An My Lê

Author : DAN. LEERS
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683952200

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An-My Lê on Contested Terrain (Signed Edition) by DAN. LEERS Pdf

An-My Lê On Contested Terrain is the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Drawing, in part, from her own experiences of the Vietnam War, Lê has created a body of work committed to expanding and complicating our understanding of the activities and motivations behind conflict and war. Throughout her thirty-year career, Lê has photographed noncombatant roles of active-duty service members, often on the sites of former battlefields, including those reserved for training or the reenactment of war, and those created as film sets. This publication includes selections from her well-known series Viêt Nam, Small Wars, 29 Palms, and Events Ashore, in addition to never-before-seen images, including recent photographs from the US-Mexico border, formative early work, and lesser-known projects. Essays by the organizing curator Dan Leers and curator Lisa J. Sutcliffe, as well as a dialogue between Lê and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, address the ways in which Lê's quiet, nuanced work complicates the landscapes of conflict that have long informed American identity. Copublished by Aperture and Carnegie Museum of Art

Author : Kate Mayne,MAS: Museum aan de Stroom (Antwerpen)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1113459909

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An-My Lê by Kate Mayne,MAS: Museum aan de Stroom (Antwerpen) Pdf

Author : An-My Lê,Richard B. Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Historical reenactments
ISBN : 1931788820

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Small Wars by An-My Lê,Richard B. Woodward Pdf

Small Wars brings together three interconnected series by photographer An-My Le. In "Viet Nam," Le returns to the country she left in her teens and attempts to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape; in "Small Wars," she engages a small community of Vietnam War reenactors; and in "29 Palms," she documents the preparations of marines in the California desert as they undergo training for the recent conflict in the Middle East.

Author : Michelle Dunn Marsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735642320

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Seeing Being Seen by Michelle Dunn Marsh Pdf

This memoir of Michelle Dunn Marsh's life and work as a book designer, cultural producer, and publisher unfolds through photographs drawn from the author's collection (featuring many prints gifted to her from projects, or obtained through trade), and notes on her formative encounters with some of American photography's master practitioners over the last twenty-five years.Portraits of her by Stephen Shore, Larry Fink, Sylvia Plachy, Will Wilson, and others punctuate a loosely chronological narrative exploring the author's evolution of seeing, the influences of family, education, geographies, mentors, and photography itself on that process, and her commitment to the printed book as a vessel of future histories.

Author : Thi Diem Thuy Le
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307792259

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The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Thi Diem Thuy Le Pdf

The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. “A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarating.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father’s hopeless rage.

Author : Roger Nelson
Publisher : National Gallery Singapore
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789811147258

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Modern Art of Southeast Asia: Introductions from A to Z by Roger Nelson Pdf

Modern Art of Southeast Asia: Introductions from A to Z features 60 concise and accessibly written accounts of the key ideas and currents underlying modern art in the region. These are accompanied by over 250 beautifully reproduced artworks from the collection of National Gallery Singapore, and other public and private collections in Southeast Asia and beyond. The book offers an informative first encounter with art as well as refreshing perspectives, and is a rewarding resource for students.

Author : James Meyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226620145

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The Art of Return by James Meyer Pdf

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring “I have a dream!” or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels, the revolutionary sixties resonates around the world: China’s communist government inaugurated a new cultural era, African nations won independence from colonial rule, and students across Europe took to the streets, calling for an end to capitalism, imperialism, and the Vietnam War. In this innovative work, James Meyer turns to art criticism, theory, memoir, and fiction to examine the fascination with the long sixties and contemporary expressions of these cultural memories across the globe. Meyer draws on a diverse range of cultural objects that reimagine this revolutionary era stretching from the 1950s to the 1970s, including reenactments of civil rights, antiwar, and feminist marches, paintings, sculptures, photographs, novels, and films. Many of these works were created by artists and writers born during the long Sixties who were driven to understand a monumental era that they missed. These cases show us that the past becomes significant only in relation to our present, and our remembered history never perfectly replicates time past. This, Meyer argues, is precisely what makes our contemporary attachment to the past so important: it provides us a critical opportunity to examine our own relationship to history, memory, and nostalgia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Photography of the nude
ISBN : OCLC:1108710660

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Janice Guy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780358212102

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Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction--and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us. In "Freedom," Le Guin notes: "Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now ... to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom--poets, visionaries--realists of a larger reality." Le Guin was one of those authors and inWords Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Quentin Bajac,Sarah Hermanson Meister
Publisher : Moma
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Photograph collections
ISBN : 1633450228

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The Shape of Things by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Quentin Bajac,Sarah Hermanson Meister Pdf

Catalog of an exhibition held October 29, 2016-May 7, 2017.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683950984

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Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973-1981 (Signed Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places is indisputably a canonic body of work--a touchstone for those interested in photography and the American landscape. Remarkably, despite having been the focus of numerous shows and books, including the eponymous 1982 Aperture classic (expanded and reissued several times), this series of photographs has yet to be explored in its entirety. Over the past five years, Shore has scanned hundreds of negatives shot between 1973 and 1981. In this volume, Aperture has invited an international group of fifteen photographers, curators, authors, and cultural figures to select ten images apiece from this rarely seen cache of images. Each portfolio offers an idiosyncratic and revealing commentary on why this body of work continues to astound; how it has impacted the work of new generations of photography and the medium at large; and proposes new insight on Shore's unique vision of America as transmuted in this totemic series. Texts and image selections by Wes Anderson, Quentin Bajac, David Campany, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, An-My Leê, Michael Lesy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Francine Prose, Ed Ruscha, Britt Salvesen, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Lynne Tillman

Author : Esther Choi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9783791384726

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Le Corbuffet by Esther Choi Pdf

New York Magazines Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books of 2019 One of The Architect's Newspaper's Fall Must-Reads Home-cooking meets highbrow art in this one-of-a-kind cookbook that uses food to create edible interpretations of modern and contemporary sculptures, paintings, architecture, and design. It started as a series of dinner parties that Esther Choi--artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook--hosted for friends after she stumbled across an elaborate menu crafted for Walter Gropius in 1937. Combining a curiosity about art and design with a deeply felt love of cooking, Choi has assembled a playful collection of recipes that are sure to spark conversation over the dinner table. Featuring Choi's own spectacular photography, these sixty recipes riff off famous artists or architects and the works they are known for. Try Quiche Haring with the Frida Kale-o Salad, or the Robert Rauschenburger followed by Flan Flavin. This cookbook is strikingly beautiful and provocative as it blurs the boundaries between art and everyday life and celebrates food in an engaging and imaginative way.

Author : Robert Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064349643

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Along Some Rivers by Robert Adams Pdf

Robert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture's previous bestselling collections of his essays, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph, assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography's place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. Along Some Rivers collects Adams's correspondence and conversations--some of which have never been published before--with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including Cottonwoods and What We Bought. Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers and how he approaches printing his pictures. Along Some Rivers also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes.

Author : Thierry Le Goues
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110229619

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Popular by Thierry Le Goues Pdf

New from high-profile fashion photographer Thierry Le Gouès comes a lavish artist's book, Popular, an earthy, luring tome of the rarely shown Havana social scene. In Le Gouès' provocative duotone and sensuous four-color photographs, we're seduced by a culture of great joy amongst great poverty: raucous, heat-soaked street parties; spirited sparring matches in crumbling gymnasiums; voluptuous nudes plying their wares in derelict mansions; wizened balladeers savoring impossibly large Cohibas... Le Gouès' models are drawn from the street: a mixture of Buena Vista Social Club stars and underground legends, the miscegenation of which, in Le Gouès' expert fashion sense, serves to create a raw, sexy style-one of abandon out of necessity, out of a lust for life-a spirit Le Gouès sees in Cuba as ubiquitous as the cigarettes from which the book draws its name.

Author : Sandra S. Phillips,Sally Martin Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1942185790

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American Geography by Sandra S. Phillips,Sally Martin Katz Pdf

Drawing from the vast photography collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, American Geography charts a visual history of land use in the United States From the earliest photographic records of human habitation to the latest aerial and digital pictures, from almost uninhabited desert and isolated mountainous territories to suburban sprawl and densely populated cities, this compilation offers an increasingly nuanced perspective on the American landscape. Divided by region, these photographs address ways in which different histories and traditions of land use have given rise to different cultural transitions: from the Midwestern prairies and agricultural traditions of the South, to the riverine systems in the Northeast, and the environmental challenges and riches of the far West. American Geography also looks at the evidence of older habitation from the adobe dwellings and ancient cultures of the Southwest to the Midwestern mounds, many of them prehistoric. SFMOMA's last photography exhibition to consider land use, Crossing the Frontier (1996), examined only the American West. At the time, this focus offered a different way to think about landscape, and a useful way to reconsider pictures of the region. American Geography expands upon the groundwork laid by Crossing the Frontier, providing a complex, thought-provoking survey. Photographers include: Carleton E. Watkins, Barbara Bosworth, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Mitch Epstein, An-My Lê, William Eggleston, Alec Soth, Mishka Henner, Trevor Paglen, Victoria Sambunaris, Emmet Gowin, Robert Adams, Terry Evans, Dorothea Lange and Mark Ruwedel, among others.