"This third volume of collected theoretical and critical essays focuses on Dia's exhibitions from 1998 through 2000. As in the first two volumes, nine diverse contributors are included, ranging from art historian Jonathan Crary and philosopher Boris Groys to film theoretician Peter Wollen, from curator Russel Fergusson to cultural critic Elaine Showalter. These writers, among others, take on the challenges of illuminating, analyzing, and ..."
"In 1984, Jasper Johns suggested to an interviewer that he had made a critical shift in his working process. "In my early work," he said, "I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions...I sort of stuck to my guns for a while, but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally, one must simply drop the reserve." His paintings of the 1980s and 90s bear this out: their imagery often includes objects and locations ..."
"The inherently contingent physics of shadows--never things in themselves but instead always "cast" signs of other things; tangible yet insubstantial--has long been a rich source of inspiration for thinkers and artists. From the Biblical valley where humanity is stalked by the "shadow of death" to the purported supernatural phenomenon of the shadow people, the idea has always suggested forces of the unseen, of the Other, its relational q ..."
Darker Shades(1st Edition) The Racial Other in Early Modern Art by Victor Ieronim Stoichita Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2019 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78914-056-9, ISBN: 1-78914-056-0
The Self-Aware Image(Updated) An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting (Studies in Baroque Art) (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art) by Victor I. Stoichita, Lorenzo Pericolo Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2015 by Brepols Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-909400-11-5, ISBN: 1-909400-11-4
The Pygmalion Effect(1st Edition) From Ovid to Hitchcock (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series) by Victor Ieronim Stoichita, Alison Anderson Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77521-0, ISBN: 0-226-77521-6
"In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector's items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volu ..."
" In the 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo archive called The Image of the Black in Western Art. Now, fifty years later, as the first American president of African American descent occupies his historic term in office, her mission has been re-invigorated through the collaboration of Harvard University Press and the W. E. B. Du Bois I ..."
"This first major monograph on the electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was produced on the occasion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, where Lozano-Hemmer presented six interactive installations--becoming the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Biennale. Born in Mexico City in 1967, Lozano-Hemmer studied Physical Chemistry at Concordia University in Montreal, and now uses his background in the sciences to create the large-sca ..."
"In Spanish with English notes. Catalogue from the exhibition in Madrid from February 10 till May 17, 2009, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. An exhibition on the representation of the shadow, its function and symbolism from the Renaissance to the present day."
Les Fileuses de Vélazquez Textes, textures, images by VictorStoichita Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2018 by Fayard ISBN-13: 978-2-213-71012-9, ISBN: 2-213-71012-0
"El velo desplegado ante los ojos del espectador, en el que se vislumbra el rostro de Cristo, resplandece como un hallazgo personal de Zurbarán. Con sus varios cuadros de la Verónica, Zurbarán va cruzando el umbral que separa "la era de la imagen" de "la e"
"Le second interrogera la formation, par-delà traverses et entraves, d’une tissure – d’une “toile” dirait-on aujourd’hui –, fruit d’un enchevêtrement incessant de formes, de couleurs, de représentations et de figurations. ..."
Über Einige Telepathische Dispositive(1st Edition) Vittore Carpaccios Gemäldezyklus in Der Scuola Degli Schiavoni in Venedig by Victor I. Stoichita Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2016 by Deutscher Kunstverlag Gmbh ISBN-13: 978-3-422-07394-4, ISBN: 3-422-07394-9