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Head in Merian Park: The Faces of Transformation. The Space of Transitive Images. Paradox and Its Double. Clemente and His Pictorial Symbolism. Harvesting Aspects of Literary History. Three Impromptus on the Art of Gerhard Richter. A Sense of Imposition. To be Innocent of Corruptions. Burning Is the Image in the Hour of the Eclipse.
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The Encounter with Reality. Battles or the Art of War. An Open Look at Blinky Palermo. Painter of New Theaters of Action. Dance about Dance about Me about Us. Working with Success—Working with Unsuccess. Not Cold, Not Too Warm. The Oblique Photography of Thomas Struth. The Ideal and the Abject: A Man in a Room, Gambling. Oscillations—The Paintings of Ross Bleckner. A Conversation with Philip Smith. Seven Notes on the Immaterial.
A Grammar of Visual Delinquency. Towards the ARC, Paris. The Exhibition, the Work and Its Indications. Logic and Disruption in the Work of Alighiero e Boetti. Jenny Holzer and the Spectacle of Communication. Hanne Darboven or the Dimension of Time and Culture. Autobiography of a Painting.
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More than Meets the Eye. The Strategy of Proximity. To the Moon via the Beach. Fragments of a Language of Orientation. The Negation of Negation. The Shape of Things to Come. Storytelling — Paulina Olowska and History in Motion. The Pavilion of Contrasts. On the Plastic Situations of Valentin Carron. Cumulus from Boston and London. The Art of Danh Vo. Urs Fischer's Objects and Images. Attention Must Be Paid For. Rosemarie Trockel's Recent Ceramic Works. Rosemarie Trockel's Idea of Relief. Text by Jeremy Wood. Screenplay by Atom Egoyan. Text by Michael Tarantino.
Featuring poems, artist's projects, film stills and photographs, The Event Horizon presents the work of over 15 European artists and is based on an exhibit held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Irony is one of the defining characteristics of postmodernism, but is it a meaningful strategy today? Introduction by Dominic Molon. Text by Anthony Huberman, Kelly Shindler. Foreword by Erlend G. Serving as a repository of memory and atonement, the titular mansion itself functions as a portrait of the family's collective trauma.
The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture brings together the work of over 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. The Luminous West unites 33 artists from two generations to define the artistic landscape of Germany's Rhineland and North Rhine-Westphalia regions. As contemporary art in India becomes more widely recognized within the country, there has also been a growing awareness of its growth and impact internationally.
Text by Michael Connor. Foreword by Linda Shearer. Introduction by Toby Kamps. Essay by Frances Richard. Drawing on s cul p tural paradigms as diverse as paper-doll books, Mad magazine fold-ins and exploded schematic diagrams, the artists in The Paper Sculpture Book offer a hands-on, self-contained art show. Text by Carel Blotkamp. The People's Art invokes the Dutch tradition of intense social organization, spread across every aspect of government, interest groups and human relations. Foreword by Lawrence Rinder. Combining studio, classroom, library, gallery and stage, The Possible offered a new model of museum exhibition.
Traversing a variety of mediums, this publication explores Christian themes in secular art from the past 25 years. Acknowledgements by Claudia Gould. At first glance, The Puppet Show seems a flip title. Like the European Romantics, Fluxus artists were intent on changing society through reverie and imagination. Its goal is to support young international artists. Text by Ericka Beckman, A. The payoff doubles each time tails appears. This anthology summarizes seven years of exhibitions at the Swiss Institute in New York.
Text by Michael Taussig, Breyten Breytenbach. Western art has long nurtered an idyllic dream of "the tropics," absorbing larger cultural longings for exoticism, armchair travel, uninhibited sensuality and the rejection of industrialized civilization. Preface by Katharina Blaas, Christiane Kreijs. Text by Jumana Al Yaziri, et al. Contributions by Claire Jervert, Oliver Wasow. Appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs and other such sinister sightings have been reported throughout history, but nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so powerfully as in the postwar United States.
Media images of terrorist acts ingrain themselves in the collective memory with a pungency against which we seem almost powerless. Alixe Bovey, Erik Davis. Text by Horst Bredekamp, et al. The Vertigo of Reality explores the profound changes in art as a result of digital media, such as video games. This volume explores artistic representation of today's increasingly precarious work and social spheres within advanced economies.
Introduction by Cecilia Alemani. X was a one-year, experimental non-profit initiative, whose goal was to inspire new ideas for producing and experiencing contemporary art. Reflections from a Damaged Life? Edited by Christian Malycha. Text by Theodor W. Edited by Carin Kuoni. Contributions by Ernesto Neto, Charles Eames. Text by Barbara Clausen. Bubbles and related forms seem to be springing up everywhere lately in contemporary art. Preface by Dieter Rampl. The Scenario Book is a curatorial project that aims to construct a representation of the European community from the perspective of the arts.
Thread Lines departs from the typical assumption that drawing means putting pen to paper, framing it instead as an open-ended act in which lines can be woven, stitched, knit, even embodied. Preface by Karin Zimmer. Text by Holger Ventura, Gerardo Mosquera. What effect can art have in the face of current conflict? In this volume, curators, theorists, artists and writers argue for methods of map-making that go beyond geographic representation. Text by Esther Buss, Alexander R. Galloway, Hans Ulrich Reck, et al. Foreword by Hugh M.
In a "post-Latin American" age, Latin American art has taken a postmodern tack, mindful of borders and identity politics but not determined by them. Text by Ludwig Seyfarth, Zdenek Felix. The radical metamorphosis of everyday objects has emerged as an increasingly prominent theme in contemporary art, demonstrating that the legacy of the Surrealist object has only gained in significance.
Text by William Warmus, Laura Burkhalter. Transparencies brings together a group of international artists whose work explores glass as both medium and as subject matter. Text by Mark Gisbourne, et al. Drawing from contemporary art as well as the work of old masters, Truth attempts to confront art's relationship with truth and the acquisition of knowledge.
Text by Friedrich W. Typemotion looks at a variety of artistic productions in which type is animated--from feature films and advertising to artworks and music videos--with examples from 20 countries dating from to the present. Under 30 presents annual award-winning young up-and-coming Swiss artists. Employing artificial materials to create simulations of nature, the 18 artists featured in UnNaturally explore the ways in which the boundaries between nature and culture are sometimes blurred.
Unsettled Landscapes , published for Santa Fe's inaugural SITElines Biennial, looks at the urgencies, political conditions and historical narratives that inform the work of contemporary artists across the Americas. Utopia Gesamkunstwerk presents a contemporary perspective on the historical idea of the Gesamkunstwerk , or total work of art, first defined by Wagner as an art that unites all art forms. The transition between a dream and reality is sometimes blurry and jagged--moments of panic, confusion, fear, joy, a trail of thoughts that carries emotions from one world to the next.
Vienna Actionism was the most extreme artistic project of the s, mostly preceding and always surpassing the other performance art, body art and happenings in terms of sheer violent excess. Inspired by visions of the Virgin Mary in the tenth century, the works presented in this volume explore the persistence of visions in contemporary art. The agency of pedestrianism in the realm of civic creativity has become a major tool for contemporary art, particularly since the 60s. Walk Ways explores this theme of walking as an action and a metaphor.
Preface by David Schwartz. Walkers explores the reimagining and recycling of Hollywood iconography in contemporary art and the way that movies live on in our personal and cultural memories. Text by Uta Caspary. Text by Shamim M. Featuring the work of 14 Los Angeles artists, the exhibition Wasteland and its accompanying catalogue are inspired by the unlikely meeting, in the city of Paris, of the LA-as-cultural-wasteland myth with T. As an exponent of holism and experiment, Buckminster Fuller was an exemplary figure to many artists in his lifetime, and his relevance has only gained.
We Need to Talk bursts open the conventions of the bound book, consisting of 10 posters that, folded twice, become 80 single pages. Edited with text by Dan Nadel. Essay by Kathleen Forde. Interviews with Naut Humon and Steina Vasulka. Synesthesia is the condition where stimulation of one sense aural, for instance triggers another visual , so hearing a G minor chord might literally make you see red. What We Call Love explores how the notion of love has evolved within the 20th century.
How have seismic sociological changes concerning sexuality, marriage and intimacy affected the way we conceive love today? Featuring 14 artists and one pair of artistic collaborators, What about the Art? Contemporary Art from China examines the contributions of Chinese artists to the international canon of contemporary art.
Trash Rubbish Mongo examines the work of artists who use garbage as their artistic medium, creating art that mirrors our alienation and consumerism. Author Lea Vergine suggests trash is a natural medium: Edited by Niels Van Tomme. Where Do We Migrate To? This richly illustrated reader reflects on Africa at the beginning of the twenty-first century using literary and scientific texts and essays. Wild Sky presents works of photography, video, painting and installation that attempt to measure and encompass the skies.
This catalogue gathers work that explores recent changes in the perception of nature. Essays by Homi Bhabha and Orhan Pamuk. The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: Text by Matthias Frehner, et al.
Introduction by LeRonn Brooks. Text by Jordan D. Schnitzer, Elizabeth Bilyeu When justice is at stake, artists historically have spearheaded challenging conversations. The work in this book bears witness to stories and identities that challenge dominant paradigms. Introduction by Mette Marcus and Kirsten Degel.
Text by Ruth Hemus. This catalogue explores the relationship between the written word and art and film. Work Hard , the curatorial debut of celebrated Swiss artist Valentin Carron born , presents a creative discourse between a surprising group of artists: World and System takes A. The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Borrowing its title from a George Brecht aphorism, Yesterday Will Be Better examines a recent upsurge in the use of mnemonics in art.
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The legendary art collective Nul was founded in Amsterdam in Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. For reproduction permissions, contact the copyright holders. Generation Loss Edited with text by Julia Stoschek. True Colours Introduction by Hugh Allan. Mirrored Edited by Mats Stjernstedt. Modern Utopias Modern Utopias is published to accompany a long-term touring exhibition that tells the story of the utopias of the 20th and 21st centuries through great works from the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Traces of the Political Edited with text by Rainer Fuchs. Text by Noit Banai, Maja Fowkes, et al. The nightclub as avant-garde architecture: Portable Art Edited by Celia Forner. Shedding Light Edited by Beppe Finessi. In an increasingly polarized world, Social Forms surveys those artists at the forefront of political resistance In Social Forms: Unseen images of the Beats, including many—uniquely—in color This magnificent volume features a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of the Beat Generation by renowned Magnum photographer Burt Glinn.
The Boat is Leaking. For 14 Rooms , curators Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist invited artists to each activate a room and explore the relationship between space, time and physicality with an artwork whose "material" is the human being. The s were a groundbreaking decade for contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates, a radical moment when artists in the UAE explored experimental new formats, formed art collectives and founded journals. Text by Christian Egger, et al. This volume looks at artworks situated between photography and sculpture.
Since the s, Miami's Rubell family has collected the works of the most relevant contemporary African American artists as an integral part of their broader mission to collect the most interesting art of our time. Text by Sandy Nairne, Sarah Howgate. The BP Portrait Award is the world's leading showcase for painters working in portraiture. Since its inception in , the Berlin Biennale has developed into a primary forum for contemporary art. This sixth Biennale is curated by Kathrin Rhomberg and is themed around the idea of contemporaneity itself.
Abstrakt Contributions by Christine Buci-Glucksmann. Abstrakt surveys new works in the field of abstract painting that subvert the principles of Modernism and reflect on the status of painting in a post-Duchampian universe. Text by Brigitte Borchardt-Birbaumer, et al. This catalogue brings together an assortment of artists who extend the medium of painting into post-Constructivist sculpture and installation.
After Nature Text by Massimiliano Gioni. After the Reality Text by Kentaro Ichihara. Among Heroes Preface by Ellen Seifermann. Animal Spirits Edited by Karen Marta. Animations Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Ape Culture Edited by Hila Peleg. Apocalyptic Wallpaper Edited by Annetta Massie. Architektonika Edited by Matilda Felix. Art Basel Unlimited Every year, between 50 and 70 artists are invited to the exceptional platform Unlimited , which defies limitations and experiments with new forms of presentation.
Art and China after Twenty years of experimental art from a globalized China Published on the occasion of the largest exhibition of contemporary art from China ever mounted in North America, organized by the Solomon R. Art and the City Edited by Christoph Doswald. Art in the Age of Art of Another Kind: Edited by Valerio Terraroli. Art or Sound Introduction by Germano Celant. Artists for Artists Edited by Eric Banks.
Australia By Thomas Keneally. Automatic Cities By Robin Clark. Barcelona Sculptures Essay by Jaume Capo. Big Picture Preface by Marion Ackermann. Blur of the Otherworldly: Booster Edited by Marta Herford. Born To Be Wild: Brilliant Dilletantes Introduction and text by Mathilde Weh. Bronze By Francesca Bewer. Catch Me Edited by Peter Pakesch. China Edited by Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi. Color in Flux Edited by Peter Friese. Command Z Text by Lisa Moren.
Create Edited by Lawrence Rinder. Creating Ourselves Edited by Emily Butler. Dance with Camera Edited by Jenelle Porter. Devil On The Stairs: Disaster Text by Michael Bracewell. Double Life Edited by Joanna Ahlberg. Drawing Now Essay by Laura Hoptman. Electronic Superhighway Edited by Omar Kholeif. Embedded Metaphor Edited by Nina Felshin. Empty Dress Edited by Nina Felshin. Exile on Main Street During Pop art's heyday in the s, a small headstrong group presented themselves as artists' artists rather than media darlings.
Family Ties Edited by Trevor Fairbrother. Fantastic Prayers Artwork by Tony Oursler. Focus Asia Edited by Philipp Bollmann. For Real Essay by Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen. Fourth Plinth Foreword by Grayson Perry. Frauenzimmer Edited by Stefanie Kreuzer. Free to Love Introduction by Jesse Pires.
Freeway Balconies Edited by Collier Schorr. From Media To Metaphor: Text by Barbara Rose, Adrien Goetz. Function Dysfunction Since the s, Glasgow has developed a thriving art culture. Heart of Darkness Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. History is Now Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Huckleberry Finn Edited by Jens Hoffmann. Human Condition Edited by Peter Pakesch. Image Anxiety This volume looks at the relationship between image production and conditions of anxiety across the booming economies of Asia, from Korea to China to Japan. Inventing Abstraction, By Leah Dickerman.
Ironic Edited by Claudia Emmert. Konkret Edited by Simone Schimpf. Landscape Confection Essay by Helen Molesworth. Lifelike Edited by Siri Engberg. Lights On Edited by Gunnar B. Live Forever Edited and introduction by Teresa Calonje. Love Edited by by Danilo Eccher. Made in Rome Edited by Manuel Blanco. Madly in Love By Germano Celant. Maps and Legends Edited by Luca Cerizza.
Mo ve ment Edited by Wolfgang Fetz. Money, Good and Evil: New York Graphic Workshop: Nuage Edited by Michele Moutashar. On the Road Edited by Gloria Moure. Out of Beirut Edited by Suzanne Cotter. Overcoming Dictatorships Text by Jutta Vinzent. Para Fictions Edited with text by Natasha Hoare. Paz Errazuriz and Lotty Rosenfeld: Photorealism Edited by Otto Letze. Politics of Form Edited by Hans D. Portrait of a Generation Introduction by Kathy Grayson. Post-Hypnotic Artwork by Peter Halley. Reinventing Abstraction Text by Raphael Rubinstein.
Remote Viewing Edited by Paul Young. Resistance Performed Edited by Heike Munder. Revolution in the Making Edited by Paul Schimmel,? Ruffneck Constructivists Edited and with an introduction by Kara Walker. Sad Songs Edited by Barry Blinderman. September 11 Edited by Peter Eleey. Situational Diagram Edited with text by Begum Yasar.
Smoky Pokership Edited by Sibylle Omlin. Sonsbeek , Edited by Yves Aupetitallot. Species Text by Ludwig Seyfarth. Squatters Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. Streetopia Edited by Erick Lyle. Subversive Practices Edited by Hans D. Supermarket of the Dead Edited by Wolfgang Scheppe. Surface Tension Supplement No. Tempo Edited by Paulo Herkenhoff. The Dissolve Edited by Sarah King. The East Village Scene Reviewing the fertile melting pot of downtown New York in the late s and early s, The East Side Scene excavates the nightclubs and galleries where that decade's defining art was first exhibited.
The End of the 20th Century: The Sense of Movement: The Way Things Are: Things are Queer Edited by Marta Herford. Tokyo Edited by Doryun Chong. Transactions Edited by Stephanie Hanor. Transformed Objects Preface by Monika Schnetkamp. Truth Edited by Thomas Rusche.
UnExhibit Edited by Sabine Folie. Walk Ways Essay by Stuart Horodner. Wall Work Edited with text by Gabriele Knapstein. We Need to Talk Special subjects require special book formats. What about the Art? Worlds Away Edited by Andrew Blauvelt. Yes Naturally Edited by Ine Gevers et al.
Notwithstanding their considerable differences and individuality--one would hardly expect them to have a lover in common--Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy and Raymond Pettibon share an artistic intent to explore eroticism and sexuality. With a mix of irreverence and sincerity, artists John Baldessari and Meg Cranston here tackle nothing less than the question of God.
Foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon. With over illustrations by 50 artists, 21st-Century Portraits explores new developments in the representation of the human form and face as well as the continuing appeal of commissioned portraiture. From its inception in the s, the Rubell Collection has been able to boast a particularly fine range of African-American art. This book--accompanied by a DVD containing excerpts of all featured works and additional materials--tracks 40 years of German video art, from to the present. Erkmen's installations interpret socially and historically implicit architecture, while Floyer's light projections, videos, photographs and sculptures seem to lack underlying themes.
Access to Israel Foreword by Raphael Gross. Introduction by Eva Atlan. Africa Remix is one of the only comprehensive publications on young contemporary art of the last decade in and from Africa. Amateurs Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Contributions by Michael Archer. Chicago is known as a center of innovation in architecture, literature and music, but Art in Chicago is the first broad overview of its twentieth-century fine art.
This volume investigates the historical and contemporary use of projected images in art, from the screen to the exhibition space and back again. Assume Vivid Astro Focus: Assume vivid astro focus avaf for short is an artists' collective whose members prefer not to let the public know their names. In the form of a geographic atlas, this volume initiates dialogue between art and other disciplines such as the sciences, sociology and politics. A companion volume to 's See This Sound , this all-embracing compendium brings together texts on the various art forms that have combined sound and image.
Text by Lucy Orta, Joanne Entwistle. Through clothing, we celebrate or suppress identity, indicate allegiances and communicate our positions, aspirations and desires. Baja to Vancouver Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Based in Berlin showcases some 80 emerging artists currently living and working in Berlin, pursuing practices ranging from painting and drawing to sculpture, photography, film and video, text, performance and installation.
The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups, or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. Introduction by Thomas D. Before the Law looks at a variety of sculptors who tackle the political dimensions of existential personhood. Stolen and appropriated imagery has proved to be the principle means by which artists have challenged the image industry that they must constantly compete with.
Edited by David Hunt. When Cinderella's fairy godmother transforms her, the magic words are "bibbidi, bobbidi, boo! Spanning several generations, from Dada to the present, Blind Cut explores notions surrounding the themes of fiction and deception. Text by Walter Moser, Christina Natlacen. Body as Protest highlights the photographic representation of the human body as a radical expression of protest against social, political and aesthetic norms. Foreword by Nancy Doll. Contemporary art, with its inherent contradictions, ambiguities, and market alliances, is an idiosyncratic--even problematic--lens through which to examine situations borne of economic necessity.
Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference--the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals--but with no actual conference. Broken Screen is comprised of informal conversations between artist Doug Aitken and a roster of 26 carefully chosen artists, filmmakers, designers and architects. Make us something about cats. As Japan sped through modernization and technological advancement in the late twentieth century, complex influences shaped its Modern and contemporary art. A new world is emerging in China, with urbanization and the wholesale globalization of daily life moving at unprecedented speed.
Texts and Interviews The Contemporary Chinese Art Awards CCAA are intended both to enhance public awareness of what Chinese artists contribute to contemporary culture and to encourage the development of the country's most promising talent. China's brush-and-ink traditions remain vital in contemporary Chinese art; the genre is continually under renewal by successive generations of artists. This book is sinfully delicious, sweet, and chocolaty! It's no wonder that many an artist has been transfixed by the delicately irresistible, melt-in-your-mouth consistency of chocolate. Cartoon and comic book imagery are suddenly ubiquitous.
This exhibition catalogue posits falling in love as a radical action. This lavish publication takes a fresh approach to the curating of a private collection, the Hong Kong-based Burger Collection. In recent years, critics and curators have pursued fascinating lines of analogy and sympathy between the sculptural oeuvres of Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra born Some, like the Tasmanian tiger, are considered extinct--yet sightings are still reported.
Some, like the giant squid, existed only as rumors until hard evidence finally appeared. The comic book, the cartoon strip and the single-panel gag are recurring motifs in twentieth-century art, providing a platform for narrative, political critique, graphic clarity, and, of course, fun.
Text by Brian Dillon, Marina Warner. Curiosity explores the notion of intellectual and creative curiosity. Compiled in association with author and U. Introduction by David Gordon. The moving picture, film, and television have exerted an unmatched influence throughout the twentieth century, equally documenting and constructing our reality. Interview with Paul Chan, Helen Molesworth.
Dance and the visual arts have had a longstanding inter-relationship, but until now there has been no authoritative portrayal of their shared characteristics. Double Album Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Dead Flowers Edited by Lia Gangitano. Based on the work of director and cult legend Timothy Carey , Dead Flowers features new scholarship on this brilliant actor and filmmaker.
Decadence Now Decadence Now!: Visions of Excess updates the androgyny, druggy velvet glamour, individualist dandyism and gothic decay of nineteenth-century Decadence for our times. Text by Lubo Merhaut, Daniel Vojtech. Demons, Yarns and Tales: Twenty years after the fall of Augusto Pinochet, Chilean artists are still confronting the legacy of his dictatorship. In its capacity as a critical, historical and utopian medium, drawing has experienced a reevaluation--above all since the s--as a conceptual form within the sphere of Minimalism and Conceptual art.
Essays by Daniel Birnbaum and Harold Garfinkel. The Do It book contains artworks by more than international artists in the form of do-it-yourself text instructions to be completed by the reader. The Catalog Essay by Okwui Enwezor. Extensively illustrated, the Catalog contains an essay of the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 curatorial team: Borders are artificial constructs, but can be deadly to cross.
They present one of the central social and cultural themes of our time. Foreword by Marti Mayo. Double Consciousness explores the conceptual art practices of African-American artists over the past 35 years, using as its underpinning, the "reflexive" nature of art-making which emerged with the avant-garde of the late s. Photographs by Cindy Sherman. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, Pierre Huyghe.
To be able to take one's self off like a jacket and put on another self--who hasn't occasionally wished it were possible? Down the Garden Path: Foreword by Tom Finkelpearl. An international array of artists including Isamu Noguchi, Jenny Holzer and Vito Acconci have been using the garden as a vehicle for commentary on social and political issues, in both public and private realms. Photographs by Richard Kern, David Wojnarowicz. Edited by Julie Ault, Dan Cameron. Contributions by Carlo McCormick. Text by Simon Rees, Sabine B.
East by South West catalogues a project for which 21 internationally renowned curators were invited to develop exhibitions for 21 Vienna galleries with artists from Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Ecomedia Edited by Sabine Himmelsbach. In recent years the idea of ecology as a communications system in which humans, animals and organic materials occupy equivalent status has gained in authority.
To whose advantage and disadvantage are ecosystems destroyed? Introduction by Claudia Schmuckli. Elevator to the Gallows Edited by Gerald Matt. Interview by Gerald Matt, Banks Violette. Text by Neville Wakefield. Engagement Party Edited by Elizabeth Hamilton. Introduction by Aandrea Stang. Engagement Party chronicles a four-year program at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, presenting new projects by Southern California-based artist collectives and collaborators working in the field of social practice.
Text by Fabrice Bousteau. Ethnic Marketing Edited by Tirdad Zolghadr. Ten years ago, EVN Sammlung, an Austrian power company, set itself the task of collecting the most intensely contemporary art it could lay hands on, without concern for how the work would mature. Switzerland Text by Friedemann Malsch, et al.
This substantial and ambitious volume compiles paintings, drawings, photographs, installations and objects on the theme of space, as instanced in Swiss art of the past years. Edited by Adrienne Goehler. Edited by Marc-Olivier Wahler. Foreword by Dieter von Graffenried. The inspiration for this book can be found in the question posed in its subtitle.
Eye Infection Essay by Robert Storr. Here are five artists rarely mentioned in the same sentence--and never before collected together in one book. Towering skyscrapers, manned space flights, the Olympics From some angles, the new China is a country of dreams fulfilled, of glory and pride. Over the last 40 years, Ingvild Goetz has assembled one of the world's most important and adventurous collections of media art. Media Art Edited by Stephan Urbaschek. Conversations with Benjamin H. The last decade of the Cold War era left a legacy greater than legwarmers.
Flashback takes a close and critical look at what many see as the decade of painting. Flight Patterns Contributors include Cornelia H. Flight Patterns highlights contemporary artists primarily working in the Pacific Basin--Southern California, Canada, New Zealand and Australia--whose work addresses the specific topographical conditions and experience of living in this geographically and geopolitically dynamic region. This large-format compilation brings together interviews between the respected Frankfurt art critic Peter Iden and 15 significant contemporary artists from Europe and America: Free Radicals Edited by Leif Goldberg.
Free Radicals , a book of comics and drawings, is the product of the seminal Providence, Rhode Island Paper Rodeo group and its eponymous underground comics tabloid. Friendly Fire Essays by Leonhard Emmerling. The term "friendly fire"--the inadvertent attack of military units by their allies--is a concise means of subsuming incomprehensible and paradoxical circumstances under one slogan.
A distinguishing characteristic of contemporary Chinese art is a fusion between traditional Asian forms and references to Western art and pop culture. Edited by Alfredo Jaar, Osvaldo Sanchez. Contributions by Carmen Cuenca, Michael Krichman. Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice and public space.
Funny Cuts Preface by Christian von Holst. Gateways introduces a generation of young artists whose work deals with the changing conditions of a networked world that is increasingly influenced by new media. Foreword by Dietrich Kramer. Over the past 20 years, the Vienna-based Generali Foundation has established itself as an internationally distinguished institution, with countless must-see exhibitions of conceptual and critical intermedia art to its name. The paintings of Vincent van Gogh remain as relevant as ever, exerting an ever-profound influence on generations of artists.
Going Staying Text by Volker Adolphs. Are you staying or are you going? Goodbye to London Edited by Astrid Proll. A decidedly edgy tenor permeated London's counterculture in the s. Greater New York , jointly organized by P. The third iteration of the quintennial exhibition organized by P. Heavy Metal Edited by Dirk Luckow. Whether iron, steel, aluminum, lead, bronze, silver or gold, metal can be worked and shaped in a wide variety of ways, affording artists considerable scope for expression. Noyes and Max Henry. Introduction by Richard Hamilton. Home may be a house or an apartment or a cardboard box, but it is never just that.
While Western Modernism rejected narrative, and Western contemporary art is just now coming around again, India boasts a strong tradition of contemporary figurative, narrative painting. Edited by Peter Noever. In an urban zone crisscrossed by multilane freeways and gridded with broad boulevards, the roadside billboards of Los Angeles may well be the city's most visible platform for art.
At the end of the s, a group of American painters stepped out of the shadows of Abstract Expressionism and turned towards the tradition of painterly realism. Icelandic Art Today offers a broad survey of the diverse creative trends unfolding in Iceland. Icelandic culture is so strongly oriented towards language that the visual arts didn't truly begin to develop until the early twentieth century--which is remarkable for a Western country.
In an age of increasing mobility and dissolving social bonds, the yearning for intimacy and security grows steadily stronger in western society. Cowe, Dominique Lobstein, Vanessa Lecomte. Stretching from Paris to Le Havre, the Seine river and the valley flanking it afford some of France's loveliest views.
Works from Edited by Tim Nye. Text by Adrian Dannatt. A modern-day meditation on the beauty, rigor, luxury and understated power of high Minimalism. This text-heavy exhibition catalogue focuses on self-confident, nonconformist Feminist positions, pointing out that new role models and strategies are being requested. Contributions by Jerome Sans. Afterword by Peter Selz. Until recently, the figurative artists who dominated the Los Angeles art scene of the s and 50s had largely been written out of art history. Raw is an attempt to right that wrong.
Essays by Andrew Gellatly and Peter Kroher. At first glance, the artist and the scientist don't seem to have very much in common. One deals with aesthetics, emotions, and visual power, while the other works with facts, verifiable proof, and academic rigor. What is the role of laughter and humor in contemporary art? Le Surrealisme c'est moi! Edited by Gerald A. Matt, Catherine Millet, August Ruhs. Interviews by Gerald A. LeWitt x 2 Introduction by Stephen Fleischman. Essays by Dean Swanson and Martin Friedman.
LeWitt x 2 offers a unique perspective on the work of renowned Minimalist and Conceptualist Sol LeWitt, documenting the arc of his career alongside his personal collection of contemporary art. Louise Bourgeois has said, "For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture. Foreword by Judith Richards and Ralph Rugoff.
Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as worthy of portrayal as other cultural icons. Portraits of Artists by Other Artists begins where Warhol left off. The creators of Loyal magazine and its eponymous gallery celebrate five years with this, their first book. European Cityscapes Edited by Peter Pakesch. Foreword by Peter Pakesch. M City inquires into medium sized European cities through a mix of hematically defined sections Mapping, Shopping, Migration and a sampling of six cities, including Basel, Krakow and Trieste.
The years from to are often identified as the moment in which Los Angeles established itself as a leading cultural center in America. Made in France Edited and with text by Alexis Nolent. There is only one word for it in French: It includes graphic novels, comics, comic strips, comic book series, serial comics, mangas: Magic Show demonstrates how artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of theatrical magic to explore creative agency, the power of suggestion and the fragility of belief.
This spectacular exploration of new trends in "fucked-up figuration" is the unconventional exhibition catalogue for Mail Order Monsters , the international traveling show put together by Kathy Grayson of New York's Deitch Projects. The Manifesta--the nomadic European Biennial of Contemporary Art--explores the impact that industrial practices such as the production of coal have had on some of the most innovative artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Manifestations Edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo. Foreword by Patsy Phillips. Preface by Will Wilson. Featuring 60 biographical essays by 21 indigenous curators, historians, anthropologists and academics, over full-color reproductions and four contextual essays, Manifestations: The city of Hamburg provided the Galerie fr Landschaftskunst and the Kunstverein in Hamburg with an ideal example of an urban metropolis for a joint project entitled Mapping a City: Text by Katrin Bucher Trantow.
Measuring the World accompanies a group show at the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria which explored the taxonomies of the museum through the work of 41 artists interested in ordering and classification systems and displays. The last 10 years have brought both literal and virtual global mobility to artists. The confrontation of two artistic generations contributes to a clarification of the changes wrought through and in the unceasing and ever global population migrations of the twentieth century.
Minimalism and After Edited by Renate Wiehager. Essay by Claudia Seidel. In their youth, Minimalism's elemental forms, serial accumulations and industrial materials argued consistently against abstract art's subjective gestures. Non-relational, non-hierarchical and anti-compositional were the words of the day. First published in , and soon out of print, Minimalism and After is a now classic presentation of Minimalist and Postminimalist tendencies from the s to the present day.
Minimalism in Germany Edited by Renate Wiehager. Minimalism in Germany offers a definitive overview of constructivist and concrete abstraction and the avant-garde in s Germany. Reflecting on the decline of modernist utopianism, this volume surveys those artists who have explored and embraced its decay: Featuring works created by over 60 international artists who were invited by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts to devise plans for a monument for the United States of America. Essays by Cornelia Gerner and Per Hovdenakk.
Contemporary artists have been borrowing from Edvard Munch for years, as this book shows. Over 50 paintings and graphic works by Munch share a kinship with approximately 50 selected works by 30 contemporary artists. Interviews by Dieter Buchhart. Narratives Edited by Peter Pakesch. Narrations features a cross-generational sampling of works by artists from Austria and its neighboring countries. Essay by Karen Smith. Between them, the stars of Naughty Kids have shown at nearly every museum and gallery in China, national and private. Text by Radhika Jha. The recent Bollywood craze in the West might get more exposure, but contemporary Indian artists aren't far behind.
Artwork by Rutger Pontzen. Impatient with the often closed circuits within which art circulates, Rutger Pontzen calls upon artists to look for fresh venues for their work. In , 10 contemporary Chinese artists debuted at the 45th Venice Biennale. The reception was lukewarm: In this age of globally connected information societies--of cell phones, email, home shopping, and the Internet--we retreat deeper and deeper within our own four walls. No One is Innocent: Punk Text by Thomas Miessgang. Academic still lifes and ready to hang museum pieces.
Stillness, emptiness, silence, the pause, the gap, the omission--all these visual moments of silence are increasingly significant in today's society of images. Contributions by Cathy Gudis. Foreword by Thomas Seligman. The works in On the Edge represent the reactions of leading Chinese artists to encounters with the West.
Foreword by Judith Tannenbaum. Introduction by Marion Boulton Stroud. No longer the Muzak of the decorative arts world, wallpaper has lately fallen back into fashion. Foreword by James K. Interview with Diane Halle by Roland Augustine. The works in this catalogue are drawn from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, one of the most important collections of Latin American art in the U.
Seven Screens Edited by Christian Schoen. Albert Einstein once said, "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. Edited by Lynn Herbert. Text by Paola Morsiani, Marti Mayo. Text by Mike Salisbury. Overspray is the conclusive account of the rise of airbrush art, and of the equally bright and glossy Los Angeles culture alongside which it came to prominence in the s.
Foreword by Eric Brown. Text by Douglas Crase, Jenni Quilter. Writing and painting have been intertwined throughout history, but literature has of late become a diminished subject in the medium of painting, which has looked more to history, society and politics for inspiration. This is an in-depth examination of the work of seven international emerging artists who have embraced a novel and challenging approach to painting.
Painting People Edited by Charlotte Mullins. Now available in paperback! After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back.