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Cahiers d Art refers at once to a publishing house, a gallery,
and to a revue founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos at 14 rue du
Dragon in the heart of Saint-Germain des-Pres. Cahiers d Art was
entirely unique: a journal of contemporary art defined by its
combination of striking typography and layout, abundant
photography, and juxtaposition of ancient and modern art, including
original works by Picasso, Miro, Giacometti, Duchamp, and Man Ray,
where writers like Paul Eluard, Ernest Hemingway, and Samuel
Beckett often replaced the usual art critics.
This is the first issue of the Cahiers d art revue to be
published since 1960. The first issue contains an extensive article
of 70 pages dedicated to a defining artist of our time, Ellsworth
Kelly; texts from renowned architects, art historians, and critics;
as well as portfolios of previously unpublished material by Cyprien
Gaillard, Sarah Morris, and Adrian Villar Rojas.
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How might we develop products made with and by disabled users
rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to
make them accessible rather than designing products that "fix"
disabilities? How can we grow our capabilities to make designs more
“bespoke†to each individual? After Universal Design brings
together scholars, practitioners, and disabled users and makers to
consider these questions and to argue for the necessity of a new
user-centered design. As many YouTube videos demonstrate, disabled
designers are not only fulfilling the grand promises of DIY design
but are also questioning what constitutes meaningful design itself.
By forcing a rethink of the top-down professionalized practice of
Universal Design, which has dominated thinking and practice around
design for disability for decades, this book models what inclusive
design and social justice can look like as activism, academic
research, and everyday life practices today. With chapters, case
studies, and interviews exploring questions of design and personal
agency, hardware and spaces, the experiences of prosthetics' users,
conventional hearing aid devices designed to suit personal style,
and ways of facilitating pain self-reporting, these essays expand
our understanding of what counts as design by offering alternative
narratives about creativity and making. Using critical perspectives
on disability, race, and gender, this book allow us to understand
how design often works in the real world and challenges us to
rethink ideas of "inclusion" in design.
The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy
Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American
designers of the twentieth century At the time of her death,
Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) was called “the greatest modern
weaver and the mother of the twentieth-century palette.†As a
weaver, she developed a distinctive combination of unusual
materials, lavish textures, and brilliant colors that came to be
known as the “Liebes Look.†Yet despite her prolific career and
recognition during her lifetime, Liebes is today considerably less
well known than the men with whom she often collaborated, including
Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Dreyfuss, and Edward Durrell Stone. Her
legacy also suffered due to the inability of the black-and-white
photography of the period to represent her richly colored and
textured works. Extensively researched and illustrated with
full-color, accurate reproductions, this important publication
examines Liebes’s widespread impact on twentieth-century design.
Essays explore major milestones of her career, including her close
collaborations with major interior designers and architects to
create custom textiles, the innovative and experimental design
studio where she explored new and unusual materials, her use of
fabrics to enhance interior lighting, and her collaborations with
fashion designers, including Clare Potter and Bonnie Cashin.
Ultimately, this book reinstates Liebes at the pinnacle of modern
textile design alongside such recognized figures as Anni Albers and
Florence Knoll. Published in association with Cooper Hewitt,
Smithsonian Design Museum Exhibition Schedule: Cooper
Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (July 7, 2023–February 4, 2024)
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Hong Seung-Hye has garnered a unique position in the Seoul art
scene with her bravado in defying conventional borders. She sees no
restraints in crisscrossing the border between the abstract and the
figurative, the plane and the three-dimensional. Nor does she shy
away from employing public spaces just as freely as she experiments
inside a white cube. This first monograph on Hong traces the
trajectory of her prolific oeuvre. It features four essays written
by distinguished Korean critics, curators and educators who have
closely witnessed and worked alongside Hong throughout the past two
decades. Originally written in context with solo exhibitions, each
of which marking a milestone in her career, they offer individual
starting points to delve into and read Hong's art. Ranging from her
earliest paper collages to the most recent videos reinterpreting
Snoopy from iconic comic strip The Peanuts, this book illustrated
with some 200 colour plates provides a comprehensive survey of
Hong's versatility.
Born in New York in 1941, Joel Shapiro is one of the most
significant artists of his generation. Since the first public
showing of his work in 1969 as part of the landmark Anti-Illusion:
Procedures/Materials exhibiton at the Whitney Museum of American
Art, he has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in
galleries and museums around the world. Most renowned for having
developed in the 1980s and '90s a distinctive language of dynamic
sculpture that blurs the lines between abstraction and figuration,
Shapiro became known through his earliest 1970s New York shows for
introducing common forms of often diminutive size. Since then he
has continued to push the material and conceptual boundaries of
sculpture by working in a number of materials and employing various
working methods. Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper
1969-2019 is the first book in over twenty years to survey the
artist's entire working career. In an extensive essay, art
historian Richard Shiff provides a fresh and incisive examination
of Shapiro's oeuvre and working process. With more than two hundred
striking full-colour illustrations, this is a long-anticipated and
much-needed survey of this vital and essential American artist.
"Imagining Science "brings together internationally recognized
artists, scientists, and social commentators to feature a body of
original artwork and essays which explores the complex legal,
ethical, and social concerns about advances in biotechnology, such
as stem cell research, cloning, and genetic testing. Many important
questions and themes emerge from this exchange, highlighting the
linkages between scientific and creative research. This
collaboration also stresses the vital role art can play in
critiquing these biomedical technologies, particularly as
advancements in science begin to challenge our ethical boundaries.
FAUXLOSOPHY by Ron English, is a compelling collection of the
artist's sayings with his accompanying iconic images. It is a light
read with indelible images bringing to life wit and wisdom to live
by through art, humor and ironic inspiration. Ron English is one of
the most prolific and recognisable American artists alive today.
Considered the Godfather of Street Art, he has appeared in movies
such as Exit through the Gift Shop and Supersize Me and as a
character of himself in the Simpsons. One of the most prolific and
recognizable artists alive today, Ron English has bombed the global
landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in
movies, books and television. English coined the term POPaganda to
describe his signature mash-up of high and low cultural
touchstones.
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Katerina Jebb
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Francis Hodgson, Jeff Rian, Pascale Picard
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In this book, contributors identify and explore a range of iconic
works - "Mistress-Pieces" - that have been made by feminists and
gender activists since the 1970s. The first volume for which the
defining of iconic feminist art is the raison d'etre, its
contributors interpret a "Mistress-Piece" as a work that has proved
influential in a particular context because of its distinctiveness
and relevance. Reinterpreting iconic art by Alice Neel, Hannah
Wilke and Ana Mendieta, the authors also offer important insights
about works that may be less well known - those by Natalia LL,
Tanja Ostojic, Swoon, Clara Meneres, Diane Victor, Usha Seejarim,
Ilse Fuskova, Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Tracey Moffatt, among
others. While in some instances revealing cross influences between
artists working in different frameworks, the publication
simultaneously makes evident how social and political factors
specific to particular countries had significant impact on the
making and reception of art focused on gender. The book will be of
interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies and
gender studies.
This volume is dedicated to the international artist Kata Legrady's
graphic work, through a selection of drawings, sketches and
preparatory studies published on the occasion of the exhibition at
Fondazione Mudima in Milan. Through the graphic work gathered in
this volume, we discover her creative praxis which, according to
Arturo Schwarz, "is determined, to a great extent, by her
unconscious; the work has a playful dimension; she observes the
world with a gaze that has conserved the innocence, curiosity and
inventiveness of childhood". Finally, an essay by Bazon Brock
brings a deep insight on the importance of drawing in the practice
of contemporary art.
While recent studies in neuroscience and psychology have shed light
on our sensory and perceptual experiences of art, they have yet to
explain how contemporary art downplays perceptual responses and,
instead, encourages conceptual thought. The Psychology of
Contemporary Art brings together the most important developments in
recent scientific research on visual perception and cognition and
applies the results of empirical experiments to analyses of
contemporary artworks not normally addressed by psychological
studies. The author explains, in simple terms, how neuroaesthetics,
embodiment, metaphor, conceptual blending, situated cognition and
extended mind offer fresh perspectives on specific contemporary
artworks - including those of Marina Abramovic, Francis Alys,
Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Marcus Harvey,
Mona Hatoum, Thomas Hirschorn, Gabriel Orozco, Marc Quinn and Cindy
Sherman. This book will appeal to psychologists, cognitive
scientists, artists and art historians, as well as those interested
in a deeper understanding of contemporary art.
This tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on
sculpture and its makers. Modern Sculpture presents a selection of
manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from
more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of
contemporary sculptors. With this book, editor Douglas Dreishpoon
defers to artists, whose varied points of view illuminate
sculpture's transformation-from object to action, concept to
phenomenon-over the course of more than a century. Chapters
arranged in chronological sequences highlight dominant stylistic,
philosophical, and thematic threads uniting kindred groups. The
result is an artist-centric history of sculpture as a medium of
consequence and character.
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Iggy Pop Life Class
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Anne Pasternak; Text written by Mark Beasley, Frances Borzello; Interview of Iggy Pop; Introduction by Jeremy Deller; Preface by …
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Twenty-one artists, from all walks of life, gathered at the New
York Academy of Art on Sunday, February 21, 2016, for a special
life drawing class with a guest model: American rock legend Iggy
Pop.
Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 1960-1985 is a
collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist
praxis into conversation with histories of feminist art in the
1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The artistic practices and processes
examined within these pages all centre on gender and sexual
politics as they variously intersect with race, class, sovereignty,
Indigeneity, citizenship, and migration at particular historical
moments and within specific geopolitical contexts. The book's
central premise is that reconsidering this period from
transnational feminist perspectives will enable new thinking about
the critical commonalities and differences across heterogeneous and
geographically dispersed practices that have contributed to the
complex and multifaceted relationship between feminism and art
today. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art
history, cultural studies, visual culture, material culture, and
gender studies.
Ayse Gungoer investigates art practices between art and
anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary
art for those disciplines. She discusses various approaches based
on anthropological theories on the forms of relation and theories
of artistic practices on socio-political issues. Based on long-term
research with contemporary artists such as Nil Yalter, Gulsun
Karamustafa, Esra Ersen, Kutlug Ataman, Tayfun Serttas, Koeken
Ergun, Dilek Winchester and Artikisler Collective, this book
analyzes the objectives of art and anthropology in order to
determine new possibilities and divergences arising from this
interdisciplinary confluence.
A revised and expanded edition of one the most popular titles in
the Contemporary Artists Series Born in Lebanon, Palestinian artist
Mona Hatoum was exiled to London, where she has lived and worked
since the mid-1970s. Through performance, video, sculpture, and
installation, she creates architectonic spaces that relate to the
body, language, and the condition of exile as well as transforming
everyday, domestic objects into things foreign, threatening, and
dangerous. Often exquisitely beautiful, Hatoum's works combine
states of emotion and longing with the formal simplicity of
Minimalism, creating powerful evocations of displacement, denial,
and otherness.
John Coatsworth has produced some of the most instantly
recognisable images of Tyneside over the last 12 years. This
beautiful book includes many of the famous Newcastle landmarks
including the Quayside, the Tyne Bridge, Grey Street and St James'
Park have all been depicted in his unique 'bendy' style. This
dramatic and distinctive style is in great demand.
Exploring the art and life of this important American artist whose
work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and Blackness
Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction is a fascinating
examination of the multifaceted career of artist, activist,
curator, and writer Howardena Pindell (b. 1943). It offers a fresh
perspective on her abstract practice from the late 1960s through
the early 1980s-a period in which debates about Black Power,
feminism, and modernist abstraction intersected in uniquely
contentious yet generative ways. Sarah Louise Cowan not only
asserts Pindell's rightful place within the canon but also
recenters dominant historical narratives to reveal the profound and
overlooked roles that Black women artists have played in shaping
modernist abstraction. Pindell's career acts as a springboard for a
broader study of how artists have responded during periods of
heightened social activism and used abstraction to convey political
urgency. With works that drew on Ghanaian textiles, administrative
labor, cosmetics, and postminimalism, Pindell deployed abstraction
in deeply personal ways that resonated with collective African
diasporic and women's practices. In her groundbreaking analysis,
Cowan argues that such work advanced Black feminist modernisms,
diverse creative practices that unsettle racist and sexist logics.
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