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Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Death
An extensive, in-depth study that takes in works from throughout the artist's career. The book will be useful for scholars of Margolles and of art history more generally. Margolles' work is situated within the contexts of the aesthetics and philosophy of death and their application to looking at art from inside and outside Mexico.
The Work of Repair
In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of ...
Approaching Architecture
The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by the architectural profession can be best fulfilled when reconsidering the critical interactions between these three fields in the everyday exercise of the profession. Split into three parts, "Architecture as Research," Architecture as Pedagogy," and "Architecture as Practice," each section focuses on ...
When 1 is 2
Taking a critical and comprehensive look at the work Boetti made in the wake of his association with the Arte Povera movement--when he renamed himself Alighiero e Boetti--this volume addresses his explorations of convention in Western culture. Highlighted here are Boetti's conceptual exploration of mathmatical orders and language, his participatory method of working and his conception of the role of the artist in society as a "shaman showman."
Understanding Art Objects
Essays written by teachers and consultants at Sotheby's Institute.
Bill Viola
This book is published on the occasion of a major survey of Viola's work organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which has traveled to Los Angeles and Amsterdam and which arrives in Frankfurt in Spring 1999. Through contributions by over 30 authors from many different disciplines the Editor offers for the first time an interpretive framework which draws on the aesthetic consideration of each individual work, and thus sheds new light on the complexity of Viola's entire ceuvre. In his introduction Rolf Lauter presents an overview of the installations and videos and draws out the "elective affinities" between the many different pieces.
Vanitas als Wiederholung
Die Wiederholung des in Antike und Barock verankerten Vanitas-Motivs in der Kultur der Gegenwart mag anachronistisch anmuten. Dabei passt sie nicht nur zu einer Reihe anderer, aktueller Praxen, Vanitas thematisiert selbst bereits Wiederholung als das, was dann erst seit dem 19. Jahrhundert kontrovers diskutiert wurde: dass sie eine zentrale Rolle bei der Verhandlung von Identität, bei der Situierung des Selbst in der Geschichte, bei der Wiederkehr und Transformation des Verdrängen und Verschütteten oder der Beurteilung des Selben im Anderen spielt. All das zeigt sich, sobald eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Wiederholung der Vanitas - dem zumindest in der westlichen Kultur zentralen Entwurf über Vergänglichkeit und Vergeblichkeit - aus philosophischer, kulturtheoretischer, psychoanalytischer sowie kunst-und literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht unternommen und überdies mit fernöstlichen Vorstellungen konfrontiert wird. Aktuelle Bearbeitungen der Vanitas positionieren sich selbstreflexiv, kritisch und politisch; damit entfalten sie Potenziale des Motivs, die immer schon angelegt waren, aber womöglich erst jetzt realisierungsbedürftig sind.
International Directory of Arts 2013
The 37th edition of International Directory of Arts (IDA) contains more about 150,000 addresses (including telephone and fax numbers, eMail and URL) from all over the world: Museums and Public Galleries Universities, Academies, Schools Associations Art and Antique Trade, Numismatics Art and Antiques Fairs Galleries Auctioneers Restorers Art Publishers Art Journals Antiquarians and Art Booksellers Within each chapter, addresses are arranged by country and within country, sections are set our alphabetically by city. Details of the specializations of museums, as well as the names of curators and senior academic museum staff are also included. The address contents were revised and updated for this edition following a questionnaire mailing. The revision also took into account numerous national and international reference works. The eBookPLUS format comprises the content and search criteria of the printed edition and its indices, facilitating complex searches.
