Download or read book Imants Tillers and the Book of Power written by Wystan Curnow and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the work of one of Australia's most internationally successful contemporary artists - Materials, procedures, subjects and index of the Book of power.
Download or read book Imants Tillers and the Book of Power written by Wystan Curnow and published by Fine Art Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imants Tillers is recognised as one of Australia's most intriguing and compelling artists. This monograph, the first major publication on his art, provides an overview of his career and a detailed introduction to the works he has produced since 1981, collectively known as the Book of Power. The text shows how, as Tillers reflected on and became engaged in the distribution and circulation of visual imagery, he developed into a true artist of the age of information." "He was initially interested in installation and conceptual art and participated in several performances - he assisted Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the famous "wrapping" of Little Bay, Sydney in 1969. However, since the early 1970s Tillers has been interested primarily in painting, taking his images from other sources - especially reproductions in catalogues and art magazines - and then presenting them, whole or in part, in new combinations or in altered forms."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Postmodern Art of Imants Tillers written by Graham Coulter-Smith and published by Paul Holberton Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The strategy of postmodern appropriation that burgeoned into an international style in the 1980s is currently epitomised by the work of New York artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Hans Haacke and David Salle. This book examines the parallel yet highly original evolution of Australia's leading appropriationist, Imants Tillers." "The author argues that whereas the New York school was predominantly based on the appropriation of mass media imagery, from 1975 onwards Tiller turned to the appropriation of fine art imagery. While the New York school was primarily oriented towards a deconstruction of the ideological signs of mass media, Tillers pioneered an alternative Australian school of appropriation based on the deconstruction of authorship." "Coulter-Smith also argues that the lack of authorial presence that arises out of Tillers' approach foregrounds the role of the viewer in the construction of meaning and in so doing expands the discourse of appropriation into the multi-dimensional space of intertextuality."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Credo written by Imants Tillers and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Credo brings together essays from different stages in Imants Tillers’ career, from ‘Locality Fails’ to ‘Metafisica Australe’ and ‘Journey to Nowhere’, and closes with an essay written especially for the collection, ‘The Sources’, on the artists and writers he has drawn on in his art. These essays express an aesthetic credo which has larger implications for both literature and art created out of the experience of migration. His self-coined concepts like ‘the idea of incommensurability’ and ‘reversible destiny’, his ideas about appropriation and the importance of reproduction in Australian culture, the encyclopaedic range of his work, and his orientation and re-orientation towards Aboriginal art, articulate an Australian aesthetic which constantly seeks connectedness between the local and the international, and a broader understanding of the complexities of provincialism. What he calls ‘the revolt of the margins’ is evident in the provocative nature of his writing too, in its wit and irony and intelligence.
Download or read book Permanent Revolution written by Richard Haese and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney's Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of work. Launched with an equally extraordinary exhibition, the movement they called Imitation Realism introduced collage, assemblage and installation to Australian art for the first time. Laying the groundwork for a distinctive Australian postmodernism, Imitation Realism was also the first Australian art movement to respond in a profound way to Aboriginal art, and to the tribal art of New Guinea and the Pacific region. By the mid-1960s Brown was already the most controversial figure in Australian art. In 1963 a key work was thrown out of a major travelling exhibition for being overtly sexual; a year later he publicly attacked Sydney artists and critics for having failed the test of integrity. Finally, in 1966-67, Brown became the only Australian artist to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity. Brown spent the last 28 years of his life in Melbourne, where his reputation for radicalism and nonconformity was cemented with his multiplicity of styles, exploration of themes of sexuality, and transgressive commitment to the ideal of street art and graffiti. Against a background of the counter-culture and the social and political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, Brown's art and remarkable life of personal and creative struggle is without parallel in Australian art.
Download or read book The Venice Biennale and the Asia Pacific in the Global Art World written by Stephen Naylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities who have had less continuous participation in this global art event. Analysing both the spatial and visual representation of contemporary art presented at the Venice Biennale and incorporating the politics behind national selections, this monograph provides insights into a range of important elements of the global art industry. Areas analysed include national cultural trends and strategies, the inversion of the peripheral to the centre stage of the Biennale, geopolitics in gaining exhibition space at the Venice Biennale, curatorial practices for contemporary art presentation and artistic trends that seek to deal with major economic, cultural, religious and environmental issues emerging from non-European art centres. This monograph will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies and Asia-Pacific cultural history.
Download or read book Volume One written by Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.) and published by MCA Store. This book was released on 2012 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The work features over 280 works by more than 170 Australian artists drawn from a period of acquisitions which began with the consitution of the MCA in May 1989."--p. 17.
Download or read book Diaspora written by Imants Tillers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Untitled Portraits of Australian Artists written by and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Art written by Andrew Sayers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey uniquely covers both Aboriginal art and that of European Australians, providing a revealing examination of the interaction between the two. Painting, bark art, photography, rock art, sculpture, and the decorative arts are all fully explored to present the rich texture of Australian art traditions. Well-known artists such as Margaret Preston, Rover Thomas, and Sidney Nolan are all discussed, as are the natural history illustrators, Aboriginal draughtsmen, and pastellists, whose work is only now being brought to light by new research. Taking the European colonization of the continent in 1788 as his starting point, Sayers highlights important issues concerning colonial art and women artists in this fascinating new story of Australian art.
Download or read book Parihaka written by Te Miringa Hohaia and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on previously unpublished manuscripts, many of the teachings and sayings of Te Whiti and Tohu - in Maori and English - are reproduced in full with extensive annotation by Te Miringa Hohaia. Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance reaches beyond the art and literary worlds to engage with cultural issues important to all citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand."--Jacket.
Download or read book Antipodean Currents written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antipodean currents: ten contemporary artists from Australia.
Download or read book Australian Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Halfway House written by Barbara Holloway and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halfway House: The Poetics Of Australian Spaces Drains On Gaston Bachelard's Landmark 1958 Work, The Poetics Of Space, To Explore The Concept Of Creative Space-Making Within An Australian Context. The Collection Reflects The Dialogue And Response Of Artists, Writers, Performers And Cultural theorists.
Download or read book Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts written by Paul Duro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Imitation in the Visual Arts challenges this prejudice by revealing the ubiquity of the practice across cultures and geographical borders. This fascinating collection of original essays has been compiled by a group of leading scholars Challenges the prejudice of imitation in art by bringing to bear a perspective that reveals the ubiquity of the practice of imitation across cultural and geographical borders Brings light to a broad range of areas, some of which have been little researched in the past
Download or read book Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non Indigenous Art written by Sarah Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historian’s self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of ‘reverse appropriation‘ by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic toa. Cross-cultural dialogue is traced from the post-war period to ‘Aboriginalism’ in design and the First Nations fashion industry of today. Transculturation, conceptualism, and collaboration are contextualised in the 1980s, a pivotal decade for the growth of collaborative First Nations exhibitions. Within the current circumstances of political protest in photographic portraiture and against the mining of sacred Aboriginal land, Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art testifies to the need for Australian institutions to collaborate with First Nations people more often and better. This book will appeal to students and scholars of art history, Indigenous anthropology, and museum and heritage studies.
Download or read book Home and Away written by William McAloon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tarnaki 4 June-22 August 1999" -- T.p. verso.
