"“In ordinary language, 'modernizing' has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a modernity which, far from absurdly duplicating that of the last century, would be specific to our epoch and would echo its own problematics: an altermodernity whose issues and features this book seeks to sketch out.”In his mo ..."
"An exemplary study of the career of photographer Berenice Abbott that reveals the astonishing range of her artistic, documentary, and scientific production The American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) is known best for her documentation of New York in the 1930s and for her efforts to gain recognition for the work of Eugène Atget in both Europe and the United States. This attractive book features 120 photographs and a series of ..."
"Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles Deleuze’s readings of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson as the basis for a new resistance to the overly reductive account of art history. After laying out his argument for a new ae ..."
""Rock, Paper, Scissors" brings together artists whose works have kept a close relationship with pop music: Saadane Afif, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language, Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Renee Green, Mike Kelley, Lucy McKenzie, Dave Muller, Albert Oehlen and others."
"This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory of utopian architectural-photographic space and from post-Revolutionary Russia to America during the Cold War. This space documents the exhibitions designed by Lissitzky (Pressa ..."
"Adentrarse en el universo creativo del escultor Rui Chafes puede resultar una difícil tarea si no se disponen de las herramientas adecuadas. Con el objetivo de documentar su última etapa, la que va del año 2002 a 2011, se ha editado el volumen Contramundo, casi cuatrocientas páginas que reúnen cronológica y fotográficamente el extenso corpus de producción escultórica, aunque también de intervenciones site-specific del artista. El proyec ..."
"Visions of American jazz at a special bestseller price "Surely the most thorough and imaginative visual record of American jazz at mid-century that we’ll ever see." - Newsweek, New York In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music. The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and recordings of legendary arti ..."
"German artist Katharina Grosse is one of the internationally most important representatives of contemporary painting. For more than a decade now, she has been working on a picture type that nullifies all borders and hierarchies between painting and space. In doing so, she replaces the brush with airbrush and compressor, the canvas with floors, walls, ceilings, as well as found, deliberately arranged or specially fabricated objects. The ..."