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Palestinian Art
Turmoil and violence have defined the lives of Palestinian people over the last few decades, yet in the midst of the chaos artists live and thrive, creating little-seen work that is a powerful response to their situation. Gannit Ankori's Palestinian Art is the first in-depth English-language assessment of contemporary Palestinian art, and it offers an unprecedented and wholly original overview of this art in all its complexity. Ankori comprehensively traces the full history and development of Palestinian art, from its roots in folk art and traditional Christian and Islamic painting to the predominance of nationalistic themes and diverse media used today. Drawing on over a decade of extensive...
Talking Painting
Each chapter consists of an article about the artist's work, selected by the artist and an interview of the artist by David Ryan.
Religion & Contemporary Art
These essays explore the relationship between art and religion. The first part, 2001-2002, is essays about "The Ism," where 1994-9 Padgett united religious and spiritual perspectives by uniting the art-forms appropriate to them. The second part is essays from 2002-2005, when Padgett studied at Wimbledon School of Art, London, for an MA in Theory of Contemporary Art and Performance. Padgett looks at artists (Damien Hirst, Thomas Hirschhorn, Anton Artaud, Jake and Dinos Chapman Brothers, Guillermo Gomez-Pena etc) and develops the idea of "Postmodern Religious Art." His program of uniting the art-forms is progressed by uniting the specific material forms of religions in semi-irony with the profane - whilst keeping the sacred as of highest importance. The final part is the questionnaire that Padgett submitted to the Employment Tribunals, giving the main arguments behind his claim that the Tate Galleries were exercising religious discrimination in the way they selected artworks.
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Michael Byron: Syntax Within a Gray Scale
Published by the gallery for the exhibition “Michael Byron: Syntax Within a Gray Scale” at Bruno David Gallery. This catalogue includes texts by Hesse Caplinger and I. O. Unger, and afterword by Bruno L. David. (Softcover, 7 x 9 in., 63 pgs, color, February 2016)
Barbara Holub – Stiller Aktivismus / Silent Activism
Dialogisches Handeln in der Kunst Barbara Holubs sozial und politisch engagierte Kunstpraxis verknüpft seit dreißig Jahren urbane Entwicklungen, gesellschaftliche Fragestellungen und künstlerische Interventionen. Als akkumulativer Prozess partizipatorischen Handelns hinterfragen Holubs Projekte die Rolle von Kunst in der Gesellschaft, ob im Kunstkontext, im urbanen öffentlichen Raum oder in Bezug auf Unternehmen. Die Monografie gibt einen fundierten Überblick über Barbara Holubs umfangreiches Werk sowie ihre Projekte mit transparadiso an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Architektur und Urbanismus, für die sie den Begriff „stiller Aktivismus“ geprägt hat. Anstatt Aktivismus im direkten Sinne zu propagieren, schafft Holub beharrlich performative Situationen für dialogisches Handeln – mit dem Ziel, Normen zu hinterfragen und Grenzen zu überschreiten. „Stiller Aktivismus“ – Barbara Holubs transdisziplinäre künstlerische Arbeit im Porträt Neue Perspektiven für eine partizipatorische Kunstpraxis Mit Beiträgen von Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Enrico Lunghi, Paul O’Neill, Jane Rendell und Andreas Spiegl Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Deutsch/Englisch
World Religion and Modern Art
An essential book on a broad range of World religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, etc) Modern art forms (Romanticism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, YBAs, Postmodernism etc) and artists. This analysis gets to the heart of what constitutes religious art in a modern age. The book includes the work of art theorists (Benjamin, Greenberg, Debord, Bakhtin, Bataille, Sontag, Derrida) and over 120 key artists.
Security, Technology and Global Politics
This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio’s theorising on war and security. Paul Virilio has developed a provocative series of writings on how modern societies have shaped the acceleration of military/security technologies – and how technologies of security and acceleration have transformed society, economy and politics. His examination of the connections between geopolitics, war, speed, technology and control are viewed as some of the most challenging and disturbing interventions on the politics of security in the twenty-first century, interventions that help us understand a world that confronts problems that increasingly emerge from the desire to make life sa...
The Surplus of Culture
This multifaceted volume presents the elusive surplus of culture in the spotlight of theory and academic practice. Despite its overtly economic implications, the concept alludes to the added value of sense, common sense and nonsense which is represented as languages of irony, irrationality and absurdity potentially subverting traditional and mainstream “regimes” of culture. Consequently, the “moment of surplus” is inherent in critical interpretation in which supposedly well-entrenched notions suddenly reveal their implicitly shattering and subversive nature. The surplus of culture dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition. It is the space of the “third” in which literary canons are re-visited, language reveals its hidden political agendas, the Orient reclaims its own cognitive perspective and established structures of cognition are questioned in the tragic-comic gesture of insight. The volume is a must for scholars and researchers in the fields of cultural studies, literature and arts as well as literary theory.
Maja Bajevic. Ediz. italiana e inglese
July 1941, Zagreb, German occupied Yugoslavia. Men in trench coats and fedoras came to our apartment and summoned us to report to the police station in the morning. The men were Ustase, the Croatian equivalent of the Gestapo who were implementing the plan to rid Europe of Jews.I was seven years old. This is my story.
