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An alternative artistic guidebook to the Georgian capitalComposed of artistic accounts that critically reflect on recent urban and social changes in Georgias capital Tbilisi this book unveils multifaceted perspectives on a city trying to negotiate its complex heritage its contentious present and potential for the future It also serves as an alternative guidebook
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This publication documents a littleknown temporary artwork In the winter of 197374 Paul Thek 19331988 was a guest of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg where he installed the roomfilling environment Ark Pyramid Christmas The Mangera development of the legendary Pyramid installation realized at Documenta 5 in 1972 This exhibition organized by the director of the museum at the time Siegfried Salzmann was the fourth in Theks largescale projects in Europe all of which engaged with individualized religious symbols or what Harald Szeemann termed Individual Mythologies The Christmas season provided Thek with the occasion to present for the first time a selfwritten theater piece in the form of a nativity play featuring children from Duisburg This book reproduces the museums archival materials offering a reconstruction of the exhibition It includes an interview with Edwin Klein who assisted with Theks installation
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This book brings together 50 exquisite portrait drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods including works by da Vinci Dürer Holbein Bernini Carracci Clouet and Rembrandt These works capture a moment of connection between artist and sitter an encounter
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Frenchborn Madridbased photographer Pierre Gonnord born 1963 has spent a great deal of time among the gypsy communities of Spain particularly those in Seville and Perpignan In such a strong and marked community it is hard to arrive and take pictures immediately he observes and after an extended period of acclimatization Gonnord was accepted by his subjects and permitted to photograph them The people I met were extraordinary There was a real exchange in silence trust and intimacy Deeply painterly Gonnords photographs draw on the Spanish tradition of portraiture established by Ribera and Velázquez cloaking their subjects in dark sober backdrops and bathing their features in a light that draws out every expressive crease and wrinkle with dignity rather than intrusive scrutiny This volume gathers Gonnords widely exhibited gypsy series for the first time
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In August 1946 Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue today Le Baron Tavernier near Chexbres on Lake Geneva It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall which was to become the starting point for and ultimately the landscape of his enigmatic and final masterpiece Étant donnés 1 la chute deau 2 le gaz déclairage Given 1 The Waterfall 2 The Illuminating Gas Now for the first time the full significance of the choice of this waterfall is explored Among the contributors to this volume are Caroline Bachmann Stefan Banz Etienne Barilier Lars Blunck Ecke Bonk Paul B Franklin Antje von Graevenitz Dalia Judovitz Michael Lüthy Bernard Marcadé Herbert Molderings Adeena Mey Stanislaus von Moos Francis M Naumann Mark Nelson Molly Nesbit Dominique Radrizzani Roman Signer Michael R Taylor Hans Maria de Wolf and Philip Ursprung
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This book unites the work of contemporary artists who address the experience of time as a material Jeff Wall Hiroshi Sugimoto Joachim Koester Ceal Floyer Steven Pippin Michael Weseley Paul Pfeiffer Michael Snow Daniel Blaufuks Mabel Palacín David Claerbout Erwin Wurm Tacita Dean Iñaki Bonillas and Clare Strand
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The Manual of Travelling Exhibitions published by UNESCO in 1953 was a handbook on organizing touring exhibitions It was conceived by Elodie Courter Osborne out of her work as head of the Department for Circulating Exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art New York Aiming her book at museums and other public institutions Courter formulated a grammar of exhibitions ranging from organizational questions to reflections on exhibition design Rereading the Manual of Travelling Exhibitions reproduces the page spreads of the original annotating them in its margins and adding contemporary critical commentary In the information the book includes and leaves out its design and the photographic logic of its images the manual now reads like the manifesto of a modernity whose continuity was still unbroken in the immediate postwar period
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The great Senegalese photographer Mama Casset 19081992 was introduced to photography at the tender age of 12 by the French photographer Oscar Latakia a friend of his fathers who tutored Casset in the fundamentals of the art Casset learned quickly and by 1943 he had opened his first studio in Dakar obtaining plenty of portraiture work primarily among the capitals bourgeoisie As the Europeanoperated photography studios began to close as Senegalese independence approached Cassets popularity and success benefited from the dwindling of the competition enabling him to open a second studio in MBour south of Dakar When independence at last arrived for the country Casset received the prestigious commission to make the official portrait of the first president of Senegal Leopold Sedar Senghor Over the subsequent years Casset was to grow blind and was sadly forced to abandon his lucrative business in 1983 when a fire destroyed his studio and much ofits archives By that time however Cassets legacy was assured and his work had inspired several generations of West African photographers who had grown up with his photographs in their family albums This volume selects the highlights of his career
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A reexamination of postwar Italian visual culture through the life of artist and critic Fabio MauriThis book takes the life of the Italian multimedia artist and writer Fabio Mauri born 1926 and the history of his familya publishing dynasty with close connections to radical Italian art poetry cinema philosophy and literatureas a starting point for a reexamination of the forces shaping Italian visual culture between the end of the Second World War and the Years of LeadBefore or After at the Same Time combines commissioned essays and first person accounts with translated writings from the period to explore the ideas circulating in Rome and Milan in the 1950s and 60s In doing so it provides an alternative anecdotal and partial perspective on a turbulent period drawing attention to the pivotal personal and professional networks that shaped postwar Italian art Particular focus is given to the relationship between the American and Italian art scenes in the intersection of different artistic disciplines and the influence of Roman and Milanese cultures on the artists working in the cities
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Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries of the social spaceTechno is one of the more spectacular and mediatized aspects of contemporary culture But is it more than mere entertainment more than just an escape from a world that no ideology can claim to finalize Like any fashion phenomenon techno is the product of the human need for experimentation and the necessity to go beyond the limits and forms imposed on human existence In terms of how it has appropriated technology for festive and aesthetic purposes the techno movement could be considered as a sort of artistic and political laboratory of the present
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Laurie Andersons Nothing in My Pockets is a twopart sound diary originally broadcast on French radio kept between July 4 and October 4 2003 This volume contains the radio piece on two CDs as well as a selection of original visual documentsoffering an intimate glimpse into the personal universe of this seminal American artist
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At once practical and creative this book was feminisms Whole Earth CatalogOriginally published in 1973 The New Womans Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of the secondwave feminist effort across the US Edited by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie in just five months The New Womans Survival Catalog makes a nod to Stewart Brands influential Whole Earth Catalog mapping a vast network of feminist alternative cultural activity in the 1970sGrimstad and Rennie set out on a twomonth road trip in the summer of 1973 meeting and interviewing a range of organizations and individuals and gathering vital information on everything from arts groups to bookstores and independent presses health parenting and rape crisis centers and educational legal and financial resources These projects express a rejection of the values of existing institutional structures Grimstad and Rennie wrote and unlike the hip male counterculture represent an active attempt to reshape culture through changing values and consciousnessArranged in themed sections on art communications work and money child care selfhelp selfdefense and activism The New Womans Survival Catalog provides crucial insight into feminist initiatives and activism nationwide during the Womens Movement It includes a Making the Book section that details the publications productionKirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie are the coeditors of The New Womans Survival Catalog and The New Womans Survival Sourcebook 1975 They went on to cofound Chrysalis A Magazine of Womens Culture published out of the Womans Building in downtown Los Angeles from 1977 to 1981 Grimstad is currently CoChair of Undergraduate Studies at Antioch University Los Angeles she is the author of The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus 2002 Rennie taught social sciences at Union Institute amp University in Cincinnati worked as a womens health activist and now lives in Venice California
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At first glance The Puppet Show seems a flip title Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni this exhibition catalogue focuseswith both humor and gravityon the surprisingly prodigious amount of puppet imagery in contemporary art It takes as its historic point of departure one of the first episodes of avantgarde art history Alfred Jarrys 1896 puppet play Ubu Roi which the South African artist William Kentridge in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company has adapted into an allegory of apartheid Other puppets are featured in works from more than 30 wellestablished international artists including Anne Chu Terence Gower Pierre Huyghe Christian Jankowski Laurie Simmons Kiki Smith and Kara Walker This volume also looks at puppets in Modern art and popular culturefrom Sophie Tauber Arps Dada marionettes to the Internet phenomenon of the sockpuppeta wellknown persons fake online persona created in order to boost public opinion
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Constant Nieuwenhuys 19202005 known as Constant was a founding member of the Cobra group and the Situationist International and the artist behind the utopian architectural New Babylon projectThis publication examines his practice in the 1950s and his transition from Cobra to New Babylon In this decade the fantasy figures of Constants Cobra period were followed by abstract painting a transition from the twodimensional to the threedimensional plane with the architectural models and sketches made for the New Babylon project and ultimately a return to painting with the color experiments that he pursued from 1969 until his death in 2005Constant Space Colour gathers rarely seen works alongside a short selection of texts written between 1949 and 1965 which provide a glimpse into the radical transformations of these years
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Dread The Dizziness of Freedom reflects on possible rearticulations of the concept of dread in our times Associated with the dizziness of freedom by Søren Kierkegaard and with the ecstasy of nihilism by China Miéville the experience of dread is a defining characteristic of the contemporary human condition andaccording to the contributors to this volumean essential and potentially productive emotion However dark and fatalistic its connotations through its dialectical coupling of caution and transgression of paralysis and overdrive dread allows us to imagine the world differently Through conversations with and essays by some of todays foremost cultural commentators this book explores the creative agency of dreadan agency that is created by the very forces wishing to suppress or even destroy itas well as its politics and related conceptions of fear and anxiety
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This theory book brings together contributions from visual artists writers and theorists to rethink the way that the language of economics and finance influences our thought and modes of expression Through artistic contributions image essays and texts this book aims to manifest across both art and theory a poetic counterlanguage
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Photobooth Pieces brings together for the first time in print a body of work little known or seen for nearly 40 years by the pioneering American performance artist Jared Bark born 1944 The selection of pictures in this volume covers a short but intense period of activity that the artist a leading figure in the New York art world undertook in his SoHo loft during the first half of the 1970s These innovative constructions assembled from photobooth strips are an important addition to the history of art and photography of that time The works are all reproduced at full scale and the book includes an essay by art historian Catherine Damman and an interview with the artist by Hannah Howe and Elizabeth Easton
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That the tradition of the still life never left art for good only changed in dramatic and often unforeseen ways is the contention and reason behind this succinct and stimulating volume Assembled here are works by forty of the most important artists of the last Five plus decades including Francis Bacon George Baselitz JeanMichel Basquiat Joseph Beuys Donald Baechler Alexander Calder Marc Chagall Gilbert amp George David Hockney Jasper Johns Jeff Koons Claus Oldenburg Henri Matisse Picasso Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol The definition of the still life as presented by these artists has expanded sometimes to the breaking point but also represents one of the true unifying elements of modern and postmodern art
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The imagined Instagrams of art historys influencers from Gauguin to WarholWith his sharpwitted illustrations and insightful oneliners the French illustrator painter and writer JeanPhilippe Delhomme born 1959 is a deft observer and loving critic of our contemporary culture In his latest book Artists Instagrams Delhomme imagines what the masters of modern art would have posted if they had access to Instagram and shared our addiction to the platformThe results are hilarious Picasso collaborates with a car brand and compares his followercount with Braques Mondrian paints his IKEA kitchen Gauguin incites FOMO with his travel photographs of tantalizing exoticizing Polynesian nudes They are all here from Joseph Beuys to Andy WarholArtists Instagrams The Never Seen Instagrams of the Greatest Artists is one of the first art books to engage Instagrams influence in our visual culture Kim Kardashians pioneering efforts notwithstanding But Artists Instagrams is not only an amusing mashup of high culture and everyones favorite social media platform its a veritable history of modern art through hashtags
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In 2011 Independent Curators International ICI launched Sourcebook a new publication series with a focus on artists and their practice offering a fresh perspective on political and cultural issues impacting and inspiring the artistic process Each volume is edited by an artist from a selection of his or her own archive and is comprised of images documents articles letters and newspaper clippings For the second Sourcebook in the series ICI has invited conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg to cull his archives stored between his family home in Cleveland and his studio in Los Angeles Articulated around nine important works spanning the breadth of the artists practice from 19782012 the publication delves into the primary material that Ruppersberg uses as his medium popular culture ephemera newspapers magazine covers snapshots home movies educational slides advertising and posters This material becomes the visual registry that is reconfigured in numerous Ruppersberg projects
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