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Mythologized as the era of the "good war" and the "Greatest Generation," the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of violence and cruelty. They probed the darkness that the...
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Tras los paradigmas del arte-como-texto de los años setenta y el arte-como-simulacro de los ochenta, Hal Foster sostiene que somos testigos de un retorno de lo real, un retorno del arte y la teoría que buscan asentarse en los cuerpos reales y en los sitios sociales. El libro presenta una lectura original del arte y de la teoría de las tres últimas décadas, con especial atención a las polémicas conexiones entre ambos, y repiensa la relación...
43) Alta cultura descafeinada: Situacionismo low cost y otras escenas del arte en el cambio de siglo
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¿Cómo es posible que el neoliberalismo y sus instituciones se apliquen afanosamente en propagar un arte social y participativo, un arte creativo y original, incluso un arte crítico? El activismo cultural del neoliberalismo es inagotable y el arte contemporáneo es un lugar idóneo para entender cómo funciona.
Alta cultura descafeinada indaga desde una perspectiva crítica en la despolitización del arte en las últimas décadas. Ofrece una crítica...
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Imágenes de la violencia en el arte contemporáneo reúne textos de diferente tema y orientación metodológica en los que se aborda la "representación" de la violencia en el arte contemporáneo y a través del arte contemporáneo. Sus autores han formado parte de un equipo de investigación que ha analizado y debatido el problema de la violencia en el ámbito del arte del siglo xx y en un marco pluridisciplinar en el que se articulan cuestiones...
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Jamais peut-être, depuis la fin du XVIe siècle en Italie, l'architecture ne s'était trouvée au seuil d'une pareille crise, soumise à une discussion d'une si grande virulence. D'après la variété actuelle des approches en architecture, on se rend compte qu'est désormais à bout de course, sinon totalement discréditée, ...
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The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection...
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Le mot « contemporain » revêt deux sens. De manière courante, il signifie « ce qui est de notre temps », sans autre valeur que celle de la coexistence avec le présent: le monde contemporain est, par définition, celui o nous vivons. Avec une valeur polémique visant à marquer une différence non seulement chronologique mais aussi de forme et ...
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Escrito con gran brío y erudición, este libro presenta una visión alternativa de la historia del arte y la cultura del siglo XX, que se centra en el ascenso y caída de la modernidad al calor de las luchas sociales y de las transformaciones experimentadas por la economía-mundo capitalista.
Comenzando con un análisis de la influencia de Diaghilev y los Ballets Rusos, Wollen sostiene que el movimiento moderno siempre ha tenido un lado oculto y...
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Today's artworld experts accept virtually anything as "art"--from all-black paintings and facsimiles of supermarket cartons to dead animals preserved in formaldehyde. Many art lovers reject such fabrications, however, arguing that they are not art. This book explains why those ordinary people are right and the presumed experts are wrong.
Museums and galleries of contemporary art around the world are filled with "cutting-edge" pieces that art...
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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) était connu pour ses lignes droites et ses couleurs pures. Fasciné par les lois mathématiques de l'univers, cet artiste néerlandais nourrit son travail de découvertes scientifiques et crée un nouveau langage abstrait aux ctés de ses alliés Wassily Kandinsky et Fernand Léger. Au fur et à mesure de ses investigations, ses œuvres deviennent plus pures et plus intenses au rythme des voyages comme New York et des nouvelles...
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The Richter Interviews collects together a series of conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter over the course of more than two decades of discussion and collaboration. Subjects range from Richter's place within art history to artists books, architecture, religion, unrealised projects and his advice for young artists. The collection also includes a previously unpublished interview focused on Richter's much-lauded window for Cologne...
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Jewish art and visual culture-art made by Jews about Jews-in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait...
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An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. The book brings together a remarkable range of documents and original research which the project has produced during its continuous travels over the last four years starting with the exhibition...
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En los últimos diez años una de las líneas más fuertes del arte contemporáneo ha sido la práctica del arte público. Una proliferación de colectivos, artistas, eventos y publicaciones han vuelto el escenario más complejo, diverso y expandido. Este incremento tiene relación con que el arte público ha hecho reaparecer la cuestión política del arte, entendida como fue por el activismo de los años sesenta y setenta del siglo XX, revitalizando...
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Today's artists and art lovers who adhere to a traditional view of art are virtually submerged in the tsunami of anti-traditional work and supporting critical spin generated by the contemporary artworld. Bucking the Artworld Tide- comprising more than three decades of the author's contrarian writing and speaking- is written from their perspective. It offers a solid defense of traditional visual art, as well as trenchant critiques of countless "new...
56) Bridges
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A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. Free, belonging neither to one region or another, the bridge imposes upon the landscape and defies nature. Its existence embodies the will of mankind to construct these necessary bonds between people and places. A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge, anonymous demonstration of the mastery and the durability of new techniques, is...
57) Factories
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Born in the Industrial Revolution, the factory has long been considered like a monster of iron, subjugating the individual to the collective in an act of mass dehumanisation. Turning away from the pure functionality for which it was built, the factory is evolving into an aesthetic space, sometimes transformed into modern lofts or a museum of contemporary art. The surprising photographs featured in this work help us rediscover the volume, purity of...
58) City Lights
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A symbol of massive crowds and solitary desires, the city holds promise for all those that pass through it. Its meandering streets, unexplored neighbourhoods and incessant noise create a landscape that captivates the observer. The lights of the city can conceal or reveal it, transforming its appearance hour by hour, offering countless facets to the passerby. While the light of morning pulls the city from its torpor and renews it for the dawning day,...
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Symbole de promiscuité et de désirs solitaires, la ville est une promesse pour tous ceux qui s'y promènent. Ses rues alambiquées, ses quartiers anonymes et ses bruits incessants sont autant de paysages qui attirent l'innocent. Ses lumières qui la voilent, la fardent et la dévoilent, la transforment d'heure en heure, offrant au passant mille et un visages. Si les lumières matinales tirent la ville de sa torpeur et l'offrent virginale au jour...
60) Lighthouses
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The lighthouse, an indefatigable watchman, ceaselessly guides boats to their ports. This beacon of maritime signalisation has guided sailors since antiquity. The first known lighthouse appeared on the island of Pharos, and was the remarkable Lighthouse of Alexandria; however, it seems that volcanoes like Stromboli and its frequent eruptions were possibly at the origin of this invention, as the fires guided boats to their shores. Faced with the increasing...
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