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In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen’s remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a timely critique of its limitations. Strathausen familiarizes readers with the basics of bioaesthetics, grounding them in its philosophical underpinnings while articulating its key components. Importantly, he delves into the longstanding problem of the “two cultures” that separate the arts and the sciences. Seeking to make bioaesthetics a more robust way of thinking, Strathausen then critiques it for fai...
The abundance of images in our everyday lives-and the speed at which they are consumed-seems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this situation, artists such as Daniel Richter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Artur Zmijewski have demonstrated that painting is brilliantly equipped to produce 'slow images' that enable, encourage and reward reflection. In this book, Helen Westgeest attempts to understand how various forms of slow painting can be used as tools to interrogate the visual mediations we encounter daily. Painting was expected to disappear in the digital age but, through interactive painting performances and painting-like manipulated photographs and videos, Westgeest shows how photography, video and new media art have themselves developed the visual strategies that painting had already mastered. Moreover, the fleeting nature of digital mass media appears to have unlocked a desire for more physically stable and enduring pictures, like paintings. Slow Painting charts how, in a world where the constant quest for speed can leave us exhausted, the appeal of this 'slower medium' has only grown.
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Ugo Rondinone: Zero Built a Nest in My Navel ISBN 3-905701-52-9 / 978-3-905701-52-4 Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 320 pgs / 600 color. / U.S. $55.00 CDN $66.00 August / Art
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Michael Kvium has been working as an artist since the early 1980s. Today, nearly four decades on, we can look back on a life's work that has been merciless in the way it harpoons the human blunder. His art evokes recognition, even while showing us something we have never seen before. Whether his works kindle enthusiasm or disgust, astonishment or awakening, they are virtually impossible to shake off and forget. This insistent intrusion in our visual memory is the Kvium hallmark. This comprehensive monograph surveys the artist's entire oeuvre since its beginnings, revealing the various lines in his work - from early experiments to the outspoken criticism of Western civilization and its downfalls carried out through his art.
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Ondaks Pavillon für die Tschechoslowakei in Venedig 2009 und die Installation?Obsessions? für die dOCUMENTA (13) sind Anlass dafür, seine neuen Arbeiten mit allergrößter Aufmerksamkeit zu verfolgen. Der Katalog dokumentiert in Text und Bild die Recherche, Vorarbeiten und PräƯsentation von einer metaphysischen Reise in die Landschaft, die seine Jugend prägte.0This publication is a personal and metaphysical journey into the landscapes of history and youth of Roman Ondak. He works with conceptual art, that is: art based on an idea. Roman Ondak works with found objects and revitalises the genre by placing the?object? in a broader context, which allows new stories to arise-with both personal, poetic and political power.00Exhibition: Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (25.03.-17.09.2017).
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