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This monograph brings together the work of artist David Medalla.
Born in Manila, in the Philippines in 1942, and based since 1960
mainly in London, Medalla has distinguished himself internationally
as an innovator of the avant-garde. His work has embraced a
multitude of enquiries and enthusiasms, forms and formats, to
express a singular yet deeply coherent vision of the world.
Contemporary Art in Latin America, the second book in Black Dog
Publishing's ARTWORLD series, is a bold and rousing exploration of
the most significant art being created by Latin American's today.
Emerging from complex cultural roots, Latin American art is
extraordinarily diverse and original. This book covers a variety of
contemporary art methods, looking at photography, installation art,
sculpture, painting, textiles, and examines the styles, current
perceptions and culture of this region. Contemporary Art in Latin
America is an engaging, challenging and inspiring comprehensive
survey of the most important art being made in the region today.
With essays by esteemed writers and practitioners, and profiles of
both established and emerging artists, this volume delves into the
region's past, present and future, to examine its position within
the contemporary global art world. The work featured shatters
stereotypes and clear-cut distinction of the area, blending the
personal and the political, the local and the global. Artists
featured include Helio Oiticica, Doris Salcedo, Cildo Meireles,
Lygia Clark, Jesus Rafael Soto, Lygia Pape, Gabriel Orozco, Oscar
Munoz and Miguel Calderon. With beautiful images and an equally
impressive list of contributors, this volume is the ultimate
resource for anyone interested in art produced in Latin America
today.
Celebrated art critic and curator Guy Brett made a unique
contribution to art criticism and exhibition making through his
championing of experimental artists from across the world, writing
seminal monographic essays on artists such as Susan Hiller, Rose
Finn-Kelcey, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, David Medalla, Rose
English, Mona Hatoum, Takis and others. The 14 essays in this book
bring together a unique gathering of artists, tracing their
diversity and singularity. Many of these artists make works which
arise out of their responses to the situation or the environment in
which they find themselves, a process that draws on the countless
interactions people have and the many ways that they connect.
Brett's writing has a unique tone - lucid and widely researched,
free of a narrow academicism. He has published widely in the art
press, addressing topics such as the relationship between art and
life, ideas about the participation of the spectator, and the
importance of a kind of visual wit to both artists and writers.
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.
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Dom Sylvester Houedard (Hardcover)
Andrew Hunt; Text written by Guy Brett, Gustavo Grandal Montero, Andrew Hunt, Nicola Simpson, …
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The aim of this book is to reinstate the Benedictine monk and
artist Dom Sylvester Houedard as an important figure within the
countercultural and transnational art movement of the 1960s and
early 1970s, especially as regards kinetic and concrete poetry.
Widely recognised by his contemporaries as one of the leading
theorists and outstanding practitioners of concrete poetry,
Guernsey-born Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924-1992) is an unsung
intellect of the twentieth century. Houedard is deeply relevant to
our digital age. We may no longer use an Olivetti Lettera 22
typewriter, as he did, but we all increasingly type rather than
hand-write our lives. He would have been delighted by the
permutational possibilities offered by the 280 characters in a
tweet, or the visual shorthand of emojis and hashtags. For this
monk, everything connected and was interconnected. The opportunity
for the individual to compose 'machinepoems' or text works that
'move thru the air' in a 'global kinkon' is now greater than ever.
The publication is an introduction to Takis (Panagiotis
Vassilakis), key figure of Europe's post-war avant-garde and
pioneer in new art forms using magnetism, light and sound. Guy
Brett (critic and independent curator), contextualises Takis work
in avant-garde art circles in London and Paris; Michael Wellen
(curator of International Art, Tate) explains the artist's
engagement with poetry, sexuality, and science, with a specific
focus on Takis responses to Greek culture and war-torn Europe, and
Melissa Warak (US scholar specialised in the history American
avant-garde music and art) looks at Takis' musical collaborations
from 1950s through 1990s. This solo exhibition has been organised
by Tate Modern and will tour to MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de
Barcelona in 2019.
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Mona Hatoum (Paperback, New)
Michael Archer, Guy Brett, Catherine De Zegher, Edward W. Said, Piero Manzoni
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Mona Hatoum creates events, videos, sculptures and installations
that relate to the body, to language and to the condition of exile.
Her most famous work Corps Etranger, first shown at the Tate
Gallery when she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, takes
the viewer on a journey through the inner passages of the artist's
body. Her audience is thrown into a dimension in which anything is
possible, as in The Light at the End, which lures viewers down a
long tunnel towards a light that will literally burn them. While
her video work is often visceral and emotive, her sculptures and
environments are ultra cool and minimal in their aesthetic. They
often mimic domestic or institutional furniture, yet their designs
and materials have a threatening edge. Exquisitely beautiful,
Hatoum's works are at the same time powerful evocations of
statelessness, anxiety, denial and otherness. Since Hatoum was
exiled to London, where she has lived and worked since the 1970s,
she has exhibited her work around the world, including the Centre
Pompidou in Paris and the Venice Biennale. This book surveys all
her work, ranging from early performances, through to her videos,
objects and full-scale environments. The distinguished art critic
Guy Brett, author of Through Our Own Eyes: Popular Art and Modern
History (1986), explores key themes around a sense of place, the
body and communication that emerge from Hatoum's range of work. The
artist describes a chronology of practice in conversation with
Michael Archer, writer, curator and co-founder of London's Audio
Arts sound archive. Director of the Kanaal Art Foundation Catherine
de Zegher makes a complex and provocative analysis of Recollection,
a work she commissioned for a sixteenth-century beguinage. Hatoum
has chosen a text by the influential Palestinian author Edward Said
as well as a statement from the noted Italian post-war sculptor and
performance artist Piero Manzoni. The book also includes Hatoum's
own notes, statements and interviews.
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Centenary Review (Paperback)
Catherine Lampert, Guy Brett, Marco Livingstone, Jonathan Jones, Juliet Sheyu, …
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This centennial catalogue celebrates the remarkable achievements of
the Whitechapel Gallery between 1901-2001. Featuring essays by
Jonathan Jones, Jeremy Millar, Guy Brett, Mark Francis, Catherine
Lampert, Jon Newman, Juliet Styen, Marco Livingstone, Felicity
Lunn, Paul Bonaventura, Rachel Lichtenstein and Alan Dein, Janeen
Haythornthwaite and Brandon Taylor. Artists surveyed include Ian
McKeever, Tim Head, Alfredo Jaar, Ian Breakwell, Susana Solano,
Cathy de Monchaux, Tunga, Boyd Webb, Matthew Higgs and Paul Noble,
Zarina Bhimji, Hamish Fulton and John Murphy
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