Ruins
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Comprehensive examination of 'ruins' of the modern era in contemporary art and cultural theory.
Documenti d'Arte ContemporaneaSerie
Questa serie offre antologie definitive su temi, pratiche e questioni cruciali della cultura visiva contemporanea. Ogni volume raccoglie prospettive diverse di artisti e scrittori che stanno plasmando il mondo dell'arte odierno. Esplora le ultime tendenze e correnti intellettuali nell'arte, fungendo da risorsa essenziale per comprendere il panorama culturale attuale. La collezione offre approfondimenti sulle voci e generazioni variegate che definiscono l'arte di oggi.
Ordine di lettura consigliato
This collection of texts by artists, theorists and critics gives an overview of the everyday in contemporary art practice and its antecendents in Dada and surrealism, pop, situationism and Fluxus.
Network theory book - read in conjunction with neoliberal theories and posthumanist texts.
This reader in Whitechapel's Documents of Contemporary Art series investigates the interchange between art and design. Since the Pop and Minimalist eras--as the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Dan Graham demonstrates--the traditional boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, and product design have dissolved in critically significant ways. Design and Art traces the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon through the writings of critics and practitioners active in both fields. The texts include writings by Paul Rand, Hal Foster, Miwon Kwon, and others that set the parameters of the debate; utopian visions, including those of architect Peter Cook and writer Douglas Coupland; project descriptions by artists (among them Tobias Rehberger and Jorge Pardo) juxtaposed with theoretical writings; surveys of group practices by such collectives as N55 and Superflex; and views of the artist as mediator--a role assumed in the past to be the province of the designer--as seen in work by Frederick Kiesler, Ed Ruscha, and others. Finally, a book that doesn't privilege either the art world or the design world but puts them in dialogue with each other
Queer
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Boredom
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Exploring the concept of boredom in modern and contemporary art, this book examines it as a multifaceted experience. It discusses how artists confront boredom, whether by resisting it, embracing it, or using it as a means of exploring deeper themes. Through various perspectives, the text delves into boredom's role as a significant element in artistic expression, challenging traditional notions of engagement and creativity in the art world.
The Studio
- 238pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
The artist's studio is continuously being reinvented in response to new conditions. This anthology examines current studio practice and its theoretical and historical development over the last century. It surveys a wide range of artists, focusing on the studio's transition from a site for production to a situation for creativity
The cinematic
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
A collection of essays by artists, photographers, and theorists looks at the changing relationship between film and photography, examining the creative interaction between the moving and still photograph in works by Roland Barthes, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, Sergei Eisenstein, L szl Moholy-Nagy, and other
Surveys the resurgence of system-based ideas in 21stcentury art and its origin in art's engagement with systems theories from the 1950s to 1970s.
This title explores the desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers.
Exhibition, edited by Lucy Steeds provides a critical mapping of exhibitions of contemporary art, which foregrounds the role of artists in challenging givens and defining possibilities.
Failure
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged and risk considered a viable position. Between the poles of success and failure lies a productive space where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This anthology establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural production. Failure is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art.
Documentary
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Chance
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Essential writings thatconsider the diverse meanings of contemporary painting since its postconceptualrevival.
An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices.
Appropriation
- 239pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Important documents and appraisals of appropriation art from Duchamp's readymades to feminist and postcolonial critique.Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of "stealing" images and forms from other makers. Among the diverse, often contestatory strategies included under the heading "appropriation" are the readymade, d�tournement, pastiche, rephotography, recombination, simulation and parody. Although appropropriation is often associated with the 1980s practice of such artists as Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman, as well as the critical discourse of postmodernism and the simulacral theory of Jean Baudrillard, appropriation's significance for art is not limited by that cultural and political moment. In an expanded art-historical frame, this book recontextualizes avant-garde photomontage, the Duchampian readymade, and the Pop image among such alternative precursors as Francis Picabia, Bertolt Brecht, Guy Debord, Akasegawa Genpei, Dan Graham, Cildo Meireles, and Martha Rosler. In the recent work of many artists, including Mike Kelley, Glenn Ligon, Pierre Huyghe, and Aleksandra Mir, among others, appropriation is central to their critique of the contemporary world and vision for alternative futuresArtists surveyed include Akasegawa Genpei, Santiago �lvarez, Art Workers Coalition, Ross Bleckner, Marcel Broodthaers, Victor Burgin, Maurizio Cattelan, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez, Peter Halley, Hank Herron, Pierre Huyghe, Mike Kelley, Idris Khan, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Alexandra Mir, Keith Piper, Richard Prince, Jorma Puranen, Cindy Sherman, John Stezaker, Retort, Martha Rosler, Philip Taaffe.Writers includeMalek Alloula, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Nicolas Bourriaud, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Johanna Burton, Douglas Crimp, Thomas Crow, Guy Debord, Georges Didi-Huberman, Marcel Duchamp, Okwui Enwezor, Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Graw, Boris Groys, Raoul Hausmann, Sven L�tticken, Cildo Meireles, Kobena Mercer, Slobodan Mijuskovic, Laura Mulvey, Jo Spence, Elisabeth Sussman, Lisa Tickner, Reiko Tomii, Andy Warhol.
The Market
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Sexuality
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
"It has been argued, most notably in psychoanalytic and modernist art discourse, that the production of works of art is fundamentally driven by sexual desire. It has been further argued, particularly since the early 1970s, that sexual drives and desires also condition the distribution, display and reception of art. This anthology traces how and why this identification of art with sexual expression or repression arose and how the terms have shifted in tandem with artistic and theoretical debates, from the era of the rights movements to the present. Among the subjects it discusses are abjection and the "informe," or formless; pornography and the obscene; the performativity of gender and sexuality; and the role of sexuality in forging radical art or curatorial practices in response to such issues as state-sponsored repression and anti-feminism in the broader social realm." -- Publisher's description
Design and Art
- 208pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Comprehensively surveys and looks beyond the phenomenon of 'design art' that has emerged since the Pop and Minimalist era: practices that blur traditional boundaries between art, architecture, graphics, and product design. This book includes debates about form and function, the everyday, the collective and the utopian contextualized historically.
Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies. This anthology explores ways in which the archive has become central in visual culture's investigations of history, memory, testimony and identity. Surveying the full diversity of our transformed theoretical and critical notions of the archive, as both idea and as physical presence, this publication includes writings by Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Hal Foster and many others, and essays on the archival practice of such artists as Gerhard Richter, Susan Hiller, Ilya Kabakov, Christian Boltanski, Renée Green and The Atlas Group.
Memory
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of haunting and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of active forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward, ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of memory Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces, which forget in their present configurations their previous slides and falls.
Utopias
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
The utopian project in contemporary art offers both an alternative future and the prospect of inevitable failure. Richard Noble is a Fine Art Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London.
This title traces the role humour plays in transforming the practice and experience of art, from the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, through Fluxus and Pop, to the diverse, often uncategorizable works of some of the most influential artist's today.
Situation
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
"Situation--a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations--has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of art practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific, the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in recent situation specific art. In North America and Europe, the site-specific is often viewed in terms of resistance to art's commoditization, while elsewhere situation-specific practices have defied institutions of authority. The contributors discuss these recent tendencies in the context of proliferating international biennial exhibitions, curatorial place-bound projects, and strategies by which artists increasingly unsettle the definition and legitimation of situation-based art. Artists surveyed include Vito Acconci, Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Janet Cardiff, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Adam Chodzko, Collective Actions, Tacita Dean, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Liam Gillick, Renée Green, Group Material, Douglas Huebler, Bethan Huws, Pierre Huyghe, Robert Irwin, Emily Jacir, Ilya Kabakov, Leopold Kessler, Július Koller, Langlands & Bell, Ligna, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Graeme Miller, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Walid Ra'ad, Raqs Media Collective, Paul Rooney, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Serra, Situationist International, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Vivan Sundaram, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Qiu Zhijie. Writers include Arjun Appaduri, Marc Augé, Wim Beeren, Josephine Berry Slater, Daniel Birnbaum, Ava Bromberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Michel de Certeau, Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, T.J. Demos, Rosalyn Deutsche, Thierry de Duve, Charles Esche, Graeme Evans, Patricia Falguières, Marina Fokidis, Hal Foster, Hou Hanrou, Brian Holmes, Mary Jane Jacob, Vasif Kortun, Miwon Kwon, Lu Jie, Doreen Massey, James Meyer, Ivo Mesquita, Brian O'Doherty, Craig Owens, Irit Rogoff, Peter Weibel."--Publisher
Sound
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Artists surveyed include Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Maryanne Amacher, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Kim Cascone, Martin Creed, Philip Dadson, Paul DeMarinis, Bill Fontana, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Joyce Hinterding, Rebecca Horn, Ryoji Ikeda, Mike Kelley, Christina Kubisch, Bernhard Leitner, Alvin Lucier, Len Lye, Christian Marclay, Robert Morris, Max Neuhaus, Carsten Nicolai, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Luigi Russolo, Karin Sander, Mieko Shiomi, Michael Snow, Yasunao Tone, Bill Viola, Stephen Vitiello
Colour
- 238pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Boredom
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
This title is part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art.
This anthology reflects on colours' aesthetic, cultural and philosophical meaning through the writings of artists and critics. Their words are placed within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy and science.
Dance
- 238pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines the philosophies of movement instrumental to the development of experimental dance.
Intrinsically collaborative, the magazine is an inherently 'open' form, generating constantly evolving relationships. This anthology contextualizes the artist's magazine, surveying the art worlds it has by turns created and superseded; the commercial media forms it has critically appropriated, intervened in or subverted; the alternative, DIY cultures it has brought into being; and the expanded fields of cultural production, exchange and distribution it continues to engender. Surveying case studies of transformational magazines from the early 1960s onwards, this book also includes a wide-ranging archive of key editorial statements, from eighteenth-century Weimar to twenty-first century Bangkok, Cape Town and Delhi.--Publisher
The Sublime
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Education
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
This book will be an original and indispensable resource for all who believe in the importance of art in the wider educational realm. Framing the recent "educational turn" in the arts within a broad historical and social context, this anthology raises fundamental questions about how and what should be taught in an era of distributive rather than media-based practices. Among the many sources and arguments traced here is second-wave feminism, which questioned dominant notions of personal and institutional freedom as enacted through art teaching and practice. Similarly, education-based responses by the art community to the catastrophes of World War II and postcolonial conflict critically inform contemporary art confronting the interrelationships of education, power, market capitalism, and--as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri describe it--the global condition of war. These writings by artists, philosophers, educators, poets, and activists center on three recurring and interrelated themes: the notion of "indiscipline" in theories and practices that challenge boundaries of all kinds; the present and future role of the art school; and the turn to pedagogy as medium in a diverse range of recent projects. Other writings address such issues as instrumentalism and control, liberation and equality, the production and the politics of culture, and the roots of research-based practice and experimental participatory works.
Materiality
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art.
