The passionate triangle
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Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe—the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. Renaissance artists, for their part, often used shapes and lines to arrange figures into a triangle on the surface of a painting—a practice(...)
The passionate triangle
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Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe—the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. Renaissance artists, for their part, often used shapes and lines to arrange figures into a triangle on the surface of a painting—a practice modern scholars call triangular composition. But is there secret meaning in the triangular arrangements artists used, or just a pleasing symmetry? What do triangles really tell us about the European Renaissance and its most beguiling works of art? In this book, Rebecca Zorach takes us on a lively hunt for the triangle’s embedded significance. From the leisure pursuits of Egyptian priests to Jacopo Tintoretto’s love triangles, Zorach explores how the visual and mathematical properties of triangles allowed them to express new ideas and to inspire surprisingly intense passions. Examining prints and paintings as well as literary, scientific, and philosophical texts, 'The Passionate Triangle' opens up an array of new ideas, presenting unexpected stories of the irrational, passionate, melancholic, and often erotic potential of mathematical thinking before the Scientific Revolution.
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Artist and critic Victor Burgin’s visual and written works span four decades, and Parallel Texts presents a compilation of essays, interviews, and extracts that evidence the interconnectedness throughout his career of his vast artistic oeuvre exhibited around the world and his influential critical and theoretical writings on art. Includes Burgin’s take on the(...)
Parallel texts: Interviews and interventions about art
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Artist and critic Victor Burgin’s visual and written works span four decades, and Parallel Texts presents a compilation of essays, interviews, and extracts that evidence the interconnectedness throughout his career of his vast artistic oeuvre exhibited around the world and his influential critical and theoretical writings on art. Includes Burgin’s take on the emergence of conceptual art in the early 1970s, his explorations on the theoretical foundations for a post-conceptualist socialist art practice in such non-Western precedents as Maoism and Russian Formalism, and essays on the issues of gender politics and sexuality as they came to the fore in psychoanalytic criticism.
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly(...)
On the beyond: A conversation between Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, and John C. Welchman
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On the Beyond is a far-reaching conversation between the Los Angeles-based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and art historian John C. Welchman. Touching on religion, dreams, hallucination, UFOs and other forms of experiential or speculative transcendence, the trio also discusses the American landscape and the sublime, utopian and memorial architectures, and the defiantly complex capacity of art itself to go beyond.
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Based on the research of the Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005, these essays, transcripts and artists projects celebrate the belief that artists and cultural industries, in collaboration with scientists, social scientists and humanists, have a critical role to play in developing technologies that work for human betterment and allow for a more participatory(...)
Euphoria and dystophia: the Banff New Media Institute dialogues
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Based on the research of the Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005, these essays, transcripts and artists projects celebrate the belief that artists and cultural industries, in collaboration with scientists, social scientists and humanists, have a critical role to play in developing technologies that work for human betterment and allow for a more participatory culture. Each thematic chapter features an introduction, an original essay and carefully edited transcriptions drawn from thousands of hours of audio material with artists and theorists such as Laurie Anderson, Herve Fische, Kim Sawchuck, Zainub Verjee, Bill Vorn and many others. Also included is the catalogue of the exhibition, The Art Formerly Known As New Media, and a DVD based on the electronic journal, HorizonZero. Featured artists include Geoff Lillemon, Matthew Sloly, Maria Lantin, Shu Lea Cheang, Sara Diamond, Michael Naimark, Greg Niemeyer, Catherine Richards and Martin Wattenberg, Maciej Wisniewski. With a Forward by Kellogg Booth and an Afterword by Susan Kennard
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An unusual collaboration among art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published;(...)
Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe
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An unusual collaboration among art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Dürer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius's depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. This books features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
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Art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or(...)
An anthropology of images: picture, medium, body
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Art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or remembers images that are different from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, this publication presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function. The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the(...)
Against interpretation and other essays
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect. Rather than recognizing great creative works as possible sources of energy, she argued, contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on their own intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and "content. " In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art. " The essay famously finished with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".
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Cette première anthologie française de la revue allemande Texte zur Kunst confère une nouvelle valeur d'usage à une sélection d'écrits publiés entre 1990 et 1998. Elle doit permettre d'engager – ou de poursuivre – un dialogue incisif avec certaines approches théoriques américaines incontournables (October ou Artforum), comme avec les diverses réceptions de la French(...)
Une anthologie de la revue Texte zur Kunst de 1990 à 1998
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Cette première anthologie française de la revue allemande Texte zur Kunst confère une nouvelle valeur d'usage à une sélection d'écrits publiés entre 1990 et 1998. Elle doit permettre d'engager – ou de poursuivre – un dialogue incisif avec certaines approches théoriques américaines incontournables (October ou Artforum), comme avec les diverses réceptions de la French Theory ou celle des études culturelles, féministes et post-coloniales. Elle témoigne aussi d'une forme d'écriture de la critique expérimentée de manière orientée et méthodique. Enfin, elle restitue le contexte immédiat de son élaboration et – plus largement –l'environnement intellectuel et artistique de Cologne dans ces années, en évitant de céder au mythe d'une scène recentrée autour de quelques figures artistiques.
Théorie de l’art
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de(...)
Miroirs de faille: à Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Édouard Manet, 1928-29
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Les dernières études du grand historien de l'art allemand, consacrées au nouvel « espace de pensée » de la modernité : un corpus soigneusement édité d'essais, de notes et de lettres en partie inédits qui apportent un éclairage nouveau sur tout un pan des recherches de Warburg et leur évolution dans le temps, en apparence fort éloigné du champ de la culture figurative de la Renaissance.
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Penser l'image
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi(...)
Penser l'image
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Qu´est-ce qu´une image? La multiplication proliférante des images semble bien - et c´est là son paradoxe - inversment proportionelle à notre faculté de dire ce qu´est réellment une image. Ce livre est un receuil de témoignant de l'incidence de la question de l'image, de sa logique spécifique et de la transformation du champ visuel dans les savoirs contemporains ainsi que de la variété de ses approches conceptuelles, de la préhistoire à nos jours, et dans différentes traditions de pensée.
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