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Art in Theory
A ground-breaking new anthology in the Art in Theory series, offering an examination of the changing relationships between the West and the wider world in the field of art and material culture Art in Theory: The West in the World is a ground-breaking anthology that comprehensively examines the relationship of Western art to the art and material culture of the wider world. Editors Paul Wood and Leon Wainwright have included 370 texts, some of which appear in English for the first time. The anthologized texts are presented in eight chronological parts, which are then subdivided into key themes appropriate to each historical era. The majority of the texts are representations of changing ideas a...
Dandies
Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by Tom Wolfe's white suits. The essays collected here, however, examine the spectacle and workings of dandyism to reveal that these were not the only dandies. On the contrary, art historians, literary and cultural historians, and anthropologists identify unrecognized dandies flourishing among early 19th century Native Americans, in Soviet Latvia, in Africa, throughout the African-American diaspora, among women, an...
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.
109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple and Hard Questions about what Architects Do Today and where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow
Short essays by respected architects and theorists around the question: What is an architect in today's society?
Panorama
This catalogue is the most comprehensive treatment of Michaela Melián's oeuvre to date and constitutes, with numerous essays and illustrations, a long due documentation of the German artist's work. The texts discuss how, since the late 1980s, Melián has consistently pursued a strategy of rendering visible the social--that complex web of power, system, gender, and class--uncovering it, even where it lies buried by familiarity and habit. Contributors Heike Ander, Jochen Bonz, Silvia Eiblmayr, Sabine Himmelsbach, Didi Neidhart, Dirk Snauwaert, Frank Wagner
Urbane Poesie
Das Verschwinden der Litfaßsäulen aus dem öffentlichen Raum markiert eine wichtige kultur- wie mediengeschichtliche Zäsur. Die Verteilung von rhetorischen Werbebotschaften im Raum weicht heute der telekommunikativen Vermittlung von ortlosen Persuasionsstrategien und Werbe-Adressierungen, die eigentlich Zeittechniken sind. Damit verändert sich auch der öffentliche Raum. Was dies medienphilosophisch, politisch, und kulturell bedeutet, wird in diesem Buch durch die exemplarische Dokumentation von Entwürfen erörtert, die von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern aus der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) für das Projekt '+25 KHM Litfaßsäulen' erstellt wurden und hier zusammen mit ästhetischen, soziologischen, semiotischen und kunstgeschichtlichen Analysen präsentiert werden. Autoren sind neben den Herausgebern: Konstantin Butz, Peter Gendolla, Mi You, Katja Nantke.
David Lamelas
Published by the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach in association with Getty Publications The renowned Argentine conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre of sensory, restive, and evocative work. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States, offers an incisive look into Lamelas’s art. The guiding analytic theme is the artist’s adaptability to place and circumstance, which invariably influences his creative production. Lamelas left Argentina in the mid-1960s to study at Saint Martin’s in London. Since then, he has divided his time among various cities. While the typical narrative invoked about artists like Lamelas is one of “internationalism,” his nomadic movement from one place or conceptual framework to the next has always been more “postnational” than “international.”
History of Photography
The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.
Think Tank Aesthetics
How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics, Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operations research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism and set the terms for contemporary neoliberalism. Lee casts these shadowy institutions as sites of radical creativity and interdisciplinary practice in the service of defense strategy. Describing the distinctive aesthetics ...
