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Performa 15 (Paperback)
RoseLee Goldberg; Contributions by Robin Rhode; Text written by Lia Gangitano; Contributions by Ryan Gander, Jesper Just; Text written by …
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R737
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Zhang, Huan (Paperback)
Yilmaz Dziewior, RoseLee Goldberg, Robert Storr
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Zhang Huan has emerged as one of the most important artists of the
past decade, a fearless explorer of the limits of the human body
and a key figure in the flourishing Chinese art scene. His earliest
performances, including 12 Square Meters, 65 Kilograms, and To
Raise the Water-Level in a Fishpond, subjected his body to grueling
tests of endurance while addressing the relationship between
physical endurance and spiritual tranquility. Zhang 's move to New
York in 1998 contributed to establish himself as a widely
recognized figure in the international contemporary art world,
staging performances in several cities around the globe, including
Sydney, Rome, Shanghai and Hamburg where he reflected on his
experiences in the cities he visited and his ethnic identity in a
foreign land. In 2006 Zhang established a studio in Shanghai, where
he began to seek a greater connection to Chinese heritage and
history. This marked a new direction in his work, as he turned from
performance to sculpture, painting, and installation. Through
creating large-scale sculpture in diverse media, such as ash from
local Buddhist temples, and with found objects, such as doors from
the Chinese countryside homes, Zhang Huan continues to explore new
ways to render his interest in the body and its language. A
significant aspect of Zhang's new work revolves around his interest
in Buddhism. Although Buddhist themes figured indirectly into his
early work, they took on a more prominent role after a visit to
Tibet in 2005. There, Zhang began to collect fragments of Buddhist
sculptures, which he then used as models for massive copper
figures. Upon his return to Shanghai, Zhang Huan began to collect
ash from local Buddhist temples for use in sculptures and
paintings. The use of burnt incense, the product of religious
offerings, strengthens the link between his art and Buddhist
practices.
Performance Now charts the development of performance by visual
artists across six continents since the turn of the 21st century.
It reveals how live art, so integral to the history of art in the
20th century, has become an increasingly essential vehicle for
communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.
Renowned authority RoseLee Goldberg discusses the key themes in
performance art practice, from beauty, global citizenship and
political activism to performance's intersection with film and
technology, dance, theatre and architecture. Each chapter is
followed by illustrated profiles of the world's best-known
performance artists, accompanied by extended captions that assess
the importance of specific works to the practice of international
performance art. The book concludes with an extensive reference
section. Providing a visually exciting and stimulating overview of
this most varied art form, Performance Now is the go-to reference
for artists, art students and historians as well as avant-garde
theatre and movie goers.
This pioneering book has now been expanded with a new chapter that
brings it into the second decade of the twenty-first century,
mapping the global rise of performance to the present day. RoseLee
Goldberg explores contemporary artists approaches to politics,
tradition, social engagement, and the art world itself, while
evaluating the changing status of performance and its
ever-increasing relevance to artists and audiences. Featuring
recent work by leading performance artists such as Marina
Abramovic, Walid Raad, Francis Alys, Pierre Huyghe, Tino Sehgal,
and Sharon Hayes, the book covers a century of the medium. This new
edition also includes an updated foreword and an expanded reading
list.
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Kusama (Hardcover)
Louise Neri, Takaya Goto; Contributions by RoseLee Goldberg, Chris Kraus, Laura Hoptman
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Discovery Miles 12 940
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This book comes in three different color patterns (all with the
same cover design). The most comprehensive book devoted to the
incomparable and iconic work of Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi Kusama, now in
her eighties, has become a vital force in contemporary art and an
influence on generations of artists. Arriving in New York City in
1958 from her native Japan, she embarked on a series of works that
forged a new visual vocabulary-the Net paintings, which were
composed of scores of small, thickly painted loops spanning large
canvases. Her singular approach to art making continued in other
extraordinary bodies of work, including the phallic soft sculptures
which she later incorporated into full-scale environments. In 1973
she returned to Japan, where she lives and works today. Since then,
she has created dazzling walk-in mirror rooms and her now-famous
pumpkin sculptures, as well as writing poetry and novels. In this
book-created in close collaboration with Kusama and her Tokyo
studio-the breadth and import of this watershed artist's career are
considered in depth. In addition to studies of the development of
her artistic vocabularies across different media, the book includes
ephemera, sketches, and photographs from the artist's extensive
archive that have never been seen before. The publication is timed
to coincide with the artist's major touring retrospective, which
makes its American debut at the Whitney Museum in New York in
summer 2012, as well as with the much-anticipated collaboration
with powerhouse fashion brand Louis Vuitton. Contributors include:
Leslie Camhi, RoseLeeGoldberg, Laura Hoptman, Chris Kraus, Arthur
Lubow, Kevin McGarry, Louise Neri, Akira Tatehata, and Olivier
Zahm.
"RoseLee Goldberg amazed with PERFORMA 05, billed as the city's
first biennial of 'visual art performance.' Working with a tiny
staff, a shoestring budget and no institutional affiliation, Ms.
Goldberg put together a program that covered a lot of aesthetic
bases--old school, just out of school, high-tech, no-tech--and
encompassed more than 60 scheduled events all of which makes the
prospect of PERFORMA 07 shine with promise." --Roberta Smith, the
"New York Times" This volume is the first in a series of important
publications drawing content and inspiration from the "PERFORMA"
biennial. Featuring inventive documentation by the 100 artists who
made the first "PERFORMA" so extraordinary, it offers an
exhilarating view into contemporary visual art performance and
"performs" as a collective artists' journal might. Vibrant
photographs of each artist's performance are accompanied by their
scripts, sketches and storyboards, providing unique insight into
process and upending conventions around archiving performance.
Lively interviews with some of the most significant artists of our
time--including Francis Alys, Tamy Ben-Tor, Jesper Just, Marina
Abramovic, Gelitin, Laurie Simmons and Mike Smith--appear alongside
context-setting essays by some of our most inspired young curators.
"PERFORMA" founder RoseLee Goldberg, who pioneered the study of
performance art with her seminal book "Performance Art from
Futurism to the Present" (1979), presents an authoritative
introduction addressing the genre's many forms--radio broadcast,
dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music,
historic reconstructions and lecture-as-performance among them.
"PERFORMA" is not only an invaluable reference, it is a new kind of
guide to cultural life, a time capsule of this very moment in New
York's eminent performance history, complete with profiles of the
city's nonprofit biennial venues that, like this book, give
ephemeral art a physical place in which to persist.
In Shirin Neshat's photographs, Persian calligraphic script is
transcribed over black and white depictions of the exposed faces,
hands, and feet of Iranian women. In her video works, swarms of
women in black hijabs ululate, a man in a white dress shirt and
black pants sings to an all-male audience, and a lone, nearly
invisible woman chants to herself in a darkened house. Always
aesthetically compelling, Neshat's work is equally thematically
ambiguous, never settling on a simple or singular meaning, never
offering social commentary within prescribed limits. Though focused
on the particulars of sex segregation and the suppression of women
in contemporary Iran, Neshat underscores the relevance of her
poetic, disturbing, moving ensembles to a broader culture. This
monograph documents and provides critical insight into the
evolution of her work.
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