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Abraham Poincheval (English edition)

Author : Abraham Poincheval
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111204
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Poincheval (English edition) written by Abraham Poincheval and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Poincheval is an insatiable explorer. Whether by crossing the Alps while pushing a capsule he used as his shelter, or by enclosing himself for a week in a rock, his—itinerant or static—expeditions require total physical commitment. The inhabitable sculptures which the artist conceives are laboratories allowing him to experience time, enclosure or immobility. They are the envelope that hosts the performer, an object that disturbs the landscape, and which exists through word of mouth. Abraham Poincheval’s two new performances at the Palais de Tokyo lead him to experience the temporalities of the animal and the mineral kingdoms. Book Contents - “Abraham Poincheval, Humanity in Suspension” an essay by Thomas Schlesser - “Living in the Heart of Things”: interview between Abraham Poincheval and Adélaïde Blanc About the authors - Thomas Schlesser is the director of the Fondation Hartung-Bergman (Antibes) and he teaches at the École Polytechnique (Palaiseau). He is the author of L’Univers sans l’homme – les arts contre l’anthropocentrisme (1755-2016) (Paris: Hazan, 2016). - Adélaïde Blanc is the coordinator of the artistic department at the Palais de Tokyo. She curated Abraham Poincheval’s solo show. A book published on the occasion of Abraham Poincheval’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 03.02 – 08.05 2017

Abraham Poincheval

Author : Abraham Poincheval
Publisher : Palais de Tokyo
ISBN 13 : 2847110763
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Poincheval written by Abraham Poincheval and published by Palais de Tokyo. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Poincheval est un explorateur insatiable. Qu’il s’agisse de traverser les Alpes en poussant une capsule qui lui sert d’abri ou de s’enfermer une semaine dans un rocher, ses expéditions – itinérantes ou statiques – nécessitent un engagement total du corps. Les sculptures habitables que l’artiste conçoit sont des laboratoires au moyen desquels il fait l’expérience du temps, de l’enfermement ou de l’immobilité. Elles sont l’enveloppe qui accueille le performeur, l’objet qui perturbe le paysage et qui existe à travers les récits des témoins. Les deux nouvelles performances d’Abraham Poincheval au Palais de Tokyo le conduisent à expérimenter les temporalités des règnes animal et minéral. Livre publié à l’occasion de l’exposition personnelle d’Abraham Poincheval au Palais de Tokyo, 03.02 – 08.05 2017

Abraham Poincheval

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Publisher : Les Presses du réel
ISBN 13 : 9782840669432
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Poincheval written by and published by Les Presses du réel. This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Première monographie, s'inscrivant dans la collection publiée avec Les presses du réel en lien avec les expositions du Palais de Tokyo – où l'artiste présente deux nouvelles performances qui le conduisent à expérimenter les temporalités des règnes animal et minéral – , avec des vues d'exposition et une sélection d'oeuvres emblématiques, un entretien, un essai et un ensemble de notices.

Abraham Poincheval

Author : Palais de Tokyo (Paris ; 1999-....).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782847110739
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Poincheval written by Palais de Tokyo (Paris ; 1999-....). and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abraham Poincheval est un explorateur insatiable. Qu'il s'agisse de traverser les Alpes en poussant une capsule qui lui sert d'abri ou de s'enfermer une semaine dans un rocher, ses expéditions? itinérantes ou statiques? nécessitent un engagement total du corps. Les sculptures habitables que l'artiste conçoit sont des laboratoires au moyen desquels il fait l'expérience du temps, de l'enfermement ou de l'immobilité. Elles sont l'enveloppe qui accueille le performeur, l'objet qui perturbe le paysage et qui existe à travers les récits des témoins. Les deux nouvelles performances d'Abraham Poincheval au Palais de Tokyo le conduisent à expérimenter les temporalités des règnes animal et minéral."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Walking and Mapping

Author : Karen O'Rourke
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262528959
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Walking and Mapping written by Karen O'Rourke and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS. From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in walking as an art form. In Walking and Mapping, Karen O'Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. She offers close readings of these projects—many of which she was able to experience firsthand—and situates them in relation to landmark works from the past half-century. Together, they form a new entity, a dynamic whole greater than the sum of its parts. By alternating close study of selected projects with a broader view of their place in a bigger picture, Walking and Mapping itself maps a complex phenomenon.

Explorers

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2111310379
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Explorers written by Collectif and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2016-09-08T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication brings together an outstanding ensemble of works by artist “explorers” selected from France’s national collections. Whatever the terrain — on land or at the depths of the ocean, real, virtual or even at the farthest limits of the subconscious — exploration remains a quest, accomplished thanks to and in spite of oneself, to redefine the contours of a world, whether it exists for real or in our imagination. In this respect, exploration is not so unlike art, which is largely inspired by it, both in terms of how it is done and its objective. From Voyage autour de ma chambre by Xavier de Maistre, whose detailed inventory encompasses just a single room, to Jules Vernes’ Voyages extraordinaires in which we anticipate an exploration of the seas, the centre of the Earth and outer space, the paths taken by the explorer seem infinite, from the most exotic to the most local, from the direct trajectory to the most labyrinthine of routes. In this book, the artist assumes the role of explorer, inventor and cartographer in turn, plunges into the seas, traverses the oceans, digs beneath the earth, loses their way, finds it again or becomes a castaway, taking the read along with them on the ride. This digital book is a revised and enhanced edition of the two catalogues created to present the Explorateurs exhibition shown at the Centre des Arts in Enghien-les-Bains in 2010 then at the Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d’Olonne in 2012. Sébastien Faucon, Centre national des arts plastiques

Embodying the Dead

Author : Claire Hind
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316636
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Dead written by Claire Hind and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do we find the dead? Do the dead appear in our dreams? What is it like to play dead? This book is an exciting exploration of the relationship between death and play in performance. Exploring a range of artists and creative disciplines that remember, personify and re-imagine the dead, it playfully unpacks the psychoanalytic concepts of the Death Drive, Desire and the Uncanny as a way of thinking about performance. Embodying the Dead draws on work of Gary Winters and Claire Hind and the various qualities of deadness found in their projects. The authors' work includes live art, theatre, installation, Super 8mm film, walking arts practice and durational performance. This book includes scripts and scores of their performances, original creative texts, interviews with internationally renowned artists and a series of practice-led research tasks to support readers creating their own imaginative performance work. Rich in creative and critical content, this book is ideal for students of drama, theatre and performance studies who have an interest in devised theatre, theatre making, writing for performance and intermedial practice.

Interiors Beyond Architecture

Author : Deborah Schneiderman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317299191
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Interiors Beyond Architecture written by Deborah Schneiderman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Winner of the 2019 IDEC Book Award*** Interiors Beyond Architecture proposes an expanded impact for interior design that transcends the inside of buildings, analysing significant interiors that engage space outside of the disciplinary boundaries of architecture. It presents contemporary case studies from a historically nuanced and theoretically informed perspective, presenting a series of often-radical propositions about the nature of the interior itself. Internationally renowned contributors from the UK, USA and New Zealand present ten typologically specific chapters including: Interiors Formed with Nature, Adaptively Reused Structures, Mobile Interiors, Inhabitable art, Interiors for Display and On Display, Film Sets, Infrastructural Interiors, Interiors for Extreme Environments, Interior Landscapes, and Exterior Interiors.

Dorian Gaudin (English edition)

Author : Dorian Gaudin
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111212
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Dorian Gaudin (English edition) written by Dorian Gaudin and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorian Gaudin focuses on the interplay of correspondences between the organic, psychical, and material worlds. Combining performance, sculpture and cinema, his oeuvre moves back and forth between automation and living systems. He mobilizes, dislocates, and mechanizes in an amalgamation of genres: absurdist theater, science fiction cinema, burlesque and Minimalism. In his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo machines and social rituals, visual illusion and physical presence set in motion a mechanism which is also that of the emotions. Revealing the capacity of objects to generate narrative and elicit our emotional and intellectual involvement, his works remind us of the way fetishization of objects and technology governs our relationship with the world. Book Contents - “Incomparable Theatre”: The Splendid Ambiguity of Dorian Gaudin’s Machines” an essay by Kate Sutton - “The Mechanism of the Emotions”: interview between Dorian Gaudin and Julien Fronsacq About the authors - Kate Sutton is a writer currently based in Zagreb. In addition to writing articles and reviews for magazines including Artforum, Bidoun, Frieze, Ibraaz, and LEAP, Sutton is a regular contributor to Artforum.com. In 2013, she was recognized with an Art Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. - Julien Fronsacq is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. He curated Dorian Gaudin’s solo show. A book published on the occasion of Dorian Gaudin’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 03.02 – 08.05 2017

Modern France

Author : Michael F. Leruth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440855498
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Modern France written by Michael F. Leruth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers perspective on modern French society and culture through thematic chapters on topics ranging from geography to popular culture. Ideal for students and general readers, this book includes insightful, current information about France's past, present, and future. France is the country most visited by international tourists. Aside from clichéd images of baguettes and the Eiffel Tower, however, what is French society and culture really like? Modern France is organized into thematic chapters covering the full range of French history and contemporary daily life. Chapter topics include: geography; history; government and politics; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and popular culture. Each chapter contains an overview of the topic and alphabetized entries on examples of each theme. A detailed historical timeline covers prehistoric times to the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Special appendices offer profiles of a typical day in the life of representative members of French society, a glossary, key facts and figures about France, and a holiday chart. The volume will be useful for readers looking for specific topical information and for those who want to develop an informed perspective on aspects of modern France.

Julien Creuzet (English edition)

Author : Julien Creuzet
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111328
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Julien Creuzet (English edition) written by Julien Creuzet and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julien Creuzet is an artist, videographer, performer and poet. He links forgotten, minority histories and imaginary representations of distant places with the social realities of the here and now. His exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, which visit is rhythmed by a soundtrack composed specifically for it, takes the form of an immersive environment akin to a large public space suffused with the permanent state of tension that characterizes our era. It presents a multiplicity of different works and offers an array of disjointed narratives. Preferring anachronism to the linearity of established stories, Creuzet thus invokes poetry and politics to unfold a mobile imaginary that brings together different temporalities and geographies. Book contents - “An Interview or Not,” interview between Julien Creuzet and Yoann Gourmel - “Flashing Light-Elegy,” by Eva Barois De Caevel and Dorothée Dupuis. About the authors - Eva Barois De Caevel is an independent curator. She is in charge of publications at RAW Material Company—Center for Art Knowledge and Society (Dakar). - Dorothée Dupuis is an independent curator, art critic and publisher. She is the founder and editor in chief of the magazine Terremoto.mx. - Yoann Gourmel is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. He curated Julien Creuzet’s solo show. A book published on the occasion of Julien Creuzet’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 20.02 – 12.05.2019

Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries

Author : Abbe E.L. Brown
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786431173
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries written by Abbe E.L. Brown and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative industries are becoming of increasing importance from economic, cultural, and social perspectives. This Handbook explores the relationship, whether positive or negative, between creative industries and intellectual property (IP) rights.

Jean-Michel Alberola (English edition)

Author : Jean-Michel Alberola
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111247
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Jean-Michel Alberola (English edition) written by Jean-Michel Alberola and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political, poetic, committed, profound: Jean-Michel Alberola’s oeuvre is an artist’s reaction to reality, human feelings and the state of the world. His exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo triggers a voyage that stimulates the eye and the mind as it maps the underappreciated diversity of his work. Associating bodily and geographical fragments with ambiguous statements and injunctions, this major and utterly distinctive figure on the French art scene shapes rebuses that challenge both our way of seeing and the role of art in society. And yet, in its intermingling of artistic speculation and political questioning, and of conceptualism, abstraction and figuration, Alberola’s unique, hard-hitting oeuvre is never without its touch of humour. Book contents - “Adding Up the Details: Chapter 1”: A text by Jean-Michel Alberola. - “The Crossing and the Passeur”: A conversation between Jean-Michel Alberola and Katell Jaffrès, curator of Jean-Michel Alberola’s solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. - “He Who is Taking Himself by Surprise”: An essay by Dominique Païni. About the authors - Katell Jaffrès is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. - Dominique Païni is a critic, a writer and a curator. He has written numerous publications focusing on the connection between cinema and fine arts. Book published on the occasion of Jean-Michel Alberola’s solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, “L’Aventure des détails” 19.02 – 16.05 2016

X-Venture The Terrible Terror Raptor

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Publisher : Kadokawa Gempak Starz Sdn Bhd
ISBN 13 : 9673851220
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book X-Venture The Terrible Terror Raptor written by and published by Kadokawa Gempak Starz Sdn Bhd. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With orders from the Professor, the X-Venture Xploreres find themselves in New Zealand, Investigating reports of dodos. But an attack by something much larger and much, much more alive places them in the middle of some fowl business! Even with assistance, the X-Venture Xplorers are finding harder and harder not to turn chicken! How will the team escape their avian adversary? Is there a reason for its rampage? Fly on in and read further.

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

Author : Lizzie Stark
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393531511
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Egg: A Dozen Ovatures written by Lizzie Stark and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Endlessly surprising.… Like the egg itself, this book is a perfect, miraculous package.” —Mary Roach, best-selling author of Fuzz An unconventional history of the world’s largest cellular workhorse, from chickens to penguins, from art to crime, and more. The egg is a paradox—both alive and not alive—and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg’s deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling specimens. From Mali to Finland, mythologies around the globe have invested the egg with powers of regeneration and fecundity, often ascribing the origin of the world to a cosmic egg. An oracle to Romans, fought over by Gold Rush gangs, used as the foundation of the Clown Egg Registry, and blasted into space, the egg has taken on larger proportions than, say, the ovum of an ostrich. It has starred in global dishes from the Korean comfort food ttukbaegi gyeranjjim to the less regaled yet iconic soft-boiled egg. Stark writes a biography of French-born chef Jacques Pépin through his egg creations, and weaves in her personal experiences, like attempting to make the perfect omelet or trying her hand at pysanky—the Ukrainian art of egg decoration. She also explores her fraught relationship to the eggs in her body due to a familial link to cancer, and shares her delight in becoming a mother. Filled with colorful characters and fascinating morsels, Egg is playful, informative, and guarantees that you’ll never take this delicate ovoid for granted again.

Florian et Michael Quistrebert (English edition)

Author : Florian Quistrebert
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111255
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Florian et Michael Quistrebert (English edition) written by Florian Quistrebert and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their works, mingling colours, light, mass and illusions, Florian and Michael Quistrebert play back the main motifs of modern art, while perverting them, through a particular approach to matter. At the Palais de Tokyo, they are deploying a vast optical theatre in which experience of their paintings and videos is disturbed by the glittering and internal motions of objects. The Quistrebert brothers’ ambiguous pieces evoke the impossibility of grasping a painting. Their pictures are never what they show or, rather, never stabilize themselves around their subjects. The artists explore perception by handling it in various ways, which can be intellectual, optical, symbolic or else occult. Book contents - “Trance, Meditation, Madness”: An essay by Khairudin Hori, cocurator of Florian & Michael Quistrebert’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo. - “Turbulent Infinities”: An essay by Hugo Vitrani, cocurator of Florian & Michael Quistrebert’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo. - “The Substance of Painting is Light”: A conversation between Florian & Michael Quistrebert and Mara Hoberman. - Notes on a selection of the artists’s works. About the authors: - Khairuddin Hori is the deputy director of artistic programmes at the Palais de Tokyo. - Hugo Vitrani contributes to Mediapart and Beaux-Arts Magazine. He is the curator of the Palais de Tokyo’s urban art programme. - Mara Hoberman is a freelance curator and a writer. Book published on the occasion of Florian & Michael Quistrebert’s solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, “The Light of the Light,” 19.02 – 16.05 2016

Paris: A Curious Traveler's Guide

Author : Eleanor Aldridge
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1682683893
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Paris: A Curious Traveler's Guide written by Eleanor Aldridge and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to visiting the “city of love” In the last few years, Paris has undergone a huge transformation. It’s fostered one of the coolest creative scenes in Europe, some of the continent’s best nightlife, and a “bistronomy” movement that has influenced dining around the globe. Yet while millennial travelers pour into the city, travel guides continue to focus on a staid checklist approach to Paris’s big attractions. There’s currently no book on the market aimed at younger (perhaps more budget-conscious) American visitors that truly captures the city’s revived energy—until this one. A Curious Traveler’s Guide to Paris will direct readers to the best paintings in the Centre Pompidou and tell them how to beat the lines at the Orangerie. It will guide them to quirky, little-known museums and secret squares. It will tell them how to find the city’s coolest speakeasies, best neo- bistros, and most unusual boutiques. Informative yet opinionated, it is an insider’s guide to Paris without pretension.