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Jenny Saville
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 70

Jenny Saville

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Bringing together 17 works from private and public collections across the globe, this will be the first museum exhibition of Saville?s work ever to be held in Scotland, and only her third in the UK. The selection spans 26 years, from iconic early paintings such as Propped (1992) and Trace (1993-4), to recent charcoal and pastel drawings, demonstrating how Saville?s approach to depicting the human body has shifted over the course of her career. Other highlights will include a series of large-scale head paintings, such as Rosetta II (2005-6), made while the artist was based in Italy, and the premier of a major new work, Aleppo (2017-18), which is at the Scottish National Gallery alongside historic works from the collection.00Exhibition: Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, UK (24.03.-16.09.2018).

Православие в Китае
  • Language: ru
  • Pages: 197

Православие в Китае

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Издание содержит: первые православные священники в Китае; духовное и дипломатическое служение Российской Духовной Миссии в Китае и др.

Albert Oehlen 1991, 2008
  • Language: en

Albert Oehlen 1991, 2008

Interview by Max Dax.

Rooms with a View
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Rooms with a View

  • Categories: Art

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 5-July 4, 2011.

Uncertain Histories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Uncertain Histories

  • Categories: Art

The compulsion to dwell on historyÑon how it is recorded, stored, saved, forgotten, narrated, lost, remembered, and made publicÑhas been at the heart of artistsÕ engagement with the photographic medium since the late 1960s. Uncertain Histories considers some of that work, ranging from installations that incorporate vast numbers of personal and vernacular photographs by Christian Boltanski, Dinh Q. L�, and Gerhard Richter to confrontations with absence in the work of Joel Sternfeld and Ken Gonzales-Day. Projects such as these revolve around a photographic paradox that hinges equally on knowing and not knowing, on definitive proof coupled with uncertainty, on abundance of imagery being me...

On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

  • Categories: Art

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief? On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art. This book will enable you to walk into a museum and talk about the spirituality that is or is not visible in the art you see.

Body between Materiality and Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Body between Materiality and Power

This volume situates and problematizes the points of tension implicated in diverse historical and theoretical conceptualizations of the body through a visual studies framework. By proposing materiality and power as two polarities through which the body is mobilized, it highlights the interstitial function of the body as a mediator between materiality and politics beyond the body/soul-mind dichotomy. Specifically, the book brings together complex analytical approaches to representations of the body in diverse media, such as the visual arts, television, film, literature, architecture, dance, and theatre, among others. As a result, and to highlight the interdisciplinary dimension of this collection of essays, Body between Power and Materiality includes texts by scholars in a wide range of fields, from art historians, media studies experts, and sociologists to literary theorists.

Truth in Nonfiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Truth in Nonfiction

Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers’ claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, “How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it’s true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a subcategory of faith? How do you respond when someone says, ‘This is really true’? Why do they choose to say it then?” The past ...

The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art

This book provides an in-depth account of the protests that shook France in 1968 and which served as a catalyst to a radical reconsideration of artistic practice that has shaped both art and museum exhibitions up to the present. Rebecca DeRoo examines how issues of historical and personal memory, the separation of public and private domains, and the ordinary objects of everyday life emerged as central concerns for museums and for artists, as both struggled to respond to the protests. She argues that the responses of the museums were only partially faithful to the aims of the activist movements. Museums, in fact, often misunderstood and misrepresented the work of artists that was exhibited as a means of addressing these concerns. Analyzing how museums and critics did and did not address the aims of the protests, DeRoo highlights the issues relevant to the politics of the public display of art that have been central to artistic representation, in France as well as in North America.

Unwanted Beauty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Unwanted Beauty

  • Categories: Art

Controversial questions about beauty in artistic depictions of the Holocaust