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Diaries 1970-1975

Author : Ion Grigorescu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783956790515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Diaries 1970-1975 written by Ion Grigorescu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ion Grigorescu is one of the seminal visual artists of his generation in Eastern Europe. In recent years, his complex body of work has attracted increasing attention in the West, entailing a reading of his oeuvre through the prism of canonized Western art histories. This first English edition of his diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975 is a small literary and art-historical sensation. It not only corrects the facile reading of Grigorescu's practice in the context of Conceptual art and performance, but provides insight into the artist's multifocal thinking, which incorporates an original critique of modernism, the dystopian effects of an instrumentalized idea of reason and rationality, an analysis of subjectivity, and a penetrating gaze into a dialectic of secrecy and elucidation, of exposure and mystification. Grigorescu's diaries are written notes revolving around the status of the image, and investigate the relation of the body to society and of art to the world, in a deep phenomenological reconsideration. His work proposes a parallel conception of the public made tangible through the eloquence of the body. In poetic language full of powerfully pictorial metaphors, Grigorescu reflects on his observations of the tension between the realistic effects of the image, the suppression of realism, and the hidden traces the gaze holds through the activities of the increasingly present unconscious of collective memory. Along with the drawings, paintings, photographs, and sketches that accompany them, the diaries serve as an introduction that opens up the possibility of conceiving Grigorescu's art as a rare evocation of a singular way of thinking: a stance.

Ion Grigorescu

Author : Ion Grigorescu
Publisher : Sternberg Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Ion Grigorescu written by Ion Grigorescu and published by Sternberg Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man with a Single Camera provides an extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today. Regarded as one of the key protagonists of Eastern European conceptualism, the Romanian artist advocates a radical convergence between the organic and spiritual, an uninhibited immersion of life into art. The concept of “reality” is at the heart of Grigorescu's work. His ritualized actions and intimate performances, his films and photographs, and his paintings and writings allow, in a unique and antitraditional manner, existential concerns to proliferate. This book is a result of long-term research conducted in the artist's archive. It brings together a complete selection of source materials and theoretical contributions, which grasp the complexity of the social and political surroundings in which Grigorescu has worked, and provides an extended insight into the particularity of his artistic strategies. Copublished with Asociația pepluspatru, ERSTE Foundation, Kontakt. Art Collection Contributors Maria Alina Asavei, Nuno Faria, Klara Kemp-Welch, Anders Kreuger, Ileana Pintilie, Alina Şerban

From static oblivion

Author : Ion Grigorescu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782954197425
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book From static oblivion written by Ion Grigorescu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From static oblivion traces, with circular, nearly spiral movements, the progression, both expansive and inclusive, of Grigorescu’s work, which, starting from the intimacy of a room or a kitchen, opens itself up to the structure of a house with its inhabitants or to the architecture of an entire city with its population, while moving through the urban transformations of a strongly rural and traditional Romania, in order to return and inscribe itself into the space of the body and into that of the world, in a complete superimposition (or indeed doubling) of micro and macrocosm. By enlarging his own field of vision, Grigorescu in effect circumscribes and simultaneously absorbs elements of his surrounding reality, showing us a continuity between art and life which translates itself, inside the frame of an image, into an interplay between work and work space or space of daily experience: Grigorescu’s act of dissidence is not an outcry of provocation, nor is it extreme or ostentatious; it is an anti-aesthetic operation which uses experimentation and rough or limited techniques to uncover the fiction of art and to denounce the artifice of representation, leaving us with the ambiguity between truth and falsehood, not only within the process of creation, but also within society. There is no trespass, Grigorescu’s performances are part of an ongoing and “contained” interrogation of the relationship between the body and the space which the book is trying to match with the choice of its images whose measured surface tries to “keep inside” all that’s possible: the composition appears dense yet fluid, “cursive”, though never imposing.

Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe

Author : Piotr Piotrowski
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899319
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe written by Piotr Piotrowski and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Eastern Europe saw a new era begin, and the widespread changes that followed extended into the world of art. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe examines the art created in light of the profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that occurred in the former Eastern Bloc after the Cold War ended. Assessing the function of art in post-communist Europe, Piotr Piotrowski describes the changing nature of art as it went from being molded by the cultural imperatives of the communist state and a tool of political propaganda to autonomous work protesting against the ruling powers. Piotrowski discusses communist memory, the critique of nationalism, issues of gender, and the representation of historic trauma in contemporary museology, particularly in the recent founding of contemporary art museums in Bucharest, Tallinn, and Warsaw. He reveals the anarchistic motifs that had a rich tradition in Eastern European art and the recent emergence of a utopian vision and provides close readings of many artists—including Ilya Kavakov and Krzysztof Wodiczko—as well as Marina Abramovic’s work that responded to the atrocities of the Balkans. A cogent investigation of the artistic reorientation of Eastern Europe, this book fills a major gap in contemporary artistic and political discourse.

The Contemporary, the Common

Author : Chantal Pontbriand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary, the Common written by Chantal Pontbriand and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices. The work of Claire Fontaine, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Ion Grigorescu, Carsten Höller, Mike Kelley, Sigalit Landau, Rabih Mroué, Yvonne Rainer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Jeff Wall, among other artists, is examined together with Pontbriand's insights into the seminal issues stirring the field of contemporary art

Active Reception

Author : Noah Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643620398
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Active Reception written by Noah Ross and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant work of lyric, conceptual, and confessional poetic modes pitched to enact a queer politics of liberation

Urban Phantasmagorias

Author : Iulia Stătică
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000909824
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Urban Phantasmagorias written by Iulia Stătică and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book explores the manner in which the socialist state reconfigured the city through concrete acts of demolition and construction, as well as indirectly through legal frameworks aimed at the regulation of women’s reproductive agency, in an attempt to materialize its idea of modernity. It follows the effects of this state agenda with a focus on the period between 1965 and 1989 through an investigation of the transformations, representations, meanings, and uses of domestic spaces. The book draws on Walter Benjamin’s concept of phantasmagoria, which provides a critical framework through which it articulates the dynamic relationship between ideology, architecture, and everyday practices, and reassesses their impact upon individual subjectivity and agency. The woman emerges as a central subject of the book, upon whom the phantasmagoric effects of the socialist state’s modernizing agenda have an acute impact at the level of lived domesticity and everyday life. Through a focus on the lived experiences of women, the book illuminates the prismatic effect of the state’s infrastructural and legal intentions, including the ways in which these were subverted through women’s lived bodily experiences of the home. The book establishes, both theoretically and through the concrete case of the city of Bucharest, the methodological significance of Benjamin’s notion of phantasmagoria as an epistemological approach to a modern communist cityscape. Urban Phantasmagorias is an important contribution to scholarship in architectural history and theory, urban and gender studies, and post-socialist and Eastern European studies.

After Piotr Piotrowski

Author : Agata Jakubowska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788323235774
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book After Piotr Piotrowski written by Agata Jakubowska and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ilona Németh

Author : Maja Fowkes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3956795733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Ilona Németh written by Maja Fowkes and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look, through the work of Ilona Németh, at the transitioning social and economic infrastructure of Eastern Europe. Eastern Sugar was the name chosen by Générale Sucrière and Tate & Lyle for their joint venture to acquire sugar factories across Central Europe after the fall of communism in 1989. In the mid-2000s, the Franco-British consortium cashed in its investment to take advantage of a European Union compensation scheme and permanently shut down its sites. This book takes as its starting point artist Ilona Németh’s extensive research into the history of sugar production in the region, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century, when northern sugar beet emerged as a competitor to southern sugar cane, to the social impact of the rapid decline of the industry in the era of peak globalization. The fate of Eastern Sugar is explored as a microcosm of the mechanisms of postcommunist transition across Central Europe from the opportunism of financial speculators to the endemic corruption of privatization, posing the question of whether neoliberal marketization was the only viable exit strategy from state socialism. Contributions dealing with the social and environmental legacies of Caribbean sugar plantations situate the sugar histories of Eastern Europe within the spread of a monocultural system based on (neo)colonial extractivism. Through critical texts, conversations, and artistic interventions, Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar restores complexity to the history of the rapid decline of the Slovak sugar industry, and by extension the wider social and economic infrastructure of transition in Central Europe, while at the same time opening up planetary trajectories for postcapitalist alternatives. Contributors Edit András, Fedor Blaščák and Rado Baťo, Johanna Bockman, Kathrin Böhm, Anetta Mona Chișa, Cooking Sections, Annalee Davis, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Ferenc Gróf, Dušan Janíček, Edit Molnár, Ilona Németh, Michael Niblett, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, Joanna Sokołowska, Imre Szeman, Raluca Voinea copublished with Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

Realisms of the Avant-Garde

Author : Moritz Baßler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110637650
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Realisms of the Avant-Garde written by Moritz Baßler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical avant-gardes defined themselves largely in terms of their relationship to various versions of realism. At first glance modernism primarily seems to take a counter-position against realism, yet a closer investigation reveals that these relations are more complex. This book is dedicated to the links between realism, modernism and the avant-garde in their international context from the late 19th century up to the present day.

Monumental cares

Author : Mechtild Widrich
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152616809X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Monumental cares written by Mechtild Widrich and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to postcards, graffiti and re-enactment. A multidirectional theory of site does justice to specific places but also to how far-away audiences see them. What emerges is a new ethics of care in public art, combined with a passionate engagement with reality harking back to the realist aesthetics of the nineteenth century. Familiar questions can be answered anew: what to do with monuments, particularly when they are the products of terror and require removal, modification or recontextualisation? And can art address the monumental concerns of our present?

Zofia Kulik and Przemyslaw Kwiek: KwieKulik

Author : Łukasz Ronduda
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
ISBN 13 : 9783037642993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Zofia Kulik and Przemyslaw Kwiek: KwieKulik written by Łukasz Ronduda and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book ... consists of two basic parts. The first presents the oeuvre of Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek. The artists' practice has been divided into 203 events from the 1960s to 1988. The second part of the book comprises text materials in the following categories: KwieKulik Texts, KwieKulik Glossary, Contextual Glossary, Essays and Bibliography"--Page 4.

A Flower for the Dead

Author : Friedrich Achleitner
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783906027357
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book A Flower for the Dead written by Friedrich Achleitner and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Serbian Bogdan Bogdanovic (19222010) architect, urbanist, polymath, writer, and former mayor of Belgradecreated some of the most distinctive memorials in Europe. In particular his Flower of Stone, the Memorial for the Victims of the Concentration Camp in Jasenovac (Croatia, 1966), and the Dudik Memorial Park for the Victims of Facism in Vukovar (Croatia, 1980; partly destroyed during the Yugoslavian civil wars in the 1990s) gained international attention. Spread throughout the territories of former Yugoslavia, Bogdanovic s around twenty monuments, memorial sites, and necropolises symbolize both the cultural diversity and the tragic history of the Balkans. Yet they all reflect Bogdanovic s attitude of inclusion rather than exclusion, to unite rather than to separate. Friedrich Achtleitner, poet and architectural critic, has been a close friend of Bogdanovic during the latter s years of exile in Vienna. Achleitner has visited all memorials, first together with Bogdanovic and, after the artist s death in 2010, on his own. He foundin his own words supranational, multiethnic, transreligious and life-affirming memorials that are among the most impressive artistically conceived commemorative sites inscribed into the European cultural landscape. In the new book "A Flower for the Dead, " Achleitner presents what he has seen during his travels in essays and images."

Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania

Author : Maria Alina Asavei
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030562557
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania written by Maria Alina Asavei and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.

Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004453822
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality analyzes the presence and function of traces of religious narratives in contemporary western culture, from the perspective of cultural memory studies and the transmedial study of narrative and art.

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere

Author : Katalin Cseh-Varga
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351757075
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere written by Katalin Cseh-Varga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this work assumed under censorial circumstances. The artistic networks of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Czechoslovakia are discussed with a particular focus on the discourses that shaped artistic practice at the time, drawing on the methods of Performance Studies and Media Studies as well as more familiar reference points from art history and area studies.

Civil Society Activism Under Authoritarian Rule

Author : Francesco Cavatorta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415692644
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society Activism Under Authoritarian Rule written by Francesco Cavatorta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines theoretical and comparative perspectives on civil society activism under authoritarian constraints to offer a better understanding of its relationship with regime change. Rejecting a normative approach, the authors focus on the whole range of civic activism under authoritarianism.