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Icelandic Art Today

Author : Christian Schoen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775732833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Art Today written by Christian Schoen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icelandic culture is so strongly oriented towards language that the visual arts didn't truly begin to develop until the early twentieth century - which is remarkable for a Western country. This unique situation may explain the nature of the contemporary art scene in Iceland. Even though Conceptual art remains a considerable international influence, and globalization is most certainly affecting this isolated island in the North Atlantic, Icelandic art continues to develop at its own speed, marked by a playful creative energy and the pleasure of experimentation. Icelandic Art Today introduces 50 of the country's most important artists - including Finnbogi Petursson, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Helgi Thorgils Fridjonsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Margret H. Blondal, Olafur Olafsson + Libia Castro, Ragnar Kjartansson and Ruri and Steingrimur Eyfjord - who have contributed to the contemporary landscape of Icelandic art from the 1970s through the present. Essays by historian and curator Christian Schoen, critic Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson and Director of the Reykjavik Art Museum Hafthor Yngvason trace the development of Iceland's avant-garde over the past 40 years.

Icelandic Art Today

Author : Christian Schoen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Art Today written by Christian Schoen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Christian Schoen. Text by Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson, Hafgor Yngvason.

Icepick

Author : Thordis Claessen
Publisher : Gingko Press Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Icepick written by Thordis Claessen and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering that the island nation of Iceland is home to just over a quarter of a million people, its street art scene is astoundingly robust, varied and inventive. Claessen spent several years documenting the scene photographically and then designed and illustrated this brilliant book about the art, music and politics of the capital.

The End

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The End written by Ragnar Kjartansson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Christian Schoen. Text by Cecilia Alemani, Markus Th. Andresson.

Iceland Imagined

Author : Karen Oslund
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029599083X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Iceland Imagined written by Karen Oslund and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geology, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe. The book closes with a discussion of Iceland's modern whaling practices and its recent financial collapse.

Miss Iceland

Author : Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802149243
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Miss Iceland written by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman.” —Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’s Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla’s opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot. Hemlines are rising. In Iceland, another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art—as she realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost. Miss Iceland, a winner of two international book awards, comes from the acclaimed author of Hotel Silence, which received the Icelandic Literary Prize. “Only a great book can make you feel you’re really there, a thousand miles and a generation away. I loved it.” —Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon “[A] winning tale of friendship and self-fulfillment.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Vatnasafn/Library of Water

Author : Roni Horn
Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Vatnasafn/Library of Water written by Roni Horn and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sited in a converted library building on a promontory overlooking the ocean in the town of Stykkish�lmur on the west coast of Iceland, VATNASAFN / LIBRARY OF WATER incorporates many of Roni Horn's abiding artistic concerns with water and weather, reflection and illumination, and the fluid nature of identity. Twenty-four glass columns containing water from glaciers around Iceland refract and reflect the day into a rubber floor embedded with words used to describe weather, inside or out. VATNASAFN / LIBRARY OF WATER also offers a space for community gatherings, a studio for writers, and it houses an oral archive of weather reports gathered from people who live in and around Stykkish�lmur. This book surveys the interconnecting elements of Roni Horn's long-term project on the island through a series of image sequences and texts. It also includes a selection of writings by the artist inspired by her experience of being in Iceland.

Érro

Author : Erró
Publisher : Somogy éditions d'art
ISBN 13 : 9782757208823
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Érro written by Erró and published by Somogy éditions d'art. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1964, Erró created his scapes, his 'fundamental pictures', as he called them. He invented a world of flow, of all-over images, a saturation that fills every square inch of the canvas. With scissors and glue, a few carefully selected paintbrushes, and huge format canvases (200 × 300 cm), Erró was 30 years ahead of today's world of networks, emails, chats and tweets. He created the blog-collage before its time, invented a formal structure, taxonomies and a way of seeing. It wasn't until the internet revolution that we eventually 'saw' how new Erró's work was: a paradoxical visual synthesis of acceleration and 'presentism', the two gear-speeds of our perception of time. And this visual language contains as much tragedy as it does humour and irony, and yet still manages to keep in tune with the world." - Extract by Thierry Raspail Erró is one of the important figures in the European avant-garde of the 1960s. His name is associated with the renewal of pictorial figuration, Happenings and experimental cinema, Surrealism, Narrative Figuration or Pop Art, although his work cannot be defined by any one of these movements or styles. This retrospective brings together more than 500 works from private and public collections all over Europe, providing a unique opportunity to gain perspective on the artist's decades-long career.

Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life

Author : Mark Godfrey
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 : 9781849766326
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life written by Mark Godfrey and published by Tate. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is a leaflet and not a book. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson/exhibition-guide. Olafur Eliasson In Real Life Tate Modern 2019-20 Exhibition Booklet / guide / leaflet. Folds out to a plan of the exhibition layout. Approximate size 15cm by 10.5cm.

The Importance of Being Iceland

Author : Eileen Myles
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1584350660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Being Iceland written by Eileen Myles and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit—seeing it with a poet's eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her—and our—lives in these contemporary crowds. Framed by Myles's account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau's Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Ted Berrigan's Sonnets, and flossing.

Narratives Unfolding

Author : Martha Langford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077355081X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Narratives Unfolding written by Martha Langford and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written – some for the first time – while innovative methods and practices redraw the boundaries of these imagined communities. Narratives Unfolding considers the mobility of ideas, transnationalism, and entangled histories in essays that define new ways to see national art in ever-changing nations. Examining works that were designed to reclaim or rethink issues of territory and dispossession, home and exile, contributors to this volume demonstrate that the writing of national art histories is a vital project for intergenerational exchange of knowledge and its visual formations. Essays showcase revealing moments of modern and contemporary art history in Canada, Egypt, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Romania, Scotland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, paying particular attention to the agency of institutions such as archives, art galleries, milestone exhibitions, and artist retreats. Old and emergent art cities, including Cairo, Dubai, New York, and Vancouver, are also examined in light of avant-gardism, cosmopolitanism, and migration. Narratives Unfolding is both a survey of current art historical approaches and their connection to the source: art-making and art experience happening somewhere.

Island Zombie

Author : Roni Horn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120814X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Island Zombie written by Roni Horn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roni Horn (b. 1955) is a prominent contemporary artist known for her sculptures, photography, and installations inspired by landscape and the natural world, and especially the isolated landscapes of Iceland, where she has travelled and lived for substantial periods of time since the early 1970s. Horn's work explores geology and climate; the interplay of nature, art, and place; and the relationships between words, appearance, androgyny, and the self. Horn is author of more than twenty books and artist's books, and is herself the subject of more than thirty books and exhibition catalogs, including a survey published by Phaidon and many by Steidl. Examples of her work include You Are the Weather (1994-96), a series of photographs of a young woman bathing in Icelandic hot springs; Pair Objects (1988), identical metal sculptures placed in two different locations; and the installation Library of Water (2007) in Iceland, with columns that enclose water from melting glaciers. Horn is arguably the most important visual chronicler of the landscape of Iceland. Upon graduating from her MFA program at Yale, she traveled to Iceland, journeying across its interior on a motorcycle. Over thirty years, she has continually returned to Iceland to explore and record the astonishing beauty of its geology, climate, and culture. This book will contain a range of texts, from evocative vignettes to illustrated essays written for Iceland's most widely-read newspaper. A combination of artists' writings and travelogue, the texts reveal Iceland as one of Horne's most important influences and inspirations, and record a unique and beautiful environment undergoing climate change"--

Art in the Streets

Author : Jeffrey Deitch
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 0847836177
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Art in the Streets written by Jeffrey Deitch and published by Skira. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.

Kjarval

Author : Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Kjarval written by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rúrí

Author : Rúrí
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775729956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Rúrí written by Rúrí and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multidisciplinary Icelandic artist Rúrí (born 1951) is one of Scandinavia's first performance artists, and an early practitioner of multimedia installation in northern Europe. Influenced by Fluxus and Conceptual art, her work has maintained a strong political flavor, particularly regarding gender and cultural identity. This is the first comprehensive monograph on her work.

Museum of Hidden Beings: A Guide to Icelandic Creatures of Myth and Legend

Author : Arngrimur Sigurðsson
Publisher : Wool of Bat
ISBN 13 : 9781777081713
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Museum of Hidden Beings: A Guide to Icelandic Creatures of Myth and Legend written by Arngrimur Sigurðsson and published by Wool of Bat. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland, a country of striking and sometimes surreal beauty, is matched by its rich and extensive folklore. Since time immemorial, Icelanders have told tales of strange encounters and experiences they have had while on their travels. From the extraordinary Finngálkn, a halfbreed of man and beast to the Kráki, a giant octopus that preys on trawlers and oil rigs, Icelandic folklore is riddled with fantastic tales that expound natural phenomenon and circumstance with peculiar supernatural creatures from myth and legend. Take these tales, passed down from generation to generation throughout the centuries, make with them what you will and share them again. First published in Iceland as Duldýrasafnið, The Museum of Hidden Beings is now available in English, worldwide, so that the creatures of Icelandic legend might knock on new doors. Part of the Wool of Bat series focused on the preservation and promotion of folklore and oral history from around the world.

Introduction to Iceland

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 8003116635
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Iceland written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland is an island nation located in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a population of approximately 360,000 people. It is known for its stunning natural beauty, including glaciers, geysers, volcanoes, and hot springs. The country is situated on a hot spot, which means it experiences a high level of geothermal activity. This has led to the development of geothermal energy, which is used to heat homes and buildings throughout the country. Iceland is also home to a unique culture that has been shaped by the country's isolation and harsh environment. The country has a rich history that dates back to the Viking age, and many of its cultural traditions and customs have been passed down through generations. These include the Icelandic language, which remains largely unchanged from the ancient Norse language spoken by the Vikings, and the country's strong literary tradition, which has produced many famous writers and poets over the years. Today, Iceland is a popular tourist destination, known for its outdoor activities, including hiking, skiing, and whale watching, as well as its vibrant music and arts scene.