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Book The Green Bloc

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maja Fowkes
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2015-06-30
  • ISBN : 9633860687
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book The Green Bloc written by Maja Fowkes and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the approaches of renowned Central European artists to the natural environment, uncovering an up till now largely unrecognized aspect of their work, which has regularly been analyzed through socio-political contexts, but rarely in terms of ecology. It focuses on the period after 1968, which not only brought changes to the political landscape of Eastern Europe, but shifted artistic practice towards conceptualism and was instrumental in spreading environmental consciousness. It comparatively investigates artists and artist groups from Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic, at the moment when art exited the gallery and entered the natural environment, while socialist governments attempted to keep control over information about the real state of environmental pollution and block globally emerging ecological discourse. Apart from embedding artistic production in social, political and environmental histories of the region, this book also addresses the problem of art history as a discipline under socialism, presents a more complete picture of its neo-avant-garde art and constitutes an unprecedented application of the ecological paradigm to art history. It demonstrates the creativity, inventiveness and astuteness of Central European artists whose vision could not be controlled by any imposed borders at the dawn of global awareness of ecological crisis.

Book Networking the Bloc

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  • Author : Klara Kemp-Welch
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2019-03-26
  • ISBN : 0262347717
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Networking the Bloc written by Klara Kemp-Welch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the experimental zeitgeist in Eastern European art, seen through personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Throughout the 1970s, a network of artists emerged to bridge the East-West divide, and the no less rigid divides between the countries of the Eastern bloc. Originating with a series of creative initiatives by artists, art historians, and critics and centered in places like Budapest, Poznań, and Prague, this experimental dialogue involved Western participation but is today largely forgotten in the West. In Networking the Bloc, Klara Kemp-Welch vividly recaptures this lost chapter of art history, documenting an elaborate web of artistic connectivity that came about through a series of personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Countering the conventional Cold War narrative of Eastern bloc isolation, Kemp-Welch shows how artistic ideas were relayed among like-minded artists across ideological boundaries and national frontiers. Much of the work created was collaborative, and personal encounters were at its heart. Drawing on archival documents and interviews with participants, Kemp-Welch focuses on the exchanges and projects themselves rather than the personalities involved. Each of the projects she examines relied for its realization on a network of contributors. She looks first at the mobilization of the network, from 1964 to 1972, exploring five pioneering cases: a friendship between a Slovak artist and a French critic, an artistic credo, an exhibition, a conceptual proposition, and a book. She then charts a series of way stations for experimental art from the Soviet bloc between 1972 and 1976—points of distribution between studios, private homes, galleries, and certain cities. Finally, she investigates convergences—a succession of shared exhibitions and events in the second half of the 1970s in locations ranging from Prague to Milan to Moscow. Networking the Bloc, Kemp-Welch invites us to rethink the art of the late Cold War period from Eastern European perspectives.

Book Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Download or read book Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art written by Sharon Irish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

Book The Museum as Muse

Download or read book The Museum as Muse written by Kynaston McShine and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 14 - June 1, 1999.

Book Words and Music

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  • Author : Judith Beniston
  • Publisher : MHRA
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1907322086
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Words and Music written by Judith Beniston and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chronological range covered by the individual essays is more than two hundred years, from the Classical Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century. Some of the studies encompassed by this volume undertake the analysis of one composer's settings of a particular poet's work - albeit with rather more critical rigour. Others trace the ways in which a literary text is modified and adapted before and as it develops as one of the principal components of an opera. Several share new insights into the complex relationships of individual works with the literary and musical traditions out of which they emerge (or which they transform and renew) - or set such works in the political contexts of their genesis or reception, often using a key historical moment, a turning-point or a 'snapshot', as the starting-point for a wide-ranging investigation. In some cases the words and the music are those of the same 'composer', the relationship here shedding light on the process of composition itself. Literary works are often scrutinized for the light they shed on a musician's creative processes, but the importance of music to writers - as audiences, but also as amateur or even semi-professional practitioners - is no less important as an investigative standpoint.

Book Jochen Gerz

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  • Author : Jochen Gerz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Jochen Gerz written by Jochen Gerz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents Gerz's public art projects which have involved participation by local citizens, both in their construction and in their artistic execution.

Book German Grammar for the Use of the English

Download or read book German Grammar for the Use of the English written by George Traut and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Reconsidering the Object of Art

Download or read book Reconsidering the Object of Art written by Ann Goldstein and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering the Object of Artexamines a generally underexposed (and therefore often misunderstood) period in contemporary art and highlights artists whose practices have inspired much of the most significant art being produced today. It illustrates and discusses many crucial, ground-breaking works that have not been seen within their proper historical context, if they have been individually seen at all. By 1969 such artists as Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and others had begun to create works using a variety of media that sought to reevaluate certain fundamental premises about the formal, material, and contextual definitions of art. This first comprehensive overview of Conceptual art in English documents the work of fifty-five artists, work that marked a significant rupture with traditional forms and concepts of painting, sculpture, photography, and film. Also included are essays that elucidate the significant aesthetic issues that gave rise, in both America and Europe, to the highly individual, but related, modes of Conceptual art. Lucy Lippard (art historian) writes on the broader sociopolitical milieu in which this work was made; Stephen Melville (Professor of Art History, Ohio State University) probes the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of Conceptual art; and Jeff Wall (artist) discusses the relationship between Conceptual art and photography. Anne Rorimer and Ann Goldstein (curators of the exhibition the book accompanies) respectively take up the role of language in this work, and discuss each of the artists. Copublished with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Book Mental Images

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alastair Hannay
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 1317851668
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Mental Images written by Alastair Hannay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This is Volume VII of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of Different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. Written in 1971, the central topic of this book is imaging, more specifically visual imaging and includes the embracing topic of the general question of the nature of mind-or, now that we have taken the linguistic turn, of the content and reference of mental-concept terms.

Book Work of Art

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 694 pages

Download or read book Work of Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ethics of Narration

Download or read book The Ethics of Narration written by Colin Riordan and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The True and the Evident  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book The True and the Evident Routledge Revivals written by Franz Brentano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in1966, The True and The Evident is a translation of Franz Brentano’s posthumous Wahrheit und Evidenz, edited by Oscsar Kraus. The book includes Brentano’s influential lecture, a variety of essays, drawn from the immense wealth of Brentano’s unpublished material, and letters.

Book A Grammar of the German Language   With nine grammatical tables

Download or read book A Grammar of the German Language With nine grammatical tables written by Carl Ferdinand BECKER (Philologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art  Han

Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art Han written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Grammar of the German Language

Download or read book A Grammar of the German Language written by Karl Ferdinand Becker and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In case we meet

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  • Author : Jochen Gerz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book In case we meet written by Jochen Gerz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Réalisé à l'occasion de la restauration de l'intégralité des archives filmées de J. Gerz, cet ouvrage constitue le catalogue raisonné de la production vidéographique de l'artiste. Il contient des fragments de ses performances, des éléments faisant partie d'installations, des ateliers réalisés avec des étudiants et des images issues d'oeuvres vidéo.

Book Twentieth century Artists on Art

Download or read book Twentieth century Artists on Art written by Jack Robertson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: