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Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
Mute proudly present the first issue of Volume 3 of their imprint.
This new biannual edition contains 175 pages of writing and colour
illustrations placed broadly under the banner of 'double negative
feedback'. Included in this relaunched issue: Mute's response to
the Arts Cuts; an Obituary for the much missed radical film-maker
Noreen (Noni) MacDowell; Owen Hatherley on Zaha Hadid and the
neo-liberal avant-garde; Eugene Thacker on the passionate divas of
Italian silent cinema; Lars bang Larsen on anti-disciplinary
feedback; Anna Dezeuze on contemporary art in the age of weightless
capital; John Barker on junkie-capitalism; Demetra Kotouza on the
rebel sounds of rebetiko; an Anthony Iles interview with artist
Graham Harwood; Howard Slater on jazz and compositional
improvising; Felix Stadler on wiki-leaks; Omar el-Khairy on Andrea
Dunbar; Artist Project by Mimi Leung and more. 'We Gladly Feast On
Those Who Would Subdue Us'.
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The Savage Eye
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Lars Toft-Eriksen; Edited by Kate Bell; Text written by Emil Leth Meilvang, Allison Morehead, Gavin Parkinson, …
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Misleading Epiphenomena
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Steve Putton, Steve Swindells, Barbara Penner; Edited by Ben Hillwood - Harris, Sharon Kivland
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Sun-Shine, Moonshine
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Sanderson Conroy, Gabriel Gbadamosi; Edited by Ben Hillwood - Harris, Sharon Kivland
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Oceans
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Pandora Syperek, Sarah Wade
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Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, dividing
and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat
and tears. At the same time, oceans represent a powerful nonhuman
force, rising, flooding, heating, and raging in unprecedented ways
as the climate crisis unfolds. The sea has long enthralled artists,
who have envisioned it as a sublime wilderness, a home to countless
mythical creatures as well as bizarre real species, a source of
life and death, a site of new beginnings and tragic endings, a
force both wondrous and disastrous. From migration to the melting
of the polar ice caps, the sea is omnipresent in international news
and politics, leaking into popular culture in the wake of the 'Blue
Planet effect' and proliferating in contemporary art and visual
culture. This collection gathers together some of today's most
exciting contemporary artists and writers to address the ocean not
only as a theme but as a major agent of artistic and curatorial
methods. Artists surveyed include Bas Jan Ader, Eileen Agar, John
Akomfrah, Eva Barois De Caevel, Betty Beaumont, Heidi Bucher,
Marcus Coates, Tacita Dean, Mark Dion, Ellen Gallagher, Ayesha
Hameed, Barbara Hepworth, Klara Hobza, Isuma, Brian Jungen, Ana
Mendieta, Kasia Molga, Eleanor Morgan, Wangechi Mutu, Jean Painleve
and Genevieve Hamon, Zineb Sedira, Shimabuku, Christine &
Margaret Wertheim, Alberta Whittle. Writers include Stacy Alaimo,
Michelle Antoinette, Bergit Arends, Erika Balsom, Karen Barad,
Rachel Carson, Marion Endt-Jones, Kodwo Eshun, Vilem Flusser, Paul
Gilroy, Epeli Hau'ofa, Eva Hayward, Stefanie Hessler, Luce
Irigaray, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Celina Jeffrey, Koyo Kouoh, Lana
Lopesi, Jules Michelet, Astrida Neimanis, Celeste Olalquiaga, Ralph
Rugoff, John Ruskin, Marina Warner.
It proposes that decolonizing, ecocritical, feminist art's
histories can unravel the anthropocentric legacies of Eurocentric
universalism, to create transformative conversations between and
across many and more-than-human worlds. It demonstrates how
planetary feminisms can foster interdependent flourishing as they
story pluriversal worlds, and world pluriversal stories, with art.
It is essential reading for students and researchers in art
history, theory and practice, visual culture studies, feminism and
gender studies, environmental humanities and cultural geography.
Provides a broad a bottom-up set of multiple international examples
of projects initiated by social practitioners and by artists - and
by collaboration between the two - in varied settings and domains.
Provides a set of examples, methods, and ideas for including social
workers, community workers, social change advocates, art
therapists, psychologists, human geographers, and town and urban
planners, but also social artists, cultural policy makers, and
those interested in using social arts in participatory research.
Will be of interest to community workers, social change advocates,
art therapists, psychologists, human geographers, and town and
urban planners and will inspire and guide all of the above groups
on the theoretical, academic, training, and practice levels of
using social arts.
The book combines an extensive review of art actions, classifying
and anchoring them in contemporary urban theories. It reviews
trends and describes numerous art projects in the public space, and
is interspersed with multiple photographs, hence it may be
attractive to any reader who wishes to become involved in his
community and urban environment.
'Julia Cameron invented the way people renovate the creative soul'
- New York Times The Artist's Way has uncovered the potential of
millions of people. International bestselling author Julia Cameron
uses her experience and world-renowned techniques as a creativity
coach to challenge her readers to go deeper within themselves and
open up wider horizons. Featuring inspiring essays on the creative
process and more than 100 imaginative, engaging and energising
tasks for authentic growth, renewal and healing, The Vein of Gold
takes readers on a 'journey to the heart of creativity' through
seven kingdoms. Whether you are already actively pursuing a
creative enterprise or are just beginning to nurture your own
creativity, this powerful book provides the innovative and
practical tools for mining the vein of gold within you.
Replete with interviews with key practitioners (both in the book
and online) will give up-to-date information on the techniques,
forms and concepts used by leading figures in contemporary Live
Visuals.
In this ground-breaking book, a theory of 'distortion' - of the way
in which the processes of human life are subject to interference,
diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of
one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century painters and that art's
public reception. Devoted to his native village of
Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and
portraits with loving detail but also the 'memory-feelings' which
he felt were a 'sacred' part of his consciousness. Yet Spencer was
also a controversial public figure, with some taking the view that
his visionary paintings were ugly distortions of human life, even
marks of an immoral nature. Examining how Spencer lived his vision,
how he painted it and wrote it, and also how his attempts to
communicate that vision were received by his contemporaries and
have continued to be interpreted since his death, the author posits
distortion as key: an intrinsic aspect both of human creation and
of human interaction. What we intend to make, to say, to do and
have done, often mutates in the process of being expressed or put
into effect: we live amid distortion. Love - the affective
appreciation of one another - is then a means by which we
accommodate distortion and its consequences in our lives. An
illustration, through Stanley Spencer's story, of significant
aspects of a human condition, this book will appeal across
disciplines, including to art historians and students of Spencer's
work, as well as to scholars of anthropology with interests in
creativity, perception and interpretation.
This innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its
traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature
which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic
transfer. To gain a fresh perspective on the work of translation in
the complex processes of meaning-making across physical, social and
cultural domains (conceptualized as translationality), Piotr
Blumczynski revisits one of the earliest and most fundamental
senses of translation: corporeal transfer. His study of translated
religious officials and translated relics reframes our
understanding of translation as a process creating a sense of
connection with another time, place, object or person. He argues
that a promise of translationality animates a broad spectrum of
cultural, artistic and commercial endeavours: it is invoked, for
example, in museum exhibitions, art galleries, celebrity
endorsements, and the manufacturing of musical instruments.
Translationality offers a way to reimagine the dynamic
entanglements of matter and meaning, space and time, past and
present. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in
translation studies as well as related disciplines such as the
history of religion, anthropology of art, and material culture.
Visually appealing, conceptually startling, and intellectually
engaging-these phrases aptly describe the art of Liliana Porter.
Florencia Bazzano-Nelson's study focuses on the principal theme in
the Argentine-born artist's work since the 1970s: her playful but
subversive dismantling of the limits that separate everyday reality
from the world of illusion and simulacra. Over the years, Porter's
own evolving interest in perception lead the author to explore a
series of interconnected and timely issues in her artistic
production, such as the representative function of art, the
structural links between art and language, and the witty
re-signification of the art-historical images and mass-produced
kitsch figurines she has so often featured in her art. Strongly
founded in critical theory, Bazzano-Nelson's approach considers
Porter's art as the site of conceptually exciting dialogues with
Jorge Luis Borges, Rene Magritte, Michel Foucault, and Jean
Baudrillard. Her carefully crafted interdisciplinary analysis not
only combines art-historical, literary, and theoretical
perspectives but also addresses the artist's work in different
media, such as printmaking, conceptual art, photography, and film.
Includes discussion of works of art of all kinds, including
painting, literature, music and architecture. Interdisciplinary
analysis of the significance of art to the psyche.
Pailthorpe's important contributions to the development of
psychoanalysis are largely overlooked now * Many of her key
writings are published here for the first time * Her work ties into
the contemporary interest in links between psychoanalysis and
creative endeavour
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Queer Objects
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Chris Brickell, Judith Collard
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Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we
fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the
commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and
accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we
use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object
queer? The sixty-three chapters in Queer Objects consider this
question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities
across time, cultures and space. In this unique international
collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history
to write about items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings
and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and
the smartphone. Fabulous, captivating, transgressive. -- .
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