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Twin Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies)»rank: 613273from: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
: : This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, 'Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan,' that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period. |
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982»rank: 625202by: Giovanni Anselmo, Stefan Gronnert, Pamela Lee, Geoffrey Batchen, Richard Flood, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Mel Bochner, Sarah Charlesworth, Jan Dibbets, Valie Export, Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Fogle, Kathy Halbreich
: :'Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the work of artists such as Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman, to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the artists of the late 70s and early 80s including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and ... |
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The Great Jazz Day»rank: 384464by: Charles Graham, Dan Morgenstern, Dan Morgenstern Rutgers University
: :And what a day it was, when nearly sixty jazz greats gathered on a Harlem street one morning in August 1958 for what was, incredibly, the photographer Art Kane's first professional shoot. Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Marian McPartland. . . .No one knew how many would show up at 10:00 A.M. for what was planned as the centerfold for Esquire magazine, but at the appointed hour they began coming—by subway, by taxi, and on foot. What resulted became the most famous jazz photograph ever—instantly recognizable to jazz fans the world over and the inspiration for ... |
Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art»rank: 457705by: Dan Graham
: :introduction by Jeff Wall The internationally renowned artist Dan Graham is widely acknowledged as one of the leading members of the 1960s conceptual art movement. However, his subsequent work in photography, performance, film, video, and the fusion of art and architecture, though well known in Europe and Japan, is less well known in English-speaking countries. In Rock My Religion (MIT Press, 1993), Graham explored mainly the work of other artists. In this collection, he articulates the rationale behind his own art. The broadly accessible essays, which include his most canonical texts, are organized both thematically and chronologically. They chart his career from conceptual art for magazine pages of the 1960s, ... |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967»rank: 551103by: Dominic Molon, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, Dan Graham, Richard Hell, Matthew Higgs, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Bob Nickas, Jan Tumlir
: :The dynamic relationship between rock music and visual art crosses continents, generations, and cultures. Beginning with Andy Warhol’s involvement with The Velvet Underground in 1967, artists have maintained a strong connection to rock. Artists such as Slater Bradley, Mike Kelley, and Raymond Pettibon have created album covers and music videos for rock bands, while rock musicians such as Bryan Ferry, John Lennon, and Peter Townsend have emerged from art schools, and punk and new wave bands such as Talking Heads and Sonic Youth have shared the same social and artistic milieu as artists including Robert Longo and Richard Prince. Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 looks at ... |
Dan Graham»rank: 634231by: Brian Hatton, Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Christine van Assche, Adachiara Zevi, Alexander Alberro, Gloria Moure, Dan Graham
: :This remarkably detailed and lavishly illustrated book is an absolutely essential reference to the work and thought of the American artist Dan Graham. As both an artist and a theoretician and critic of art and architecture, Graham's work in the media of video, installation, and sculpture rigorously explore the artistic ramifications of human imposition on the natural and built environment, often situating itself at the intersection of art and architecture. This volume includes extensive notes by Graham describing each project, its installation, and its intention. Along with two interviews with the artist, it provides unprecedented insight into his ideas and their expression. |
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THE ULTIMATE DRACULA: Children of the Night; The Master of Rampling Gate; All Dracula's Children; The Name of Fear; A Matter of Style; Selection Process; The Vampire in His Closet; The Tenth Scholar; Nobody's Perfect; Dracula 1944; The Contagion; et al»rank: 723734by: Byron; Keller, David; Miller, Megan (editors) (Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Anne Rice; Dan Simmons; Ron Dee; Ed Gorman; Heather Graham; Steve Rasnic Tem; Melanie Tem; Philip Jose Farmer; Edward D. Hoch; Janet Asimov; Karen Robards; Lawrence Watt-Evans) Preiss
: :This remarkably detailed and lavishly illustrated book is an absolutely essential reference to the work and thought of the American artist Dan Graham. As both an artist and a theoretician and critic of art and architecture, Graham's work in the media of video, installation, and sculpture rigorously explore the artistic ramifications of human imposition on the natural and built environment, often situating itself at the intersection of art and architecture. This volume includes extensive notes by Graham describing each project, its installation, and its intention. Along with two interviews with the artist, it provides unprecedented insight into his ideas and their expression. |
Alphabetter»rank: 953566by: Dan Bar-El
: :A mixed-up alphabet creates merry mahem. (20070201) |
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The Word and the World: Theology After the Sociology of Knowledge»rank: 2242644by: Dan Frank
: :If one accepts the basic premise of the sociology of knowledge, that our truths are values and culturally produced and culturally relative, then doing theology is problematised. Theology wishes to retain disciplinary autonomy but the sociology of knowledge is no great respecter of the boundaries that we erect between different kinds of knowledge. It is this challenge that this most original book addresses. Dan Frank argues that what is needed is a step by step re-evaluation of the traditional theological affirmations in terms these new cognitive criteria. But a new theology could be constructed by critical reflection of the success and failures of modernity. |
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection Im Hamburger Bahnof»rank: 1099730by: Eugen Blume, Peter Fischli, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Ray
: :This is, quite possibly, one of the world's best designed art books. Featured within its pages are works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection--one of the world's most significant (and yes, controversial) collections of contemporary art. But this book doesn't merely present some 400 works by 40 artists, it also seeks, through its design, to provide an individual stage--or section--for each artist in order to highlight the artist's philosophy, or to play off of his or her signature works of art. For example, Raymond Pettibon's comic-like drawings unfold to a newspaper-sized spread, while Gordon Matta-Clark's opening page has a split in it that corresponds perfectly to the cut-out in the ... |