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"Art and its institutions" is a reader on current institutional conditions and the role of institutions within artistic processes. With essays by authors and academics such as Beatrice von Bismarck, Andrea Fraser, Simon Sheikh and Jan Verwoert, this book examines the interests of the various institutions involved in the creation of art, and explore the impact these(...)
Art and its institutions : current conflicts, critique and collaborations
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"Art and its institutions" is a reader on current institutional conditions and the role of institutions within artistic processes. With essays by authors and academics such as Beatrice von Bismarck, Andrea Fraser, Simon Sheikh and Jan Verwoert, this book examines the interests of the various institutions involved in the creation of art, and explore the impact these institutions have on the contemporary art world. It covers topics including the impact of the decline of the welfare state on art institutions; the social and physical architecture of art institutions in Nordic states and Eastern Europe; a critical re-evaluation of the institutional critique of the 70s and 90s and the introduction of new models of critique in current artistic practice. The book also documents and discusses two exhibition projects, and examine their relationship to the conflicts and desires provoked by institutions.
Museology
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Can art express questions about justice? Could art, perhaps, even create justice? In Aesthetic Justice, sociologist Pascal Gielen and curator Niels Van Tomme invite a variety of artists and critical thinkers—including Zoe Beloff, Arne De Boever, Mark Fisher, Matt Fraser, Tessa Overbeek, Kerry James Marshall, Viktor Misiano, Carlos Motta, Nat Muller, Julie Atlas Muz,(...)
Aesthetic justice: artistic and moral perspectives
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Can art express questions about justice? Could art, perhaps, even create justice? In Aesthetic Justice, sociologist Pascal Gielen and curator Niels Van Tomme invite a variety of artists and critical thinkers—including Zoe Beloff, Arne De Boever, Mark Fisher, Matt Fraser, Tessa Overbeek, Kerry James Marshall, Viktor Misiano, Carlos Motta, Nat Muller, Julie Atlas Muz, Gerald Raunig, Dieter Roelstraete, Hito Steyerl, Julia Svetlichnaja, Hakan Topal, Samuel Vriezen and Christian Wolff—to reflect on new futures for the notion and practice of justice. The book offers thought-provoking views on the ways in which art may confront and potentially redirect social and political futures. Incorporating analyses of contemporary artworks that challenge the social, political or economic status quo, as well as interviews with artists and theoretical reflections, Aesthetic Justice considers the liberating potential of aesthetic frameworks and suggests alternatives for a more just future.
Art Theory
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With his memorably titled 1956 collage "Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?", British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 Swingeing London series of prints, which depicted the arrest of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art entered the general public consciousness. But unlike(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2010
Richard Hamilton : Modern moral matters
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With his memorably titled 1956 collage "Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?", British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 Swingeing London series of prints, which depicted the arrest of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art entered the general public consciousness. But unlike so many Pop artists, Hamilton was never an uncritical or ambivalent advocate of postwar society, and he has often agitated directly against it, producing a great deal of openly political, satirical work that assaults both consumer culture at large and more immediate political events. This monograph, published for Hamilton's 2010 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London (his first exhibition since 1992), brings together Hamilton's famous "protest" paintings as well as newer political works and features essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Michael Bracewell.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Erickson worked chiefly in concrete, which he called "the marble of our times," and wherever they appear, his buildings move the spirit with their poetic freshness and their mission to inspire. Travel was key to Erickson’s creative process: floating high above the clouds on extended flights, he made the preliminary drawings for the spectacular, large-scale works that(...)
Arthur Erickson: an architect's life
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Erickson worked chiefly in concrete, which he called "the marble of our times," and wherever they appear, his buildings move the spirit with their poetic freshness and their mission to inspire. Travel was key to Erickson’s creative process: floating high above the clouds on extended flights, he made the preliminary drawings for the spectacular, large-scale works that would be built in various parts of Canada -Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University - and around the world.This first full biography of Erickson, who died in 2009 at the age of 84, traces his life from its modest origins to his emergence on the world stage. Grounded in interviews with Erickson and his family, friends and clients, Arthur Erickson is both an intimate portrait of the man and a stirring account of how he made his buildings work.
Canadian Architects
The photographic I
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Catalog accompanying the first part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent, spread over two years, curated by Martin Germann with Tanja Boon and Steven Humblet. The exhibition comprises new and existing work by artists and photographers including Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Moyra Davey, Marc De Blieck, Sara Deraedt, Patrick Faigenbaum, Peter Fraser,(...)
Photography Collections
December 2017
The photographic I
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Catalog accompanying the first part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent, spread over two years, curated by Martin Germann with Tanja Boon and Steven Humblet. The exhibition comprises new and existing work by artists and photographers including Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Moyra Davey, Marc De Blieck, Sara Deraedt, Patrick Faigenbaum, Peter Fraser, Alair Gomes, Jitka Hanzlová, Roni Horn, Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Zanele Muholi, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Trevor Paglen, Doug Rickard, Torbjørn Rødland, Michael Schmidt, Arne Schmitt, Allan Sekula, Ahlam Shibli, Malick Sidibé, Dayanita Singh, Wolfgang Tillmans, Marc Trivier and Tobias Zielony. The selection, ranging from the 1960s to the present, demonstrates a lively interest in the power of the still image as a means of examining the world. It concentrates on indefinable images with an open view, whose multi-layering requires slow reading. With an introduction by Martin Germann and Philippe Van Cauteren, and an essay by Steven Humblet in Dutch and English.
Photography Collections
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En 2 livres: 1. Maison solaire 2007 Le Décathlon solaire est une compétition biennale internationale réunissant des équipes d'étudiants d'une vingtaine d'université du monde entier. Le défi lancé à ces futurs professionnels est de concevoir, de construire et d'opérer une maison fonctionnant uniquement à l'énergie solaire. Cet ouvrage documente la participation d'Équipe(...)
Architecture de Montréal
August 2008, Waterloo
Maison solaire et maison du nord / Solar house and North house
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En 2 livres: 1. Maison solaire 2007 Le Décathlon solaire est une compétition biennale internationale réunissant des équipes d'étudiants d'une vingtaine d'université du monde entier. Le défi lancé à ces futurs professionnels est de concevoir, de construire et d'opérer une maison fonctionnant uniquement à l'énergie solaire. Cet ouvrage documente la participation d'Équipe Montréal, un consortium de l'école de technologie supérieure (ETS), l'Université de Montréal Faculté de l'aménagement et l'École d'Architecture de McGill, au Décathlon solaire 2007. 2. Maison du nord 2009 Cet ouvrage documente la présentation de design préliminaire du projet candidat au Décathlon solaire 2009 réalisé par le consortium pancanadien des universités de Waterloo, Simon Fraser et Ryerson: Maison du Nord. Tous les deux ans, le Décathlon solaire se déroule sur le National Mall, à Washington D.C. Cette compétition rassemble plusieurs équipes d'architectes et d'ingénieurs qui doivent chacune bâtir une maison fonctionnant entièrement à l'énergie solaire.
Architecture de Montréal
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"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In this book, John(...)
Architecture in Canada
September 2007, Montreal Kingston
Beyond wilderness : The group of seven, Canadian identity, and contemporary art
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"The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country" was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven's artistic project. The empty landscape paintings of the Group played a significant role in the nationalization of nature in Canada, particularly in the development of ideas about northernness, wilderness, and identity. In this book, John O'Brian and Peter White pick up where the Group of Seven left off. They demonstrate that since the 1960s a growing body of both art and critical writing has looked "beyond wilderness" to re-imagine landscape in a world of vastly altered political, technological, and environmental circumstances. By emphasizing social relationships, changing identity politics, and issues of colonial power and dispossession contemporary artists have produced landscape art that explores what was absent in the work of their predecessors. Beyond Wilderness expands the public understanding of Canadian landscape representation, tracing debates about the place of landscape in Canadian art and the national imagination through the twentieth century to the present. Critical writings from both contemporary and historically significant curators, historians, feminists, media theorists, and cultural critics and exactingly reproduced artworks by contemporary and historical artists are brought together in productive dialogue. Beyond Wilderness explains why landscape art in Canada had to be reinvented, and what forms the reinvention took. Contributors include Benedict Anderson (Cornell), Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art Gallery). Rebecca Belmore, Jody Berland (York), Eleanor Bond (Concordia), Jonathan Bordo (Trent), Douglas Cole, Marlene Creates, Marcia Crosby (Malaspina), Greg Curnoe, Ann Davis (Nickle Arts Museum), Leslie Dawn (Lethbridge), Shawna Dempsey, Christos Dikeakos, Peter Doig, Rosemary Donegan (OCAD), Stan Douglas, Paterson Ewen, Robert Fones, Northrop Frye, Robert Fulford, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Reesa Greenberg, Gu Xiong (British Columbia), Cole Harris (British Columbia), Richard William Hill (Middlesex), Robert Houle, Andrew Hunter (Waterloo), Lynda Jessup (Queen's), Zacharias Kunuk (Igloolik Isuma Productions), Johanne Lamoureux (Montréal), Robert Linsley (Waterloo), Barry Lord (Lord Cultural Resources), Marshall McLuhan, Mike MacDonald, Liz Magor (ECIAD), Lorri Millan, Gerta Moray (Guelph), Roald Nasgaard (Florida State), N.E. Thing Company, Carol Payne (Carleton), Edward Poitras, Dennis Reid (Art Gallery of Ontario), Michel Saulnier, Nancy Shaw (Simon Fraser), Johanne Sloan (Concordia), Michael Snow, Robert Stacey, David Thauberger, Loretta Todd, Esther Trépanier (Québec), Dot Tuer (OCAD), Christopher Varley, Jeff Wall, Paul H. Walton (McMaster), Mel Watkins (Toronto), Scott Watson (British Columbia), Anne Whitelaw (Alberta), Joyce Wieland, Jin-me Yoon (Simon Fraser), Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Joyce Zemans (York).
Architecture in Canada
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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going(...)
Occupying space : Sammlung Generali Foundation collection
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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going beyond photography, film, video, and installation, all of which allow for process-oriented engagement. The Generali Foundation in Vienna has devoted much of its collection, exhibition energy, and research focus to this "difficult" type of artwork. Though many of the artists that form its collection are part of the canon of recent art history, they are mostly underrepresented in institutions--but not the Generali Foundation. Occupying Space presents a dense, comprehensive selection of projects from its collection by such artists as Valie Export, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Hans Hollein, Mary Kelly, Gordon Matta-Clark, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, and Franz West, together with brief, articulate texts on their work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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2x4, 3 Deep Design, A Practice for Everyday Life, Åbäke & Daniel Eatock, Adrian Shaughnessy, Alon Levin, &&&, Andrew Blauvelt, Angela Lorenz, Anna Gerber, Anne Burdick, Base, Bibliothèque, Bluesource, Brighten the Corners, Browns, Build, Cartlidge Levene, Catalogtree, Christos Lialios, COMA, Cornel Windlin, Coup, Cyan, Default, Design Machine, The Designers Republic,(...)
Idea 316 The conditions of graphic design
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2x4, 3 Deep Design, A Practice for Everyday Life, Åbäke & Daniel Eatock, Adrian Shaughnessy, Alon Levin, &&&, Andrew Blauvelt, Angela Lorenz, Anna Gerber, Anne Burdick, Base, Bibliothèque, Bluesource, Brighten the Corners, Browns, Build, Cartlidge Levene, Catalogtree, Christos Lialios, COMA, Cornel Windlin, Coup, Cyan, Default, Design Machine, The Designers Republic, Dmitri Siegel, Elektrosmog, EricandMarie, Event10, Experimental Jetset, Fabio Ongarato, Fons Hickmann, Fraser Muggeridge, Fuel, Giampietro+Smith, Goodwill, Graphic Thought Facility, Hanna Werning, Hyperkit, Ingo Offermanns, Jonathan Barnbrook, Jop van Bennekom, Julia Born, Julie Joliat, Juliette Cezzar, Kasia Korczak, Kerr|Noble, Laurent Fétis, Leonardo Sonnoli, Lust, M/M Paris, MadeThought, Manuel Raeder, Manuela Porceddu & Derk Reneman, Marc Atlan, Maureen Mooren & Daniël van der Velden, Mevis en Van Deursen, Morality of Objects, Muriel Paris et Alex Singer, Nick Bell, Non-Format, Norm, North, Onlab, O-R-G, Paul Elliman, Paul Sahre, Peter Bilak, Philippe Apeloig, Practise, Project Projects, RBG 6, Ruedi Baur, Rumbero Design, Sara de Bondt, Spin, Ständige Vertretung, Stefan Sagmeister, Stiletto, Struktur Design, Stuart Bailey, Will Stuart, Studio FM milano, Studio Thomson, Suburbia, Sulki & Min Choi, Surface, Tania Prill & Alberto Vieceli, Thomas Buxó, Toffe, Toko, Tom Hingston, Tomato, Universal Everything, Vier5, Why Not Associates, Winterhouse
Graphic Design and Typography
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Après les succès de Vitamine P et Vitamine D, deux ouvrages témoignant respectivement, du dynamisme de la peinture, puis de celui du dessin, au sein de la création artistique la plus récente, Vitamine Ph administre une dose supplémentaire de vitalité artistique, en offrant d explorer la place prépondérante du médium photographique dans les arts visuels aujourd hui.(...)
Vitamine Ph : nouvelles perspectives en photographie
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Après les succès de Vitamine P et Vitamine D, deux ouvrages témoignant respectivement, du dynamisme de la peinture, puis de celui du dessin, au sein de la création artistique la plus récente, Vitamine Ph administre une dose supplémentaire de vitalité artistique, en offrant d explorer la place prépondérante du médium photographique dans les arts visuels aujourd hui. "Vitamine Ph : nouvelles perspective en photographie", présente ainsi les travaux photographiques de 121 artistes, originaires de plus de trente pays différents, et sélectionnés par un comité international composé d éminents critiques, commissaires d exposition et directeurs de musées. L'introduction à cette sélection audacieuse, TJ Demos examine l'évolution de la pratique photographique par les artistes qui en repoussent toujours plus loin les limites. Les artistes de Vitamine Ph renouvellent et réinventent ainsi les genres photographiques - de la photographie documentaire à celle dite «artistique», de la photographie héritée de l art conceptuel mêlant images et texte à la photographie «performative». Sont présents les travaux d artistes établis tels que ceux de Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, ou Peter Fraser comme ceux des figures montantes parmi lesquelles, Anri Sala, Tim Lee, et les français Ito Barrada et Valérie Belin.
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