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Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside takes a journey through the artist's key
experiments in visual art presenting works never seen before,
commissioning new critical thinking, and amplifying knowledge of an
artist whose ideas are fundamental to how we define art today. Over
the course of fifty years, Nancy Holt's rich output spanned
concrete poetry, audio, film and video, photography, drawings,
room-sized installations, earthworks, and public sculpture. Nancy
Holt: Inside/Outside details her unique and significant
contributions, situating an important female voice within the
narratives of land art and conceptual art. Initiating her art
practice in 1966 with concrete poetry, she soon expanded her ideas
into other media and the landscape. Through each of the mediums she
worked in, Holt explored how we understand our place in the world
by investigating perception and site within and outside of
traditional museum contexts. In the mid-1970s Holt completed her
most influential earthwork, Sun Tunnels, an artwork central to the
definition of land art. Rigorous documentation of Holt's work, as
well as contributions by key scholars, previously unseen photoworks
and drawings, and a revealing, never-before-published
"self-interview" by the artist bring her work into far fuller
context. Developed in close consultation with Holt/Smithson
Foundation, an artist endowed organization dedicated to preserving
and extending the work of Nancy Holt and her husband Robert
Smithson, this expansive publication will serve as a major
contribution to the critical ongoing research into the art of our
time. This new book is published to coincide with an exhibition
anchored at Bildmuseet in Umea, Sweden, and traveling to MACBA
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and further internationally.
Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures presents an extensive look into the
contemporary artist's work over the past five years and her ongoing
exploration of scale, color, material, and artistic traditions of
the twentieth century. Bove's recent work engages the conceptual
concerns of mid-century sculpture, such as spontaneity, industrial
materials, and the potential of painted sculpture. However, within
this space of familiar sculptural traditions, Bove has discovered
new approaches that lead to places previously unknown. Bove's
"collage sculptures" are created from scrap metal and stainless
steel that has been carefully worked into sinuous forms and are
frequently painted. Considering the hard rigidity of the steel, the
works possess an appearance of almost impossible softness, as if
steel could become as pliable as clay. Such works range from small
pedestal sculptures to large, imposing compositions. Bove's
interest in scale and how a viewer's understanding of an artwork
shifts depending on its context are explored through a selection of
small works from the collection of the Nasher Sculpture Sculpture.
Published by the Nasher Sculpture Center, the catalogue features
beautiful reproductions of Bove's work and an introduction as well
as an essay by curator Catherine Craft on the development of the
collage sculptures and their relationship to other artists and
traditions of modern sculpture. Also included is an essay by Lisa
Le Feuvre that explores Bove's complex work by means of a thematic
alphabet related to the artist's interests.
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Failure (Paperback)
Lisa Le Feuvre
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Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of
anthologies . Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become
a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have
actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view
of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced,
experimentation encouraged and risk considered a viable position.
Between the poles of success and failure lies a productive space
where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This anthology
establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural
production. Artists surveyed include: Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alys,
John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, David
Critchley, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wade Guyton,
International Necronautical Society, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley,
Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Bruce Nauman, Simon
Patterson, Janette Parris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg,
Dieter Roth, Allen Ruppersberg, Roman Signer, Annika Stroem, Paul
Thek and William Wegman. Writers include: Giorgio Agamben, Samuel
Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock, Johanna Burton, Emma Cocker,
Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Joerg Heiser,
Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee,
Stuart Morgan, Hans-Joachim Muller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz and
Coosje van Bruggen
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The Making of Rodin (Hardcover)
Nabila Abdel Nabi, Chloe Ariot, Achim Borchardt-Hume; As told to Phyllida Barlow, Sophie Biass-Fabiani, …
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a radical sculptor whose unorthodox
approach to sculpture-making provided a definitive break in the
history of Western sculpture. Although much of his commercial
success was based on the bronze and marble versions of his work,
Rodin's greatest talent was as a modeller who captured movement,
emotion, light and volume in clay and plaster, to challenge
traditional conceptions of beauty and perfection. In line with new
thinking on Rodin, this book explores the artist's use of plaster,
a material which demonstrates his interest in creating sculptures
that are never completed, always becoming. United by their
materiality, fragile and experimental pieces are explored alongside
new readings of some of Rodin's iconic works, and a selection of
his watercolour drawings. Including an exclusive contribution from
sculptor Phyllida Barlow, The Making of Rodin sheds light on the
artist's use of materials, his unique way of working, and his
imaginative use of photography, revealing how Rodin reinvented
sculpture for the modern age - and why his work continues to
enthral and provoke to this day.
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