Biennials The Exhibitions We Love To Hate

Author : Rafal Niemojewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1848223900

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Biennials by Rafal Niemojewski Pdf

Biennials: The Exhibitions we Love to Hate examines one of the most significant recent transitions in the contemporary art world: the proliferation of large-scale international recurrent survey shows of contemporary art, commonly referred to as contemporary biennials. Since the mid-1980s biennials have been instrumental in shaping curating as an autonomous practice. These exhibitions are also said to have provided increased visibility for certain types of new art practices, notably those that are socially and politically committed, research-based and site-specific, and to have undermined0some of the more traditional art media, such as painting, drawing or sculpture. They have been responsible for substantially reshaping the contemporary art world and disrupting the existing value chain of the art market, which now relies on biennials as much as it does on major museums' acquisitions and exhibitions.00Rafal Niemojewski, Director of the Biennial Foundation, deftly unpicks the critical discussion and controversy surrounding contemporary biennials. Branded by some critics as showcases of neo-liberalism run amok, in which culture has become synonymous with the dollar-generating leisure industry, biennials have also been associated with the production of monumental artworks which are both highly consumable and photogenic (Instagrammable). The exhibitions we love to hate? This engaging publication makes an essential contribution to a fascinating cultural debate.

Author : Rafal Niemojewski
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1848223889

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Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate by Rafal Niemojewski Pdf

Biennials: The Exhibitions we Love to Hate examines one of the most significant recent transitions in the contemporary art world: the proliferation of large-scale international recurrent survey shows of contemporary art, commonly referred to as contemporary biennials. Since the mid-1980s biennials have been instrumental in shaping curating as an autonomous practice. These exhibitions are also said to have provided increased visibility for certain types of new art practices, notably those that are socially and politically committed, research-based and site-specific, and to have undermined some of the more traditional art media, such as painting, drawing or sculpture. They have been responsible for substantially reshaping the contemporary art world and disrupting the existing value chain of the art market, which now relies on biennials as much as it does on major museums' acquisitions and exhibitions. Rafal Niemojewski, Director of the Biennial Foundation, deftly unpicks the critical discussion and controversy surrounding contemporary biennials. Branded by some critics as showcases of neo-liberalism run amok, in which culture has become synonymous with the dollar-generating leisure industry, biennials have also been associated with the production of monumental artworks which are both highly consumable and photogenic (Instagrammable). The exhibitions we love to hate? This engaging publication makes an essential contribution to a fascinating cultural debate.

Author : Barry Schwabsky
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784783259

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The Perpetual Guest by Barry Schwabsky Pdf

Leading art critic explores the connections between art’s past and present Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art’s present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past. Surveying the art world of recent decades, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer faces—among them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei, Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpson—but their forebears as well, both near (Jeff Wall, Nancy Spero, Dan Graham, Cindy Sherman) and more distant (Velázquez, Manet, Matisse, and the portraitists of the Renaissance). Schwabsky’s rich and subtle contributions illuminate art’s present moment in all its complexity: shot through with determinations produced by centuries of interwoven traditions, but no less open-ended for it.

Author : Federica Martini,Vittoria Martini
Publisher : postmediabooks
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788874900602

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Just another exhibition by Federica Martini,Vittoria Martini Pdf

Author : Alexander Herman
Publisher : Hot Topics in the Art World
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848225369

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Restitution by Alexander Herman Pdf

Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensification of scrutiny of European museum collections acquired in the colonial period. Alexander Herman's fascinating and accessible book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the restitution ......

Author : Alice Grahame,John McKean
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848223897

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Walter Segal by Alice Grahame,John McKean Pdf

This is a study of the architect Walter Segal (1907-1985): his intellectual biography (background, influences, thoughts, writings), his unique approach to architectural practice (and his built work) and his enduring impact on architecture and attitudes to housing across the world. It firstly sets out his formative years in continental Europe. Segal's father was an eminent modern painter, close to leading architects and artists and he grew up in a fascinating milieu, at the centre of the European avant-garde. With the rise of Hitler, this Jewish family fled, finally settling in England prior to the Second World War. The second section focuses on Walter Segal's central theme of popular housing, his unique and independent form of professional practice, how he managed to spread his ideas through writing and teaching, and how his architecture developed towards the timber-frame system known world-wide today as 'the Segal system, ' which could be used by people to build their own houses. The final section of the book explores the legacy offered by Segal to younger generations; how his work and example, half a century after his timber 'system' was developed, leads to the possibility of making, and then living within, communities whose places are constructed with a flexible, easily assembled, planet-friendly timberframe building system today and tomorrow.

Author : Sarah Thornton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780393071054

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Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton Pdf

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : 1579582907

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The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the 20th Century: 1900-1929 by Anonim Pdf

Reviews, news articles, interviews and essays capturing 100 years of art, architecture, literature, music, dance, theater, film and television.

Author : Lara Khaldi,Yazan Khalili,Andri Michael,Lena Ziese,Susanne Weiß,George Katodrytis,Nesrine Khodr,Mayssa Fattouh,Yiannis Colakides,David Cotterrell,Helen Sloan,Lanfranco Aceti,Katarina Pejovic,Boris Bakal
Publisher : NeMe
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789963969524

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Through the Roadblocks: Curators Abroad by Lara Khaldi,Yazan Khalili,Andri Michael,Lena Ziese,Susanne Weiß,George Katodrytis,Nesrine Khodr,Mayssa Fattouh,Yiannis Colakides,David Cotterrell,Helen Sloan,Lanfranco Aceti,Katarina Pejovic,Boris Bakal Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017539928

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Artscribe International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara Vanderlinden,Elena Filipovic
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822035733914

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The Manifesta Decade by Barbara Vanderlinden,Elena Filipovic Pdf

Reflections from curators, historians, philosophers, anthropologists, architects, and writers on the cultural and political conditions of European exhibition practice since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Author : Claire Bishop
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781683972

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Artificial Hells by Claire Bishop Pdf

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.

Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789603491

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The Intangibilities of Form by John Roberts Pdf

In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion of artistic authority in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Duchamp to Warhol, conceptual art, and the "post-visual" practices of the moment, Roberts explores the relationship between artistic labor and productive labor, and the limits and possibilities of authorship. In doing so, he confronts a recurring theme of both conservative and radical detractors of modern art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: how is skill, and the seeming absence of skill in modern art, to be theorized and evaluated? Drawing on cognitive psychology, labor process theory, social anthropology, and debates in contemporary political philosophy, Roberts' book establishes a new critical topography for examining the cultural form of art today.

Author : Whitney Chadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500203547

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Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick Pdf

"This expanded edition is brought up to date in the light of the most recent developments in contemporary art. A new chapter considers globalization in the visual arts and the complex issues it raises, focusing on the many major international exhibitions since 1990 that have become an important arena for women artists from around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nato Thompson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262017343

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Living as Form by Nato Thompson Pdf

'Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.