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Parkett (Paperback)
Thomas Demand, John Wesley, Jeremy Millar; Edited by Russell Ferguson; Text written by Andreas Ruby; Contributions by …
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R774
Discovery Miles 7 740
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Rodney Graham (Hardcover)
Sammlung Goetz; Text written by Tacita Dean, Ingvild Goetz, Kim Gordon, Rodney Graham, …
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R1,359
Discovery Miles 13 590
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The art by the Canadian Rodney Graham may come across as
light-footed, yet in reality it harbors an extraordinary complexity
in terms of content and its use of media. His photographs, objects,
paintings, films, texts, and compositions contain references to
philosophy and literature, to the history of art and culture, that
range from Erasmus of Rotterdam and Edgar Allan Poe to Sigmund
Freud, Richard Wagner, and Kurt Cobain. While in his early oeuvre
he still approaches his sources of material with a great deal of
conceptual rigor, in their playful ambivalence between scientific
factuality and imaginative fiction his later works are marked
primarily by an enormous and intelligent sense of humor.The Goetz
Collection includes works from all of his creative phases and
genres. This publication provides substantial insight into this
all-rounder's extensive artistic work of the last forty years and
extends an invitation to set out on a journey of
discovery.Exhibition: Sammlung Goetz, Munich 28.11.2015-23.4.2016
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Place (Paperback)
Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar
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R499
R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
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Everyone wants to find their own place in the world. But where is
it and what is it? How do we recognize place as being significant
and not just merely space? And what is it that makes one place
special and another not? These are questions that have taxed
philosophers as far back as ancient Greece. But they are also much
more than philosophical investigations. In a world where neighbours
fight over a stretch of land, or where some groups can feel safe
only in certain locations, place is a living reality that can be
either the cause for violent conflict or the glue that binds
communities together. This exhibition in a book presents some of
the most challenging art to address the function of place in the
contemporary world. Arranged into themed 'rooms', it reflects a
wide variety of artistic attitudes and practices. Some artists find
inspiration in the heterogeneity of the crowded city street, while
others celebrate the wilds of nature as a counter to urban life.
Some present imagined or fantastic worlds of their own invention,
or explore the way place is often a creation of the mind. Others
investigate the deep marks that myth and history can leave on the
land, or consider how place can be used as a form of political
control.Territorial divisions demarcating one place from another,
often with terrible consequences, are the chosen subjectmatter of
many artists; others prefer to look at itinerant wanderers with no
claims on the earth, or to focus on anonymous non-places that lack
any real identity of their own. All of the artists in this book -
among them Thomas Demand, Allan Sekula, Luc Tuymans, Steve McQueen,
Roni Horn and Susan Hiller - use art to puzzle out the complicated
ways in which place can shape and affect us. All of them help us to
understand the world in which we live.
Whether it's Georg Baselitz or Olafur Eliasson, Tacita Dean or
Martin Kippenberger: these are the greats who have frequented Niels
Borch Jensen's printmaking studio in Copenhagen. And they've been
coming and going for more than forty years! Not only because of his
special, farsighted expertise, which contributes to the congenial
creation of unique works of art, but also due to his wish to reject
any imposition of aesthetic limitations and to constantly attempt
new things. A look at the story of the studio and its founder,
therefore, also means taking a look through the kaleidoscope of
contemporary art history. This volume is an excursion behind the
scenes at the famous printmaking workshop. Exclusive artist
interviews and the personal recollections of Niels Borch Jensen
offer intriguing insights into the craft of printmaking and the
collaborations with epoch-making artists.
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