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Ragnar Kjartansson (English edition)

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111263
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Ragnar Kjartansson (English edition) written by Ragnar Kjartansson 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: Ragnar Kjartansson’s singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and opera, plein air painting and music. He often produces large-scale multidisciplinary projects and the production of his works often requires the collaboration of several participants―actors, musicians, friends and family members. Experimenting the mechanisms of theatre and the dramatic impulses of tragedy, Ragnar Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of melodramatic actions and in revealing the reality on which relies every interpretation. Through repetition, which is genuine motif in his work, Ragnar Kjartansson enlightens the theatricality and efforts at work in everyday life. Book contents - “Once Again”: An essay by Laure Fernandez. - “Only He Who Knows Desire”: A conversation between Ragnar Kjartansson and Julien Fronsacq. About the authors - Laure Fernandez is a researcher in performing arts. Her research projects focus in particular on the idea of theatricality in the contemporary visual arts. - Julien Fronsacq is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo and the curator of Ragnar Kjartansson’s solo exhibition. Book published on the occasion of Ragnar Kjartansson’s solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, “Seul celui qui connaît le désir,” 21.10 2015 – 10.01 2016

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.

World Light

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307430316
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book World Light written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward—and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women—World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.

Bas Jan Ader

Author : Alexander Dumbadze
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603867X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Bas Jan Ader written by Alexander Dumbadze and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist’s legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader’s art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader’s tremendous relevance to contemporary art. Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader’s work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader’s engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, Bas Jan Ader is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.

Ragnar Kjartansson

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783863359706
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Ragnar Kjartansson written by Ragnar Kjartansson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published alongside the exhibition at the Barbican, London (14 July - 4 September 2016), 'bringing together live performance, music, film, painting, sculpture and drawing' - and the first UK survey of this internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist.The fully illustrated book features a pictorial autobiography compiled by Ragnar Kjartansson himself, and is designed by John Morgan studio. Clichés and motifs of Western culture, romantic melancholy and even his own conception, provide the personal and often playful subject matter of the artist

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.

Frontiers of another nature

Author : Celina Lunsford
Publisher : Crymogea
ISBN 13 : 9789935420169
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of another nature written by Celina Lunsford and published by Crymogea. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiers of Another Natureoffers a definitive survey of the photographic arts in Iceland over the past 150 years, including Spessi, B�ra Kristinsd�ttir, Haraldur J�nsson, Hrafnkell Sigursson, Katr�n Elvarsd�ttir, Einar Falur Ing�lfsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, P�tur Thomsen, Ingvar H�gni Ragnarsson, P�tur Thomsen and many others.

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.

Ragnar Kjartansson

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Ragnar Kjartansson written by Ragnar Kjartansson and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Salamangka 1

Author : Ian Sta. Maria
Publisher : Summit Publishing Company Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salamangka 1 written by Ian Sta. Maria and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between these pages lies a world unlike anything you've ever known, from the mind of one of the most talented artists of this generation. Here, you will find men and women transcending mortality, gods waging war on other gods, and otherwordly creatures pursuing worldly passions. In these pages, Ian Sta. Maria has created a world for beings he's met in his daydreams and nightmares. But these stories have neither beginning nor end—only the enduring present. It’s a world waiting for your imagination to come even more alive. They say that through stories, we transcend death. We simply become the stories. Between these pages lies immortality. And it's waiting for you.

The Annotated Reader

Author : RYAN GANDER AND. JONATHAN P. WATTS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907908545
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Reader written by RYAN GANDER AND. JONATHAN P. WATTS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Engadin Art Talks

Author : Cristina Bechtler
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
ISBN 13 : 9783037643501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Engadin Art Talks written by Cristina Bechtler and published by Jrp Ringier. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compiles ideas and projects from well-known artists, architects, designers, filmmakers and researchers on mountainous regions not only in Switzerland, but worldwide. It includes writings by Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Ron Arad, Nairy Baghramian and Jan von Brevern, as well as a discussion on architect Bruno Taut's "Crystal Chain Letters."

The Art of Rivalry

Author : Sebastian Smee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812994817
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Rivalry written by Sebastian Smee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary—one who was equally ambitious but possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses. Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas were close associates whose personal bond frayed after Degas painted a portrait of Manet and his wife. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso swapped paintings, ideas, and influences as they jostled for the support of collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein and vied for the leadership of a new avant-garde. Jackson Pollock’s uninhibited style of “action painting” triggered a breakthrough in the work of his older rival, Willem de Kooning. After Pollock’s sudden death in a car crash, de Kooning assumed Pollock's mantle and became romantically involved with his late friend’s mistress. Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon met in the early 1950s, when Bacon was being hailed as Britain’s most exciting new painter and Freud was working in relative obscurity. Their intense but asymmetrical friendship came to a head when Freud painted a portrait of Bacon, which was later stolen. Each of these relationships culminated in an early flashpoint, a rupture in a budding intimacy that was both a betrayal and a trigger for great innovation. Writing with the same exuberant wit and psychological insight that earned him a Pulitzer Prize for art criticism, Sebastian Smee explores here the way that coming into one’s own as an artist—finding one’s voice—almost always involves willfully breaking away from some intimate’s expectations of who you are or ought to be. Praise for The Art of Rivalry “Gripping . . . Mr. Smee’s skills as a critic are evident throughout. He is persuasive and vivid. . . . You leave this book both nourished and hungry for more about the art, its creators and patrons, and the relationships that seed the ground for moments spent at the canvas.”—The New York Times “With novella-like detail and incisiveness [Sebastian Smee] opens up the worlds of four pairs of renowned artists. . . . Each of his portraits is a biographical gem. . . . The Art of Rivalry is a pure, informative delight, written with canny authority.”—The Boston Globe

Blank Sign Book

Author : Anne Lesley Selcer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998346199
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Blank Sign Book written by Anne Lesley Selcer and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Film. Music. Art Criticism. BLANK SIGN BOOK is a collection of innovative art writing from poet and essayist Anne Lesley Selcer. Writing in the confluence of politics and aesthetics through the work of Ana Mendieta, The Otolith Group, Juliana Huxtable, Dolores Dorantes, Janet Cardiff, Ragnar Kjartansson, and more, Selcer's debut collection culminates the interdisciplinary thinking and formal risk of fifteen years of public critical writing. Selcer's work has been nationally and internationally commissioned and solicited by museums, galleries and art magazines. Anchored by the feminist, queer, and decolonial thought of Susan Sontag, Saidiya Hartman, Lisa Robertson, Micha Cárdenas, and many more, BLANK SIGN BOOK explores representation from the image to the agora. The essays are embedded deeply within the pleasure of art and the power of artist. They consider topics from the materiality of the internet, protest, sound, and gentrification, to teenage literary obsession, femicide, and decolonized time. BLANK SIGN BOOK unfolds within Selcer's decade long investigation of Western beauty, from which two award-winning poetry publications have emerged. With lyricism, incisive clarity and a deep commitment to the power of art and artists as a vehicle for experimental advocacy and radical insight, BLANK SIGN BOOK displays Selcer's capacious and assiduous grasp as an art writer and cultural thinker to be read for decades to come. BLANK SIGN BOOK emerged from Anne Lesley Selcer's tenure as inaugural Art Writing Fellow at Southern Exposure.

Resonant Matter

Author : Lutz Koepnick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501343386
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Resonant Matter written by Lutz Koepnick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance-the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects-as a model of art's fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings, Koepnick follows the echoes of distant, unexpected, and unheard sounds in twenty-first century art to reflect on the attachments we pursue to sustain our lives and the walls we need to tear down to secure possible futures. The book's nine chapters approach The Visitors from ever-different conceptual angles while bringing it into dialogue with the work of other artists and musicians such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guillermo Galindo, Mischa Kuball, Philipp Lachenmann, Alvien Lucier, Teresa Margolles, Carsten Nicolai, Camille Norment, Susan Philipsz, David Rothenberg, Juliana Snapper, and Tanya Tagaq. With this book, Koepnick situates resonance as a vital concept of contemporary art criticism and sound studies. His analysis encourages us not only to expand our understanding of the role of sound in art, of sound art, but to attune our critical encounter with art to art's own resonant thinking.

Heart Soul Detroit

Author : Jenny Risher
Publisher : Momentum Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781938018008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Heart Soul Detroit written by Jenny Risher and published by Momentum Books LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foundation

Author : Hafpor Yngvason
Publisher : Buster Books
ISBN 13 : 9788831716468
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Foundation written by Hafpor Yngvason and published by Buster Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her work, Katrin Sigurdardottir examines distance and memory and their embodiments in architecture, urbanism cartography and traditional landscape representations. Sometimes there is a mnemonic aspect to the work, i.e. making the work is a process of spatial recall. The places created are frequently based on real places, points of departure, arrival or passage, places as minute at their spatial and temporal distance as the models she make of them. This book examines her creations.