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Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist-many
consider him the founder of media studies-but he was also an
important theorist of art. Though a near-household name for decades
due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan remains an
underappreciated yet fascinating figure in art history. His
connections with the art of his own time were largely unexplored,
until now. In Distant Early Warning, art historian Alex Kitnick
delves into these rich connections and argues both that McLuhan was
influenced by art and artists and, more surprisingly, that
McLuhan's work directly influenced the art and artists of his time.
Kitnick builds the story of McLuhan's entanglement with artists by
carefully drawing out the connections among McLuhan, his theories,
and the artists themselves. The story is packed with big names:
Marcel Duchamp, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol,
Nam June Paik, and others. Kitnick masterfully weaves this history
with McLuhan's own words and his provocative ideas about what art
is and what artists should do, revealing McLuhan's influence on the
avant-garde through the confluence of art and theory. The
illuminating result sheds light on new aspects of McLuhan, showing
him not just as a theorist, or an influencer, but as a richly
multifaceted figure who, among his many other accolades, affected
multiple generations of artists and their works. The book finishes
with Kitnick overlaying McLuhan's ethos onto the state of
contemporary and post-internet art. This final channeling of
McLuhan is a swift and beautiful analysis, with a personal touch,
of art's recent transgressions and what its future may hold.
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Dara Birnbaum: Reaction (Hardcover)
Dara Birnbaum; Edited by Lauren Cornell, Elizabeth Chodos, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder; Text written by …
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R1,013
R897
Discovery Miles 8 970
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Donald Judd (Paperback)
Annie Ochmanek, Alex Kitnick
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R707
R574
Discovery Miles 5 740
Save R133 (19%)
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Artists, architects, art historians, critics, and curators explore
the work of Donald Judd as both artist and critic in essays
spanning all of Judd's career. Donald Judd (1928-1994) is one of
the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning
in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about art--in both his works
and writings--that challenged many of modernism's core tenets by
resisting the categories of painting and sculpture. Judd described
this work as specific objects. Critics labeled it minimalism.
Perhaps because Judd's own critical writings provide a discursive
framework for his work, some of the monographic essays on his work
are not widely known. This volume collects critical and scholarly
writings on Judd, examining his work as both artist and critic.
A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art
movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color
and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in
the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with
the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro
(1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and
others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western
decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy
designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to
ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book
showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 artists
from across the United States, examining the movement's defiant
adoption of art forms traditionally viewed as feminine,
craft-based, or otherwise inferior to fine art. In addition to
offering an overview of the Pattern and Decoration movement as it
is commonly recognized, this volume considers artists of the period
who are not typically associated with the movement. Rethinking the
significance of patterns and the decorative in postwar American
art, this panoramic view provides new insights into abstraction,
feminism, and installation art. Essays explore the movement's
feminist methods and values, including Miriam Schapiro's "femmage"
practice; its impact on contemporary abstract painting; and its
relationship to postmodern architecture and design. Artist
biographies, an exhibition history, and reprints of historically
significant writings further establish With Pleasure as the most
expansive publication on the subject. Published in association with
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Exhibition Schedule:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (October 27, 2019-May 11,
2020) Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College (June 26-November 28,
2021)
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General Idea (Paperback)
General Idea; Edited by A.A. Bronson, Adam Welch; Text written by David Balzer, Diedrich Diederichsen, …
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R2,094
Discovery Miles 20 940
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Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is best known as a media
theorist—many consider him the founder of media studies—but he
was also an important theorist of art. Though a near-household name
for decades due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan
remains an underappreciated yet fascinating figure in art history.
His connections with the art of his own time were largely
unexplored, until now. In Distant Early Warning, art
historian Alex Kitnick delves into these rich connections and
argues both that McLuhan was influenced by art and artists and,
more surprisingly, that McLuhan’s work directly influenced the
art and artists of his time. Â Kitnick builds the story of
McLuhan’s entanglement with artists by carefully drawing out the
connections among McLuhan, his theories, and the artists
themselves. The story is packed with big names: Marcel Duchamp,
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, and
others. Kitnick masterfully weaves this history with McLuhan’s
own words and his provocative ideas about what art is and what
artists should do, revealing McLuhan’s influence on the
avant-garde through the confluence of art and theory. The
illuminating result sheds light on new aspects of McLuhan, showing
him not just as a theorist, or an influencer, but as a richly
multifaceted figure who, among his many other accolades, affected
multiple generations of artists and their works. The book finishes
with Kitnick overlaying McLuhan’s ethos onto the state of
contemporary and post-internet art. This final channeling of
McLuhan is a swift and beautiful analysis, with a personal touch,
of art’s recent transgressions and what its future may hold.
Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto
little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the
reciprocal interpenetration of bodies and technology. With 120
works by 59 artists-primarily from Europe, the USA and Japan-the
exhibition is dedicated to the major technological changes since
the post-war period and examines their influence on our notions of
bodies. With contributions on topics such as the influence of
changing production technologies, materialities, and concepts of
the body, but also interdisciplinary considerations of
body-technology relations, a multi-perspective history of
contemporary sculpture will be outlined. German Edition! Exhibition
Museum Brandhorst Munich 2 June 2022 until 15 January 2023
Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto
little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the
reciprocal interpenetration of bodies and technology. With 120
works by 59 artists-primarily from Europe, the USA and Japan-the
exhibition is dedicated to the major technological changes since
the post-war period and examines their influence on our notions of
bodies. With contributions on topics such as the influence of
changing production technologies, materialities, and concepts of
the body, but also interdisciplinary considerations of
body-technology relations, a multi-perspective history of
contemporary sculpture will be outlined. English Edition!
Exhibition Museum Brandhorst Munich 2 June 2022 until 15 January
2023
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