Abstraction in Reverse(1st Edition) The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art द्वारा AlexanderAlberro Hardcover, 368 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2017 द्वारा University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39395-7, ISBN: 0-226-39395-X
"During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator a greater role than ever before in the realization of the artwork. The first book to explore this phenomenon on an international scale, Abstraction in Reverse traces the movement as it evolved across South America a ..."
"Texts by Hans Haacke that range from straightforward descriptions of his artworks to wide-ranging reflections on the relationship between art and politics.Hans Haacke's art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context -- the economic, social, and political conditions of the art world and the world at large. Among his best-known works are MoMA-Poll (1970), which polled m ..."
"Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians from Europe and the Americas introduces and develops the idea that conceptual art generated several different, and even contradictory, forms of art practice. Some of these contested commonplace assumptions of what art is ..."
Recording Conceptual Art(1st Edition) Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, and Weiner by Patricia Norvell द्वारा AlexanderAlberro, Patricia Norvell, Robert Barry, Patsy Norvell Paperback, 177 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2001 द्वारा University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22011-9, ISBN: 0-520-22011-0
"Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals - eight artists and one art dealer - are now known as major contributors to Conceptual art. These fascinating dialogues, conducted by Patricia Norvell, provide tantalizing moments of spontaneous philosophizing ..."
"Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique -- as in a performance piece in which she ..."
Museum Highlights(1st Edition) The Writings of Andrea Fraser (Writing Art) द्वारा Andrea Fraser, AlexanderAlberro Hardcover, 329 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2005 द्वारा The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-06244-2, ISBN: 0-262-06244-5
"Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique -- as in a performance piece in which she leads a tour as ..."
"Compared to other avant-garde movements that emerged in the 1960s, conceptual art has received relatively little serious attention by art historians and critics of the past twenty-five years -- in part because of the difficult, intellectual nature of the art. This lack of attention is particularly striking given the tremendous influence of conceptual art on the art of the l ..."
"introduction by Jeff Wall The internationally renowned artist Dan Graham is widely acknowledged as one of the leading members of the 1960s conceptual art movement. However, his subsequent work in photography, performance, film, video, and the fusion of art and architecture, though well known in Europe and Japan, is less well known in English-speaking countries.In Rock My Re ..."
"A founding member of Brazil’s Neoconcrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927–2004) pioneered a unique approach to abstraction and valued art that favored the primacy of viewers’ sensorial experiences. This catalog, published on the occasion of Lygia Pape’s solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York in fall 2018, brings together a variety of works from the artist’s rich oeuvre, from sculptures, prints and paintings to installations and films. It ..."
"Polish avant-garde artists Henryk Stazewski (1894-1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925-2004) shared a studio-apartment that they transformed into a kind of live-in laboratory. "Avant-Garde in the Bloc" is an intimate journey into the worlds and works of these two artists."
"Austrian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptualist Mathias Poledna deconstructs and reconstructs recent pop, political and media history. The film Western Recording (2003) takes as its starting point the recording of a vocal track on the 1969 song City Life by the singer-composer Harry Nilsson, and projects a complex panorama of historical and spatial references."
"Pierre Bismuth's videos have parodied Hollywood productions before, but will he stop now that he has his own Oscar? Bismuth won Best Original Screenplay for his collaboration with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman on "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." He and Gondry first teamed up a decade ago for a French music video, and it was Bismuth who proposed to Gondry a project based on memory erasure. Bismuth's work, which includes drawi ..."
""Institutional critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when -- driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual ..."
""Joaquín Torres-García is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters from the first half of the 20th century, whose work determined transformational paths for modern art on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawn toward both the avant-garde and the primitive, the schematic and the utopian, he participated in some of the most crucial intellectual and artistic discussions of the past century. His close involvement with several early ..."
""Parachute" was founded in 1975 by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin. Following the previous three "Parachute" volumes, this last title of the "Parachute" anthology focuses on painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. These topics are approached from several perspectives: from new theories of aesthetic production, especially painting, to the expansion of the art world to other artistic territories during the 1980s and 1990s ..."
"Winner, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publication and Melva J. Dwyer AwardIain Baxter legally changed his name to IAIN BAXTER& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name to underscore that art is about connectivity — about contingency and collaboration with a viewer. He also effected the name change to perpetuate a strategy of self re-definition that is central to his creative project. BAXTER& began making a ..."
"Since its emergence in the 1980s and 90s, the Daros Collection in Zurich has accumulated about 280 works by 30 outstanding North American and European artists. It possesses one of the finest collections of early Warhol, and major works by Sigmar Polke, Barbara Kruger, Alfredo Jaar and Louise Bourgeois among many others. In 2000, when the strength and integrity of this collection had been established, the museum boldly struck off in a ne ..."
"What is the future of the art museum? Should artists and critics have greater say in museum programming? What role can new museum technologies play in the future of the art museum? How should art museums address and correct past histories of predjudice and exclusion? Are art museums doomed to extinction? These pertinent questions and others are asked, discussed, and sometimes even answered in Museums of Tomorrow--documentation of a two- ..."
"This fully illustrated 248-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (19381973) complex and highly influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism and land art, Smithson, who died in a plane crash at the age of 35, had a profound impact on the cultural landscape that resonates to this day. "Robert Smithson "presents essays by top Smithson scholars alongside both archival imagery ..."