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Universal Experience: Art, Life, And The Tourist'S Eye»rank: 751508by: Carol Becker, Alain de Boton, Robert Fitzpatrick, Martin Parr, Lucy Lippard, Susan Sontag, Peter Fischli, Emilia Kabakov, David Weiss, Matthew Buckingham, Katherina Fritsch, Aleksandra Mir, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Ilya Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Gabriel Orozco, Simon Starling, Rirkrit Tiravanija
: :Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism, and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of contemporary travel and tourism. This volume draws on the proliferation of research surrounding the social, geographic, and cultural dimensions of mobility and outputs this information as an anthology of articles, essays, and excerpts. The primary focus of the exhibition, however, is on artworks created by a group of international visual artists who create work in response to travel among multiple cultures--both high and low, and local and foreign. While serving as a 'travel guide' to the latest ... |
0 To 9 (Lost Literature)»rank: 772545from: Ugly Duckling Presse/Lost Literature Series
: :Published from 1967 to 1969 in seven limited mimeographed editions, 0 to 9 was edited by artist Vito Acconci and poet Bernadette Mayer. Seeking to explore the relationship between language and the page, Mayer and Acconci brought together the pioneers of 1960s experimental poetry and conceptual art. Sol LeWitt, Adrian Piper, Dan Graham, Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Robert Barry, Les Levine, Robert Smithson, Hannah Weiner, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins, Yvonne Rainer, Aram Saroyan, Bernar Venet, Alan Sondheim and the editors themselves are but a few of the artists and writers who appeared in 0 to 9. |
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Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain»rank: 616215by: Staci Boris, Sylvia Chivaratanond, Monika Gehlawat, Lela Hersh, Dominic Molon, Alison Pearlman, Heather Ring, Julie Rodrigues, Michael Rooks, Jenni Sorkin, Tricia Van Eck, Lynne Warren, Christo, Franz Kline, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Ed Paschke, Martin Puryear, H.C. Westermann, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Vito Acconci
: :With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate ,Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, Iiigo Manglano-Ovalle, KerryJames Marshall, Mariko Mori, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare, and H. C. Westermann. In an introductory essay, chief curator Elizabeth Smith discusses key trends in art from World War II to the present and provides a brief history of the MCA and its collection. Additional, accessible short texts ... |
No.1: First Works of 362 Artists»rank: 554863by: Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Chuck Close, Vik Muniz, Ross Bleckner
: :Sincere and ironic. Hip and stodgy. Academic still lifes and ready to hang museum pieces. When you ask over 300 artists, 'What was your first work of art' the results are vast. An inspirational collection, No.1: First Works by 362 Artists showcases works by a variety of contemporary painters, photographers, sculptors, and filmmakers. The artists were asked to submit what they considered their 'first' work of art--not necessarily the first piece they ever created, but the one that first successfully represented who they are as an artist today. Some of the works are first 'mature' works, others are seminal or pivotal, others are catalysts, some are new beginnings. These submissions, along with ... |
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The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982»rank: 251996by: 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 Cindy Sherman. ... |
Light Art. Artificial Light (Emanating)»rank: 928481by: Peter Weibel, Gregor Jansen, Dietmar Elger, Friedrich Kittler, Peter Sloterdijk, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Thomas Beth, Yvonne Ziegler, Gunther Liesing, Sara Selwood, Frank Popper, Stephan Von Wiese, Daniela Zyman, Andreas Beitin, Vanessa Muller, Vito Acconci, Franz Ackermann, John Armleder, Angela Bulloch, Tony Conrad
: :One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental mystery of the nature of light: it is both an electromagnetic wave and a stream of particles. It is a form of energy that moves at a speed of 299.792.458 m/s. It is a medium like no other, and nothing has revolutionized and democratized our world in the way that the control of electric light has. |
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Architecture and Sensuality: Andrew Bromberg of Aedas»rank: 949025by: Andrew Bromberg
: :Andrew Bromberg is the lead designer for Aedas, one of the world's largest architectural firms. He is recognized for his intuitive ability to conceptualize and realize complex design. With 15 years of professional experience, Bromberg has used invited competitions as a way of exploring and exposing new ideas. Boasting a curvilinear formal vocabulary of bulges, twists and sweeps, Bromberg's sensually shaped buildings are the manifestation of an intellectual and material struggle through which type and structure are transformed by design. With many projects under construction or in the works, Bromberg has become one of the most prolific and sought-after designers in China, India and the United Arab Emirates. This volume provides documentation ... |
Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Collection»rank: 880394by: Maria-Christina Villasenor, Joan Young, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Andreas Gursky, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Robert Smithson, Kara Walker, John G. Hanhardt, Maria-Christina Villaseñor
: :During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of ... |
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Yves Tanguy and Surrealism»rank: 1148052by: Susan Davidson, Gordon Onslow Ford, Konrad Klapheck, Beate Wolf, Yves Tanguy, Vito Acconci, Steven Holl
: :Ur-Surrealist Yves Tanguy belonged to the inner circle of the 1920s Parisian avant-garde, alongside such figures as Salvador Dal', Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti, making essential contributions to Surrealist manifestoes, magazines, and exhibitions. Tanguy's artistic obsession was the world of imagination, of dreams and reveries, and his cryptically codified imagery continues to perplex audiences today. His paintings seem to exist in a hazy, oddly beautiful limbo dimension beyond time and space, a world at once vertiginous and calm, disturbing and breathtaking. The central focus of Yves Tanguy and Surrealism is the Surrealist mode, to which Tanguy dedicated himself like no other painter of his time, cementing the movement's place in the history ... |
Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (Writing Art)»rank: 1040194by: Vito Acconci
: :Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop and published poems in journals and chapbooks. Almost all of this work remains unknown; much of it appeared in the self-produced magazines of the Lower East Side's mimeo revolution, and many other pieces were never published. Language to Cover a Page collects these writings for the first time and not only shows Acconci to be an important experimental writer of the period, but demonstrates the continuity of his early writing with his later work in film, video, and performance. Language to Cover ... |