"How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by Félix González-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and visual gesture, featuring practitioners who have constructed static or near-static experiments that hover somewhere between action and ..."
"Selected Bibliography Compiled by Fiona Baker and Cindy Lisica 1. ... Solo
artists An asterisk (*) indicates entries which derive from references in previous
bibliographies, but which have not been seen by the compilers. 1. ... University of
Chicago, 2009; 392p., illus Taylor, Michael R (ed ): The Doli renaissance: new
perspectives on his life and art after 1940: an internationol symposium
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum Distribu ..."
"Exploring the career of Alessandro Raho (b.1971) from the early 1990s to the present day, this monograph, the first of its kind on the artist, places Raho in the context of the period in which his career was established and has flourished. A principal figure in the generation of contemporary artists leading the current revival of figurative painting in the UK, Raho graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1994. He was included, alongside co ..."
Yvonne Rainer The Mind is a Muscle (AFTERALL) by CatherineWood Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Afterall Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-038-9, ISBN: 1-84638-038-3
""It is my overall concern to reveal people as they are engaged in various kinds of activities—alone, with each other, with objects—and to weight the quality of the human body towards that of objects and away from the super-stylization of the dancer."—Yvonne Rainer, STATEMENT accompanying The Mind is a Muscle, 1968In 1968, toward the end of a decade that witnessed civil rights protests, the escalation of the war in Vietnam, and an expand ..."
" Another Order, Please! is a cheerfully and colorfully illustrated book for children, ages 3 to 11, and adults! Spirited and playful, it tells the story of Dara Barker, a rambunctious pup who is excited about going to a restaurant with her family. She knows the right behavior to use in the restaurant, but her friendly and exuberant nature takes over. Before too long, what started out as an afternoon of high spirits leads to an “upsettin ..."
"In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art. Examining in turn individual, social, and object-based approaches, Wood first examines the influential performance art of the 1960s to 1980s: the body art of the Viennese actionists, the raw performances of Yoko Ono and Chris Burden, a ..."
"Electronic composer and sound artist Florian Hecker (born 1975) has made inventive use of contrasting and conflicting auditory illusions or chimeras--perhaps most famously on his recent acclaimed Mego album Acid in the Style of David Tudor, which brilliantly and bizarrely merged the two soundworlds of acid house and avant-garde electronics. Auditory chimeras have been previously explored in electroacoustic music, in particular by Alvin ..."
Mike Kelley Ghost and Spirit by Wood, Catherine Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2024 by Tate Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-897-9, ISBN: 1-84976-897-8
"“Good business is the best art" -- Andy WarholProvocative and entertaining, Pop Life examines how artists since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured a dazzling mix of media, commerce, and glamour to build their own “brands.” Beginning with the grandfather of Pop, Andy Warhol, who manufactured mass-produced wares in The Factory in the 1960s, the book explores Jeff Koons' infamous Made in Heaven series ..."
"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."
"The early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradition, inventing new intermedia forms of art making that shaped the decades to come. Published in conjunction with the inaugural 21st-century retrospective of this defining figure, this book offers fresh perspectives on Rauschenberg's widely celebrated "Combines" (1954- ..."
" The only practical travel guide on the subject ever published, this book provides useful and current information on haunted places--complete with addresses, instructions for finding sites, historical background on the place and region, what to look for when you get there, and what to expect once you've had an encounter."
"Since studying at Yale University, where she explored the relationship between cinema, art, literature and music, and then UCLA, where she received her M.F.A., Daria Martin, an American artist based in London, has begun to make films. Borrowing from a universe of everyday popular references (sport, games, shows, etc.), she combines elements from avant-garde dance and cinema with a formidable formal elegance. She evades the trap of being ..."
"A handsome overview celebrating the neglected German minimalist sculptor Charlotte PosenenskeEmbracing reductive geometry, industrial fabrication and repetitive forms, German artist Charlotte Posenenske (1930–85) developed a form of mass-produced minimalism that addressed the pressing socioeconomic concerns of the 1960s by circumventing the art market and rejecting established formal and cultural hierarchies. Posenenske exhibited widely ..."
"Emerging in the mid-1990s, the Warsaw-born, New York-based artist Piotr Uklanski has created a provocative body of work that ranges across media, from installation, paper reliefs, tie-dye paintings, textile-based immersive sculptures and resin-based sculptures and paintings to photography, performance and a feature-length film, Summer Love. Second Languages is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this iconoclastic artist. Tak ..."