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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art
This dazzling volume records the artist's travels through the Lone
Star State, a grand expedition for our time Renowned artist Mark
Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural
world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an
institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand
expeditionary journals of the 19th century, this singular volume
records Dion's latest work, produced through his crisscrossing of
Texas and exploration of the Lone Star State. Dion retraces the
travels of four artists and naturalists-John James Audubon, Sarah
Ann Lillie Hardinge, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles Wright-who
journeyed to the region over a century ago. Dion's travel
companions include preservationists, ranchers, botanists, a poet, a
tarot card reader, and fellow artists who offer accompanying texts,
while lavish illustrations feature the objects Dion made or
collected during his travels alongside historical artworks and
botanical specimens. The result is a stunning document of the
American West, past and present. Distributed for the Amon Carter
Museum of American Art Exhibition Schedule: Amon Carter Museum of
American Art, Fort Worth (February 8-May 17, 2020)
The fourth volume of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne
comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of
this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John
Baldessari (b. 1931) continues to interrogate the possibilities of
photographic appropriation, further developing his unique
strategies for the production of meaning and narrative within the
picture frame. Included in this crucial volume is the landmark Goya
series, which shows the artist revisiting his characteristic
photo-text pieces established early in his career. In the serial
trio Overlap, Intersection,and Junction, produced between 2000 and
2002, Baldessari riffs on the notion of pictorial space, with each
series building on the preceding one. Along with a full chronology,
an essay contributed by the eminent critic Robert Storr closely
examines a selection of these works, articulating their place
within the evolution of the artist's career and their much broader
historical climate. Published in association with Marian Goodman
Gallery
Drawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated
examination of an iconic artwork of an artist who has made a
lifework of tactical evasion. One wintry day in 1983, alongside
other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled
snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in
graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He
called the evanescent and unannounced street action Bliz-aard Ball
Sale, thus inscribing it into a body of work that, from the late
1960s to the present, has used a lexicon of ephemeral actions and
self-consciously "black" materials to comment on the nature of the
artwork, the art world, and race in America. And although Bliz-aard
Ball Sale has been frequently cited and is increasingly
influential, it has long been known only through a mix of
eyewitness rumors and a handful of photographs. Its details were as
elusive as the artist himself; even its exact date was unrecorded.
Like so much of the artist's work, it was conceived, it seems, to
slip between our fingers-to trouble the grasp of the market, as
much as of history and knowability. In this engaging study, Elena
Filipovic collects a vast oral history of the ephemeral action,
uncovering rare images and documents, and giving us singular
insight into an artist who made an art of making himself difficult
to find. And through it, she reveals Bliz-aard Ball Sale to be the
backbone of a radical artistic oeuvre that transforms such notions
as "art," "commodity," "performance," and even "race" into
categories that shift and dissolve, much like slowly melting
snowballs.
With cover artwork specially created by Ruscha, this book documents
hundreds of projects and miscellaneous ephemera produced by the
artist alongside his main oeuvre-including installations, films,
painted book covers, contour gauge profiles, and more Introducing
readers to the stunning breadth of Edward Ruscha's (b. 1937)
creative output over the course of his entire life, this book
includes materials dating back to his childhood and extending to
his present-day output. The projects featured here fall outside
Ruscha's production of paintings, drawings, prints, and artists'
books. Many of these are unknown and most are reproduced here for
the first time. Composed of three sections-Projects and Ephemera;
Contour Gauge Profiles; and Painted Book Covers-the book offers
Ruscha enthusiasts and scholars a hitherto unknown aspect of
Ruscha's practice, while also showing how these projects coincide
with, and sometimes even prefigure, the artistic work for which he
is best known. The approximately 270 painted book covers, begun in
1990, utilize found books as support for small paintings and
drawings. The 57 contour gauge profiles are silhouette-like
profiles made using a mechanical device for reproducing contours.
The largest section, Projects and Ephemera, consists of
installations, sculpture and objects, films, book and poster
design, utilitarian works, and more. Distributed for Gagosian
In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member
of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the
artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of
Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a
conversation with Mary Kelly-published between 1974 and
2012-contain Smith's most essential work on Conceptual Art and his
argument that conceptualism was key to the historical transition
from modern to contemporary art. Nothing less than a distinctive
theory of Conceptual and contemporary art, One and Five Ideas
showcases the critical voice of one of the major art theorists of
our time.
This comprehensive visual monograph provides a documentation of Li
Yongzheng s works, ranging from performances to installations,
video to open-ended participatory projects. The artist is renowned
for examining China s most thorny issues, such as human rights and
personal freedoms. In this volume, he reflects on the theme of
borders by questioning the concepts of nation and abroad, us and
the other, trying to explain the condition of today s China: more
and more connected with the outside world and fragmented inside.
"Inframince", a term coined by Marcel Duchamp, refers to ephemeral,
ultra-thin, and undecidable phenomena - such as the warmth that
remains on a chair after a person gets up. In this book,
"inframince" is taken to signify forms of transdisciplinarity in
contemporary art. Authors and visual artists capture in text and
image fleeting moments in which artistic, theoretical, scientific,
or everyday cultural elements meet, change, or merge with one
another. Numerous examples of artistic and teaching practice within
the discipline of TransArts at the University of Applied Arts
Vienna vividly reveal how these manifold transgressions can be
rendered productive.
The highly anticipated follow up to best seller, Nuthin' But Mech,
Nuthin' But Mech 2 delivers outstanding artwork from 40 artist
contributors to the Nuthin' but Mech blogspot. Founder of the
blogspot, Lorin Wood is so passionate about Mecha design that he
created a nook of cyberspace to dedicate to the talent that he
found among his colleagues. Currently with Gearbox, Lorin has been
involved with the development of games Aliens: Colonial Marines,
Borderlands as well as Borderlands 2. Prior to joining Gearbox in
2007, Lorin worked with major studios such as Walt Disney Pictures,
20th Century Fox and Warner Independent Pictures.
A volume considering questions of conservation that arise with new
artistic mediums and practices. Much of the artwork that rose to
prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on
novel forms-such as installation, performance, event, video, film,
earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked
components-that pose a new set of questions about what art actually
is, both physically and conceptually. For conservators, this raises
an existential challenge when considering what elements of these
artworks can and should be preserved. This provocative volume
revisits the traditional notions of conservation and museum
collecting that developed over the centuries to suit a conception
of art as static, fixed, and permanent objects. Conservators and
museums increasingly struggle with issues of conservation for works
created from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century that are
unstable over time. The contributors ask what it means to conserve
artworks that fundamentally address and embody the notion of change
and, through this questioning, guide us to reevaluate the meaning
of art, of objects, and of materiality itself.
Object-Event-Performance considers a selection of post-1960s
artworks that have all been chosen for their instability,
changeability, performance elements, and processes that pose
questions about their relationship to conservation practices. This
volume will be a welcome resource on contemporary conservation for
art historians, scholars of dance and theater studies, curators,
and conservators.
Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual
artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated
the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand
account of O'Grady's wide-ranging practice, this volume contains
statements, scripts, and previously unpublished notes charting the
development of her performance work and conceptual photography; her
art and music criticism that appeared in the Village Voice and
Artforum; critical and theoretical essays on art and culture,
including her classic "Olympia's Maid"; and interviews in which
O'Grady maps, expands, and complicates the intellectual terrain of
her work. She examines issues ranging from black female
subjectivity to diaspora and race and representation in
contemporary art, exploring both their personal and their
institutional implications. O'Grady's writings-introduced in this
collection by critic and curator Aruna D'Souza-offer a unique
window into her artistic and intellectual evolution while
consistently plumbing the political possibilities of art.
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Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great
Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the
communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary
orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV
signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card
transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will
continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red
giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. The Last
Pictures, co-published by Creative Time Books, is rooted in the
premise that these communications satellites will ultimately become
the cultural and material ruins of the late 20th and early 21st
centuries, far outlasting anything else humans have created.
Inspired in part by ancient cave paintings, nuclear waste warning
signs, and Carl Sagan's Golden Records of the 1970s,
artist/geographer Trevor Paglen has developed a collection of one
hundred images that will be etched onto an ultra-archival, golden
silicon disc. The disc, commissioned by Creative Time, will then be
sent into orbit onboard the Echostar XVI satellite in September
2012, as both a time capsule and a message to the future. The
selection of 100 images, which are the centerpiece of the book, was
influenced by four years of interviews with leading scientists,
philosophers, anthropologists, and artists about the contradictions
that characterize contemporary civilizations. Consequently, The
Last Pictures engages some of the most profound questions of the
human experience, provoking discourse about communication, deep
time, and the economic, environmental, and social uncertainties
that define our historical moment. Copub: Creative Time Books
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