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,(...)
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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.
Art Theory
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Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page "grand narrative" retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept of the "Sphere." For Sloterdijk, life is a matter of form and, in life, sphere formation and thought are two different labels for the same thing. The trilogy also offers his corrective answer(...)
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Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page "grand narrative" retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept of the "Sphere." For Sloterdijk, life is a matter of form and, in life, sphere formation and thought are two different labels for the same thing. The trilogy also offers his corrective answer to Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, reformulating it into a lengthy meditation on Being and Space -- a shifting of the question of who we are to a more fundamental question of where we are.
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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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Design Theory
The stairway to the sun & dance of the comets: four fairy tales of home and one of astral pantomime
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"The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets" brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the anti-erotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. "The Stairway to the Sun" consists of four fairy tales of sun, sea, animals, and storm, each set in a different, fantastical locale: from the giant fever-dream palace of an astral star to a(...)
The stairway to the sun & dance of the comets: four fairy tales of home and one of astral pantomime
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"The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets" brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the anti-erotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. "The Stairway to the Sun" consists of four fairy tales of sun, sea, animals, and storm, each set in a different, fantastical locale: from the giant fever-dream palace of an astral star to a dwarf’s glass underwater lair in the jellyfish kingdom. Scheerbart’s sad, whimsical tales provide gentle, simple, though unexpected morals that outline his work as a whole: treat animals as one would treat oneself, mutual admiration will never lead to harm, and if one is able to remember that the world is grand, one will never be sad in one’s own life. "Dance of the Comets", though published as an “Astral Pantomime,” was originally conceived as a scenario for a ballet, and one that Richard Strauss had planned to score in 1900 (and which Gustav Mahler even accepted for the Vienna Opera). Though the project was never realized, Scheerbart’s written choreography of dance, gesture, costume, feather dusters, violet moon hair, and a variety of stars and planets outlines a symbolic sequence of events in which everyone—enthusiastic maid, temperamental king, indifferent executioner, foolish poet—seeks, joins, and in some cases, becomes a celestial body: a “dance” toward higher aspirations and a staging of Scheerbart’s lifelong yearning for a home in the universe.
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100 secrets of the art world
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What do major artists consider their best-kept secret? What is regarded as confidential knowledge among the key players of the global art market? In ''100 Secrets of the Art World'', the most powerful international individuals share their insights. Edited by Thomas Girst and Magnus Resch (author of the bestselling Management of Art Galleries), this fun guide to(...)
100 secrets of the art world
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What do major artists consider their best-kept secret? What is regarded as confidential knowledge among the key players of the global art market? In ''100 Secrets of the Art World'', the most powerful international individuals share their insights. Edited by Thomas Girst and Magnus Resch (author of the bestselling Management of Art Galleries), this fun guide to contemporary art contains exclusive anecdotes, advice and personal stories from artists, museum directors, gallerists, auction house insiders, collectors and many more.
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