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Some Faggy Gestures
Tiré du site Internet de JRP/Ringier: "Since the mid-1990s, Henrik Olesen (*1967 Denmark, lives and works in Berlin) has used media such as collage, sculpture, and minimalistic spatial intervention to investigate the social construction of identity and its historiography. Through the appropriation of source images and contextual shifts not dissimilar to the method invented by Aby Warburg for his "Mnemosyne Atlas," Olesen probes the associations between homosexuality and its criminalization in the past, as well as in the present. His archival work sheds light on the enduring existence of spaces for Others, and inscribes homosexual subculture once more into the history of art and culture. Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich."
United by AIDS
"The appearance of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the 1980s and its rapid spread around the world has left deep marks in society which have led to a variety of reactions and a new commitment on the part of artists and activists worldwide. United by AIDS, published in conjunction with an extensive group show on the topic of loss, remembrance, activism, and art in response to HIV/AIDS at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, sheds light on the multifaceted and complex interrelation between art, activism, and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present"--Page 4 of cover.
Tadeusz Kantor
Offers a comprehensive overview of Tadeusz Kantor's versatility, from theatre productions and performance art, to painterly and sculptural works. This mainly pictorial exhibition catalogue includes photographs taken by Eustachy Kossakowski (1925-2001) of various "happenings" engineered by Kantor (mostly from the 1960s) introductory essays, and reproductions of Kantor's art works, film stills and scenes from plays. It was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Tadeusz Kantor' at the Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, 30th August - 16th November 2008
Markus Schinwald
The content and layout of this idiosyncratic publication by Vienna-based Markus Schinwald leave the conventional exhibition catalogue behind; it's styled, instead, after a late-nineteenth-century encyclopedia. Illustrations and comments by Schinwald accompany an extensive library of terms on the subject of lexicons.
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Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged – in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions by established and emerging art historians, academics and curators, the book proposes that the art museum is engaged in the contemporary in a double sense: it (re)presents contemporary art, while the contemporary condition itself also has a significant impact on art and the museum that houses it. Presenting a diverse range of international cases of exhibitions and curatorial practices, which hai...
Working with Feminism: Curating and Exhibitions in Eastern Europe
This edited collection, bringing together art historians and curators working both in the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ of Europe, is a result of a growing interest in the theorisation and historical analysis of feminist curating as a distinct practice with its own transnational history and politics. In most former state-socialist countries of Eastern Europe, the emergence and public visibility of feminist curating and exhibitions usually dates back to the 1990s and is associated with the radical transformation of art practices, ideologies and art systems as well as with wider socio-political and intellectual changes, and challenges, of post-socialist transition. This history, and its legacy...
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education
For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education continues to provide an accessible and practical tool for teachers, while offering new art, essays, and content to account for transitions and changes in both the fields of art and education. A beautifully-illustrated collaboration of over one hundred artists, writers, curators, and educators from in and around the contemporary art world, this volume offers thoughtful and innovative materials that chal...
Design Aesthetics
An original exploration of the role of aesthetics in contemporary design, uniquely combining philosophical aesthetics and cultural analysis of design. As a product of human ingenuity, design functions as an artificial interface through which we meet the world. While the ubiquity of design seems to render it imperceptible, when we truly reflect on design, we see that it is inextricably entwined with our experience of the world. In Design Aesthetics, Mads Nygaard Folkmann provides an engaging introduction to the field of design aesthetics and its role as a concept. Engaging with sensual, conceptual, and contextual considerations of design aesthetics, this book investigates design experience in...
On the Ruins of Babel
The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness. The architect, as philosophers liked to think of him, was obligated by the design and construction process to mediate between the abstract and the actual. In On the Ruins of Babel, Daniel Purdy traces this notion back to its wellspring. H...
