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The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski

Author : Christian Boltanski
Publisher : MFA Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski written by Christian Boltanski and published by MFA Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own story is little known and has never been fully told. Published on the occasion of the artist's sixty-fifth birthday, The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski, written in the form of a book-length interview (which the artist likens to a "psychoanalysis" or "confession") with the art historian Catherine Grenier, is Boltanski's oral autobiography. In it, he recounts his unusual wartime childhood ("my mother hid my father under the floorboards. He stayed there for a year and a half, between two floors in the house. He'd come out from time to time--I'm living proof of that "), his career, friendships and marriage, successes and regrets, his approaches to art and teaching, how he created various installations, his relations with dealers and the public, and other matters that illuminate as never before his complex, enigmatic works. Boltanski is refreshingly phlegmatic about the realities of the world (art and otherwise), and he relates his remarkable stories--some enormously amusing, others tragic--with a matter-of-factness and self-deprecating humor that highlight his capacity for humane responsiveness. As both the self-portrait of a major contemporary artist and a frank, fascinating memoir, this is a document of capital importance.

Christian Boltanski

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Christian Boltanski written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spirit of Luc Boltanski

Author : Simon Susen
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783082968
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Luc Boltanski written by Simon Susen and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relevance of Luc Boltanski’s ‘pragmatic sociology of critique’ to central issues in contemporary social and political analysis? In seeking to respond to this question, this book contains critical commentaries from prominent social theorists attempting to map out the influence and broad scope of Boltanski’s oeuvre.

Stuff

Author : Jerzy Gawronski
Publisher : Van Zoetendaal/ de Harmonie Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789463360517
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Stuff written by Jerzy Gawronski and published by Van Zoetendaal/ de Harmonie Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction of the metro line under the city of Amsterdam between 2003 and 2012 provided an excellent opportunity to investigate the past by organizing archaeological excavations. The department Monuments & Archaeology of the city of Amsterdam have been working on this since the start of construction in 2003. The main archaeological sites were situated on the Damrak and the Rokin. These excavations were very deep, as far as 25 m below ground, at which depth the layers of soil dated from the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago. On top of these old layers the archaeologists found the riverbed of the Amstel which still runs through the city. The riverbed extended to a depth of 12 meter and was full of archaeological finds. In the old days people often dumped their refuse in the water. Also objects fell in the river by accident and sunk into the muddy river bed. The archaeological excavations produced almost 700,000 finds. Stuff gathers the archaeological finds from the riverbed into a material history of the city.

Boltanski

Author : Christian Boltanski
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Boltanski written by Christian Boltanski and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Boltanski ISBN 3-7757-1825-7 / 978-3-7757-1825-7 Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 125 color. / U.S. $55.00 CDN $66.00 January / Art

Take Me, I'm Yours

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061754080
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Take Me, I'm Yours written by and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many years ago this artist placed a singles ad in Denver's alternative weekly newspaper. The headline read "Work Hard, Play Hard" and now this book celebrates 25 years of happy marriage thanks to a fun advertising experiment. In a bit of whimsy, image and text play off of each other to create irreverent pairings of singles pick-up lines with intimate portraits of abandoned furniture that can be found cast aside like a bad romance on city streets everywhere. Twenty Polaroid-style photographs are paired with text highlighting the becoming features of the lonely furniture"--Artist's statement

Christian Boltanski: Souls from Place to Place

Author : Mattia Fumanti
Publisher : Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 13 : 9788836637645
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Christian Boltanski: Souls from Place to Place written by Mattia Fumanti and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2017 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a journey through the defining moments and choices in the life and career of Christian Boltanski, which led the artist to reflect upon the outcome of some of the main historical events of the twentieth century and on the need to reconsider appropriate methods of representation. History, histories and the statute of the image are the fulcrums of the conversation he proposes. This conversation focuses in particular on the following fundamental themes: the difference between collective memory, recollection and oblivion; the relation between the individual and the crowd; the entity of absence intended as proof of a destroyed presence, but also as a device for the reactivation of memory; the incidence of an isolated gaze, that of the observer, upon whose primacy the history of western art has built its foundations."--Back cover.

Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art

Author : Louise Carrie Wales
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100043995X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art written by Louise Carrie Wales and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to Heidegger’s stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art’s capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological enframing. Louise Carrie Wales presents the work of five contemporary artists – Martha Rosler, Christian Boltanski, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and collaborators Noorafshan Mirza and Brad Butler – who challenge our thinking and compel a dramatic re-positioning of social norms and hidden beliefs. The through-line is rooted in Heidegger’s question posed at the conclusion of his technology essay as understood through artworks that provides a counter to enframing while using increasingly sophisticated technological methods. The themes are political in nature and continue to have profound resonance in today’s geopolitical climate. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, aesthetics, philosophy, and visual culture.

Caught by History

Author : Ernst van Alphen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804729154
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Caught by History written by Ernst van Alphen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of strong moral and aesthetic pressure to deal with the Holocaust in strictly historical and documentary modes, this book discusses why and how reenactment of the Holocaust in art and imaginative literature can be successful in simultaneously presenting, analyzing, and working through this apocalyptic moment in human history. In pursuing his argument, the author explores such diverse materials and themes as: the testimonies of Holocaust survivors; the works of such artists and writers as Charlotte Salomon, Christian Boltanski, and Armando; and the question of what it means to live in a house built by a jew who was later transported to the death camps. He shows that reenactment, as an artistic project, also functions as a critical strategy, one that, unlike historical methods requiring a mediator, speaks directly to us and lures us into the Holocaust. We are then placed in the position of experiencing and being the subjects of that history. We are there, and history is present--but not quite. A confrontation with Nazism or with the Holocaust by means of a re-enactment takes place within the representational realm of art. Our access to this past is no longer mediated by the account of a witness, by a narrator, by the eye of a photographer. We do not respond to a re-presentation of the historical event, but to a presentation or performance of it, and our response is direct or firsthand in a different way. That different way of "keeping in touch is the subject of inquiry that propels this study.

Haunted

Author : Jennifer Blessing
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted written by Jennifer Blessing and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasiextinct stylistic devices, subject matter and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. Haunted examines the myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with documenting the past. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, to videos, film, performance and site-specific installations. Drawn primarily from the Guggenheim's collection, Haunted features recent acquisitions, many of which will be exhibited by the museum for the first time.

The New Spirit of Capitalism

Author : Luc Boltanski
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859845547
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The New Spirit of Capitalism written by Luc Boltanski and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism , a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.

Contemporary Art and Memory

Author : Joan Gibbons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857731688
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art and Memory written by Joan Gibbons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, Gibbons explores art as autobiography, the memory as trace, the role of the archive, revisionist memory and postmemory, as well as the absence of memory in oblivion. Grounding her discussion in historical precedents, Gibbons explores the work of a wide range of international artists including Yinka Shonibare MBE, Doris Salcedo, Keith Piper, Jeremy Deller, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff, Bill Fontana, Pierre Huyghe, Susan Hiller, Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi and new media artist George Legrady."Contemporary Art and Memory" will be indispensable to all those concerned with the ways in which artists represent and remember the past.?????

Ways of Curating

Author : Hans Ulrich Obrist
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718194217
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Ways of Curating written by Hans Ulrich Obrist and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters and conversations with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers alive and dead - Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture. Moving from meetings with the artists who have inspired him (including Gerhard Richter and Gilbert and George) to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev and Walter Hopps, skipping between exhibitions (his own and others), continents and centuries, Ways of Curating argues that curation is far from a static practice. Driven by curiosity, at its best it allows us to create the future.

Christian Boltanski

Author : Catherine Grenier
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2080300792
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Christian Boltanski written by Catherine Grenier and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three distinct perspectives on Boltanski and his work: an analytical essay, a personal interview, and a complete retrospective of his work to date. Christian Boltanski—internationally acclaimed photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist—tackles the problems of death, memory, and loss in his art that draws heavily from his own life. Boltanski’s art can be either dark and disturbing or playful, and sometimes both at once. This monograph examines every aspect of his art, from his unusual choice of materials—newspaper clippings, used clothes, photographs of photographs—to the spirits that haunt his work. One of his most successful exhibitions, "Lessons in Darkness" (1988), explored the personal pathos of the Holocaust in a shocking new way. The author worked closely with the artist to produce a strong, visual work that provides a clear picture of the creative development of a major artist working today. Fully illustrated, the book includes an introductory portfolio of key installations, first hand interviews with the artist, analyses of the significance of individual works, and a full chronology and bibliography.

The Interrupted Life

Author : France Morin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Interrupted Life written by France Morin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian Boltanski

Author : Lynn Gumpert
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Christian Boltanski written by Lynn Gumpert and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christian Boltanski, born in Paris in 1944 and one of France's best-known artists of the postwar generation, has developed a highly personal and often disconcerting oeuvre that challenges basic assumptions of what constitutes an artwork. Using media as diverse as newspaper clippings, used clothes, amateur snapshots, and flickering shadows, Boltanski forges an original universe in which he is frequently the central protagonist." "One of Boltanski's favorite themes is his own life story, both actual and reinvented, which he evokes through startling collections of photographs and objects. In other pieces, he assembles seemingly mundane elements to address some of the most fundamental and disturbing contradictions of twentieth century life." "In a beautifully written and erudite essay, art historian Lynn Gumpert analyzes and provides a context for these haunting works that have the unsettling ability to be merry and morbid at the same time. With over 150 black-and-white and 50 color illustrations that span the entire range of Boltanski's production, materials, and influences, this insightful monograph - the first to be published in English - is essential reading for collectors, art historians, students, and anyone interested in contemporary art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Play, Philosophy and Performance

Author : Malcolm MacLean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000345858
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Play, Philosophy and Performance written by Malcolm MacLean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play, Philosophy and Performance is a cutting-edge collection of essays exploring the philosophy of play. It showcases the most innovative, interdisciplinary work in the rapidly developing field of Play Studies. How we play, and the relation of play to the human condition, is becoming increasingly recognised as a field of scholarly inquiry as well as a significant element of social practice, public policy and socio-cultural understanding. Drawing on approaches ranging through morality and ethics, language and the nature of reality, aesthetics, digital culture and gaming, and written by an international group of emerging and established scholars, this book examines how our performance at play describes, shapes and influences our performance as human beings. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in leisure, education, childhood, gaming, the arts, playwork or many branches of philosophical enquiry.