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How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to
writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for
students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book
first navigates readers through the key elements of style and
content, from the aims and structure of a piece to its tone and
language. Brimming with practical tips that range across the
complete spectrum of art-writing, the second part of the book is
organized around its specific forms, including academic essays;
press releases and news articles; texts for auction and exhibition
catalogues, gallery guides and wall labels; op-ed journalism and
exhibition reviews; and writing for websites and blogs. In
counseling the reader against common pitfalls such as jargon and
poor structure Gilda Williams points instead to the power of close
looking and research, showing how to deploy language effectively;
how to develop new ideas; and how to construct compelling texts.
More than 30 illustrations throughout support closely analysed case
studies of the best writing, in Source Texts by 64 authors,
including Claire Bishop, Thomas Crow, T.J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor,
Dave Hickey, John Kelsey, Chris Kraus, Rosalind Krauss, Stuart
Morgan, Hito Steyerl, and Adam Szymczyk. Supplemented by a general
bibliography, advice on the use and misuse of grammar, and tips on
how to construct your own contemporary art library, How to Write
About Contemporary Art is the essential handbook for all those
interested in communicating about the art of today."
fig-2 brings together material from the eponymous arts programming
of 50 projects in 50 consecutive weeks, curated by Fatos Ustek and
staged at the Institute of Contemporary Arts throughout 2015. The
publication is an embodiment of all the projects, events and
activities that fig-2 generated, complemented by specially
commissioned essays and conducted interviews that reflect on and
respond to the conceptual framework and ambition of fig-2 in
capturing the aesthetic and critical currency of our times. Artists
whose works are featured in the publication include Laura Eldret,
Suzanne Treister, Tom McCarthy, Annika Strom, Oreet Ashery,
Broomberg & Chanarin, Eva Rothschild & Joe Moran, Melanie
Manchot and Bruce McLean, among many others.
'ON and BY Andy Warhol' is an epic achievement. Gilda Williams has
collected what seems like every word ever written about or uttered
by the most influential artist of our time to produce a verbal
collage portrait that is bold, revealing, multi-dimensional and
original. If Andy were alive, he would probably say, "Oh, wow. Why
didn't I think of that?" -- Bob Colacello, special correspondent,
Vanity Fair. Author of Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up and former
Editor, Interview magazine. The impact of Andy Warhol on
contemporary culture is incalculable. A pioneer in virtually every
media in which he worked, Warhol also had a lesser-known hand in
such contemporary staples as reality TV, computer art, and the
rock-gig light show. In the wake of dedicated Twitter feeds today
that easily adapt his short epithets or 'Warholisms' into
140-character snippets, Andy Warhol's cultural relevance seems only
to grow in the 21st century.Edited and introduced by art critic
Gilda Williams, ON&BY Andy Warhol brings together generations
of notable writers who have examined the influence and legacy of
Warhol's life and work: art critics including Douglas Crimp, Thomas
Crow, Dave Hickey, Hal Foster and Lucy Lippard; artists Art &
Language and Donald Judd; philosophers and cultural theorists
including Arthur C. Danto, Fredric Jameson and Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick; and, more recently, novelists such as Saul
Anton.Alongside accounts from Factory associates Bob Colacello and
Mary Woronov, and recent revelations from Warhol Museum senior
archivist Matt Wrbican, are critical assessments by Callie Angell,
Rainer Crone, Anthony Huberman, Stephen Koch, Wayne Koestenbaum and
Simon Watney amongst others; and further writings by Warhol (and
his collaborators) such as THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to
B and Back Again), Blue Movie, POPism, America, Andy Warhol's Party
Book and The Andy Warhol Diaries, as well as interviews with
Gretchen Berg and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Christian Marclay - Action (Hardcover)
Madeleine Schuppli und Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Text written by Allen S. Weiss, Gilda Williams
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When his twenty-four-hour film The Clock was awarded the Golden
Lion at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale in 2011, his hour had
struck. Yet as an artist, performer, and pioneer of turntablism,
the Swiss-American Christian Marclay (*1955) has been famous for
his complex oeuvre for more than thirty years. Since then he has
translated sounds and music into visible forms in his performances,
installations, collages, sculptures, and photographs, revealing
sensory experiences in them that his viewers had never dared to
experience. Comic books and mangas are the source material for
Marclay's most recent works, whose listening experience yet again
opens up new dimensions. The extensive monograph not only does
justice to the entire spectrum of the artist's multimedia and
synaesthetic oeuvre; it also brings previously little known works
home to our eyes and our ears. Exhibition: Aargauer Kunsthaus,
Aarau, 30.8.2015 - 15.11.2015
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