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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media»rank: 37971by: Walter Benjamin
: : Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin’s explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or ... |
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris»rank: 262459by: Dorothea Dietrich, Brigid Doherty, Sabine Kriebel, Janine Mileaf, Michael Taylor, Matthew Witkovsky, Hans Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst
: :Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and astonishingly comprehensive volume stands as the definitive study of the influential but deliberately elusive international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. Organized according to the primary city centers where this shifting, quintessentially avant garde movement emerged, Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris features the work of 40 key artists, both infamous and lesser-known, including Louis Aragon, Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, Andre Breton, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara and Kurt Schwitters, to name just a few, in media spanning painting, sculpture, photography, collage, photomontage, prints and graphic work. Dynamically designed with an uncommon intelligence suited ... |
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Rosemarie Trockel: Post-Menopause»rank: 677424by: Brigid Doherty, Barbara Engelbach, Rosemarie Trockel
: :This collection of Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980 to the present is full of video, drawings, wool, everyday objects, sculptures, and all the media with which she has advanced what Artforum describes as a 'long-running effort to expand and challenge the terms of dialogue between artist and audience.' |
Jay Defeo: Works on Paper»rank: 3816308by: Sidra Stich, Brigid Doherty, Nichael McClure
: :This collection of Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980 to the present is full of video, drawings, wool, everyday objects, sculptures, and all the media with which she has advanced what Artforum describes as a 'long-running effort to expand and challenge the terms of dialogue between artist and audience.' |
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Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility»rank: 3816308by: Walter/ Jennings, Michael W. (EDT)/ Doherty, Brigid (EDT)/ Levin, Thomas (EDT) Benjamin
: :This collection of Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980 to the present is full of video, drawings, wool, everyday objects, sculptures, and all the media with which she has advanced what Artforum describes as a 'long-running effort to expand and challenge the terms of dialogue between artist and audience.' |
Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility»rank: 3816308by: Walter/ Jennings, Michael W. (EDT)/ Doherty, Brigid (EDT)/ Levin, Thomas (EDT) Benjamin
: :This collection of Rosemarie Trockel's work from 1980 to the present is full of video, drawings, wool, everyday objects, sculptures, and all the media with which she has advanced what Artforum describes as a 'long-running effort to expand and challenge the terms of dialogue between artist and audience.' |