Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Contemporary (1945- )

The Animal Surreal situates Surrealism within the burgeoning field of Animal Studies by examining Surrealist representations of nonhuman animals through the lens of Darwinian theory. Unlike Marx and Freud, Darwin was rarely cited by name as a source for the Surrealists, and yet his influence is present in various ways, such as the frequent inclusion of -natural history- imagery and the exploration of themes of mutability and mutation. Animals and our relationship to them furthermore constitute a significant source of inquiry for Surrealism, as evidenced by Max Ernst's human-bird alter-ego...

In Munchen baute der Kunsthandler Gunther Franke (1900-1976) ab 1923 erfolgreich ein Netzwerk aus Kunstlern, Sammlern und Museen auf und wurde zu einem wichtigen Galeristen und Handler von Max Beckmann und Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Bereits anlasslich seines 25-jahrigen Jubilaums 1947 hob man lobend hervor, dass es in der NS-Zeit sein Verdienst gewesen sei, die Werke von als -entartet- geltenden Kunstlern bewahrt zu haben. Spater titelte man, Franke sei -kein Mann der Anpassung- gewesen Diese Publikation leistet einen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels in Munchen bis in die 1970er Jahre,...

The 1980s was a critical decade in shaping today's art production. While newly visible work concerned with power and identity hinted at a shift toward multiculturalism, the '80s were also a time of social conservatism that resulted in substantial changes in arts funding. In Asking the Audience, Adair Rounthwaite uses this context to analyze the rising popularity of audience participation in American art during this important decade.

Rounthwaite explores two seminal and interrelated art projects sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation in New York: Group Material's Democracy and...

"I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software."

Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice.

In essays, poems, short stories, and plays,...

This publication gathers more than 120 works by American abstract painter Frederic Matys Thursz (1930-92), most of which are reproduced for the first time, alongside a collection of Thursz's lectures, interviews and journal entries. Emphasis is placed on the lectures he gave in 1983 at the New York Studio School.

"Saturday Nights at Lafayette Grill: Argentine Tango in New York City..." brings the reader into the center of a worldwide cultural craze and passion, as it has developed and thrived in New York City since 1985, when the Broadway show "Tango Argentino" first came to town, followed by "Forever Tango." With a special dedication of the book and title to the Argentine tango cultural center formerly housed within a Greek restaurant, named "Lafayette Grill," this book offers 17 interviews with top NYC Argentine tango professionals (all of whom frequented Lafayette...

The 1980s was a critical decade in shaping today's art production. While newly visible work concerned with power and identity hinted at a shift toward multiculturalism, the '80s were also a time of social conservatism that resulted in substantial changes in arts funding. In Asking the Audience, Adair Rounthwaite uses this context to analyze the rising popularity of audience participation in American art during this important decade.

Rounthwaite explores two seminal and interrelated art projects sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation in New York: Group Material's Democracy and...

The author takes you into the forgotten history of the Seabeck area. Discover information about: Crosby, Hite's Center, Hintzville, Camp Union, Lake William Symington, Lake Tahuya, Holly, Miami Beach, Maple Beach, Lone Rock, and Nellita.

This book is a must read if you want to know about some of Kitsap County's local history. You will read about how local places and roads acquired their names. You will learn about the Camp Union railroad, find about how the world-known conference grounds at Seabeck started. Other items mentioned like the can opener factory at Holly, The Nellita...

Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco's vision resonates with four artists working in Mexico today. Isa Carrillo, Adela Goldbard, Rita Ponce de Leon, and Naomi Rincon- Gallardo share Orozco's interest in history, justice, social protest, storytelling, and power yet approach these topics from their own twenty-first-century sensibilities. These...

One wintry day in 1983, alongside other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He called the evanescent and unannounced street action Bliz-aard Ball Sale, thus inscribing it into a body of work that, from the late 1960s to the present, has used a lexicon of ephemeral actions and self-consciously "black" materials to comment on the nature of the artwork, the art world, and race in America. And although Bliz-aard Ball Sale has been...