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Author : Dóra Hegyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789630802710
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Art Always Has Its Consequences written by Dóra Hegyi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062266829
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Make Good Art written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS FOR EVERYONE LOOKING AROUND AND THINKING, "NOW WHAT?” Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed commencement address, "Make Good Art," thoughtfully and aesthetically designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd. This keepsake volume is the perfect gift for graduates, aspiring creators, or anyone who needs a reminder to run toward what gives them joy. When Neil Gaiman delivered his "Make Good Art" commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art. The speech resonated far beyond that art school audience and immediately went viral on YouTube and has now been viewed more than a million times. Acclaimed designer Chip Kidd brings his unique sensibility to this seminal address in this gorgeous edition that commemorates Gaiman's inspiring message.
Author : Maja Fowkes
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633860687
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book The Green Bloc written by Maja Fowkes and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the approaches of renowned Central European artists to the natural environment, uncovering an up till now largely unrecognized aspect of their work, which has regularly been analyzed through socio-political contexts, but rarely in terms of ecology. It focuses on the period after 1968, which not only brought changes to the political landscape of Eastern Europe, but shifted artistic practice towards conceptualism and was instrumental in spreading environmental consciousness. It comparatively investigates artists and artist groups from Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic, at the moment when art exited the gallery and entered the natural environment, while socialist governments attempted to keep control over information about the real state of environmental pollution and block globally emerging ecological discourse. Apart from embedding artistic production in social, political and environmental histories of the region, this book also addresses the problem of art history as a discipline under socialism, presents a more complete picture of its neo-avant-garde art and constitutes an unprecedented application of the ecological paradigm to art history. It demonstrates the creativity, inventiveness and astuteness of Central European artists whose vision could not be controlled by any imposed borders at the dawn of global awareness of ecological crisis.
Author : Nicolas Bourriaud
Publisher : Les presses du réel
ISBN 13 : 2378963718
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (789 download)
Download or read book Relational Aesthetics written by Nicolas Bourriaud and published by Les presses du réel. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s. Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach towards contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists' works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting. The aim of his essay is to produce the tools to enable us to understand the evolution of today's art. We meet Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Louis Althusser, Rirkrit Tiravanija or Félix Guattari, along with most of today's practising creative personalities.
Author : Greg McKeown
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0593135644
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Effortless written by Greg McKeown and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. “In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human “At a time when fear, uncertainty, and our ever-growing list of responsibilities have come to feel like much too much to handle, Effortless couldn’t be timelier, or more necessary.”—Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play Do you ever feel like: • You’re teetering right on the edge of burnout? • You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? • You’re running faster but not moving closer to your goals? • Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Effortless teaches you how to: • Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals • Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise • Set a sustainable pace instead of powering through • Make one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions • Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps • Make relationships easier to maintain and manage • And much more The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may even be the only way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most.
Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048613248X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written by Wassily Kandinsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.
Author : Katalin Cseh-Varga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350211605
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Hungarian Avant-Garde and Socialism written by Katalin Cseh-Varga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence and the activities of a second public sphere in the areas of Soviet influence were intricately linked to the performative and intermedial production and usage of alternative spaces. Applying a multitude of perspectives and networked topography, The Hungarian Avant-Garde and Socialism investigates artistic strategies of spaces – namely those of the artist's studio, exhibitions, installations, clubs, apartments, cellars, event halls, and chapels – all of which existed parallel to or were interwoven with the regulated public sphere in Hungary from the beginning of the 1960s to the era immediately following the Kádár regime. This book captures and discusses the exclusionary and inclusionary mechanisms inscribed into public spheres behind the Iron Curtain in all their paradoxes through the looking glass of an artist generation that was controversially labelled “neo-”, and later, “post-avant-garde”. Cross-referencing the international tendencies in the marginal art worlds that existed between and beyond the Cold War reality of Blocs, The Hungarian Avant-Garde demonstrates how mostly non-conformist artists in Hungary, and by extension the spaces they created, reacted to the conflicting, contradictory nature of public spheres in the post-totalitarian condition.
Author : Kristine Stiles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520253744
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art written by Kristine Stiles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential text in the field of contemporary art history, it has now been updated to represent 30 countries and over 100 new artists. The internationalism evident in this revised edition reflects the growing interest in contemporary art throughout the world from the U.S. and Europe to the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia.
Author : Sven Spieker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262377551
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Art as Demonstration written by Sven Spieker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How artists wield demonstration to question the status quo both aesthetically and politically, marshaling art and education as powerful agents of change. Demonstration, in short, says: See here. It is the practice of pointing to something in order to explain or contest it. As such, Sven Spieker argues that demonstration has helped reshape art from the height of the Cold War to the late twentieth century, reformatting our understanding of how art and political engagement relate to each other. Focusing on Western Europe (especially Germany), Eastern Europe, and the United States, Art as Demonstration expands on contemporary discussions of art-as-protest, activism, and resistance. Spieker shows how a closer, more historical look at art’s connection with demonstration reconnects us with earlier efforts, notably by the early twentieth-century avant-garde, to marshal art for the purpose of instruction and engagement. Art as Demonstration reconceives the history of postwar art in Eastern and Western Europe from the perspective of demonstration, understood formally (as a technique for showing and pointing) as well as politically (as protest, resistance, etc.). Close analyses of individual artworks reveal how the deployment of demonstration has changed over time. Spieker shows how “protest” and “resistance” organize art and artists not only politically but also and especially formally and aesthetically—a development of particular importance in the Cold War art and politics of Eastern Europe. The book illustrates how from the 1960s onward demonstration radically changed the way artists thought about art: no longer as an object but as a form of education.
Author : Jessica Lack
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241236339
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Why Are We 'Artists'? written by Jessica Lack and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together political activists, anti-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Europe, Africa and Martinique to Japan's Bikyoto, from Iraqi modernism to Australian cyberfeminism, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world.
Author : Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Publisher : Series Cultural Inquiry
ISBN 13 : 3851327349
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Multistable Figures written by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and published by Series Cultural Inquiry. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multistable figures offer an intriguing model for arbitrating conflicting positions. Moving back and forth between different aspects, one recognizes that contradictory descriptions of a situation can be equally valid and that disputes over the correct account can be settled without dissolving differences or establishing a higher synthesis. Yet, the experience of a gestalt switch also offers a model for radical conversions and revolutions, that is, for irreversible leaps to incommensurable alternatives foiling ideals of rational choice while providing the possibility and necessity of decision. Accentuating the temporal dimensions of multistable figures, this multidisciplinary volume illuminates the critical potential and limits of multistability as a complex figure of thought.
Author : Stephen Duncombe
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 9781682192696
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Art of Activism written by Stephen Duncombe and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Activism is an all-purpose guide to artistic activism, combining the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change. With contemporary case studies and historical examples, chapters on cultural and cognitive theory, sections on what can be learned from unlikely sources like popular culture and marketing techniques, along with investigations into ethics and evaluation, explorations of the creative process and the importance of utopian thinking, and an attached workbook with over fifty exercises to practice, the co-founders of the Center for Artistic Activism take readers step-by-step through the process of becoming, or becoming even better, artistic activists.
Author : Emese Kürti
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839458234
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book What Will Be Already Exists written by Emese Kürti and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of archives established by Eastern European artists. At its center stands the 40th anniversary of the Artpool Art Research Center founded in 1979 in Budapest as an underground institution based on György Galántai's »Active Archive« concept. Ten internationally renowned scholars propose contemporary interpretations of this concept and frame artist archives not as mere sources of art history but as models of self-historicization. The contributions give knowledgeable insights into the transition of Cold War art networks and institutional landscapes.
Author : Armin Medosch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262331926
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book New Tendencies written by Armin Medosch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics. New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist art movement, emerged in the early 1960s in the former Yugoslavia, a nonaligned country. It represented a new sensibility, rejecting both Abstract Expressionism and socialist realism in an attempt to formulate an art adequate to the age of advanced mass production. In this book, Armin Medosch examines the development of New Tendencies as a major international art movement in the context of social, political, and technological history. Doing so, he traces concurrent paradigm shifts: the change from Fordism (the political economy of mass production and consumption) to the information society, and the change from postwar modernism to dematerialized postmodern art practices. Medosch explains that New Tendencies, rather than opposing the forces of technology as most artists and intellectuals of the time did, imagined the rapid advance of technology to be a springboard into a future beyond alienation and oppression. Works by New Tendencies cast the viewer as coproducer, abolishing the idea of artist as creative genius and replacing it with the notion of the visual researcher. In 1968 and 1969, the group actively turned to the computer as a medium of visual research, anticipating new media and digital art. Medosch discusses modernization in then-Yugoslavia and other nations on the periphery; looks in detail at New Tendencies' five major exhibitions in Zagreb (the capital of Croatia); and considers such topics as the group's relation to science, the changing relationship of manual and intellectual labor, New Tendencies in the international art market, their engagement with computer art, and the group's eventual eclipse by other “new art practices” including conceptualism, land art, and arte povera. Numerous illustrations document New Tendencies' works and exhibitions.
Author : A. Clutton-Brock
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734023602
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Essays on Art written by A. Clutton-Brock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Essays on Art by A. Clutton-Brock
Author : Katja Diefenbach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441119159
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Encountering Althusser written by Katja Diefenbach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosopher Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 -1990) helped define the politico-theoretical conjuncture of pre- and post-1968. Today, there is a recrudescence of interest in his thought, especially in light of his later work, published in English as Philosophy of the Encounter (Verso, 2006). This has led to renewed debates on the reformulation of conflicting notions of materialism, on the event as both philosophical concept and political construction, and on the nature of politics and the political. These original essays by leading scholars aim to provide a new assessment of Althusser's thought, especially in relation to contemporary debates. Organized in four sections that represent the main currents in Althusser's scholarship, the book discusses materialism and the different formulations of the relationship between politics and philosophy, Althusser's interpretations of political thinkers (including Machiavelli, Deleuze and Gramsci), the resources he provides to critique political economy and politics in post-Marxist thought, and the theorization of ideology and politics. Encountering Althusser is a groundbreaking resource that highlights Althusser's continuing relevance to contemporary radical thought.
Author : Katharina Schendl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783956794629
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Notes on Contemporary Art in Kosovo written by Katharina Schendl and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication collects writings on the art scene of Kosovo over the past twenty years. In the 1990s Kosovars felt?as many other countries in the Balkan region did?the urgency to shape their own scene: in a search for identity, for nation building, in continuing or ending political conflicts, by trying to find a language to grasp recent social and political developments, or simply by continuing their practice in new, unstable times. This collection of writings and interviews offers insight into these processes through various perspectives (from curators, artists, and philosophers) on the latest artistic developments, and fosters reflection on how a local, prospering scene continuously raises new questions and addresses undiscovered topics hand in hand with the region?s historical struggles and current challenges in being the youngest state in Europe.0'Notes on Contemporary Art in Kosovo' is published in the context of the tranzit.at Glossary Series, which aims to encourage reflection on new approaches to creating common knowledge that are more in sync with our time than the prevalent epistemological models. The series focuses on changing global conditions?and on the fact that we require more equality in creating knowledge under these conditions?and the need to redefine artistic geographies so that they can attune themselves to this new situation.
