"Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere (b. 1964) is a star of the contemporary art world whose innovative practice focuses on sculpture. This publication, the first-ever monograph on de Bruyckere, offers a definitive and comprehensive look at the scope of her work over more than twenty years. The book includes de Bruyckere's first sculptures from the 1990s, mainly meditations on the human body in wax and wool, as well as her later sculptu ..."
Looking Through Images A Phenomenology of Visual Media (Hardback) by EmmanuelAlloa Hardcover, Published 2021 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18792-3, ISBN: 0-231-18792-0
"Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy.Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general. These works confirm that, with a surprising premonition, Merleau-Pon ..."
Looking Through Images A Phenomenology of Visual Media by EmmanuelAlloa Published 2021 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54757-4, ISBN: 0-231-54757-9
"A Phenomenology of Visual Media Emmanuel Alloa ... In their anthology, Hans Rudolf Schweizer and Armin Wildermuth seek to document the philosophical genesis ..."
"... especially in relation to Merleau-Ponty's concept of the body schema, see Jennifer McWeeny, “Flesh Possessed: On the Promiscuity of Subjectivity in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology,” Chiasmi International 18 (2017): 235–49. 57. VI, 178."
"On this matter, see Jocelyn Benoist, “Chair et corps dans les séminaires de
Zollikon: La différence et le reste,” in Autour de Husserl: L'ego et la raison (Paris:
Vrin, 1994), 107– 22. 37. For a fuller presentation of this argument, see my “The
... (1962), in his Jalons (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1966), 208–21, esp. 215. 3. This is
Emmanuel Levinas's verdict in his preface to Theodore Geraets, Vers une
nouvelle philosophie transcendantal ..."
"Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy."
Looking Through Images A Phenomenology of Visual Media by EmmanuelAlloa 368 Pages, Published 2021 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18793-0, ISBN: 0-231-18793-9
""This lavishly illustrated retrospective of Jasper Johns's work offers a new perspective on the artist's work based on his own enduring fascination with mirroring and doubles"--"
"Both a book and an exhibition, Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities takes as a starting point two events that occurred in the same year, 1895: the publication of H.G. Wells's 'scientific romance' The Time Machine: An Invention, the first ..."
This Obscure Thing Called Transparency Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor (Paperback) by EmmanuelAlloa Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2022 by Leuven University Press, Belgium ISBN-13: 978-94-6270-325-4, ISBN: 94-6270-325-6
"Christopher Hood and David Heald, the question mark in the title being significant. The edited book's fly cover notes that “The suspended auditorium, ... 47 Timothy Irwin, “Dispelling Fiscal Illusions: How Much Progress Have 62 DAVID HEALD."
"This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric. Today, transparency has become a catchword outplaying other Enlightenment values like empowerment, sincerity and the notion of a public sphere. ..."
"Der Korper hat Konjunktur. Als ausgestellter, verfug- und verfuhrbarer begegnet er uns taglich im Ubermass. Es war nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis im Spiel der sich in den Wissenschaften einander ablosenden turns auch ein corporeal (oder body) turn ausgerufen wurde. Dabei bleibt im genannten turn der Gegenstand der Untersuchung nicht selten reduziert auf das, was man im deutschen Sprachgebrauch "Korper" nennt: ein physisches Substrat, das ..."
"Explores a wide range of perspectives on the economics of the image and images of the economyPublished to accompany an exhibition at Jue de Paume Museum, Paris, from February - June 2020Preface by Quentin Bajac, director of Jeu de Paume, previously head of photography at MoMAEdited by widely published Peter Szendy, author of The Supermarket of Visible translated into English at Fordham University PressArt and economics have entertained ..."
Dynamis of the Image Moving Images in a Global World (Contact Zones) by EmmanuelAlloa, Chiara Cappelletto Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by De Gruyter ISBN-13: 978-3-11-052874-9, ISBN: 3-11-052874-6
"Images are not neutral conveyors of messages shipped around the globe to achieve globalized spectatorship. They are powerful forces that elicit very diverse responses and can resist new visual hegemonies of our global world. Bringing together case studies from the field of media, art, politics, religion, anthropology and science, this volume breaks new ground by reflecting on the very power of images beyond their medial exploitation. T ..."
"This first monograph dedicated to the work of Israeli-born artist Yael Bartana (born 1970) gives a comprehensive overview of the artist’s films, installations, performative projects, photographs, and sound works of the past 15 years.From Bartana’s early video vignettes to her most recent project What if Women Ruled the World? (2017), by way of her monumental trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned (2007–11) with which she represented Poland ..."
"To think about the actuality and future of photography means to understand it as a subjunctive, in which within the framework of the VI x VI exhibition and publication various artistic practices are discussed."
"Alicja Kwade polishes pebbles like diamonds, coats coal briquettes with gold leaf, twists bicycles, breaks down everyday objects into the finest of particles or measures a space with the help of tiny clock hands, which move forward every hour. Kwade thematises the fundamental phenomena on which our experience of the world and reality are based."