Death Of An Art Critic Tod Einer Kritikerin

Author : Annika Bender
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783956793479

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Death of an Art Critic / Tod einer Kritikerin by Annika Bender Pdf

“The idea behind Donnerstag was to insist on the difference between good art and bad art. I am aware of how anachronistic that sounds and how quickly it evokes the image of an old critic-pontiff wagging his authoritarian pointer finger. But even that image is founded in a misunderstanding: the caricaturesque exaggeration of the critic's voice as dictatorial. But it's really nothing more than that very voice. And it pronounces a judgment that is not juridical, but ideally worth nothing more than the argument at its core. It's far more authoritarian and antidemocratic to deny a public voice the act of judgment and concede to a postheroically styled art writer nothing more than the task of pointing at something. […] Whoever just leaves it at that has also parted ways with any hope of open rivalry between arguments.” —Annika Bender This book is an adaptation of Annika Bender's lecture “Jump! You Fuckers!” which was presented at Kunsthalle Bern in the context of a series on overproduction and ambivalence in contemporary art. Annika Bender was one of the pseudonyms of artists Dominic Osterried and Steffen Zillig, who wrote the blog Donnerstag (now discontinued) under her name. To make the criticism she proposed possible, and make public its conditions and inherent contradictions—as well as articulate the reasons for her disappearance—it proved necessary to confer Bender to the archive. Schriftenreihe by Kunsthalle Bern, ed. Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger

Author : Daniel Birnbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1934105082

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The Power of Judgment by Daniel Birnbaum Pdf

Author : Peter Neumann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374720544

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Jena 1800 by Peter Neumann Pdf

“An exhilarating account of a remarkable historical moment, in which characters known to many of us as immutable icons are rendered as vital, passionate, fallible beings . . . Lively, precise, and accessible.” —Claire Messud, Harper’s Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others. Nowhere was the excitement more palpable than among the extraordinary group of poets, philosophers, translators, and socialites who gathered in this Thuringian village of just four thousand residents. Jena became the place for the young and intellectually curious, the site of a new departure, of philosophical disruption. Influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, then an elder statesman and artistic eminence, the leading figures among the disruptors—the translator August Wilhelm Schlegel; the philosophers Friedrich "Fritz" Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling; the dazzling, controversial intellectual Caroline Schlegel, married to August; Dorothea Schlegel, a poet and translator, married to Fritz; and the poets Ludwig Tieck and Novalis—resolved to rethink the world, to establish a republic of free spirits. They didn’t just question inherited societal traditions; with their provocative views of the individual and of nature, they revolutionized our understanding of freedom and reality. With wit and elegance, Peter Neumann brings this remarkable circle of friends and rivals to life in Jena 1800, a work of intellectual history that is colorful and passionate, informative and intimate—as fresh and full of surprises as its subjects.

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039000698

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The Overstory by Richard Powers Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Winner of France's Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine Finalist for the Man Booker Prize Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award "Monumental. . . . A gigantic fable of genuine truths." --Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--fast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Author : Manisha Jothady,ARGE curated by_vienna
Publisher : Moderne Kunst Verlag Fur
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 3869845287

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The Century of the Bed by Manisha Jothady,ARGE curated by_vienna Pdf

The Century of the Bed addresses the use of the bed as an office and workspace. How can we define and reexamine the bed as an architectural space? This publication offers insight into the diverse artistic research on this topic.

Author : Maurizio Cattelan,Massimiliano Gioni,Ali Subotnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015064923009

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Of mice and men by Maurizio Cattelan,Massimiliano Gioni,Ali Subotnick Pdf

Of Mice and Men ISBN 3-7757-1765-X / 978-3-7757-1765-6 Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 344 pgs / 250 color. / U.S. $40.00 CDN $48.00 August / Art

Author : Abbas Khider
Publisher : German List
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0857427210

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The Village Indian by Abbas Khider Pdf

Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to find himself a new way home. From Iraq via Northern Africa through Europe and back again, Abbas Khider deftly blends the tragic with the comic, and the grotesque with the ordinary, in order to tell the story of suffering the real and brutal dangers of life as a refugee--and to remember the haunting faces of those who did not survive the journey. This is a stunning piece of storytelling, a novel of unusual scope that brings to life the endless cycle of illegal entry and deportation that defines life for a vulnerable population living on the margins of legitimate society. Translated by Donal McLaughlin, The Village Indian provides what every good translation should: a literary looking glass between two cultures, between two places, between East and West.

Author : Abbas Khider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1803090006

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A Slap in the Face by Abbas Khider Pdf

Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany. In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein's defeat. But Hussein wasn't the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas Khider unfolds his story, we learn both the secret struggles he faced in his homeland and the battles with prejudice, distrust, poverty, and bureaucracy he has to endure in his attempts to make a new life in Germany. As he erupts in frustration at his caseworker, and finally forces her to listen to his story, we get an account of a contemporary life upended by politics and violence, told with a warmth and humor that, while surprising us, does nothing to lessen the outrages Karim describes.

Author : Diedrich Diederichsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 3956793552

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(Over)production and Value by Diedrich Diederichsen Pdf

"The 'economization of art' began to take shape in the wake of the crisis of capital in 2009. The shifts that occurred in the art field during this time were accompanied by explicit critique and academic analysis that aimed to make the genesis of these transformations comprehensible. In this book, first delivered as a lecture at Kunsthalle Bern in April 2016, Diedrich Diederichsen follows Marx’s labor theory of value and counters the symbolic economies dominating the art field, as well as economic exceptionalism or calculation, with systems of recording and reading out. Expanded to include the sphere of individual aesthetic experience, these systems are not formulated as solipsism, or in terms of purposefulness, but as a means to compare relations within the productivity of open and incalculable connectivity, relations that allow aesthetic experience to be read out as the liquefied labor and lifetime of concrete others"--Publisher's website.

Author : Tobias Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 3956790251

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Hubs and Fictions by Tobias Berger Pdf

Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. In 2012, the forum was staged sequentially at Cooper Gallery (Dundee), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), Goldsmiths University of London, and operated as a satellite event to Edgar Schmitz's exhibition "Surplus Cameo Decor," curated by Sophia Yadong Hao at Cooper Gallery. The book functions as a deliberately discontinuous reader; it juxtaposes documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations. The publication also includes a preface by Andrea Phillips, a new image sequence by Schmitz, and a suite of reflexive annotations exchanged between Hao and Schmitz. Contributors Tobias Berger, Guy Brett, Simon Groom, Sophia Yadong Hao, Lisa Le Feuvre, Ma Lin, Markus Miessen and Federica Bueti, Tom Morton, Vanessa Joan Müller, Wang Nanming, Paul O'Neill, Edgar Schmitz, Gemma Sharpe

Author : Stuart Bailey,Angie Keefer,David Reinfurt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : 3943365182

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Ecstatic Alphabets/heaps of Language by Stuart Bailey,Angie Keefer,David Reinfurt Pdf

Ecstatic alphabets/Heaps of language is a group exhibition on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 6 to August 27, 2012. It brings together forty-four modern and contemporary artists and artists' groups working in all mediums including painting, sculptutre, film , video, audio, spoken word, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of written and spoken language--visual, arual, and beyond. This book--a volume in the continuing series, Bulletins of the serving library, published by Dexter Sinister--is that artist team's contribution to the exhibition.

Author : Boris Groĭs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1934105309

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Going Public by Boris Groĭs Pdf

If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art--which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place. Boris Groys is Professor at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe. He is the author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, The Communist Postscript, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Author : Marius von Mayenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783199716

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Martyr by Marius von Mayenburg Pdf

Benjamin won’t do swimming at school. His mum thinks he’s on drugs or has body issues. But Benjamin has found God and mixed-sex swimming lessons offend him. Fundamentalism and tolerance clash in this funny, provocative play by leading German playwright, Marius von Mayenburg. Martyr considers how far we should go in accommodating another’s faith, and when we should take a stand for our own opposing beliefs.

Author : Osvaldo Romberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822037184074

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Osvaldo Romberg by Osvaldo Romberg Pdf

Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung. - Dt.-engl.

Author : Jon Wood,David Hulks,Alex Potts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015070696813

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Modern Sculpture Reader by Jon Wood,David Hulks,Alex Potts Pdf

"... A collection of major texts that have defined sculpture's radically changing status and function since the end of the nineteenth century" - inside cover.