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"Open" 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors consider transparency as fetish and the ideal of the free flow of information.
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Cabinet 45: Games
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In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludic tradition has imagined a homo ludens, humans defined through their relationship with games and play. Cabinet 45 features Joshua Glenn on H.G. Wells’ “Floor Games”; D.(...)
Cabinet 45: Games
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In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain ludic tradition has imagined a homo ludens, humans defined through their relationship with games and play. Cabinet 45 features Joshua Glenn on H.G. Wells’ “Floor Games”; D. Graham Burnett on games played by game theorists; Barbara Levine and Jessica Helfand on dexterity games; James Trainor on the lost world of “adventure” playgrounds; Dana Katz on Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s “Oblique Strategies”; an interview with Bertell Ollman, inventor of the board game “Class Struggle”; and Jeff Dolven on poems as games. Elsewhere in the issue: Helen Larsson on the history of applause; Wayne Koestenbaum’s legendary “Legend” column; Naomi Muller on eating the zoo animals in Berlin during World War II; Jeremy Crichton on “spite” houses; and much more.
Magazines
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From 1989 until his death in 2007, Horst Ademeit documented the presence of "cold rays" - unseen negative forces permeating everyday objects - in thousands of Polaroids and digital photographs, as well as notebooks full of meticulously logged data. "Secret Universe" shows images of the "cold rays" at work, in enigmatic images of street scenes, grocery items and bizarre(...)
Secret universe : Horst Ademeit
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From 1989 until his death in 2007, Horst Ademeit documented the presence of "cold rays" - unseen negative forces permeating everyday objects - in thousands of Polaroids and digital photographs, as well as notebooks full of meticulously logged data. "Secret Universe" shows images of the "cold rays" at work, in enigmatic images of street scenes, grocery items and bizarre measuring instruments.
Photography monographs
Elspeth Pratt
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This is the first monograph published on the work of Canadian artist Elspeth Pratt that spans her career to date. For twenty-eight years Pratt has been producing sculptural work that negotiates the line between abstraction and representation to explore architecture and public space. Working with everyday “impoverished materials, the artist engages with ideas of doubt, the(...)
Elspeth Pratt
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This is the first monograph published on the work of Canadian artist Elspeth Pratt that spans her career to date. For twenty-eight years Pratt has been producing sculptural work that negotiates the line between abstraction and representation to explore architecture and public space. Working with everyday “impoverished materials, the artist engages with ideas of doubt, the precarious, and the built environment.
Canadian art
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In the late 1960s, Bill Bollinger (1939–1988) was considered one of the foremost sculptors of his time, alongside Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. In his short life, Bollinger built up a sculptural oeuvre that explored the gravity and intrinsic properties of various (usually industrial) materials. This volume offers an overview.
Bill Bollinger: Water is Life and Like Art it Finds its own Level
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In the late 1960s, Bill Bollinger (1939–1988) was considered one of the foremost sculptors of his time, alongside Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. In his short life, Bollinger built up a sculptural oeuvre that explored the gravity and intrinsic properties of various (usually industrial) materials. This volume offers an overview.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Richard Long: Berlin circle
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Richard Long is one of the leading protagonists of Land Art. Berlin Circle records the eponymous piece, a circle of stone installed by the artist for the opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof in 1996, as well as five other floor works and a large site-specific wall painting in mud.
Richard Long: Berlin circle
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Richard Long is one of the leading protagonists of Land Art. Berlin Circle records the eponymous piece, a circle of stone installed by the artist for the opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof in 1996, as well as five other floor works and a large site-specific wall painting in mud.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This catalogue presents a broad selection of Fred Sandback's works on paper, drawings and prints, providing impressive evidence of how seamlessly Sandback transferred the techniques of lithography, etching and woodcuts into the aesthetics of his time and traces the development of his sculptures in these media.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Fred Sandback: drawing spaces
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This catalogue presents a broad selection of Fred Sandback's works on paper, drawings and prints, providing impressive evidence of how seamlessly Sandback transferred the techniques of lithography, etching and woodcuts into the aesthetics of his time and traces the development of his sculptures in these media.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A practitioner of Relational Aesthetics, Italian artist Giuseppe Stampone (born 1972) pursues a participatory network model for creativity, recruiting not only large groups of people but also the internet to generate text-based and sculptural works for public spaces. Global Education looks at his various projects.
Guiseppe Stampone : global education
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A practitioner of Relational Aesthetics, Italian artist Giuseppe Stampone (born 1972) pursues a participatory network model for creativity, recruiting not only large groups of people but also the internet to generate text-based and sculptural works for public spaces. Global Education looks at his various projects.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Alan Glass
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The debut exhibition of the Canadian-born Surrealist artist Alan Glass (born 1932) was organized by André Breton and Benjamin Péret. Glass settled in Mexico in 1962, developing relationships with local and émigré artists such as Leonora Carrington, Manuel Felguérez and Pedro Friedberg. This volume offers the first survey of his Cornell-like “art object” boxes and his drawings.
Alan Glass
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The debut exhibition of the Canadian-born Surrealist artist Alan Glass (born 1932) was organized by André Breton and Benjamin Péret. Glass settled in Mexico in 1962, developing relationships with local and émigré artists such as Leonora Carrington, Manuel Felguérez and Pedro Friedberg. This volume offers the first survey of his Cornell-like “art object” boxes and his drawings.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Monika Grzymala 11
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Polish artist Monika Grzymala (born 1970) expands the practice of drawing to include paper itself: in her latest works, the drawing is the paper, from which Grzymala elicits line-like properties that in turn closely respond to the site of their production. This monographs examines this and other transformations of drawing by Grzymala, such as works using strips of colored tape.
Monika Grzymala 11
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Polish artist Monika Grzymala (born 1970) expands the practice of drawing to include paper itself: in her latest works, the drawing is the paper, from which Grzymala elicits line-like properties that in turn closely respond to the site of their production. This monographs examines this and other transformations of drawing by Grzymala, such as works using strips of colored tape.
Contemporary Art Monographs