Claes Oldenburg S Theater Of Vision

Author : Nadja Rottner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000998894

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Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision by Nadja Rottner Pdf

In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other metaphors to visualize the structure and image content of human thought as an artistic problem. Anchored in new oral history interviews and extensive archival material, it brings together understudied visual and concrete poetry, experimental films, fifteen group performances (commonly referred to as happenings), and a close analysis of his well-known installations of The Street (1960) and The Store (1961–62), effectively setting in place a reexamination of Oldenburg’s pop art from the street, store, home, and cinema years. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, film studies, performance studies, literature, intermedia studies, and media theory.

Author : Katherine Smith
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520305489

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The Accidental Possibilities of the City by Katherine Smith Pdf

Claes Oldenburg’s commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg’s profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city as a critical perspective and conceiving his art as urban theory. Smith argues that Oldenburg adapted lessons of context, gleaned from New York’s changing cityscape in the late 1950s, to large-scale objects and architectural plans. By examining disparate projects from New York to Los Angeles, she situates Oldenburg’s innovations in local geographies and national debates. In doing so, Smith illuminates patterns of urbanization through the important contributions of one of the leading artists in the United States.

Author : Víctor Mínguez,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003806776

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The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution by Víctor Mínguez,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya Pdf

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world, for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs’ identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia’s most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century, the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire, but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography.

Author : Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003803492

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The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt Pdf

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.

Author : Robert Whitman,Hudson River Museum
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Video art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Palisade by Robert Whitman,Hudson River Museum Pdf

Author : Dick Higgins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472056781

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Alchemies of Theater by Dick Higgins Pdf

Illuminating the extensive contributions of Dick Higgins to theater

Author : John Szwed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478012054

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Space Is the Place by John Szwed Pdf

Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz. John Szwed's Space is the Place is the definitive biography of this musical polymath, who was one of the twentieth century's greatest avant-garde artists and intellectuals. Charting the whole of Sun Ra's life and career, Szwed outlines how after years in Chicago as a blues and swing band pianist, Sun Ra set out in the 1950s to impart his views about the galaxy, black people, and spiritual matters by performing music with the Arkestra that was as vital and innovative as it was mercurial and confounding. Szwed's readers—whether they are just discovering Sun Ra or are among the legion of poets, artists, intellectuals, and musicians who consider him a spiritual godfather—will find that, indeed, space is the place.

Author : Denise Varney
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789401200530

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Radical Visions 1968-2008 by Denise Varney Pdf

Preliminary Material -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The International Generation of 1968: Theatre and Culture -- The Australian Performing Group and Its Legacy, 1968-2008 -- Williamson in the Howard Years -- John Romeril - The Asian Australian Journey -- A Parallel Forty-Year Female Narrative with Alma De Groen -- Richard Murphet and the Wounded Subject -- Jenny Kemp - On the Edge -- Stephen Sewell and the State of the Nation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Mel Gussow
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015045685263

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Theatre on the Edge by Mel Gussow Pdf

THEATRE ON THE EDGE: NEW VISIONS NEW VOICES

Author : Mark Staff Brandl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350073845

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A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art by Mark Staff Brandl Pdf

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and act. While we are alert to metaphor in spoken or written texts, it has, within the visual arts, been critically overlooked. Taking into consideration how metaphors are inventively embodied in the formal, technical, and stylistic aspects of visual artworks, Mark Staff Brandl shows how extensively artists rely on creative metaphor within their work. Exploring the work of a broad variety of artists – including Dawoud Bey, Dan Ramirez, Gaëlle Villedary, Raoul Deal, Sonya Clark, Titus Kaphar, Charles Boetschi, and more– he argues that metaphors are the foundation of visual thought, are chiefly determined by bodily and environmental experiences, and are embodied in artistic form. Visual artistic creation is philosophical thought. By grounding these arguments in the work of philosophers and cultural theorists, including Noël Carroll, Hans Georg Gadamer, and George Lakoff, Brandl shows how important metaphor is to understanding contemporary art. A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art takes a neglected feature of the visual arts and shows us what a vital role it plays within them. Bridging theory and practice, and drawing upon a capacious array of examples, this book is essential reading for art historians and practitioners, as well as analytic philosophers working in aesthetics and meaning.

Author : Simon Anderson,Newark Museum
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813526094

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Off Limits by Simon Anderson,Newark Museum Pdf

By constantly challenging one another to take art "Off Limits," George Brecht, Geoffrey Hendricks, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Robert Watts, and Robert Whitman defied the art world, bringing Abstract Expressionism to a screeching halt and setting the stage for the art of the rest of the century. Off Limits accompanies a major exhibition of the same title at The Newark Museum, February 18 - May 16, 1999.

Author : Bertie Ferdman,Jovana Stokic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350057593

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The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art by Bertie Ferdman,Jovana Stokic Pdf

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction. This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.

Author : Mateusz Borowski,Malgorzata Sugiera
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443807180

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Fictional Realities / Real Fictions. Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm by Mateusz Borowski,Malgorzata Sugiera Pdf

The collection of essays Fictional Realities / Real Fictions. Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm tackles the problem of fictionality and reality in contemporary theatre practice and playwriting. It approaches this hotly debated issue in a larger context of the theories of theatrical and dramatic mimesis. The volume provides an answer to the most recent developments in performative arts, such as the widespread use of new media technologies, the popularity of site specific productions, and the flourishing of various post-dramatic forms of expression. The phenomena scrutinized in this collection call into question the basic dichotomy between the fictional and the real on which the theory and practice of the Western theatre has been based right from its inception. However, due to their extremely heterogeneous character, they pose a considerable problem for researchers and teachers, who still do not find a widely applicable methodology for the analysis of contemporary performances and texts for the theatre. Fictional Realities / Real Fictions sets the discussion of the onset of new mimetic paradigm in three interrelated contexts: the new perceptual patterns forged by contemporary theatre, the use of media on stage, and the strategies of today’s political theatre. The case studies presented here, in spite of their thematic diversity, are subordinated to a single theoretical framework. Thus they turn out extremely useful both for the scholars investigating the problems of contemporary theatre, and students of theatre and drama. Fictional Realities / Real Fictions offers them a rigid methodological scaffolding, supported by a number of illustrative examples from a variety of cultural context and theatre traditions, which gives them an opportunity to extrapolate from the main argument of the volume to their own research.

Author : Ingeborg Hoesterey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0253206111

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Zeitgeist in Babel by Ingeborg Hoesterey Pdf

Collection of essays which indicate the "complex constellation of greatly differing interpretive formations concerning the term postmodernism."

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Presidents
ISBN : MINN:31951T003926951

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by United States. President Pdf

"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.