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Jewish art and visual culture-art made by Jews about Jews-in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait...
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The Richter Interviews collects together a series of conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter over the course of more than two decades of discussion and collaboration. Subjects range from Richter's place within art history to artists books, architecture, religion, unrealised projects and his advice for young artists. The collection also includes a previously unpublished interview focused on Richter's much-lauded window for Cologne...
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An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. The book brings together a remarkable range of documents and original research which the project has produced during its continuous travels over the last four years starting with the exhibition...
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En los últimos diez años una de las líneas más fuertes del arte contemporáneo ha sido la práctica del arte público. Una proliferación de colectivos, artistas, eventos y publicaciones han vuelto el escenario más complejo, diverso y expandido. Este incremento tiene relación con que el arte público ha hecho reaparecer la cuestión política del arte, entendida como fue por el activismo de los años sesenta y setenta del siglo XX, revitalizando...
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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) était connu pour ses lignes droites et ses couleurs pures. Fasciné par les lois mathématiques de l'univers, cet artiste néerlandais nourrit son travail de découvertes scientifiques et crée un nouveau langage abstrait aux ctés de ses alliés Wassily Kandinsky et Fernand Léger. Au fur et à mesure de ses investigations, ses œuvres deviennent plus pures et plus intenses au rythme des voyages comme New York et des nouvelles...
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Today's artworld experts accept virtually anything as "art"--from all-black paintings and facsimiles of supermarket cartons to dead animals preserved in formaldehyde. Many art lovers reject such fabrications, however, arguing that they are not art. This book explains why those ordinary people are right and the presumed experts are wrong.
Museums and galleries of contemporary art around the world are filled with "cutting-edge" pieces that art...
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Tras los paradigmas del arte-como-texto de los años setenta y el arte-como-simulacro de los ochenta, Hal Foster sostiene que somos testigos de un retorno de lo real, un retorno del arte y la teoría que buscan asentarse en los cuerpos reales y en los sitios sociales. El libro presenta una lectura original del arte y de la teoría de las tres últimas décadas, con especial atención a las polémicas conexiones entre ambos, y repiensa la relación...
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Interviews' collates, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, encompassing engaging discussions with some of the most renowned names in the artworld over the last two centuries. The book features nearly 30 illustrated interviews with artists and curators, including Gerhard Richter, Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Murray, Harald Szleeman, Catherine...
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"El presente ensayo procede de una preocupación de orden estético que, si bien atañe al arte y tiene en el tiempo un lejano inicio, carece aún hoy de un descargo cumplidor. Radicada en el trato que tiene la capacidad sensorial con el uso intelectivo, en El pensamiento visible la inquietud apunta preferentemente a la pintura y se enuncia a caballo de dos conceptos de larga trayectoria pero desatento empleo, su nombre, estilo y expresión. Tantas...
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Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of violence and cruelty. They probed the darkness that the...
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An invaluable reflection on the legacy of Derek Williams (1929-1984), a Cardiff surveyor whose generous bequest of his art collection and entire net estate coincided with a reappraisal of the role and workings of the National Museum of Wales and led to the formation of the Derek Williams Trust in 1992. Concise, insightful chapters by writer and curator David Moore examine the quality and variety of artworks assembled by Derek Williams or supported...
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"Perdidas en el bosque" es un catálogo de la artista visual Cecilia Martínez, en el que se aborda su obra y el tratamiento dado a la violencia contra la mujer. Cecilia Martínez retoma el símil del cuento de la Caperucita roja para llevarnos a una reflexión amplia sobre el tema del tabú y de la transgresión del cuerpo.
En palabras de Cecilia Martínez: "La serie Perdidas en el bosque surgió como una necesidad de hacer testimonio por las miles...
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Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ¨super-radical activist environmentalists.¨ Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline, as well as Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout (1969) and an archival dossier on Ant Farm's Truckstop...
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Today's artists and art lovers who adhere to a traditional view of art are virtually submerged in the tsunami of anti-traditional work and supporting critical spin generated by the contemporary artworld. Bucking the Artworld Tide- comprising more than three decades of the author's contrarian writing and speaking- is written from their perspective. It offers a solid defense of traditional visual art, as well as trenchant critiques of countless "new...
56) Lighthouses
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The lighthouse, an indefatigable watchman, ceaselessly guides boats to their ports. This beacon of maritime signalisation has guided sailors since antiquity. The first known lighthouse appeared on the island of Pharos, and was the remarkable Lighthouse of Alexandria; however, it seems that volcanoes like Stromboli and its frequent eruptions were possibly at the origin of this invention, as the fires guided boats to their shores. Faced with the increasing...
57) Bauhaus
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Le Bauhaus est une des émergences culturelles les plus importantes et conséquentes du siècle. Walter Gropius fonda cet institut de design en 1919, à Weimar. L'école fut effective à Weimar, Dessau et Berlin. Les enseignements du Bauhaus en design sont aujourd'hui encore respectée dans les écoles de design et d'architecture. Les produits du Bauhaus sont devenus des standards du design et les immeubles du Bauhaus sont entrés dans l'histoire...
58) Les phares
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Veilleur infatigable, le phare, système de signalisation maritime salvateur qui apparut dès l'Antiquité, guidait sans relâche les bateaux jusqu'à bon port. Si ce nom puise son origine de l'île Pharos qui abritait le phare d'Alexandrie, il semble que les volcans comme le Stromboli et ses irruptions fréquentes furent à l'origine de cette invention. Si, face à la modernité croissante des équipements des bateaux, ces sentinelles solitaires...
59) City Lights
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A symbol of massive crowds and solitary desires, the city holds promise for all those that pass through it. Its meandering streets, unexplored neighbourhoods and incessant noise create a landscape that captivates the observer. The lights of the city can conceal or reveal it, transforming its appearance hour by hour, offering countless facets to the passerby. While the light of morning pulls the city from its torpor and renews it for the dawning day,...
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Symbole de promiscuité et de désirs solitaires, la ville est une promesse pour tous ceux qui s'y promènent. Ses rues alambiquées, ses quartiers anonymes et ses bruits incessants sont autant de paysages qui attirent l'innocent. Ses lumières qui la voilent, la fardent et la dévoilent, la transforment d'heure en heure, offrant au passant mille et un visages. Si les lumières matinales tirent la ville de sa torpeur et l'offrent virginale au jour...
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