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Parkett #61 (Paperback)
Liam Gillick, Sarah Morris, Bridget Riley, Matthew Ritchie
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R747
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The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic
breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change.
From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted
that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism,
revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only
through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle
developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of
contemporary art. In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam
Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate
contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems
apathetic or blind to current events. Taking a broad view of
artistic creation from 1820 to today, Gillick follows the response
of artists to incremental developments in science, politics, and
technology. The great innovations and dislocations of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries have their place in this
timeline, but their traces are alternately amplified and diminished
as Gillick moves through artistic reactions to liberalism, mass
manufacturing, psychology, nuclear physics, automobiles, and a host
of other advances. He intimately ties the origins of contemporary
art to the social and technological adjustments of modern life,
which artists struggled to incorporate truthfully into their works.
The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic
breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change.
From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted
that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism,
revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only
through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle
developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of
contemporary art. In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam
Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate
contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems
apathetic or blind to current events. Taking a broad view of
artistic creation from 1820 to today, Gillick follows the response
of artists to incremental developments in science, politics, and
technology. The great innovations and dislocations of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries have their place in this
timeline, but their traces are alternately amplified and diminished
as Gillick moves through artistic reactions to liberalism, mass
manufacturing, psychology, nuclear physics, automobiles, and a host
of other advances. He intimately ties the origins of contemporary
art to the social and technological adjustments of modern life,
which artists struggled to incorporate truthfully into their works.
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Uri Aran (Hardcover)
Liam Gillick, Fionn Meade, Beatrix Ruf
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Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Lot of People
Rirkrit Tiravanija; Edited by Jody Graf, Ruba Katrib, Yasmil Raymond, Kari Rittenbach; Text written by …
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This book documents a performance event in the Amphitheater in
Arles, France, with artists Uri Aran, Daniel Buren, Fischli &
Weiss, Jef Geys, Douglas Gordon, Oscar Murillo and Lawrence Weiner,
among others. Using imported sand, the space was transformed into a
beach and a moonscape.
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Anri Sala (Paperback)
Mark Godfrey, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Liam Gillick
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- Anri Sala (b.1974) is a young artist whose haunting videos,
photographs and installations have been applauded by critics and
curators the world over
- Though his work employs straight documentary practices, it also
weaves its formal concerns (light and darkness, monochrome and
colour, sound and silence) into a poetic investigation of its
medium
- Among other distinctions, Sala was awarded the Young Artist Prize
at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and nominated for the
Guggenheim's prestigious Hugo Boss Prize (2002)
- This is the first monograph of this scale and scope on Anri
Sala's work
No less versatile in his writing than in his installations, films,
architecture, and sculpture, Liam Gillick unites his critical
essays in this collection, most of which were originally printed in
art magazines or exhibition catalogues. Lauded for his ingenious
reinterpretation of Conceptual and Minimalist art, Liam Gillick has
often used language, whether in type on a wall or on a page, as a
site of artistic, theoretical, and political intervention. He
reveals himself here as a witness of and major actor in the largely
European 1990s art scene that included Philippe Parreno, Pierre
Huyghe, Carsten H ller, Angela Bulloch, Douglas Gordon, and Rirkrit
Tiravanija. A key publication of discussions, references, and
artistic engagements of the 1990s, the book also allows an
examination of the renewed importance at this time of Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, John Baldessari, and Allen Ruppersberg.
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