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Contemporary Artists
A thorough overview on more than 830 modern artists.
Thomas Ruff
"Thomas Ruff has created a substantial photographic oeuvre, in which he draws our attention to all fields of contemporary life: petit bourgeois homes ... modernist and current architectural arts; the ... faces of our fellow human beings ... outer space; studies of local neighborhoods by night; the news industry's non-stop invention of pictures [photographs from German-language newspapers reproduced and printed by Ruff with no words of explanation in order to find out what information was left when the picture was isolated from its function] ... our bodies; and modifications in perception through the pictorial explosion on the Internet"--Page 7.
Sonic Flux
From Edison’s invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic arts are not only aesthetically but also philosophically significant, revealing sound to be a continuous material flow to which human expressions contribute but which precedes and exceeds those expressions. Cox shows how, over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, philosophers and sonic artists have explored this “sonic flux.” Through the philosophical analysis of works by John Cage, Maryanne Amacher, Max Neuhaus, Christian Marclay, and many others, Sonic Flux contributes to the development of a materialist metaphysics and poses a challenge to the prevailing positions in cultural theory, proposing a realist and materialist aesthetics able to account not only for sonic art but for artistic production in general.
De danske og de franske
De danske og de franske er en oplysende og underholdende bog om forholdet mellem dansk og fransk kultur, om ægte glæde ved det franske – og om snobberi i samme forbindelse. Hans Boll-Johansen har i denne bog skrevet om alt det, de danske forbinder med de franske: „Jeg vil fortælle om danskernes skiftende følelser over for Frankrig. Det bliver en historie om hele registret af passioner fra kærlighed til had, om alle nuancerne mellem snobberi og skepsis, og om alt fra dyrkelse af streng klassicisme til betingelsesløs beundring for franskmændenes sanselige livskraft. Hvis man helt generelt ser på danskernes holdning til Frankrig, dvs. ikke kun dem der vælger at studere sproget, er der tre hovedveje til den frankofile danskers beundring for Frankrig: Den sensuelle, som fremhæver franskmændenes talent for nydelse og livslyst; den intellektuelle, som især er betaget af oplysningstidens klare fornuft; og den politisk motiverede frankofili, som træffes i både konservative og revolutionærevarianter.”
