The Surrealist book
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Intimately handheld yet a portal to vast universes, simultaneously available to one and to many, the book is in its very nature a vessel of contradiction. These dualities were especially compelling to the painters and poets of Surrealism, who, beginning in the 1920s, embraced the book as a central medium for artistic experimentation and a crucial vehicle for disseminating(...)
The Surrealist book
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Intimately handheld yet a portal to vast universes, simultaneously available to one and to many, the book is in its very nature a vessel of contradiction. These dualities were especially compelling to the painters and poets of Surrealism, who, beginning in the 1920s, embraced the book as a central medium for artistic experimentation and a crucial vehicle for disseminating the movement’s essential tenets, strategies and aspirations—a bridge between personal revelation and social revolution. ''The Surrealist Book'' presents rare artists’ books from The Helen and Sam Zell Collection, featuring an exceptional concentration of works made in the context of Surrealism and reflecting its legacy well into the 1960s. This lavishly illustrated catalog features the most extraordinary volumes in a given edition, with special supplemental materials and contributions by writers such as André Breton and Paul Éluard and artists including Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst and Alberto Giacometti; unique maquettes and singular sketchbooks; rare works by Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Toyen and Unica Zürn; original manuscripts for iconic Surrealist texts, notably the “Surrealist Manifesto”; and extraordinary sculptural bindings that become hybrid and interactive book-objects.
Théorie de l’art
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Since her death in 2009, Mendelssohn's work has gained the interest of audiences through anincreasing array of publication and exhibition contexts. CAConrad (they/them) has spent timeamong the University of Sussex's archives that hold an extraordinary store of Mendelssohn's distinctive drawn and hand written manuscripts. They have prepared nine of their own poems to be(...)
CAConrad & Anna Mendelssohn - the poem that could not
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Since her death in 2009, Mendelssohn's work has gained the interest of audiences through anincreasing array of publication and exhibition contexts. CAConrad (they/them) has spent timeamong the University of Sussex's archives that hold an extraordinary store of Mendelssohn's distinctive drawn and hand written manuscripts. They have prepared nine of their own poems to be presented in what's become their trademark larger-than-human display size. CAConrad has worked with curator-poet Iain Morrison to select work of Mendelssohn's that resonates with the voice and form of their own work. This exhibition adopts CAConrad's method of reproducing their poems in scaled spatial installations to similarly present and interpolate nine unpublishedMendelssohn poem-drawings.
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Keeping a rendezvous
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Beginning each essay with an image, ''Keeping a Rendezvous'' examines the nature of the artistic encounter. Berger delves into questions of political struggle, the utility of hope, our relationship to images, and the role of art in our lives. By communing with the artists, revolutionaries and thinkers of the past, he shows how looking at art places us in a dialogue with(...)
Keeping a rendezvous
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Beginning each essay with an image, ''Keeping a Rendezvous'' examines the nature of the artistic encounter. Berger delves into questions of political struggle, the utility of hope, our relationship to images, and the role of art in our lives. By communing with the artists, revolutionaries and thinkers of the past, he shows how looking at art places us in a dialogue with history. In vivid, tender fragments, the book explores a range of artistic and political themes, including the miners’ strike, the world of J. M. W. Turner, the existential nature of shovelling manure in the countryside, the appealing spontaneity of cinema, and much more. Above all, Keeping a Rendezvous chronicles the relationship between looking and memory, offering us a window into Berger’s courageous imagination. In an era where everything around us begs for attention, these eloquent and insightful essays teach us how to look with intention.
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The sense of sight
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In ''The Sense of Sight'', John Berger considers the peculiar and complex practice of attentive observation. Ranging through subjects as distant from each other as the Renaissance from Hiroshima, encountering artists such as Goya, Dürer, and Van Gogh, Berger explores the deeply political nature of our engagement with the visual world. Told through interrelated but(...)
The sense of sight
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In ''The Sense of Sight'', John Berger considers the peculiar and complex practice of attentive observation. Ranging through subjects as distant from each other as the Renaissance from Hiroshima, encountering artists such as Goya, Dürer, and Van Gogh, Berger explores the deeply political nature of our engagement with the visual world. Told through interrelated but wide-ranging essays, ''The Sense of Sight'' is a personal and cultural reflection on the power art has over our feelings and perceptions. Berger shows how art teaches us to see everything with new eyes.
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Foam
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Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt the domestic space and equilibrium of the narrator, who alternately relies upon them or administers their care. Foam is the latest boundary-blurring, genre-resistant, strange and speculative new fiction from Kate Zambreno, the inimitable and relentless literary stylist and conceptualist. Inspired by the absurdities of Eva(...)
Foam
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Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt the domestic space and equilibrium of the narrator, who alternately relies upon them or administers their care. Foam is the latest boundary-blurring, genre-resistant, strange and speculative new fiction from Kate Zambreno, the inimitable and relentless literary stylist and conceptualist. Inspired by the absurdities of Eva Hesse and other soft sculpture, these are speculative art essays and textures, a document of precarity and slippery time—mischievous, moody, estranged—a masterwork of tone and atmosphere.
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Brackish waters
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"Brakish waters" is the third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island (mining, forestry, and fishing), through contemporary art and writing. Brackish waters mingle the fresh with the salt. Departing from industrial ports and shoreline ecosystems, this publication crosses oceanic worlds of extraction and distribution. It responds to marine(...)
Brackish waters
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"Brakish waters" is the third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island (mining, forestry, and fishing), through contemporary art and writing. Brackish waters mingle the fresh with the salt. Departing from industrial ports and shoreline ecosystems, this publication crosses oceanic worlds of extraction and distribution. It responds to marine environments diffracted by the perspectives of artists, writers, Indigenous Elders, fish and fishers, biologists, citizen scientists, whales, physicists, boat builders, ship workers, sailors, pirates, brittle stars, and other creatures of the deep. Nanaimo Art Gallery is located on Snuneymuxw territory, one block from the city’s harbor, a place that has seen the forced displacement of Snuneymuxw villages, the arrival of precarious mine workers from China, the UK, and Scandinavia, and the World War II internment of Japanese Canadians who ran herring salteries and shipyards there.
Théorie de l’art
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Uniting the essays in "Art-based (un)learning" is the belief that education ought to privilege organic, subjective experiences over scripted, objective itineraries. Each envisions a pedagogy of (un)learning—one that challenges hegemonic structures through critical inquiry and creative collaboration—and each frames art objects as central tools in this process. Featuring(...)
Art-based (un)learning: unexpected dialogues with artworks
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Uniting the essays in "Art-based (un)learning" is the belief that education ought to privilege organic, subjective experiences over scripted, objective itineraries. Each envisions a pedagogy of (un)learning—one that challenges hegemonic structures through critical inquiry and creative collaboration—and each frames art objects as central tools in this process. Featuring contributors from over 15 disciplines—including cinema studies, dance, fine arts, fashion, literature, design, music, theater, photography, storytelling, technology studies, pedagogy, politics, sociology, psychology, medicine, media and contemporary cultural studies—the volume examines how disparate art objects—ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the paintings of Mark Rothko, Beech Tree textiles and breath—can spark curiosity and imagination within students, aiding their development of independent thought. The volume is organized into four sections—Why (Un)Learning?; Teaching Objects; Re-Designing Futures and Possible Worlds; and Storytelling: Affect and Care—providing a kaleidoscopic view of how art and imagination can converge to pedagogically enriching ends.
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Brancusi's trinity
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In "Brancusi's Trinity," sculptor Richard Clements focuses on a proposed Hermetic cosmology between three of Constantin Brancusi’s sculptures: Endless Column (1918-1937), Table of Silence (1937), and Cup (1918-1925), positing them as an inseparable and holistic Trinity. Avoiding the traditional art historical lens that looks at an artist’s biography, historical context,(...)
Brancusi's trinity
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In "Brancusi's Trinity," sculptor Richard Clements focuses on a proposed Hermetic cosmology between three of Constantin Brancusi’s sculptures: Endless Column (1918-1937), Table of Silence (1937), and Cup (1918-1925), positing them as an inseparable and holistic Trinity. Avoiding the traditional art historical lens that looks at an artist’s biography, historical context, or symbolic/psychoanalytical interpretations, Clements instead approaches these works by focusing on their interrelated formation, formal and phenomenological relationship to each other, and their intrinsic numerological or occult concerns. As such, the sculptures form a trinity where each is seen in and through the others, simultaneously tripartite (hypostases) and singular (homoousion). Clements proposes that in their reception they open a site for latent esoteric intelligences to appear, focused around the Hermetic Principle of Correspondence: “As Above, So Below.” Extensive diagrams show the increasingly enfolded and enmeshed relationships between these three sculptures and detail how they appear in, and inform, one another.
Théorie de l’art
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"Can we design the conditions for culture?" The aim of this report is to challenge and enrich the conceptual basis on which the nature of cultural infrastructure is understood. Its three sections; "Inhabiting Cultural Infrastructure"; "Designing Cultural Infrastructure"; and "Conceptualising Cultural Infrastructure" represent distinct ways of achieving this aim. They can(...)
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Making cultural infrastructure
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"Can we design the conditions for culture?" The aim of this report is to challenge and enrich the conceptual basis on which the nature of cultural infrastructure is understood. Its three sections; "Inhabiting Cultural Infrastructure"; "Designing Cultural Infrastructure"; and "Conceptualising Cultural Infrastructure" represent distinct ways of achieving this aim. They can be read together, or as self-contained treatises.
Théorie de l’art
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Les ''Notes'' sont l'une des premières analyses à mettre en lumière le rôle central de l'art et de la culture dans la perpétuation des rapports de domination entre les pays du Nord et ceux du Sud. Publié avant ''L'Orientalisme'' d'Edward W. Saïd, le texte dénonce l'idéologie coloniale qui a contribué à la richesse des empires européens tout en reléguant les artistes du(...)
Notes préliminaires pour un manifeste noir : Arts et postcolonialisme
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Les ''Notes'' sont l'une des premières analyses à mettre en lumière le rôle central de l'art et de la culture dans la perpétuation des rapports de domination entre les pays du Nord et ceux du Sud. Publié avant ''L'Orientalisme'' d'Edward W. Saïd, le texte dénonce l'idéologie coloniale qui a contribué à la richesse des empires européens tout en reléguant les artistes du Sud aux marges de l'histoire. Il constitue également un appel à la collaboration artistique et démocratique afin de construire de nouvelles plateformes de réflexion, de recherche et de contestation de l'ordre établi, au service d'un monde (de l'art) plus juste et égalitaire. Pour la première fois traduit vers le français, ce document majeur continue d'offrir des outils critiques à celles et ceux qui souhaitent faire de leur pratique une force de transformation sociale. À son arrivée à Londres en 1964, l'artiste pakistanais Rasheed Araeen découvre une scène artistique foisonnante de radicalité créatrice et d'ouverture internationale, toutefois marquée par le conservatisme des institutions et un climat politique hostile aux personnes migrantes. Confronté à ces blocages, il s'engage au sein du British Black Panther Movement et d'Artists for Democracy, avant de rédiger en 1975 les ''Notes préliminaires d'un manifeste noir''.
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