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Marina Abramovic has truly pioneered performance as a visual art
form. Her work - notorious for its feats of endurance, pain and
intense physical encounter - has pushed the boundaries of
contemporary art and cemented her reputation as one of the most
significant artists of the past 50 years. This book brings her
complete practice together into one concise and essential volume.
The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time
and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the
contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the
case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to
looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old
Masters into intuitive categories - from Art as Honesty to Art as
Vision. Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's
Ways of Seeing, but is here updated for the art world of the 21st
century. Key to this book is an emphasis on ways of experiencing
Old Masters - more than just looking. Just as contemporary art
should be judged by how it moves us, cajoles us and envelops us, so
too can the great paintings of the world be seen as immersive,
captivating, even participatory experiences. Ward does not deny the
specific complexities and barriers associated with looking at art
from other eras. Instead he offers readers a new formula to help
illuminate this kind of art. His method not only provides the
viewer with the tools to interpret a work of art, but also assumes
that we hold some of this knowledge within ourselves already. In
other words, everyone can share the enriching experience of Old
Master paintings.
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Ryan Gander - A Melted Snowman (Paperback)
Ryan Gander; Contributions by Cory Arcangel; Text written by Katharine Brinson; Interview by Sohrab Mohebbi; Contributions by Hamza Walker; Text written by …
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R799
Discovery Miles 7 990
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Joanna Pousette-Dart (Hardcover)
Joanna Pousette-Dart; Text written by Pepe Karmel, Nicholas Logsdail, Nancy Princenthal; Edited by Thomas Phongsathorn, …
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R933
Discovery Miles 9 330
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Die zeitgenoessische Kunst ist undogmatisch, vielfaltig und
unterliegt thematisch weder einem vorab definierten Kanon, noch ist
sie regional zu verorten. Doch welche Moeglichkeiten haben wir als
Betrachter dann jenseits einer Kategorie der Beliebigkeit, wollen
wir das Schaffen der Kunstler von heute beurteilen? Ossian Ward hat
reinen Tisch gemacht und sich, befreit von allen tradierten
Betrachtungsweisen, einen neuen frischen Blick auf das gesamte
Spektrum der Gegenwartskunst erlaubt und dabei innovative Zugange
geschaffen. Er oeffnet unseren Blick in acht Kapiteln auf ein neues
System einer crossmedialen Klassifizierung mit Kategorien wie
'Kunst als Unterhaltung', 'Kunst als Konfrontation ', 'Kunst als
Spektakel', 'Autobiographische Kunst', 'Meditative Kunst',
'Politische Kunst' und anderen mehr. Arbeiten, die dem Betrachter
ratselhaft bleiben wurden, erhalten so ein plausibles
Deutungsmuster. Zum besseren Verstandnis prasentiert der Autor in
jeder Kategorie prominente und herausragende Werke als Schlussel zu
einem besseren Verstandnis der jeweiligen Stroemung.
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