"Seeing and Believing is an illustrated overview of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Luis Jacob. An important figure on the Canadian conceptual art scene, Jacob has concentrated his career on the concept of 'seeing art'. Working as an artist, curator and writer, Jacob addresses issues of experience, interaction and site-specificity in his work, which has led to him exhibiting internationally at galleries including the Museum of C ..."
"How do artists in Toronto visualise their sense of place? Are there particular ‘made-in-Toronto’ ways of thinking about the city? With work selected by internationally renowned Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob, Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto considers the ways in which artists see and understand their city, throughout a period of fifty years. Presenting a thematic clustering of works by 86 artists, the book is premised ..."
"Will Munro (1975-2010) was a multimedia visual artist, DJ and community builder based in Toronto. "History, Glamour, Magic" fully documents his activities as an artist with emphasis on his punk DIY sculpture and installation from 1998 to the end of his life."
Funkaesthetics(1st Edition) by LuisJacob, Pan Wendt, Adrain Piper Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2010 by Confederation Centre Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-7727-6075-3, ISBN: 0-7727-6075-6
"Funk is best known as a style of dance music that originated in the African-American community in the 1960s. Funkaesthetics is premised on the idea that Funk constitutes a uniquely rich system of thought. With its interest in ancient Egypt and the allegorical futures of science-fiction and its focus on the figure of the the alien, Funk manifests a vision of time and identity as mutable and open to transformation. This collection of orig ..."
"Tromper l’Œil dépeind habilement et judicieusement l’œuvre de l’artiste canadien Luis Jacob. Figure importante de l’art contemporain, Jacob explore à la fois la subjectivité de l’expérience esthétique et la singularité de nos face- à-face avec les œuvres d’art.A travers Tromper l’Œil, Jacob étudie le rôle du musée en tant que cadre, ainsi que celui de l’œuvre d’art dans sa capacité à « porter un regard » sur son propre spectateur. Le li ..."
"How do artists in Toronto visualise their sense of place? Are there particular made-in-Toronto ways of thinking about the city?Bringing together work selected by internationally renowned Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob, Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto concentrates on a period of more than fifty years to consider the ways in which artists visualise Toronto. Presenting a thematic clustering of works by 86 artists, the boo ..."
Golden Streams Artists' Collaboration and Exchange in the 1970s : Image Bank, General Idea, Banal Beauty Inc. and New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver by LuisJacob, Blackwood Gallery Paperback, 45 Pages, Published 2003 by Blackwood Gallery University Of Toronto ISBN-13: 978-0-7727-8207-6, ISBN: 0-7727-8207-5
Golden Streams Artists' Collaboration and Exchange in the 1970s : Image Bank, General Idea, Banal Beauty Inc. and New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver by LuisJacob, Blackwood Gallery, Livy Visano 45 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8207-7, ISBN: 0-8020-8207-6
Gerontology and Social Education Senior Universities in the World and the Portuguese Model of U3A by Jacob, Luis Trade Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Eliva Press ISBN-13: 978-1-63648-024-4, ISBN: 1-63648-024-1
LuisJacob Album by LuisJacob Published 2002 by Latitude 53 Import ISBN-13: 978-0-920956-63-2, ISBN: 0-920956-63-7
It Calls You Back(Unabridged) An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, a by Luis J. Rodriguez, Jacob Vargas Cd, Published 2011 by Dreamscape Media Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-61120-413-1, ISBN: 1-61120-413-5
"Commerce By Artists
007938
Anthologies
2011
Art Metropole Toronto Canada
386 pp.
26.5 x 20.5 x 3 cm.
1.674 Kg
softcover
Commerce by Artists documents a fascinating and sweeping range of artists' projects produced since the 1950s by Canadian and international artists who have sought to engage, rather than merely represent, the commercial world
of which they are a part.
Encompassing canonical works such as Yves Klein's Zones of Immater ..."
LuisJacob Seven Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, In Gratitude by Susanne Titz, LuisJacob Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2010 by Walther König, Köln ISBN-13: 978-3-86560-667-9, ISBN: 3-86560-667-9
"As a companion piece to Jacob's exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, this artist's book features two related projects: an exhibition of remade Rokthos from the Panza Collection―uncannily replicated and reconfigured four times―and a special re-hanging of works from the Museum's permanent collection, in the manner of works from Jacob's Album series."
LuisJacob(1st Edition) Album III by LuisJacob, Köln Walther König Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by Walther König, Köln ISBN-13: 978-3-86560-245-9, ISBN: 3-86560-245-2
"Album III is the book version of Luis Jacob’s installation for 2007’s Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. The project consists of hundreds of images found and copied from various books, magazines and other publications, as well as the Internet. This exhaustive volume is 160 pages long and minimally designed, with only two to five images on a page--no text, no descriptions. The images speak for themselves. Coming from public sources, the pi ..."
LuisJacob Towards a Theory of Impressionist and Expressionist Spectatorship by Yilmaz Dziewior, LuisJacob, Meike Brehm Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Walther Konig ISBN-13: 978-3-86560-579-5, ISBN: 3-86560-579-6
"Lima-born, Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob's installation "Habitat," detailed here, was realized in 2005 at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario. The extensive work comprises six interconnecting rooms for meeting, yoga, DJing, reading, sleep and one devoted to the contrast between hard and soft, which feature ceramic objects presented under museum vitrines."