Ambiguity In Contemporary Art And Theory

Author : Frauke Berndt,Lutz Koepnick
Publisher : Felix Meiner Verlag
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783787334261

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Ambiguity in Contemporary Art and Theory by Frauke Berndt,Lutz Koepnick Pdf

It has become commonplace to associate art and aesthetic experience with the category of ambiguity. Indeed, when we talk about art, we cannot do without the dynamic force of ambiguity just as the aesthetic itself cannot do without it. The great efforts to disambiguate aesthetic practices and their associated theories and contexts would eliminate art's unique ability to reshape our knowledge of the world, our sensory encounters with it, and our moral or political positions in it. The essays collected in this volume present different perspectives on this central category and develop interdisciplinary connections. Contributors include Frauke Berndt, Joy H. Calico, Stephan Kammer, Lutz Koepnick, Verena Krieger, Richard Langston, Rachel Mader, Lily Tonger-Erk, Gabriel Trop, and Thomas Wortmann.

Author : Dario Gamboni
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ambiguity
ISBN : 1861891490

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Potential Images by Dario Gamboni Pdf

In Potential Images Dario Gamboni explores ambiguity in modern art, considering images that rely to a great degree on a projected or imaginative response from viewers to achieve their effect. Ambiguity became increasingly important in late 19th- and early 20th-century aesthetics, as is evidenced in works by such artists as Redon, Cezanne, Gauguin, Ensor and the Nabis. Similarly, the Cubists subverted traditional representational conventions, requiring their viewers to decipher images to extract their full meanings. The same device was taken up in the various experiments leading to abstraction. For example, it was Kandinsky's intention that his work could be interpreted in both figurative and non-figurative ways, and Duchamp's Readymades suggested the radical conclusion that 'it is the beholder who makes the picture'. These invitations to viewers to participate in the process of artistic communication had social and political implications, as they accorded artist and beholder symmetrical, almost interchangeable, roles.

Author : Russell Marshall,Phil Sawdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857722027

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Hyperdrawing by Russell Marshall,Phil Sawdon Pdf

In hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become. In this follow-up to 2007's drawing now: between the lines of contemporary art, Phil Sawdon and Russell Marshall, two of the current directors of TRACEY, curate contemporary drawing within fine art practice from 2006 through to 2010. Four essays and images from 33 international artists collectively explore the boundaries of the hyperdrawing space, investigating in essence what lies beyond drawing - images that use traditional materials or subjects whilst also pushing beyond the traditional, employing sound, light, time, space and technology. Over and above traditional views and practices, the authors and artists in this book recognise and embrace the opportunities inherent in the essential ambiguity of drawing. Practitioners of hyperreal works, 2D3D4D pieces and installations that push beyond photorealism all find their place within this new conception of hyperdrawing as techne, a productive space no longer limited by spatial boundaries.Artists including Catherine Bertola, Layla Curtis, Garrett Phelan, Suzanne Treister and Ulrich Vogl alongside the essays of Emma Cocker, Siun Hanrahan and Marsha Meskimmon provide a contemporary view in both visual and written form of how ambiguity can be used as a strategic approach in drawing research and practice. A gallery in book form, hyperdrawing takes drawing beyond the interaction of pencil and paper and traces contemporary adventures in multiple dimensions and alternate realities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783835385689

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Author : Deborah Ascher Barnstone,Elizabeth Otto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501344886

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Art and Resistance in Germany by Deborah Ascher Barnstone,Elizabeth Otto Pdf

In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers have sought to resist, confront, confound, mock, or call out situations of political oppression in Germany, a country which has seen a dramatic range of political extremes during the past century. While the current turn to nationalist populism is global, it is perhaps most disturbing in Germany, given its history with its stormy first democracy in the interwar Weimar Republic; its infamous National Socialist (Nazi) period of the 1930s and 1940s; and its split Cold-War existence, with Marxist-Leninist Totalitarianism in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany's barely-hidden ties to the Nazi past. Equally important, Germans have long considered art and culture critical to constructions of national identity, which meant that they were frequently implicated in political action. This book therefore examines a range of work by artists from the early twentieth century to the present, work created in an array of contexts and media that demonstrates a wide range of possible resistance.

Author : Shin, Ryan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781522516668

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Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement by Shin, Ryan Pdf

Art is a multi-faceted part of human society, and often is used for more than purely aesthetic purposes. When used as a narrative on modern society, art can actively engage citizens in cultural and pedagogical discussions. Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the relationship between popular media, art, and visual culture, analyzing how this intersection promotes global pedagogy and learning. Highlighting relevant perspectives from both international and community levels, this book is ideally designed for professionals, upper-level students, researchers, and academics interested in the role of art in global learning.

Author : Dario Gamboni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ambiguity
ISBN : OCLC:1392314331

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Potential Images by Dario Gamboni Pdf

Author : Ludovica Lumer,Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501348853

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For Want of Ambiguity by Ludovica Lumer,Lois Oppenheim Pdf

Nominated for the 2019 Gradiva® Award for Best Book by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art. Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Barbarigo, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, Francis Bacon, Agnes Martin, and others, For Want of Ambiguity offers a new perspective on how insight is achieved and on how art opens us up to new ways of being.

Author : La Salle University Art Museum
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780988999909

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Strategic Ambiguity: The Obscure, Nebulous, and Vague in Symbolist Prints by La Salle University Art Museum Pdf

Exhibition catalogue for Strategic Ambiguity: The Obscure, Nebulous, and Vague in Symbolist Prints, December 6, 2012 to March 1, 2013 at the La Salle University Art Museum. The prints in this exhibition demonstrate how the Symbolist fascination with ambiguity seen in their choices of subject matter (i.e. half-human, half-animal hybrids such as harpies and sphinxes, gender ambiguity and androgyny) extended to formal strategies of representation that obscure form as well as content. This exhibition places Symbolist art in the context of Modernism by focusing on the ways in which artists experimented with print media and explored technical means of suggesting formal ambiguity (i.e. flattening, abstracting, obscuring) both to better match form and content and to push the boundaries of figurative art. The exhibition features work by artists Odilon Redon, Jan Toorop, Paul Gauguin, Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, Félix Vallotton, Henri Ibels, Pierre Bonnard, Félix Buhot, Pierre Roche, Henri Martin, Armand Point, Maurice Dumont, Jeanne Jacquemin, Georges de Feure,François-Marius Valère Bernard, Carlos Schwabe and others. Print techniques represented in this survey range from lithography and etching to gypsography. The exhibition catalogue features essays by the curator and La Salle faculty from the disciplines of art history and philosophy.

Author : Tom Barone,Elliot W. Eisner
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412982474

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Arts Based Research by Tom Barone,Elliot W. Eisner Pdf

Designed to be used as both a class text and a resource for researchers and practitioners, Arts Based Research provides a framework for those who seek to broaden the domain of qualitative inquiry in the social sciences by incorporating the arts as forms that represent human knowing.

Author : Phil Sawdon,Russell Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0755603419

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Hyperdrawing by Phil Sawdon,Russell Marshall Pdf

In this book, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become. In this follow-up to 2007's 'Drawing Now: between the lines of contemporary art', the editors of 'TRACEY' curate contemporary drawing within fine art practice from 2006 through to 2010. Four essays and images from 33 international artists collectively explore the boundaries of the hyperdrawing space, investigating in essence what lies beyond drawing - images that use traditional materials or subjects whilst also pushing beyond the traditional, employing sound, light, time, space and technology. Over and above traditional views and practices, the authors and artists in this book recognise and embrace the opportunities inherent in the essential ambiguity of drawing. Practitioners of hyperreal works, 2D3D4D pieces and installations that push beyond photorealism all find their place within this new conception of hyperdrawing as techné, a productive space no longer limited by spatial boundaries.

Author : Panos Kompatsiaris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317290834

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The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials by Panos Kompatsiaris Pdf

Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta X, the new biennial blends the modalities of protest with a neoliberal politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question and often boycotted in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book argues that biennials both denunciate the aesthetic as bourgeois category and simultaneously replicate and diffuse an exclusive sociability across social landscapes.

Author : Antony Rowland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108841979

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Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry by Antony Rowland Pdf

Introduction -- Contemporary British Poetry and Enigmaticalness -- Continuing 'Poetry Wars' in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry -- Committed and Autonomous Art -- Iconoclasm and Enigmatical Commitment -- The Double Consciousness of Modernism -- Conclusion.

Author : Susan Orr,Alison Shreeve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315415116

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Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education by Susan Orr,Alison Shreeve Pdf

Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the development of creativity. The text offers readers analytical frameworks with which to challenge assumptions about the art and design curriculum in higher education. In this volume, Orr and Shreeve critically interrogate the landscape of art and design higher education, offering illuminating viewpoints on pedagogy and assessment. New scholarship is introduced in three key areas: curriculum: the nature and purpose of the creative curriculum and the concept of a ‘sticky curriculum’ that is actively shaped by lecturers, technicians and students; ambiguity, which the authors claim is at the heart of a creative education; value, asking what and whose ideas, practices and approaches are given value and create value within the curriculum. These insights from the perspective of a creative university subject area also offer new ways of viewing other disciplines, and provide a response to a growing educational interest in cross-curricular creativity. This book offers a coherent theory of art and design teaching and learning that will be of great interest to those working in and studying higher education practice and policy, as well as academics and researchers interested in creative education.

Author : Phil Sawdon,Russell Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 9781350348202

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Drawing Ambiguity by Phil Sawdon,Russell Marshall Pdf

This is the third book in the innovative TRACEY series on contemporary drawing. Drawing Ambiguity builds upon its predecessors, Drawing Now and Hyperdrawing, by proposing that a position of ambiguity, a lack of definition, is not only desirable within fine art drawing but also necessary - having the capacity to enable and sustain drawing practices. What happens if we are ambivalent to what is a drawing, or what drawing is? Russell Marshall and Phil Sawdon bring together multiple perspectives from within and without the fine art drawing field to respond to these questions. Contributors include artist Ilana Halperin, artist-researcher Deborah Harty, artist and founder member of the group Underworld Karl Hyde, the creative collaboration Kreider + O'Leary, artist, writer Michael Phillipson, artist, academic Rob Ward, editors Marshall and Sawdon together with an Introduction by the artist, writer and curator Derek Horton.