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Mike Kelley (1954–2012) liked to play with how an artist appears,
exists and inhabits a role and how an artwork ‘communes’ with a
viewer. Central to his ambitious explorations of memory, history,
and the future is his consideration of how one’s individual
subjectivity is shaped by familial and institutional power
structures within society. Ghost or Spirit highlights
the significant and prescient questions about the role of art, and
of the artist, and about gender and class, in terms that stem from
Kelley’s own position as a white, heterosexual man in
post-modern, capitalist America. Featuring a diverse range of
voices, it explores the major works and themes of Kelley’s
career, while drawing attention to aspects of his practice
associated with performance, activism and collaboration, to
emphasise his continual deflation of his own authority, and his
willingness to invent and inhabit several identities.Â
Covering over four decades of Kelley’s work
spanning performance, sculpture, video and installation,
and articulating challenges to power, gender, class and
sexuality, this book is a pertinent presentation of the breadth,
complexity and significance of Kelley’s influential practice.
Includes contributions from Marie de Brugerolle, Robert Cozzolino,
Hendrik Folkerts, Jack Halberstam, Mark Leckey, Laura López
Panigua, Fiontan Moran, Grace Ndiritu, Cauleen Smith and John
Welchman.
Fujiko Nakaya is one of Japan’s most important contemporary
artists. Participating in the 1960s performances of the New
York-based collective Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.),
she became internationally renowned for her immersive fog artworks.
First created for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka they
defy traditional conventions of sculpture by generating temporary,
atmospheric transformations that physically engage with the public.
Driven by early ecological concerns, Nakaya’s ground-breaking
work is based purely on water and air—elements that have
particular significance in light of the climate crisis. From the
artist’s early paintings to her fog sculptures, single-channel
videos, installations and documentation that reveal Nakaya’s
cultural and social references, this in-depth survey offers a
comprehensive overview of the distinguished artist’s work.
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Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa (Paperback)
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa; Edited by Natalie Bell, Joa?o Moura?o, Luis Silva; Text written by Natalie Bell, …
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Discovery Miles 5 490
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firstsite's autumn season began with a new solo exhibition by the
British artist Anthea Hamilton.Hamilton's energetic collages
explored the surreal and seductive nature of images. Her
sculptures, installations and videos made reference to the history
of art, cinema and performance, playfully inserting the viewer into
a three-dimensional composition.Sorry I'm Late sees work was
installed across the building with firstsite's galleries
dramatically transformed into a series of environments - from a
film studio to a restaurant kitchen. Soft sculptures, Perspex
figures mounted on wheels, a giant zoetrope-inspired portrait of
John Travolta and a medieval cocktail that is claimed to cure
cataracts are amongst the works that comprise the exhibition.
For sixteen-year-old Jet, her only wish is to be normal and left
alone while she is playing video games. However, one mistake sends
Jet to Onyx Academy, a school she has managed to avoid for the past
three years. She soon discovers that the world outside will change
her but not to whom she expects to be, she gets thrown into a
secret world with different genes, groups and rules then the one
she has grown up with. Jet, learns that her parents weren't the
only one keeping secrets. The guy she has a love/hate relationship
with may be hiding the biggest secret of them all. As stories
become true the danger rises. One thing she never expected was to
be risking her life to save someone who was actually supposed to
save her.
In Shaping the madre patria, I track the lives of four influential
women to show how each ultimately became iconic. In Spain, I focus
on Carmen Polo and Carmencita Franco to show how the
Francoist-controlled media used the mother/daughter duo to convey
ideal notions of family and femininity. The Spanish singer/actress
Concha Piquer provides a different model of female identity in the
post-civil war years. Eva Pern, the Argentinean icon of this study,
fuses together the salient characteristics of Concha Piquer and
Carmen Polo de Franco in that, like Piquer, she was a performer,
yet, like Carmen Polo, the move that catapulted her to celebrity
was her marriage to a powerful man and her subsequent position as
Argentinean First Lady. The purpose of studying these women, and
their representations in different media, is to reveal that each
one was an icon, or revered symbol, at a time when women were
scarcely in the public sphere.
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Herbert;victor - Herbert:eileen CD (2013) (CD)
Victor Herbert; Herbert;victor; Conducted by Butterman, Michael; Performed by Payne, Alan,Pickle, John,Robison, Catherine,Woods, Suzanne, Herbert;victor
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Discovery Miles 7 340
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