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Chen Ke
Chen Ke (b. 1978) is one of the most successful female painters of the Post-75 generation of Chinese artists. Her works have been featured in solo and group shows in China and internationally e.g. in Long Museum, Shanghai, and Kunstmuseum Bern and her works have been collected by major institutional and private collections worldwide.After graduating from the renown Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in Chongqing, China, the artist has developed her signature style often depicting little girls and phantasy creatures. The current monograph features selected paintings from Chen Ke executed between 2005-2016. The publication includes texts by Li Xu, Carol Yinghua Lu, Christoph Noe, and Zhou Yi. The launch date of the publication coincides with Chen Ke's first solo show held at Perrotin Gallery in Hong Kong in May 2016, showcasing her latest portrait series on Marilyn Monroe.
Keep It Moving?
Kinetic art not only includes movement but often depends on it to produce an intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven movement to motion as the result of wind, light, or other sources of energy. Kinetic art emerged throughout the twentieth century and had its major developments in the 1950s and 1960s. Professionals responsible for conserving contemporary art are in the midst of rethinking the concept of authenticity and solving the dichotomy often felt between original materials and functionality of the work of art. The contrast is especially acute with kinetic art when a compromise between the two often seems impossible. Also to be considered are issues of technological obsolescence and the fact that an artist’s chosen technology often carries with it strong sociological and historical information and meanings.
Milk Art Journal, Vol. 3
Milk is a limited series art journal of written and visual artworks by artist-mothers about motherhood. Volume 3 is themed “Purpose & Ambivalence”, and looks at how motherhood can give a deep sense of purpose – to some – and yet it can lead to a range of conflicting, uncertain, or changing emotions. Volume 3 features works by 14 artists from 6 countries. It includes artworks by Fatema Abizar, Lupita Carrasco, Violet Costello, Marice Cumber, Sharon James, Lisa Krannichfeld, Jenny Lewis, Jena Love, Sarah Pabst, Jannike Stelling, Susanne du Toit; an article by Szilvia Molnar; and interviews with Andi Gáldi Vinko and Pragya Agarwal. The cover features a work of embroidery on canvas by Fatema Abizar.
Experimental Systems
In the sciences, the experimental approach has proved its worth in generating what subsequently requires understanding. Can the emergent field of artistic research be inspired by recent thinking about the history and workings of science?
Sound Art Revisited
The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release. Viewed through a lens of music and art histories rather than philosophical theory, it covers dozens of artists and works not found in any other book on the subject. Locating sound art's roots across the centuries from spatialized church music to the technological developments of radio, sound recording, and the telephone, the book traces the evolution of sound installations and sound sculpture, the rise of sound art exhibitions and galleries, and finally looks at the critical cross-pollination that marks some of the most important and challenging art with and about sound being produced today.
Pervasive Animation
This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new critical perspectives on animation, connects them to historical and contemporary philosophical and theoretical contexts and production practice, and expands the existing canon. Throughout, contributors offer an interdisciplinary roadmap of new directions in film and animation studies, discussing animation in relationship to aesthetics, ideology, philosophy, historiography, visualization, genealogies, spectatorship, representation, technologies, and material culture.
Conceptual Performance
Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance. Conceptual Performance sets out the history, theoretical basis, and character of this genre of work through a wide range of case studies. The volume considers how and why principal modes and agendas in Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s necessitated new engagements with performance, as well as expanded notions of theatricality. In doing so, this book reviews and challenges prevailing histories of Conceptual art through critical frameworks of performativity and performance. It also considers how Conceptua...
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Imaginary Meetings
Finnish photographer Riitta P iv l inen's work could be defined as the emotional archaeology of the ordinary. Using old clothes she finds in second-hand shops and flea markets, P iv l inen creates landscapes and photographs them. For P iv l inen, the clothes are vestiges of human beings, retaining traces of the history of the person who wore them long after being discarded.The garments represent both the presence and the absence of their former owners.
