Materiality (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) by PetraLange-Berndt, Iwona Blazwick Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52809-2, ISBN: 0-262-52809-6
"Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter -- considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity -- and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship through the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning, for ..."
Materiality (Documents of Contemporary Art) by PetraLange-Berndt, Whitechapel Gallery Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Whitechapel Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-85488-237-3, ISBN: 0-85488-237-5
"Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism's tendency to privilege form over matter was paralleled by technically-based approaches in art history that reinforced connoisseurship via the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning of hair in David Hammons' installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, one needs a ..."
Sigmar Polke We Petty Bourgeois! -- Comrades and Contemporaries: the 1970s by Sigmar Polke, PetraLange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2011 by D.A.P./ Walther König, Köln ISBN-13: 978-1-935202-61-5, ISBN: 1-935202-61-8
"In the postwar dawn of late capitalism, options for political address in painting seemed to polarize themselves into, on one hand, the cool critiques of image truth found in the art of Gerhard Richter or Andy Warhol--and on the other, the decidedly hotter and messier rhetoric of a Sigmar Polke. Polke's energetically sprawling painting traversed many idioms, and its anarchic character expressed the ascent of a new leftism in western Germ ..."
"This publication focuses on five major works by the American conceptual artist Mark Dion (born 1961).Since the late 1980s Dion has been delving into the tropes and research methods of scientists, explorers, museum curators and archaeologists. He has created a body of work that playfully presents art as scientific inquiry or field work, questioning how knowledge is gathered, classified and displayed.The five installations documented here ..."
"Focusing on Sigmar Polke's artistic strategies of the 1970s, this volume retrieves the artist's largely forgotten series "Wir Kleinburger!," also known as "We Petty Bourgeois!." This series is situated alongside other works from this era, by the artist and by his contemporaries, in media including photography, film, drawing and paintings."
"Kat. Kunsthalle DüsseldorfBroschiertes BuchLEFTiesDas Buch widmet sich Künstlerinnen und Künstlern, die in den 1970er Jahren in Düsseldorf lebten, gemeinsam arbeiteten und das historische Programm der Kunsthalle aktiv mitbestimmten. Auf diesem Weg wirft "Singular Plural" einen frischen Blick auf die Ausdifferenzierung der Künste der späteren Nachkriegszeit sowie auf subkulturelle Impulse im deutschsprachigen sowie europäischen Raum. Die ..."
"In the postwar dawn of late capitalism, options for political address in painting seemed to polarize themselves into, on one hand, the cool critiques of image truth found in the art of Gerhard Richter or Andy Warhol--and on the other, the decidedly hotter and messier rhetoric of a Sigmar Polke. Polke's energetically sprawling painting traversed many idioms, and its anarchic character expressed the ascent of a new leftism in western Germ ..."
"The starting point of this exhibition and subsequent publication is the novel The Man Who Was Thursday by British poet G. K. Chesterton from 1908. This mysterious crime story about a seven-headed anarchist council, which consists of spies from the London secret police, addresses a world in a permanent state of emergency. Yet in the end, the real danger emanates from artists and intellectuals. The text weaves an unsettling web out of sur ..."
"OrbitSigmar Polke’s work contains around 200 editions dating from 1963 to 2009, and the collection Ciesielski has collected them worldwide in their entirety. The book accompanying the exhibition showcasing this collection and its juxtaposition with works in the Lambrecht-Schadeberg collection in the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, is intended to facilitate an intense discussion of work of individual, outstanding editions by the late ..."
"Korrespondez, a box set of elaborate facsimiles, makes the correspondence of German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) available to the public for the very first time. The box contains a collection of letters both received and sent by the artist. Among the correspondents are Carl Andre, Roy Colmer, Isi Fiszman, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and members of the artist's family; other artist colleagues (John Baldessari, Daniel Bure ..."
"“Den” is a cave installation by Mark Dion (born 1961) in the mountains of Norway. Dion installed a sleeping model bear on top of a pile of manmade detritus, allegorically posing the question of whether man or animal dominates the world.""
"A gloriously bizarre showcase of indoor eccentricities, Furniture as Trophy unearths the mid-nineteenth-century tradition of "antler furniture," which incorporates antlers into the design of armchairs, chests, and even fans and chandeliers."
"This book offers an innovative view of the art of East Germany that will fascinate art lovers and history enthusiasts alike. Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR focuses on the wide variety of artistic self-staging in the GDR, between public and private, prescribed collectivism and creative individuality. The intention of the GDR’s official state art was to exert political influence and this resulted in ideological entanglements that hav ..."
"Mark Dion (born 1961) combs the archives of world-famous institutions, questioning the traditional classification systems with which objects from all around the world are collected and presented. This volume documents his "archaeology of education" from the collection of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts."