Twentieth-century art history is not just a history of individuals, but of collectives, groups. Universities and colleges have had much to do with this through their support of artistic communities and creative interactions. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Bauhaus was known for this. In the 1940s, Black Mountain College became a leader in community-based visual art practice and education. And in the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo was the place to be. It was there, in 1973, well before any other university had a program explicitly...
Twentieth-century art history is not just a history of individuals, but of collectives, groups. Universities and colleges have had much to do with ...
Austrian sculptor Hans Kupelwieser has always sought new materials to use--in the manner of Arte Povera but also in a kind of linguistic approach, punching letter forms into steel to create openings. This overview of the sculptor's current work includes reference works from earlier periods and an exploration of his related photographic oeuvre.
Austrian sculptor Hans Kupelwieser has always sought new materials to use--in the manner of Arte Povera but also in a kind of linguistic approach, pun...
What is typically German? Is it really the love of lawn gnomes, gemutlichkeit, and beer? Are the Germans neat freaks, the champions of orderliness and rigid cleaning schedules, a nation unrivaled in its devotion to the virtues of punctuality and conscientiousness? A lawn gnome in a minework's uniform hewn out of anthracit coal; a bronze-cast tower of books rising to a height of more than thirteen feet that bears the title -The Infinite Spirit-; and a brass plummet magnified to a multiple of the original size that stands for -precision---these are only three of the works Rolf Sachs presents in...
What is typically German? Is it really the love of lawn gnomes, gemutlichkeit, and beer? Are the Germans neat freaks, the champions of orderliness and...
This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critical works have established Sound Art as an artistic genre in its own right, with an accepted genealogy that begins with Futurism, Dada, and Fluxus, as well as disciplinary classifications that effectively restrict artistic practice to particular tools and venues. This book, companion volume to a massive 2012-2013 exhibition at ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, goes beyond these established disciplinary divides to chart the evolution and...
This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critic...
