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Living Matter
This innovative volume is the first to address the conservation of contemporary art incorporating biological materials such as plants, foods, bodily fluids, or genetically engineered organisms. Eggshells, flowers, onion peels, sponge cake, dried bread, breast milk, bacteria, living organisms—these are just a few of the biological materials that contemporary artists are using to make art. But how can works made from such perishable ingredients be preserved? And what logistical, ethical, and conceptual dilemmas might be posed by doing so? Because they are prone to rapid decay, even complete disappearance, biological materials used in art pose a range of unique conservation challenges. This g...
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future' is the first catalogue of the collection of the S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent since its founding in 1999. The generous selection of works in this book offers a representative cross-section from a collection comprising more than two thousand works, from familiar classics, to new masterpieces, to recent acquisitions. In this way, the S.M.A.K. not only looks at the past, but first and foremost to the present and the future. 'S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future' includes works by Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Michaël Borremans, Marcel Broodthaers, Nina Canell, N. Dash, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Marlene Dumas, Mekhitar Garabedian, Zvi Goldstein, David Hammons, Georg Herold, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jac Leirner, Mark Manders, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Panamarenko, Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Nedko Solakov, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Luc Tuymans, Lois Weinberger, James Welling, Zhang Peili and more
SMAK Highlights for a Future
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future est le premier catalogue de la collection du S.M.A.K., Musée municipal d'art actuel de Gand, depuis son inauguration en 1999. La généreuse sélection d'oeuvres ainsi réunie est représentative d'une collection qui en compte plus de deux mille, des classiques célèbres aux acquisitions récentes, en passant par les nouveaux chefs-d'oeuvre. Le S.M.A.K. profite ainsi de cette occasion pour considérer non seulement le passé, mais aussi le présent et le futur. Avec entre autres des oeuvres de Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Michaël Borremans, Marcel Broodthaers, Nina Canell, N. Dash, ...
Met nieuwsgierige blik
Enkele musea geven inzicht in hun manier van verzamelen met de nodige dilemma's en historie. In acht bijdragen komt de praktijk van het verzamelen en ontsluiten en over het aankoopbeleid van instellingen en overheid in Vlaanderen en Nederland aan bod. Met onder andere bijdragen van: Het Letterenhuis, Het Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Kunstmuseum aan zee, Middelheimmuseum, Nederlands Openluchtmuseum en agentschap Kunsten en Erfgoed. Bespreking door Joris D'hooghe in Rekto: verso.(2011)45(jan/feb.7); door Arnold Witte in Ons erfdeel.54(2011)2(mei.189-192).
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year, intense and unconventional but happy marriage, detailed in the classic bestselling memoir Iris. Despite Iris’ extramarital affairs with men and women throughout their long marriage - which John always suspected - their bond was unbreakable, and his memoir beautifully captures their child-like moments of bliss: walking in forests, swimming together in streams, and sharing hot cups of coffee on crisp mornings. These are touching but poignant st...
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