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Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook
Bringing together a broad range of contributors including art, architecture, and design academic theorists and historians, in addition to practicing artists, architects, and designers, this volume explores the place of the sketchbook in contemporary art and architecture. Drawing upon a diverse range of theories, practices, and reflections common to the contemporary conceptualisation of the sketchbook and its associated environments, it offers a dialogue in which the sketchbook can be understood as a pivotal working tool that contributes to the creative process and the formulation and production of visual ideas. Along with exploring the theoretical, philosophical, psychological, and curatoria...
Holography—A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture
Artists have been exploring the spatial, conceptual and three-dimensional qualities of holography for over fifty years. Why, then, is there so little sustained critical pressure placed on this process, methodology and mode of visualisation which underpins the developing practice?In 1994, pioneering British artist Margaret Benyon, in her doctoral thesis, posed the question “How is Holography Art”, and offered a range of answers, by applying critical pressure to her considerable work in the field. Over 25 years later, we have used Benyon’s investigation as an invitation to ask more questions. This Special Issue in Arts brings together artists working with holography, as well as curators ...
A Companion to Illustration
A contemporary synthesis of the philosophical, theoretical and practical methodologies of illustration and its future development Illustration is contextualized visual communication; its purpose is to serve society by influencing the many aspects of its cultural infrastructure; it dispenses knowledge and education, it commentates and delivers journalistic opinion, it persuades, advertises and promotes, it entertains and provides for all forms of narrative fiction. A Companion to Illustration explores the definition of illustration through cognition and research and its impact on culture. It explores illustration’s boundaries and its archetypal distinction, the inflected forms of its parame...
From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman
Eisenman has always been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. He tried to connect his own work with the cultural manifestations of the time: firstly under the influence of Colin Rowe and his formalist studies; secondly, by re-interpreting Chomsky’s linguistic theories; in the 80’s, by collaborating with Derrida and his de-constructivist approach; more recently by discovering Henri Bergson's idea of Time. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach based on the intersections between architecture and philosophy, this book investigates all these definitions and, in doing so, provides new insights into and a deeper understanding of the complexity of Eisenman’s work.
Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
Containing over 900 entries of general disease conditions and corresponding herbal treatments, this book covers: therapeutic action, 550 monographs of medicinal plants, and the properties of herbs and preparations such as inctures, liquid extracts, poultices and essential oils.
Lawrence Alloway
Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. He is credited with coining the term pop art and with championing conceptual art and feminist artists in America. His interests as a critic and as a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York were wide-ranging, however, and included architecture, design, earthworks, film, neorealism, science fiction, and public sculpture. Early in his career he was associated with the Independent Group in London and although he was largely self-taught, he was a noted educator and lecturer. A prolific writer, Alloway sought to escape the conventions of art-historical...
The Sculpture of William Tucker
William Tucker (born 1935) is a British-born sculptor who moved to North America in 1976 and became an American citizen in 1986. Tucker began making sculpture in the late 1950s and came to public prominence in the New Generation 1965 exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Moving to the US, Tucker established his reputation in a newly expressive and increasingly bodily sculptural form. This is the first major monograph on his work and includes a complete catalogue of his sculpture to date. It will be essential reading for artists, art historians, curators, dealers and all those with an interest in the recent history and current practice of sculpture.
Kunst als soziale Praxis
Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Emergenz des modernen künstlerischen Feldes als einen Indikator für die Bildung des modernen Staates. Diese Entwicklung zeichnet Sune Erik Schlitte anhand verschiedener Bereiche nach, die sowohl thematisch als auch chronologisch aufeinander aufbauen. London, als Zentrum des britischen Weltreichs, und Berlin, als aufstrebende Metropole Preußens, stellen dabei zwei ideale Vergleichsräume dar. Anhand von sieben ausgewählten Praxisformationen - den Kunstakademien, der Künstlerreise, dem Ausstellungswesen, der Kunstkritik, den privaten Kunstsammlungen, der Entstehung des modernen Kunstmuseums sowie den Begräbnisfeierlichkeiten von bekannten Künstlern - wird eine vergleichende Kulturgeschichte der Entstehung der Figur des Künstlers und des künstlerischen Feldes entworfen.
