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Bruce Nauman
To date, scholars explored Bruce Nauman’s oeuvre through various perspectives, concepts and premises, including linguistics, performance, power and knowledge, sound, the political and more. Amidst this vast and rich field, Nauman’s pieces have been regarded by critics in terms of systematic skepticism, tragic skepticism, skepticism of the medium, and linguistic doubt. This book methodically analyzes the notion of performative skepticism and its relevance to various dimensions of Bruce Nauman’s post-minimalist artistic practice. It is argued that Nauman performs the perpetual failure of perception, hence, demonstrating its doubtful validity to produce certain knowledge without allowing a resolution. This kind of skepticism, here called performative skepticism, exposes the impossibility of epistemological equipment to produce knowledge, and the impossibility of attaining certainty in bridging the gap between knowledge and the real.
A Gust of Photo-Philia
The first transnational history of photography’s accommodation in the art museum Photography was long regarded as a “middle-brow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book—part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices—Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the V&A, and the Centre Pompidou offer new insights into how art as photography and photography as art have been collected and exhibited since the 1930s. Moschovi argues that this accommodation not only changed photography’s status in art, culture, and society, but also played a significant role in the rebranding of the art museum as a cultural and social site.
French Theory and American Art
Many postwar American artists were influenced by French philosophy, literary studies, and social sciences. Accordingly, a number of French authors gathered under the label "French Theory"--a name referring roughly to structuralism and post structuralism--has received sustained attention in the United States. As early as the early 1960s, this reception helped to shape both American artistic practice and the fate of French thought in a crucial way. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the wealth of works from the human sciences and philosophy in American culture became the subject of numerous studies. French Theory and American Art examines some of the main historical conditions of this re...
Ambiguity in Mind and Nature
Ambiguity in Mind and Nature is the result of cognitive multistability, the phenomenon in which an unchanging stimulus, usually visual, gives rise in the subject to an oscillating perceptual interpretation. The vase/face picture is one of the most famous examples. In this book scientists from many disciplines including physics, biology, psychology, maths and computer science, present recent progress in this fascinating area of cognitive science. Using the phenomenon of multistability as a paradigm they seek to understand how meaning originates in the brain as a consequence of cognitive processes. New advances are achieved by applying concepts such as self-organization, chaos theory and complex systems to the latest results of psychological and neurophysical experiments.
Die Pattern-Paintings von Christopher Wool
Die Pattern Paintings des Malers Christopher Wool werden in diesem Buch erstmals umfassend kunsthistorisch analysiert. Unter Berücksichtigung der von Wool selbst zitierten dialektischen Figur des "Yes but..." arbeitet die Autorin heraus, wie der Maler eine Neubestimmung des Potenzials des Bildes vornimmt, indem er historisch-reflexive Konzepte mit wahrnehmungsphysiologischen und -psychologischen Vorgängen verknüpft. Neben der Deutung der Bilder als metapikturale Kritik und dialektische Selbstverortung in der Geschichte der jüngeren US-amerikanischen Abstraktion werden Wools Werke auch als Ausdruck einer urbanen Lebenshaltung und als Bezugnahme auf die urbane Realität verstanden.
Walter Swennen
Publié à l'occasion d'une exposition rétrospective présentée au Wiels à Bruxelles, d'octobre 2013 à janvier 2014.000À l'instar d'autres peintres de sa génération, Walter Swennen (né en 1946 à Bruxelles, vit et travaille à Anvers) envisage et explore la peinture à travers de nouvelles perspectives, en y intégrant des principes issus d'autres disciplines. Après avoir été poète au milieu des années 1960, et comme par réaction à la " réduction " du visuel opérée par l'art conceptuel, il décide, au début des années 1980, d'explorer les possibilités poétiques de la peinture. Son oeuvre ne se caractérise manifestement pas par le langage visuel spontané et héroïque propre à ses contemporains néo-expressionnistes. 00Disponible en édition bilingue néerlandais-anglais : ISBN 9782930667065.
Art History and Visual Studies in Europe
This book undertakes a critical survey of art history across Europe, examining the recent conceptual and methodological concerns informing the discipline as well as the political, social and ideological factors that have shaped its development in specific national contexts.
Random Order
An examination of the artistic development of Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on his relationship with John Cage and his role in the making of the American neo-avant-garde.
