Paul Thek notebook
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American artist Paul Thek, an influential figure in the post-1960s generation, left behind more than 100 notebooks containing drawings and watercolors, diary entries, poetry, correspondences, ideas for artworks and elaborate transcriptions of texts by philosophers or theologians. Considered by Thek to be artworks unto themselves, his notebooks provide unparalleled insight(...)
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American artist Paul Thek, an influential figure in the post-1960s generation, left behind more than 100 notebooks containing drawings and watercolors, diary entries, poetry, correspondences, ideas for artworks and elaborate transcriptions of texts by philosophers or theologians. Considered by Thek to be artworks unto themselves, his notebooks provide unparalleled insight into his imagination, which he translated into sculpture, painting and installation. This facsimile edition of one of Thek’s composition notebooks from 1977 provides an up-close experience of this intimate facet of his practice, with vivid watercolors, lists, scribbles, notes and sketches revealing glimmers of the inner life of a legendary artist. Within the notebook, Thek endeavors, continuously, to work out his mind, dispelling humorous and resonant self-directives, such as “Avoid anyone who seeks to be a MASTER.” A few pages later, in reference to another declarative, he cautions, “This is not necessarily true; avoid definitions.”
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In the latest volume in the ''On Words series'', Mai-Thu Perret, in conversation with Sarah Burkhalter, talks about her personal fascinations, the randomness of glazing ceramics, and her love of reading. Burkhalter and Perret also explore artistic and intellectual means of including the importance of motherhood into art discourse without being reduced to that(...)
octobre 2026
Mai-Thu Perret: And each moment has its response
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In the latest volume in the ''On Words series'', Mai-Thu Perret, in conversation with Sarah Burkhalter, talks about her personal fascinations, the randomness of glazing ceramics, and her love of reading. Burkhalter and Perret also explore artistic and intellectual means of including the importance of motherhood into art discourse without being reduced to that role. Born in Geneva in 1976, and of Franco-Vietnamese heritage, Perret combines ceramics, installation, film, sculpture, painting, and textiles in her practice, which grew from an original affinity for writing and storytelling. She draws on the artistic and historic genealogies of the avant-garde as well as on Zen and feminist literature to create objects, spaces, and performances in which anthropology and political history give rise to intriguing heterotopias.
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The Architectonic Centre in Aix-en-Provence, officially opened in 1976, is a unique architectural manifesto. The building marks the culmination of Victor Vasarely's exploration into ways of integrating art into architecture, an adventure that began in the 1950s via his work with the Espace group who championed a 'synthesis of the arts' and continued through his(...)
septembre 2026
Projet pour une révolution : Vasarely et l'architecture
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The Architectonic Centre in Aix-en-Provence, officially opened in 1976, is a unique architectural manifesto. The building marks the culmination of Victor Vasarely's exploration into ways of integrating art into architecture, an adventure that began in the 1950s via his work with the Espace group who championed a 'synthesis of the arts' and continued through his collaboration with modern architects to accomplish 'architectural integrations'. // Inauguré en 1976, le Centre architectonique d'Aix-en-Provence est un manifeste architectural unique. L'édifice marque l'aboutissement des recherches de Victor Vasarely sur l'intégration de l'art à l'architecture, initiées depuis les années 1950, à travers ses travaux avec le groupe Espace qui défend la « synthèse des arts » ou encore sa collaboration avec des architectes modernes pour la réalisation d'intégrations architecturales.
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Although highly regarded during his short life--and honored by artists and architects today--the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as(...)
décembre 1999, Cambridge, Mass.
Object to be destroyed : the work of Gordon Matta-Clark
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Although highly regarded during his short life--and honored by artists and architects today--the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space. In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s--particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices--and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs.
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décembre 1999, Cambridge, Mass.
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S.O.H. (states of humanity)
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"States of humanity" (SOH) is a comprehensive work of art to which every participant makes a subjective contribution. It is also an ongoing project that took as its starting point six sculptures made by Alex Vermeulen.
août 1999, Amsterdam
S.O.H. (states of humanity)
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"States of humanity" (SOH) is a comprehensive work of art to which every participant makes a subjective contribution. It is also an ongoing project that took as its starting point six sculptures made by Alex Vermeulen.
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août 1999, Amsterdam
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A thorough documentation of Whiteread's "Water Tower" from notebook entries to the final completion of the resin tank, this book includes texts by Louise Neri, Molly Nesbitt, Luc Sante, Tom Eccles, and Neville Wakefield.
Looking up : Rachel Whiteread's water tower
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A thorough documentation of Whiteread's "Water Tower" from notebook entries to the final completion of the resin tank, this book includes texts by Louise Neri, Molly Nesbitt, Luc Sante, Tom Eccles, and Neville Wakefield.
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septembre 1999, New York
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This book surveys the ways in which artists, mostly of the present century, have addressed the museum, commented on its nature, confronted its concepts and functions, drawn from its methods, and examined its relationship to the art it contains.
The museum as muse : artists reflect
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This book surveys the ways in which artists, mostly of the present century, have addressed the museum, commented on its nature, confronted its concepts and functions, drawn from its methods, and examined its relationship to the art it contains.
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mars 1999, New York
Artists land nature
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This volume presents five important contemporary artists who work in the landscape and make use of the materials and processes of nature. While the artists showcased — herman de vries, Chris Drury, Nikolaus Lang, Richard Long, and Giuseppe Pennone — do not belong to a particular school, they are united by their empathy for the natural world and their decision to work(...)
mars 2002, New York
Artists land nature
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This volume presents five important contemporary artists who work in the landscape and make use of the materials and processes of nature. While the artists showcased — herman de vries, Chris Drury, Nikolaus Lang, Richard Long, and Giuseppe Pennone — do not belong to a particular school, they are united by their empathy for the natural world and their decision to work outside the urban contexts of much modernist art. Profiles of each artist, based on specially commissioned interviews, and an essay placing their art in both historical and contemporary contexts accompany the illustrations.
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Displaying the marvelous : Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist exhibition installations
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Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favor of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of installation art before the form existed as such. In Displaying the (...)
Displaying the marvelous : Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist exhibition installations
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Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favor of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of installation art before the form existed as such. In Displaying the Marvelous, Lewis Kachur explores this development by analyzing three elaborate Surrealist installations created between 1938 and 1942. The first two, the "Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme" (1938) and the "Dream of Venus" at the New York World's Fair (1939), dealt with the fetishization of the female body. The third, "First Papers of Surrealism" (1942), focused not on the figure but on the entire expanse of the exhibition space, thus contributing to the development of nonfigurative art in New York. Kachur presents a full visual and verbal reconstruction of each of the exhibitions, evoking the sequence that the contemporary viewer would have encountered. The book considers Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí, two artists who are not usually compared, within a common framework. Duchamp specialized in frustrating the spectator, using his ironic wit to call into question the definition of the work of art. Dalí was a master at disorienting the senses by establishing and then undermining everyday spatial and object properties. The Surrealist challenge, as voiced by André Breton, was to evoke the marvelous. Duchamp and Dalí extended that challenge to the physical and commercial realm of the exhibition installation.
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juin 2001, Cambridge, Mass.
John Piper : The forties
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This book re-examines the work of John Piper who, as well as being a prominent painter, printmaker and photographer, was an active figure in many cultural spheres during the 1940s when the foundations of his reputation were laid. The book brings together work that was officially commissioned during the Second World War and contextualises it with work from the pre-war(...)
octobre 2000, London
John Piper : The forties
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This book re-examines the work of John Piper who, as well as being a prominent painter, printmaker and photographer, was an active figure in many cultural spheres during the 1940s when the foundations of his reputation were laid. The book brings together work that was officially commissioned during the Second World War and contextualises it with work from the pre-war and post-war years. All aspects of Piper's work during the fories are examined, including theatre designs, architectural paintings, the Recording Britain project, his work as a war artist, neo-Romanticism, and Welsh landscape painting towards the end of the decade. In addition, the book features Piper's writings and criticism, his designs for film posters and book jackets, photographs, exhibition catalogues, sketchbooks and manuscript letters.